 | Tim Catchamouse (Ladybird Puddle Lane Stage 1) by Sheila K. McCullagh
Buy used from: £0.01 And so it began ... with Puddle Lane ... how I learned to read! This was my favourite!
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 | The Twits by Roald Dahl
Buy used from: £0.01 Not long after, I entered the British educational system at the age of four and a half completely besotted with Roald Dahl! Especially The Twits!
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 | Inga and the Reindeer: A Story from Lapland by Bodil Hagbrink
Buy used from: £24.99 I fell i love with this book the moment I opened it ... the story is beautiful and the illustration superb.
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 | Five Go to Smuggler's Top (Famous Five) by Enid Blyton
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £0.01 For a while I was absolutely obsessed with Enid Blyton ... I would read little else. My favourite was always Five Go to Smuggler's Top.
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| Bogwoppit by Ursula Moray Williams
Ahhh ... Bogwopit ... basically what my cat would look like if he was vaguely related to a duck. It's an absolute gem, I have treasured my copy for well over a decade.
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 | The Hobbit - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £17.50 / Used from: £9.99 I read this when I was about 9 and was absolutely enchanted as many before me were and many after. Everybody should read this book, even if it is only to discover that it's "not your cup of tea".
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 | Redwall (Tale of Redwall) by Brian Jacques
Buy new: £2.36 / Used from: £3.53 From the age of 9 to 12 I read solidly ... many of the books I read were of the redwall series ... I remember one week where I read 1 a night for 4 nights before moving on to ...
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 | The Lord of the Rings - illustrated hardback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £20.00 Reading The Lord Of The Rings ... I was one of those children who would have moved into the local library given half a chance.
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 | Guards! Guards! (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.25 It was not long after that I discovered Terry Pratchett. Guards Guards was the first that I read and to this day it is still my favourite.
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 | Good Omens by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.34 And from there I discovered Neil Gaiman too and read Good Omens ... which should be a set text in all schools.
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 | The Vampire Lestat (Second Volume of the Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 Somehow from there I got into Anne Rice, I'm not sure why, I was about 12. The first I read was actually The Vampire Lestat, not Interview with a Vampire.
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 | Memnoch The Devil (Volume 5 of The Vampire Chronicles) by Anne Rice
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 From there I read most of her books and stumbled upon Memnoch the Devil when I was 13 ... which has remained my favourite for the last 9 years and is another book I think that everybody should read!
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 | The Hitchhiker Trilogy Boxset by Douglas Adams
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £6.99 Then GCSEs hit and my recreational time went out of the window. Until ... I discovered audio books and hence felt compelled to read this. And that started me off on a bit of a sci-fi thing ...
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 | Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Collector's Library Editions) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £16.86 / Used from: £16.75 Until along came Shakespeare! It started with english lit homework and ended with me reading the complete works!
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 | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.01 I'll skip forward now ... past my A Levels as I had very little time for reading then. To my first year of university ... when (somewhat late) I discovered Harry Potter ... in Heathrow Airport!
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 | The Abhorsen Trilogy 3 Volume Boxed Set by Garth Nix
Buy used from: £8.09 I rediscovered reading during my time at university. I read a lot of random books and discovered Garth Nix whos Abhorson Trilogy I have recommended to my friends over and over again.
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| The Black Magician Trilogy Omnibus (Black Magician Trilogy) by Trudi Canavan
Buy used from: £120.00 It was during this time that I also discovered Trudi Canavan and her spellbinding dark magician trilogy.
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 | The Tales of the Otori Trilogy: "Across the Nightingale Floor" , "Grass for His Pillow" , "Brilliance of the Moon" (Tales of the Otori) by Lian Hearn
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £11.27 And Lian Hearn's Otori Trilogy which utterly sucked me in.
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 | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Buy new: £2.31 / Used from: £1.82 I also rediscovered Pride and Predjudice with a little help from a friend and in reading it found a humour in the words which I had been to young to see before.
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 | The End (Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket
Buy new: £4.54 / Used from: £0.01 And so we come to the present ... what am I reading now? Call me childish if you will but I have to read the final Lemony Snicket ... I must find out what happens.
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 | Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £0.19 I also have the new Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith, to read. Which I don't doubt will be hilarious as ever.
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 | Lady Friday (The Keys to the Kingdom) by Garth Nix
Buy new: £3.66 / Used from: £1.50 And then there's those books which i eagerly await the publication of ... Lady Friday
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 | Physik (Septimus Heap) by Angie Sage
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £1.78 And Physik, the third book from Angie Sage who I discovered on a dreary afternoon in Waterstones.
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 | Interworld by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £3.92 / Used from: £3.49 Oh and Interworld, the latest offering from the great Neil Gaiman.
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