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My favourite book is Clair de la Lune - its a biography of Claude Debussy, I read it over and over when I was younger.

My Favourite book The snow Child by Eowyn Ivey.
It's a story of hope in an impossible situation.
Its a magical tale which is well written and keeps the reader enthralled

My favourite book is Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code because it was not ordinarily the type of book I would have read but a friend recommended and it was a definite page turner and one I could just not put down.

My favourite has to be Adrian Mole, The Wilderness Years. I re-read this every year, I always find a passage that I have forgotten and it makes me laugh all over again. I've read all the Adrian Mole books and been a fan since I was a teenager.

I love a Christmas carol this time of year as my dad used to always read dickens to us as children and it reminds me of him. It also has a great message that never outdates.

Chances by Jackie Collins, her 1st Santangelo novel. I love that it crosses generations with secrets, lies, romance, murder & lots of luck.

Too many to choose Oscar Wilde or Dickens would have to be favourite authors but to isolate a book is too hard.

The Time Travellers Wife. A rollercoaster of emotions wrapped up in perfect storytelling.

My favourite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It's just a classic and I love it. I love reading so much.

My favourite book is also my favourite film The Green Mile by Stephen King, its a beautiful and touching story, with harrowing bits, laughter and tears. A true beauty :D

I really enjoyed "Cat and Mouse" by James Patterson. It was the first book of his that I had read and now I'm a massive fan. It hooked me from the start. It's a real page turner and is very hard to put this down. I read it in 2 days flat.

I love the Green Mile by Stephen King. It covers a wide range of emotions from confusion, anger, hatred, love and much more. It enthralls and enraptured whilst it appals and provokes debate. I find it asks more questions than it answers but it leaves me wanting to discover the TRUTH

My all time favourite is Jodi Picoults My Sisters Keeper. Its such a great book that raises so many questions. The plot twists kept me on the wanting more. Really one of the best books out there.

Pride & Prejudice
The twist and turns in the love lives of the Bennet girls that has you laughing out loud and always wanting that happy ending.

Patricia Highmsith's This Sweet Sickness is one of my favourites. It tricks you, placing you in a position of creepingly freaky suspicion.

I Let You Go by Clare Macintosh A gripping, tense story that holds your attention all the way through with some amazing twists

Favourite book of all time has to be Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin - complex wonderful characters come to life in the pages.

I think the one book I've read that has stuck out in my mind has to be Angela's Ashes, its such a powerful story, full of heart and soul and makes you feel exactly how they feel. When watching the film, it felt like I had already watched it from reading the story and it is one I could read over and over, infact, I think I may have to re-read it again now after thinking about it!

the white company by sir Arthur conan doyle which I read at school many, many years ago. it opened the world of literature to me.

The Call The Midwife Series by Jennifer Worth. I've read a lot of books, but this one sticks with me. Reading the history of Poplar just after the war & how the nuns helped the women give birth before the NHS is fascinating. The stories of the poverty stricken women & families are hard to believe and shocking. No other book has moved my emotions like this one.

My favourite book is The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton, as I've shared it with each of our children as they have grown up.

ThePicture ofDorianGray resonates now as much as it ever did.Wilde's masterpiece, a tale of a man's vanity,that ultimately was his downfall.

Not one, but three.
The Mallen Triology by Catherine Cookson. I enjoyed these stories because I am from the North East of England, so recognise the areas in the books.
I am also very familiar with, what might be considered, stereotypical Northern characters .. however, the charcters are uncannily accurate, for people I know in the North East.
Some of the characers are endearing .. others, not so much!
But, it those 'not so much' characters that intrigue and keep the reader turning the pages.
This is what makes Catherine a great writer .. she doesnt flinch from being brutally honest about her characters .. and, she is never a one to sugar coat a storyline to appease her readers sensitivities.
In fact, we are sometimes left realing with horror at the depths these characters are capable of sinking too.
But, Cookson knew a thing or two about human nature .. because that is what keeps us coming back for more!

So many books over a long life and how to pick one? Got to be Lord of the Rings, found on a college library shelf many years before it became 'known'. I can still feel that thrill as I dipped in and knew I'd struck gold. As a child, my favourite was Mossy Green Theatre