Five Minutes With: Jeanette Winterson

11 February 2011 Last updated at 19:09 ET Help

Author Jeanette Winterson talks to Matthew Stadlen about why novels should be more than just entertainment, her love of opera, how she learned to read quickly and why dinner parties are her idea of hell.

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