Summer readings: Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Friday 19 August 2011 15.00 BST
The scent of camellias mingled with orange blossom, the romantic yet earthy sensuality of the prose, the exotic women and lovestruck men. Of all the intense sensory impressions of Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, the one that has always stuck with me is Dr Juvenal Urbino's insistence on spraying his asparagus-scented urine on his garden.