Writers' gifts
If you could choose any book and give it to whomever you wanted - a friend, a teacher, a figure from history - which book would you choose and to whom would you give it? That's the challenge we set to authors: here's what they said
Writers' gifts: Sadakat Kadri gives The Trial to Franz Kafka
In the latest in our podcast series on the books writers would give to other writers, barrister Sadakat Kadri tells us how Foyles is his favourite bookshop and The Hudood Ordinances: A Divine Sanction? displaced Comet in Moominland as the best book he has ever been given. He also explains why he would love the chance to give Kafka a copy of his own unfinished novel
Writers' gifts: Jonathan Steele gives The Glorious Art of Peace to world leaders
In the latest in our podcast series on the books writers would give to other writers, Jonathan Steele visits his favourite bookshop, Housmans, and tells us why Sarah Bakewell's How To Live was the best book he was ever given, and why John Gittings' The Glorious Art of Peace would illuminate world leaders' outlooks