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Thanks for clearing that up Lara I think a lot of people might need to start again though...

140 characters, GNHQ??

Its almost impossible or do you mean 140 words?

The Avenue Series by R F Delderfield - I am re-reading these, again. He manages to create lots of different stories from everyday people and makes it so easy and enjoyable to imagine the characters and locations. I enjoy his books, The Swann Saga, To Serve Them All My Days, A Horseman Riding By. I can also remember the TV series from the 70s.

My latest 5 star book is Ian McEwan's "The Children Act". A slim volume, it raises some fascinating moral questions about power and fallibility, it's thought provoking and memorable.

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...

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!

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.

i love dickens christmas carol especially at this time of year

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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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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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!!

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.

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

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.

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

To kill a mockingbird , found it so powerful

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”.

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!

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.

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.