HOW TO BE WELL READ

Ranging from Aaron's Rod to Zuleika Dobson, via The Devil Rides Out and Middlemarch, literary connoisseur John Sutherland offers his very personal guide to the most rewarding, most remarkable and, on occasion, most shamelessly enjoyable works of fiction ever written. He brilliantly captures the flavour of each work, assesses its relative merits and demerits, shows how it fits into a broader context, and offers endless snippets of intriguing information: did you know, for example, that the Nazis banned Bambi?