Emma peiyin

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

I owe my early love of books to Enid Blyton. The Faraway Tree series will always have a special place in my heart. There’s something about that magical tree, the lands that appeared at the top of it a

Author Carol Kirkwood on the books that changed her life

Our books editor Zoe West gives us her favourite picks for the month, plus Cathy Bramley shares her writing secrets

by Liz Fenwick (£9.99, PB, HarperCollins) Newlyn, Cornwall. Kerensa is sent by her father’s auction house to catalogue a ramshackle building overlooking the sea. What she discovers inside changes her

GH ’s books director Joanne Finney shares her pick of this month’s new hardback releases