A question of taste: John P Quinlan

Best recent book: A Doctor’s War by Aidan McCarthy. From Castletownbere, Co Cork, as an RAF medical officer, he served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable with those of famous war heroes. Compulsive reading unlike any other war memoir.
Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen. Allen expresses his love for Paris, a city that he considers, after New York, the most beautiful in the world.