Ian Marchant's top 10 books of the night

"It strikes me as odd that the vast majority of reading gets done in bed, but that so few people have sat down to write about beds, reading in bed, or, indeed, the night itself. People write about mostra altro sex in bed, of course, often at night, but this strikes me as a huge mistake. Firstly, because when you write you should try and avoid doing anything which might put you in line for the Bad Sex award, but secondly because our circadian rhythms mean that most people are at their horniest at eight in the morning, when they are probably out of bed and on their way to work.

"Twenty per cent of the world works at night, and most of the other 80% play by night, and yet prose writers have had little to say on the subject. I guess this is because most people, after they have played, are asleep and dreaming, and, as Henry James said, 'write a dream and lose a reader'. So perhaps it is me that is odd in wanting to write about the darkness in which we spend half our lives. But if you fancy reading about the night when you are tucked up with a hottie and a mug of Horlicks, here are some recommendations."

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