Is there anything more beautiful than a pile of books you want to read? My main Christmas (and birthday) present from Mr Litlove was a course in Writing Lives with the Faber Academy, which takes place in February. This isn’t just about memoir, but about biography and fiction based on real people, too. I’m very excited about it and in preparation for it, have been making little piles of books around the house the way squirrels hide nuts. There’s an official reading list that accompanies the course and inevitably, my own unofficial one.
