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Matt Haig: ‘I use Winnie-the-Pooh as a pencil sharpener for the mind’
My earliest reading memory I was in my childhood bedroom in Nottinghamshire. I was three or four. I was reading a free catalogue: Massey Ferguson agricultural equipment. Tractors and combine harvesters. Not much in the way of narrative, but I loved it, …