Lots of books form the background to The Price of Dormice, my short stories and my life generally.

I spent a few minutes digging through the piles and pulled out some of the more important ones, the most often referred to, the most fundamental - mostly ignoring fiction, there would be just too many of those.

There’s one important omission - ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’, by Andreas Malm. I’ve owned several copies but seem to have given them all away …