I have always loved books and have shelves full of them, as you can see! Novels, biographies, travel books, cookery books, non-fiction I somehow manage to find a home for them all. Here are some of my favourites.

Katherine – by Anya Seton

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

Labyrinthe – Kate Mosse

To Serve Them All My Days – R F Delderfield

The Sewing Circles of Herat – Christina Lamb As well as being an author, Christina Lamb is also the Sunday Times Foreign Correspondent

The Crowthers of Bankdam – Thomas Armstrong. (Now out of print but a brilliant family saga about the Yorkshire wool trade spanning over 80 years)

The Aviary Gate – Katie Hickman

Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

The House at Riverton – Kate Morton

The Island – Victoria Hislop

Chocolat – Joanne Harris

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand – Helen Simonson

The Beach House – Jane Green

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

Sister – Rosamund Lupton

The Bed I Made – Lucie Whitehouse

To The Lighhouse – Virginia Woolf

Not That Sort Of Girl – Mary Wesley