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I love The Magus by John Fowles. So many levels and depths to this book, I discover something new each time I read it.

the road to little wittering by bill bryson - bill returns to traipsing round england and being just as funny

So many candidates but I would have to choose To Kill A Mockingbird - I'm sure I won't be the only one

It might be an obvious one but I really love the Harry Potter series. They teach you so many things - trusting in people, not trusting in people, perseverance, courage, not giving up hope, doing things for others. I could go on!

A book I take out again and again to read is The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald. Gatsby, a man who has everything, cannot have the one thing he desires. So sad!

When I was a child, my favourite book was "The Little Princess." I must have checked that book out of the library so often that nobody else could get their hands on it. The idea that life can change so dramatically so quickly as it did for the main character has always stuck with me.

Penny Vincenzi's Something Dangerous featuring the Lytton twins. Great story leaving you wanting more...onward to No Angel & Temptation

I started reading Jeffrey Archer's Chronicle series and as fast as I finished one book I had to start on the next. I was gutted when I had finished reading the last one and I am now impatiently awaiting the next book in the series out in February.

I loved Black Beauty when I was little, To kill a Mockingbird as a teen and most recently loved The Harry quebert affair - really well written

Oh dear - there are just so many to choose from: If I absolutely have to pick it would be "Imposter" by FMM Macleod. It's a historical novel that is both passionate, intriguing, moving and gripping and once you start reading, you can't put it down. It's a book I love to read over and over again, as it also is based in the area I live and grew up in , so I can vividly picture some of the places she is describing.

It's an oldie, but I still love I Capture the Castle. A romance in the best meaning of the word, it isn't a believable story, yet the characterising makes it wholly credible

My favourite is And Then There were None by Agatha Christie. A lot o mystery, an unusual location a little island. This is one of the best book I read from Agatha Christie. Very smart ending and unexpected.

Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey: two odd and awkward people drawn together. Each idea and every word is fresh. Nothing predictable.Brilliant!

My favourite book has to be The 100 year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson.

There's a wonderful bit in it where the 100 year old fellow is being chased by a mob boss because he has his money:

"I'm going to f**** kill you!" screams the mob boss down the mobile.
"You'd better hurry up, I'm a hundred years old!" replies the old man.

Brilliantly funny and I hope I'm this mischievous if I get to that age.

Jane Austen's Persuasion - faded bloom, stoicism, re-kindled hope, love triumphant. More nuances revealed on each reading. A delight always.

The Children's Book by AS Byatt, such an amazing sense of Edwardian time and place with an astonishingly wide-ranging cast of unforgettable characters.

My favourite book is Us by David Nicholls. It`s a recent bestseller but can`t recommend enough. I found my own emotions and thoughts echoing in it. Really funny and sad in the same time. The novel is about a married couple with teenage son going on the grand tour of Europe hoping to get closer to each other as a family and save their marriage.

Still have not changed my choice from Requiem for a Wren by Neville Shute. It has stood the test of time and still brings tears to my eyes. However on an entirely different tack I have to say the Stieg Larsson series starting with the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo were almost unputdownable!!!! (if there is such a word!!!)

I have just read a collection of books by Conn Iggulden.
All about Genghis Khan and his Sons. These were fiction, but a lot of information from history and very well written.
Gripping stuff.

Cecile Aherne’s ‘P.S. I love you’, it’s interestingly written in the form of letters, texts and emails. As the characters grow up so the language changes. Great read.

One of my favourite books as a child was The Princess and The Goblin by George MacDonald. I remember being captivated by it.

One of my favourite books as as adult is Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson. I like all Kate Atkinson's books but this is one of her best.

I have always loved Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome. Idyllic childhood in times long past.

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell has always been a favourite of mine and I treasure it. It's full of Victorian schmaltz but can still bring a tear to my eye reading about the cruelties practised on our faithful friends. I had to spend a lot of time in bed with illness as a child and always wanted Black Beauty with me to read again and again. It's a lifetime favourite.

My favourite book is 'Grow all you can eat in three square feet' a great source of advice for utilising every inch of space in your garden to grow your own vegetables!

My favourite books are anything by Sidney Sheldon