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My all time favourite books to read
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items This is a mish mash of my favourite books to read. I’m an avid reader and enjoy different genres and both fiction and non fiction. These are all my favourite books and authors from childhood to adulthood
Pride and prejudice is my second favourite Jane Austen novel after persuasion. She was a remarkable writer and picked up on the social constraints of her time and incorporates them into her novels in a witty and charming manner which was quite revolu...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 9781503290563
My favourite novel of all time. Perhaps because the protagonist Anne is considered too old and past her prime, it’s a story of how Anne was persuaded not to marry a young captain by her family and friends, and then 8 years later they are both thrown ...
Persuasion by Jane Austen - 9780140620542
Very insightful history of everything from the big bang to quantum mechanics. It talks about general sciences through evolution and geology in terms that are easy to understand and engaging. Whenever I read books like this I always want to learn so m...
SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING_ A
A masterpiece from Stephen hawking and one of my most read books, it’s quite difficult to understand and takes a few reads to sink in but if you like sciences it explains the history of time from the big bang 💥
A Brief History Of Time: Big Bang To Black Holes
One of my favourite stories as a child. A tale by brothers Grimm of a shoe maker who receives much needed help from three young elves.
The Elves and the Shoemaker
I love these stories, they are set in the medieval times and feature a clever priest called brother Athelstan who also serves as secretarius to local coroner sir John Cranston as they set about trying to solve murder mysteries around London.
Brother Athelstan Books In Order
The Bridgerton books follow the romantic lives of 8 siblings,which has since been turned into a popular tv series on Netflix. My favourites are Colin, Eloise and Francesca’s story. The stories are different from the tv series and they make a good rea...
The Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn | Author of Historical Romance Novels
This is a masterpiece of literature, the detail is extraordinary and I would have loved to have met mr Tolkien in real life. It follows the story of a band of hobbits, dwarves, elves and men as they travel through the lands and battle increasing dark...
The Lord of The Rings : Tolkien, J. R. R.
The hobbit follows the story of quiet unassuming bilbo baggins and a company of dwarves on their quest to reclaim their treasure from the dragon Smaug
The Hobbit: Classic Fantasy Novel by Tolkien
A boy called Nicklaus sets off on a journey to the north in search of his father who is on a quest to find the fabled village of the elves, elfhelm with a mouse he has trained to speak and a reindeer called blitzen
A Boy Called Christmas: Now a Major Film
A brilliant story of a boy wizard who is marked as an adversary by an evil wizard, he survives a killing curse as a young child and then has to fight dark wizards whilst at school, culminating in a battle between “good” and “evil”
Harry Potter: Books
Cadfael is a medieval monk who solves various murder mysteries.
Ellis Peters's Cadfael books in order
Paula Spencer is thirty-nine, the mother of four and learning to live without Charlo, her violent, abusive husband. Paula's started drinking more and dreaming more, taking herself back to her contented childhood and audacious teenage years. This was ...
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
My favourite in the jack caffrey series by mo hayder. It deals unflinchingly with the way the mental health services are distributed in the uk. Would recommend all the books in the jack caffrey series, if your a fan of crime novels
Poppet (Jack Caffery, #6) by Mo Hayder
A children’s fantasy novel set in the English countryside, it follows the adventures of 4 gnomes who may be the last of their kind
The Little Grey Men
Ever wonder why your things go missing? The borrowers is a tale of tiny humans who live under the floorboards of a house. Who live a secret life until their daughter Ariadne strikes up a friendship with the human boy who lives in the house
The Borrowers (A Puffin Book) : Norton, Mary
Brusque but loveable Agatha, a pr guru who relocates to the Cotswolds and solves local murder mysteries. Easy, feel good cosy reads
Agatha Raisin Series in Order
Hamish Macbeth an intelligent highland policeman who solves murders in the Scottish Highlands and is a loveable rogue within his community
M C Beaton's Hamish Macbeth Mysteries books in order
George Martin is such writing talent, the books are as graphic as the series. Love
Game of Thrones Books In Order
One of my favourite books growing up, obviously I identified as posy but I’m about as graceful as a hippo
Ballet Shoes (A Puffin Book) : Streatfeild, Noel
I’m an art history nerd, do I think there are hidden meaning behind paintings? Absolutely!!
The Secret Language of Art: Illustrated Decoder
I found this book so disturbing when I first read it spooky but sad story
The Secret of Crickley Hall
I love all Dan browns books, the da Vinci code and Angels and demons are my favourites but they are all so readable
The Official Website of Dan Brown
What’s not to love about the most loveable bear and his friends
The Complete Tales Of Winnie The Pooh
Such a strange tale of Alice and her adventures
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll, Lewis
A tragic love story of Jane and the brooding mr Rochester
Jane Eyre - Bronte, Charlotte
The lion the witch and the wardrobe is my favourite in the series, I was so desperate to try Turkish delight after I read this as a child
The Chronicles Of Narnia Children's Books
Heartwarming tale of 5 sisters. I’ve never gotten over Beth
Little Women : Alcott, Louisa May
Such a lovely tale
The Secret Garden (Vintage Children's Classics)
If you don’t love Beatrix potter, who even are you. Quaint tales of little animals
Beatrix Potter Original Tales 1-23
Who doesn’t wish they would be turned into a little sea baby?
The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale (Penguin Classics)
A lovely imagining of the often plain and overlooked bennet sister Mary
The Other Bennet Sister: Perfect Regency Novel