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

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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

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