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The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett’s most famous novel, The Secret Garden, is a story I know very well, having grown up watching the 1993 film adaptation with Maggie Smith. Thus when I began reading the novel,...
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym of Lewis Caroll in 1865. Its position at number 30 in the BBC’s Big Read cements it as one of the nation’s...
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The BFG – Roald Dahl
Given that a week ago today the book industry celebrated Roald Dahl Day which takes place every year on 13th September, on what would have been Roald Dahl’s birthday, I thought it would be appropriate...
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Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
Having recently finished The Snow Child, which was based on a Russian Fairytale called Little Daughter of the Snow by Arthur Ransome, I decided to read Swallows and Amazons, one of Ransome’s...
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
As soon as I finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, I was desperate to read the next installment, and unable to source one to borrow, on a particularly dismal evening last week, I visited...
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J. K. Rowling
The third in the Harry Potter series is Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which was published in 1999 and subsequently won the Whitbread Children’s Book Award, The Bram Stoker Award and the...
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Noughts and Crosses – Malorie Blackman
It was while I was perusing the shelves of my local Waterstones in search of the second Harry Potter book that I happened across Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman, and immediately recognised it...
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A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
At the beginning of December I went with my mother and my step-dad to watch Simon Callow in Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. It is a one-man production that I saw last year with my friend Beth, and...
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K Rowling
This year, the only book related challenge I have set myself is to tick off at least fifteen of the BBC’s Big Read. Thus, I thought I would begin 2013 by reading the fourth in J. K. Rowling’s series –...
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The Hobbit – J R R Tolkien
With precious few weeks left before the year is out, and having set myself the task of reading at least 10 of the BBC Big Reads before 2014 draws to a close, after finishing Emma I soon began The...
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The Twits – Roald Dahl
As I approach the last quarter of the BBC Big Reads, it dawned on me that much of what remains are books that I’ve deliberately avoided reading. Thankfully, in amongst the Russian greats and the...
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Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Despite having studied – and hugely enjoyed – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde during my degree in English Literature, it was only as I neared the end of Treasure Island that it dawned on...
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The Clan of the Cave Bear – Jean M Auel
The Clan of the Cave Bear was one of only a very small number of novels that made the BBC Top 100 Reads that I hand’t heard of prior to working my way through the list. Written by Jean M Auel and...
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The Colour of Magic – Terry Pratchett
I was in the middle of writing my review of The Colour of Magic – the first of Sir Terry Pratchett’s books that I’ve read – when it was announced that, aged 66, he had sadly passed away. Within...
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