Friday, October 22, 2010

Desert Island Books


Barnaby, as you have led a fairly eventless life, perhaps we could move straightaway to your first book?
My first choice is The Way the Wind Blows by Lord Home. Britain's best loved prime minister was a countryman to his fingertips, as he is at pains to point out in this spellbinding autobiography. The book is further enhanced by gorgeous black and white photographs, some of which have to be seen to be believed.
And your second choice, Barnaby?
My second choice is Maréchal, me voilà! by François Mitterand. In his unusually candid autobiography, the man who was to become President of France ruefully admits that if he had known how the Second World War was going to turn out, he would probably have chosen the other side. In a delightful postscript he writes that he now regrets lumbering the French taxpayer with the cost of running two households.

To be continued

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