The bridges of madison county-robert james waller,a true lovestory
From baghdad with love-lieu-col jay kopelman,a marine,the war and a dog called lava
The da vinci code-dan brown,the illustrated hardback its beautiful
Golden apples-autobiography of bill cullen-irish entrepreneur
A parrot in the pepper tree-chris stewart,beautifully written,very evocative and funny-all sequels
Driving over lemons-ditto above,spanish living.
Runaway-skye sinclair,powerful,moving and true
Abandoned-anya peters,ditto above and inspiring against the odds.
Next to you-gloria hunniford,very moving and sometimes hard to read.
As you do-richard hammond,funny, biography so far,entertaining
autobiographies of sharon osbourne,gordon ramsay,russel brand,jon bon jovi to name but a few!all good reads.
a few from my childhood such as didakoi-rumer godden,what katy did,all the little house on the prairie books-laura ingalls wilder.hans christian anderson,a book called mandy but i forget the author.
Anne Frank-for obvious reasons.
How to eat-nigella lawson,all her cookery books are entertaining,photographed well and just good!
Pole to pole-micheal palin
Norman rockwell illustrator-arthur l guptill,
I have many,many books all much loved,some tattered,well read and varied in tastes
fishing books from my father,old cooking books from my mother,childhood books from me now read by my children and those waiting to be passed on and down.we all have inherited a love of bookshops and libraries and a comfy chair on a wet afternoon,or late at night propped up in bed burning the midnight oil.
Since you love to laugh, read A Girl Named Zippy sometime.
And if you ever get hooked on mysteries, I have a long list!