Ben Macintyre: ‘I wish I’d written The Great Gatsby. Doesn’t everyone?’
The author and journalist on his two unopened copies of Stephen Hawking’s great work and not getting on with Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy
The book I am currently reading
I am working steadily through the Chips Channon diaries, edited by Simon Heffer. Channon was a superb social and political diarist: bitchy, observant, self-aware, charming and frequently repellent.
The book that changed my life
Friedrich Nietzsche’s Will to Power. A terrible book, cobbled together from the contents of the great philosopher’s rubbish bin by his ghastly sister after he had gone mad, to justify her Nazi views. But it set me off in search of the antisemitic, vegetarian, German colony Elisabeth Nietzsche had founded in Paraguay, and resulted in my first book.
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