A report from the expedition to Ed Davey's hinterland

Ed Davey has chosen his favourite books for This Week. I don't know what the precise brief was, but he came up with a list of six novels.

• Middlemarch by George Eliot
• Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
• Waterland by Graham Swift
• There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
• Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Tony Blair would have had a team working on his choices for weeks to make sure he didn't sound too posh or display any biases, but this looks like an honest list for a man of Ed's generation. I've read three of them myself.