What books are you into?

[JHyde]

I love to read, which I know a lot of people say they do, but they just read the same 20 or so books over and over again.

Michael Chabon and William Faulkner are my favourite writers, but Will Self would have to be the most original, creative mind in literature at the moment. Uncomfortable sometimes, but terribly funny.

Toni Morrison for characterisation and Marilynne Robinson for prose. I recently read Housekeeping which is a few years older than I am and was really angry it had taken me so long to find her. And I find it inspirational that there was such a long period between her 1st and 2nd books.

Luke Davies is a wonderful writer with a great sense of foreboding and I'm anxious to see what he comes up with now that he's moving into film. I hope he doesn't stop writing poetry, though.

For satire, I still think Swift and Sterne have never been bettered.

Cate Kennedy also writes wonderful short stories and Geoffery Robertson was an early intellectual pin up in non-fiction.

I'm really enjoying "Mad, Bad and Sad" by Lisa Appagnesi at the moment.