If you could only read one more book before reading became illegal what would it be and why?

What a fabulous question! One last book before blackness descended … my first thought was, a new read or a re-read? Difficult. A new read is wonderful, of course, that breathless excitement of not knowing where the story is going or how it will end as the pages shrink in your right hand – but then imagine the horror of having started your last ever book and finding it was a turkey.

A classic I’ve not read? In my 60^th year, instead of climbing 60 Munros or visiting 60 islands I decided to start on the ‘I really should have read this’ list, and I was so glad I did. The Illiad was amazing, and Beowulf, and Dante’s Hell, Purgatory and Heaven. I ran out of steam in The Canterbury…