Good book recommendations
We ran a competition recently over on our facebook page to give away ten copies of the very lovely 'dog who dared to dream' - a jolly good book for you to curl up with on the sofa this autumn! To enter we just asked our lovely facebook friends to tell us which good books we should read, because we all need inspiration from time to time.
The beauty is that now we have a lovely big list of good books we can all enjoy during this long old autumn and winter, so we thought we'd share them with you. Enjoy, and do let us know in the comments or on facebook which books you've read and which you've enjoyed...
(Thanks to Becky Kingston for this lovely Picture of her book collection!)
So, in no particular order, our 'Good Book' list, bought to you by the lovely folk of the Poppy Treffry facebook page:
Lynn Gibbins; The Plumberry School of Comfort Food - Cathy Bramley
Louise Carter; Walking back to happiness - Lucy Dillon
Jacqueline Plested; Mr Gandy's Grand Tour - Alan Titchmarsh
Tracy Sankey; Lady of Hay - Barbara Erskine
Linda Ogram; No time for goodbye - Linwood Barclay
Siân James; The hollow treehouse - Enid Blyton
Jamie Butt; Freya - Anthony Quinn
Kathy Parker; lion the witch and the wardrobe
Dawn Michelle Brodribb; the Grimm Legacy
Karen Waterhouse; Midnight is a Lonely Place - Barbara Erskine
Sam Sainty; The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Kate McCarthy; M.J. Aldridge
Tina Gamble; Father Brown books - GK Chesterton
Louisa Theobald; Me before you - Jojo Moyes
Laura Frost; House of night series - p.c and Kristin cast
Debby Leaper; The State we're in - Adele Parkes
Louise George Hitchin; Anne of Green Gables
Karen Ross; Milly johnson
Edwina Young; A Winter Book - Tove Jansson
Susan Trubey; Dante's Inferno
Ellen Jane Carter; The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
Jacqueline Plested; Mr Gandy's Grand Tour - Alan Titchmarsh
Bridget Mellor; The Museum of Extraordinary things; Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Lucy Vernon; Nigel My family and other dogs - Monty Don
Helen Stribley; The Secret - Kathryn Hughes
Anne Pargeter; Five People you Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom
Linda Rigby; The Perfect Girl - Gilly Macmillan
Michelle Varney; The Butcher Bird - S D Sykes
Kay Solly Eyles; The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Sue Stevenson; Anything by Katie Fforde or Cressida McLaughlin
Martine Peacock; Passion - Jude Morgan
Rachel Kent; Lauras handmade life (Cover design by Poppy Treffry!)
Jackie Cook; Me before You - Jojo Moyes
Carol-Anne Andreetti; Harry Potter - JK Rowling
Josie Mellor; Modern Lovers - Emma Straub
Lauren Anderson; Dark heart forever - Lee Monroe
Kim Burgess; A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
Anna Maria Tuckett; Corfu Trilogy - Gerard Durrell's
Angela L Paull; Lie With Me - Sabine Durrant
Trudie Lavender; Midnight Is A Lonely Place - Barbara Erskine
Julie Richardson; Peshwari Nans - Stephen Haughan
Alan Snowbal; The Couple Next Door - Shari Lapena
Elaine Skye Clark; The Girl On the Train
Colleen Ewart; A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Tracy Elliott; Dannika Dark
Fi Pullen; The last runaway - Tracey chevalier
Vikki Finneran; Jenny Eclair
Elaine Harrison; Song of the Skylark - Erica James
Gail Grimshaw; Vassa in the Night - Sarah Porter
Anne Williams' A Great Reckoning - Louise Penny
Sarah Taylor-Fergusson; The Loney Andrew - Michael Hurley
Aisha Hussain; We Are All Made Of Stars - Rowan Coleman
Diane Jones; The watchmaker of filigree street ; the heart goes last - Margaret Atwood
Ruth Salway; Through Rose-Coloured Glasses - Ruth Salway
Jan Walker; The year of living Danishly - Helen Russell
(Our thanks to Jan walker for this picture)
Laurie Keating; After - You Jo Jo Moyes ; Monogram Murders - Sophie Hannah
Becky Kingston; lots of love Fiona Taylor ; Milly Johnson ; Katie Fforde ; Freya North
Clare Bentley; The Darkest Hour - Barbara Erskine ; A Breath of Snow and Ashes - DianaGabaldon ; Recipe for Life - Mary Berry
Diana Ferrante; Silvia Plath ; Emily Dickinson ; Alessandra Piccoli ; Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Kath Saul ; Gypsy - Lesley Pearse
Phew - so lots of options for you to choose from, or work your way through perhaps. I'll definitely be wrapping myself up under a blanket and tucking into a few of these over the next few months. Do let us know which you enjoy.
The winners of our good book competition, in no particular order, were Kim Burgess, Tracy Sankey, Jacqui Coshall, Colleen Ewart, Carol-Anne Andreetti, Anne Williams, Ruth Salway, Kate McCarthy, Josie Mellor, Kath Saul. Let's hope they all enjoy The Dog Who Dared to Dream! (And we're going to find an extra prize for Becky Kingston as we loved the picture of her bookshelf so much!)
Happy reading everyone, from all the team at Poppy Treffry x (and don't forget to let us know which you enjoy the most!)