The Grown-Ups' Book of Books

New Covent Garden Soup Company, Deborah Moggach, Miranda Sawyer, Rob Parsons, Nigel Williams, Dany Danziger, Carmen Callil, Giles Milton, Ted Hughes, Richard Mason, Kary Mullis, Ciaran Carson, Louise Doughty, Alain de Botton, Nicholas Evans, David Baddiel, Colm Tóibín, Anna Pavord, Robert Lacy, Terry Pratchett, Louis de Bernières, Lloyd Parsons, William Black, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Sophie Grigson, Raffaella Barker, J.R.R. Tolkien, Colin Shindler, Jeffrey Archer, Kevin Rushby, Mick Brown, Tony Hawks, Vanessa Feltz, Anne Fadiman, Lesley Glaister, John Ramster, Jake Arnott, Michael Marshall Smith, Indra Sinha