World Book Day: Staff Reads

For World Book Day we asked staff to share with us some of their favourite books, and the reasons why.

*Please note that not all of these books may be suitable for children*

• The Lord of the Rings‘ It grabbed my attention and me into a great adventure, long before the films.

• Anything by Kate Atkinson

• Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

• Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers “It takes an obscure prophetic Bible narrative and makes it into an exciting and very readable story” - Has adult themes

• Authors Anne McAffrey & E E Doc Smith for the Sci-Fi genre

• Still Life by Sarah Winman “A big hearted story of people bought together by Love, War, Art and the ghost of E.M Forster.”

• “My favourite illustrated book is The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy.”

• The Tiger Who Came to Tea

• Atonement Child by Francine Rivers

• “A beautiful book of my childhood years which I’m currently reading again with my youngest son ‘Treasures of the Snow’ by Patricia St John.”

• Anything by Robert Harris

• “The Thursday Murder Club Series by Richard Osman!”

• “'Villette by Charlotte Brontë, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and Animal Farm by George Orwell.” “The Chronicles of Narnia saved my little life when I was a child”.

• “I adore Never Let Me Go [Kazuo Ishiguro], that has to be my favourite.”

• “Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster and The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe.”