John Mitchinson

Which one should you read next?

That's all right.

It doesn't annoy me.

Anyone who saw the documentary on BBC4 a few months ago about the history of the Booker Prize will have seen a clip of Penelope Fitzgerald being treated appallingly by, amongst others, Robert Robinson and Susan Hill and Faye Weldon after she had won the prize.

It was on the night she won the prize.

I would, for my part, I would like to say At Freddy's, which is set in an awful,

Children's Stage School is my favourite of the early ones.

And then I would like to reiterate to listeners yet again that The Beginning of Spring is one of the best historical novels, or for that matter, novels that I have ever read.

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