This is one of the books I re-read every year. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger Part of me still wants to be that boy wandering the dusty sun-soaked backroads of Corfu alone. I loved the descriptions of Corfu’s sea, sun and countryside and, of course, identified like crazy with the free-wheeling, animal-loving boy. It was like being struck by lightning – I realized how books could totally immerse you in a world that you have never seen, how the world of the book could be more real to you than the world outside your window. When I was 10 years old, a teacher read my class the book – the story of a family of eccentric English toffs who relocate to Corfu between the wars.
This was the book that made me want to be a writer. My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell Two women – a former stripper married to a rich plastic surgeon and her housekeeper plot the murder of the former’s husband. This is a collection of his short stories (I love short stories) and contains my favourite short story of all time – When the Women Come out to Dance.
Leonard is brilliant on the essential stupidity of criminals. Fire in the Hole by Elmore LeonardĮlmore Leonard was a writer of genius who was underestimated because he worked in a genre – crime. It has a great ending too – a twist to make your mouth drop open.
Although it was published in 1938, Rebecca has a take on jealousy, passion and feelings of inadequacy – how can the narrator, the second wife of brooding widower Max de Winter, ever take the place of the late beautiful beloved Rebecca? This is where psychological thrillers begin and end. Love story, murder story, mystery and a great opening first line – “Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.” An opening line that has entered the bloodstream of culture and is known by people who never read the book. Rebecca is the novel that has everything.
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