When I was growing up, although he wasn't a big reader himself, my father believed that
if a child didn't develop a reading habit, their whole life would be a mess.
  Seems a bit dramatic, but as a result me and my brother would often go to the local library after school and we always had a big pile of books by our beds, which we read avidly.
  
Through these books we visited loads of exciting and varied cultures and landscapes which fired our imaginations.
My mother, on the other hand, had a much less serious outlook on life and would slip us copies of The Beano and Whizzer & Chips when my dad wasn't looking.
  
  So today I remain a big reader with a hankering after sea-monkeys and x-ray specs !
Here are some of my favourite books :
 

Hangover Square
Patrick Hamilton
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
Tales of Love and Lies
Melanie Rae Thon
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Anita Loos
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Ask Dr. Mueller
Cookie Mueller
Another Love
Erzsebet Galgoczi
The book of Liz
Amy and David Sedaris
When Rain clouds Gather 
Bessie Head
The Monkey’s Mask
Dorothy Porter
The House on the Strand  
Daphne Du Maurier
The Private Memoirs & confessions of a Justified Sinner
James Hogg
Explorers of the New century
Magnus Mills
Stig of the Dump
Clive King
Emil & the Detectives 
Erich Kastner
Villette
Charlotte Bronte
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
To kill A Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Brendon Chase
B.B
The Winnie the Pooh books
A.A.Milne
Vanity Fair
William Thackery
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
First Steps in Music Theory
Eric Taylor
Grades 1-5 *
The Pippi Longstocking book
Astrid Lindgrin
The Flat Stanley books    
Jeff Brown
His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
Peter Pan
J.M.Barrie
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The Beautyful Ones are not yet born
Ayi Kwei Armah
* oops ! that's a deliberate mistake

    
  I also loved reading all of the following writers but I probably devoured them too quickly so
alltheir books have rolled into one ! 		 
Truman Capote
Evelyn Waugh
Carson McCullers
James Baldwin
Ludwig Bemelmans
George Eliot
F.Scott Fitzgerald
Roald Dahl
Amélie Nothomb