Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

As the great and terrible pause grinds on Jonathan spends ten minutes or so talking to Joe Abercrombie about reading for research, Shelby Foote, westerns, some books he's reading, and his own new books, A Little Hatred and The Trouble with Peace.

Books mentioned include:

A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie

Lionheart by Ben Kane

Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote

Journal of the Gun Years by Richard Matheson

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry