Strange banter between a silly host and a restrained republican. Piers said that he read the book but I doubt it.

I'm sure like all of the other stuff, he received a summary of it. But while it was odd, they both got a lot of publicity over the incident. She is desperate to sell books since she has almost no other income and his ratings are awful so in this case for both of them any publicity is good publicity.

It seems to me that it is irrelevant whether he read the book. He was asking her questions about things that were discussed in her book, but she wanted to control the interview and answer only what she wanted. He should hack her phone!