'A Very Dangerous Pursuit' - by Ben Miller

Can I do what

I did there? Don't

forget playing in the clip.

What I said was I was really excited about this book.

Ben Miller, whose comedy credentials I want to ask you about in just a minute, both of you, because you're experts on the topic, has written a kind of a tribute book, a continuation of the John, or a prequel to the John Buchan series of Richard Hannay books, the most famous one of which is The 39 Steps.

He's basically gone and Just done a 200-page love letter to this former book.

And he set it in, well, we go from Constantinople to Budapest to Paris in 1912.

We get on the Orient Express.

It's the Paris Metro, and it was just so lovingly and beautifully written, and it made me smile a lot.

The Buchan series, of course, it's one of the influences on Ian Fleming writing James Bond, but I just thought this was a beautiful piece of writing, and clearly... propelled by joy and love.

And that's what we need in these days, don't we, Steve?

We do.

We need as much love as possible.

And it was obviously a little while ago when we read this book, and it just took you into another world.

And what everyone probably doesn't quite know is that we have a little WhatsApp group between the three of us.

And seeing the lovely messages you were writing, Bobby, about how you can't wait to talk about this book and how much you enjoyed it,

Okay.

How did you feel? Well, I was going to fess up because I would never choose this book.

So when Matt threw books at us, there's things that you go, oh, I want to get my teeth into that.

Yeah, I'll give that a go.

And then this came up and I went, oh, it's because it's not my...

So I think...

Save that for YouTube.

Yeah, I do.

Because I just think if you're not excited about a book and that's your journey.