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Wind in the willows loved it as a child

The Night Circus is such a rich, evocative journey, despite its size I devoured this brilliant story double quick. I still want to visit it!

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Read long before I ever saw the TV series and so much better! The book that connected the page with my imagination for the first time.

Marley and me I cried buckets

My favourite has to be The Time Travelers Wife , a very different love story with a weepy ending

Mine is Xenitha by Yvonne S Emery Jack Adams owns a second hand shop. One day after having an old oak table delivered amongst some other items of furniture, he notices a message carved into the surface of the table. After closer examination he realises that this is the first clue to a quest, which after being copied down magically disappeares.

My favourite book is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Atticus Finch is someone we should all strive to be like. The book covers so many moral issues, and teaches so many lessons in life.

There's so many to choose from! As a child I loved Enid blyton, St Clare's and Malory towers. Then as teenager I loved Stephen King, the best one has to be the shining!

Kate Gross' Late Fragments written as she was dying of colon cancer “a gift to myself, a reminder that I could create, even as my body tried to self-destruct”.

To kill a mockingbird , found it so powerful

The surgeon - Tess gerritsen - loved all her books since . Also loved the da Vinci code before all the hype took over !

It has to be Jane Eyre. This classic has everything: childhood misery and deprivation followed by courage, optimism, passion, love, Gothic drama, despair and a truly satisfying ending.

I haven't read in years so I don't currently have a favourite book

My favourite book of all time is a Helen Forrester book called 'Tuppence To Cross The Mersey' read this when I was 13 and it just got me hooked on reading the next then the next, then seeking out others she had written.This book definitely started my love of reading.

My favourite book has to be Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte- It has absolutely everything to be a page turner. It was written at a time when it was a man's world but Bronte shines a beacon for women with this novel. I will never ever tire of reading it!!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Girl meets hare and her world is turned upside down, back to front & inside out. With a cat, dormouse & flamingos. I wish I lived there!

The Island by Victoria Hislop. A story about a leper colony on a Greek Island,a mixture of fact and fiction. Could not put it down.

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Read it as a child because it was my Mum's favourite, introduced it to my daughter and she loved it too. Beth's death has had all three of us howling over the years.

Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murikami. Abstract, dreamy, gripping, interesting, oddly calm, like nothing I'd read before!

This is too hard a question! So many books give me such different things. I adore Katharine by Anya Seton though. It's so well written, has such well developed characters and well researched. A wonderful book about such a very intriguing historical figure that we know so little about.

JoJo Moyes me before you is a beautiful book, a proper story that grabs your heart from the very beginning, a true page turner.
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i love dickens christmas carol especially at this time of year

I love Susan Hill's 'In the Springtime of the year'. It is about bereavement but you really get a feel of the characters involved. A young wife loses her husband who is a woodcutter.

Blackberry Wine by Joanna Harris - written from the point of view of a vintage bottle of wine, it is quite different. I've given it to so many friends and they have all loved it!

My favourite book has to be 'A Place of Greater Safety' by Hilary Mantel as I enjoy the way it's written, and the story ends in such a way as to make you feel awful - you get used to the characters and their foibles and the mistakes and decisions they make, it's easy to see their popularity. It was a book that left me feeling bereft when I put it down the first time, and the second too...