Sunday with Samira Ahmed: ‘I usually have five or six books on the go’

The journalist on coffee, books, more books, a swim in the evening and supper with mum

Sunday morning? I make a pot of coffee when I wake at 6am, then get back into bed and spend two hours reading. I started doing it in lockdown and have never been happier: why wait to do the thing you love most in the world?

What are you reading? I usually have five or six on the go. Right now, it’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy; Albert Camus. You must read Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener –an epic history of protest in Los Angeles. You can read just a single chapter from each and be transported between so many places.

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