Generation X by Douglas Coupland
I queued up to meet him once in a book shop in Manchester. He was sporting a big brown beard. I gave him a proof copy of My Legendary Girlfriend and we talked about Sofia Coppola.

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
I know quite a few people in Leicester and bizarrely more than once people from that city have offered to show me Sue Townsend’s house.

Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James
I used to watch his TV show in the 80s because they used to show clips of the Japanese TV show Endurance. Oh how we laughed at those quirky Japanese and their reality TV shows….now look at us.

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be
by Paul Arden
I bought this in Borders in London and read it on the train home. I can still feel its effects now.

The Wheels of Chance by H.G.Wells
The copy I read was from the library. I bought a second-hand copy ten years ago while book browsing in a pre-Amazon.co.uk world. I can’t begin to tell you how happy this personal discovery made me.