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56 <strong>Style</strong> | Read Plot twist You can tell a lot by a person’s TBR pile and broadcaster Paul Henry’s is full of surprises – and not for the reasons you may think. What is in your TBR pile? I’ve read so many Donald Trump books over the last year and a half; I’ve probably read five from cover to cover. All of sudden I’ve slowed down on them. I’m halfway through Rage [by Bob Woodward]. I’m trying to think of the one I enjoyed the most... A Very Stable Genius [by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig]. Now that absolutely was my favourite because I thought it was very honest – it didn’t set out to destroy Trump. It was a very fair reportage of conversations and backroom deals. I am halfway through Mary Trump’s Too Much and Never Enough. What is a book that has been languishing in the pile? The Tao of Bill Murray [by Gavin Edwards]. I’ve been reading it on and off for more than two years now. I’ve been quite enjoying it, but I don’t know... it might be the way it’s written. I have this thing that I have to read every word of every book I read and I include the multiple addresses of the publishers’ offices – I literally read every word. It is part of my obsessivecompulsive thing, and I also don’t like unfinished business. And books like that sit there as unfinished business, which I find slightly disturbing. Part of it is because it is on my pile in Palm Springs. I have piles of books everywhere. Rage is on my boat Olive, and so is the Mary Trump book. And I don’t know what is in the pile out at the farm, but it is quite a pile.
<strong>Style</strong> | Read 57 What is a book people may be surprised to know you have read? On Chesil Beach [by Ian McEwan] – you will love it. It is a very short book and 90 per cent of it takes place in a 24-hour period. It is just too wonderful – you must read it, you must. It is one of my most recommended books because it is so beautifully written, but I also like the fact that it is so depressingly tragic. It is a very thoughtful book and it is all about emotions and caring about people. I’m sure people wouldn’t be surprised that I read an awful lot of political literature, but they might be surprised that I pick that as one of the best books I have ever read. What is the first book you remember making a connection with? The Wind in the Willows [by Kenneth Grahame], which at the time I didn’t realise was magnificent literature – I just thought it was a brilliant story. I liked the aristocratic nature of it, I liked the class system, which was very odd because I was very much in the lower class, and I liked that there was an aspirational aspect to it. Would your English teacher at school be surprised to learn you’ve just written your third book? They would be surprised that I mastered reading. I was hopelessly dyslexic – I would not have gone in the year book as the ‘most likely to write three bestsellers’. There was this teacher I had in Bristol, I wish I could remember his name, I liked the way he had spindly fingers and I remember loving the way he used to hold a book – his fingers betrayed the fact he loved books. He had spectacles, not glasses, and they used to slip down his nose and, to push them up his nose, he would rest his finger at the end of his nose and push his head down rather than the most obvious way of doing it. Annoying I can’t remember his name. If you had the power to make every politician read one book, what would it be? I don’t even know that I could be bothered. I literally don’t know if I could be bothered. I think we have an unhealthy obsession with our politicians rather than with our politics, you know? We personalise our politics too much and you know that plays so much into their hands. They are public servants and they should be judged on how well they serve us and not on their personalities or other things. What is a book you remember reading to your children? Mostly I would just make up stories. Fairy tales, adventure stories, things like that. Stories that were linked in some way to the games they would play, or stories that involved three girls living in an old house. That was the thing for me – broadening imaginative horizons. I always told them that to be broad of vision was more important than to excel academically. I’ve got this belief that the quality of a parent is on how long the magic remains alive in their children – how long their children experience childhood. And the most abusive parents are those who hurry their children through childhood as quickly as possible because the parents have got things to be getting on with, you know? So I think anything you can do to broaden their imagination and their view, not of your world but their own world, just keeps the magic alive. The book you would most recommend? I love this book the most: We Were Liars [by E. Lockhart]. It is beautifully written, but not just that, it is wonderfully constructed. You know there is a twist coming and the twist almost comes several times, so it gives you an opportunity to prophesise what the twist is going to be, but you can never truly imagine how dramatically misled you have been. Beautifully misled, willingly misled. This is a book you should own yourself and buy several copies to give to people you love. Now, give us a shameless plug for your book I’m In a United State – why will we love it? It is beautifully honest, but I think people will be surprised. It is both fabulously shallow and fabulously deep. ABOVE: Paul with his daughter Bella at the Palm Springs gateway.
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