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  • STRONG POISON by Dorothy L. Sayers

    by Ruth Tross, Editorial Assistant When I was thirteen, sulky and bored and on holiday in a seaside town where it was always raining, my mother (who must have been desperate) gave me a copy of Dorothy L. Sayers' STRONG POISON which she'd ...

  • CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR by Jean M. Auel

    by Anne Clarke, Assistant Editor When we reissued this classic novel a couple of years ago as a Hodder Great Read I initially wasn't that keen to read it (Cavemen? No thanks, not for me), so I gave my promotional copy to my mum. She read it, ...

  • IT by Stephen King

    by William Hill, Online Marketing Executive First up, a confession. Horrors were the first adult novels I read after abandoning the Enid Blytons and Roald Dahls of my adolescence (it seems a strange leap, but one the majority of teenage boys ma...

  • DUNE by Frank Herbert

    by Isobel Akenhead, Assistant Editor Let me start by saying that I never normally read science fiction. I usually read (and generally work on) women's fiction: chick-lit, bonkbusters - light, funny, entertaining stuff basically. And while I o...

  • GHOSTWRITTEN by David Mitchell

    by Hugo Wilkinson, Assistant Editor There's no such thing as a straightforward David Mitchell novel. This becomes clear with his debut GHOSTWRITTEN right from the first page, and it's been a consistently lovable feature of his writing eve...