Mats Williamson is an engineer with the Swedish construction company Skanska,
and worked on the Øresund link, the bridge and tunnel connecting Denmark with
Sweden. He’s currently reading East of the Mountains, a novel by David Guterson,
(Bloomsbury, £6.99, ISBN 0747545081). One of his seasonal gifts will be
The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien (Tolkien Books, £14.99,
ISBN 0261103253).
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