Anna Karenina on the beach, The Corrections in Patagonia, Death in Venice in . . . where else? Writers recall their most memorable holiday reads

To mark World Book Night, 45 celebrated writers tell us which books they give as gifts and which they've been most pleased to receive.

Patrick McGrath is swept away by an erudite, acerbic collection that spans 20 years in the US

Jonathan Raban's Surveillance shows that it takes a novelist's vision to interpret what we see, says Toby Litt.