Inspiring reads
Much-loved children’s author Jacqueline Wilson has written over 100 books. Her latest is The Magic Faraway Tree: A New Adventure. Here, she shares the books that have made her laugh, cry and think…
THE LAST BOOK THAT MADE ME LAUGH
A book about Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s experience of multiple sclerosis doesn’t sound like a book to make you laugh, but Metamorphosis is told in such blackly comic style that you can’t help chuckling. His account of having to pee into a bush while observed by his elderly neighbour and her dog is marvellously funny.
THE LAST BOOK THAT MADE ME CRY
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes is a comprehensive biography of Terry Pratchett by his long-time personal assistant, Rob Wilkins, and does him proud. Terry’s dynamic personality and extraordinary energy burst out of the book – but his decline into the foggy world of dementia is devastating.
THE BOOK THAT CHANGED THE WAY I THINK
I came across the story The Doll’s House (which can be found in The Collected Short Stories Of Katherine Mansfield) by Katherine Mansfield when I was 10. The l
