The next day he said it was one of the best books he’d ever read and that it wasn’t ... As an adult, I once locked myself in my study for a day, until I’d reread the whole series.

In 2002, a panel of 100 leading authors from 54 countries chose Don Quixote as the best book ever - bagging 50% more votes than any other book. In the original, Don Quixote spans 126 chapters and ...

The shelves in my study are almost exclusively weighed down by books, with a significant weighting to novels. But there are a few exceptions tucked in among the books including DVD sets of the ...