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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

I read constantly as a child. So many of my early favourites are millennial staples – Nancy Drew, Babysitters Club, and of course, the pinnacle of the classics, RL Stine’s Goosebumps books. I also abs

I’M up at my parents’ old house, surrounded by boxes of books. My mum was a voracious reader. You only had to see all the bookcases in her home to realise that. Many books were bought for her as gifts

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