My life in books

Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

Jane Fallon, the award-winning TV producer turned bestselling novelist shares the books she can’t put down

by Heather Rose (£20, HB, John Murray) Set in the wild, untamed beauty of 1840s Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), this sweeping historical novel follows Caroline, a courageous and determined woman carving

Author and Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett picks out the reads that will help get your pulse racing

The childhood book that sparked my love of reading was a very heavy tome on Robin Hood. I was fascinated by the outlaw and his band of merry men. A bit later I fell in love with Louise Fitzhugh’s Harr

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