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I devour books. I particularly like anglo-indian authors: Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry. On religion, recent guiding lights have been Thomas Merton, Karen Armstrong and the rule of life of the Jerusalem Community.

Here’s a list of some of my favourite books:

Vikram Seth: The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy

Amitav Ghosh: The Glass Palace

Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan, Gormenghast

Thomas Merton: The Seven-storey Mountain (version française : La nuit privée d’étoiles)

Karen Armstrong: The Battle for God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Rumer Godden: In this House of Brede

Primo Levi: The Periodic Table, Other People’s Trades

William Dalrymple : From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Khali

Chaim Potok: In the Beginning, My Name is Asher Lev

Timothy Garton Ash: The File

Amélie Nothomb: Stupeurs et tremblements, Ni d’Eve ni d’Adam

I subscribe to the Guardian Weekly, and read it from cover to cover every week. Trouble is, when I’m in Togo, it often doesn’t come for several weeks at a time, then I get two or three in one day.