Blog — comfort reading

  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!)