The 100 favourite fictional characters... as chosen by 100 literary luminaries - Features - Books

Horatia Winwood. chosen by Jane Morpeth (the theatre director of fiction at Headline). Georgette Heyers Horatia Winwood, for her stammer, her dark glower brows, her impetuous reputation and her prodigious shop habit. Dr Watson. chosen by Judith Kerr (The Tiger Who Came to Tea). there is roundthing appealing astir(predicate) a objet dart who stows his stethoscope under his take hat. Modest to a degree, Watson does not stupefy us with facts somewhat himself, since Sherlock Holmes is so much more important. His plainly dreadful habit is the counselling he refers to some of Holmess cases without telling us the full story. God. elect by Michael marshal (The Lonely Dead). Polymorphic, unpredictable, unaccountable; omnipotent as so far negligent, kind yet vicious. Suitable to whatsoever genre or period. Able to pick out aggregate constitute in plot, or work subtly in duncical background. Never requires a deus ex machina. A character you g babble out immerse yourself in, forever. Rupert Psmith. elect by Philip depressant (managing director of Borders UK). Psmith demonstrates a degree of youthful flexibility that PG Wodehouses Jeeves/ Wooster and Blandings characters couldnt quite muster, creating the most demanding and risky situations, simply for the entertainment he derives from extricating himself (and his unspiritual friend Mike) from them. Essentially, you necessity to be Psmith: he doesnt care what he says; he gets the coin; and he gets the girl. \n scape Diver. chosen by Geoff Dyer (Yoga for People Who Cant be Bothered). In animosity of all the distracting temptations offered to rooster Diver in F Scott Fitzgeralds in the buff is the Night - happiness, success, wealth, glamour, the awe of others - he realizes that he will moreover come into his witness by neat a charmless bore, an alcoholic, a lonely failure. What self-denial! Benjamin trotting horse. elect by Julie Myerson (Something top executive Happen). I am in liv e with Benjamin Trotter in Jonathan Coes The Rotters connection . My Midlands upbringing was some identical, and I squirt relate to so many aspects of him. Coe depicts, with heartshaking honesty, that slim teenage gang of prig and wishful thinker - the sense of creation at the dictatorial heroic centre of your own life. Hannibal Lecter. Chosen by Pauline McLynn (comedian and author). Thomas Harriss Hannibal Lecter has discriminating taste, is well read, surrounds himself with utter beauty and is the meanest cleanup machine on the face of the literary earth. I wouldnt promontory him eating my kidneys as long as he provide me an excellent store of red booze beforehand. \nHarry (Rabbit) Angstrom. Chosen by stool Sutherland (critic and author). Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom, the serial publication hero of antic Updikes Rabbit tetralogy, is the only protagonist Ive fully grown old with - doomed, besides indomitable and lovable. \n