The Man-Baker

"It was an arduous process and the relentlessness of it," says Jonathan Drunt. "We read 166 books ... between January and July of this year, the heavy lifting gets done." It's not something I review for a living, he adds: "I didn't have anything like the comprehensiveness of the novel" 'There is a time halfway through when you're on your three-month book a day, including weekends,' writes Drunt.