WHATBOOK..?

THOMASINA MIERS MasterChef winner and TV cook

… are you reading now?

THE Impressionist by Hari Kunzru. I am trying to read more — it’s important to make time to see life from the perspective of others.

…would you take to a desert island?

MAYBE the collective works of Carl Jung so I could think metaphysically about who I was and what I was doing on a desert island.

… first gave you the reading bug?

MY FATHER read us The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe and The Wizard Of Oz — after that I hoovered up whatever I could.

… left you cold?

EVERYONE raved about The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera, but I couldn’t get into it. n

Thomasina miers will be speaking about her new book home Cook (Faber £25) at Balham Literary Festival (June 8 to 11).