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It’s World Book Day on Thursday. What’s the best thing you’ve read?

The Wind In The Willows. In school we were meant to read so many pages every day but I got so engrossed I finished it in two days. I don’t know how many times I’ve read this book. It takes me back to my childhood.

Mary Raeburn

Cathy Come Home. It inspired me to become a housing officer.

Lionel Fardy

Delia Smith’s Cookery Course has been my culinary bible since 1976. Judi Martin

The Famous Five series. I lose myself in these books. Margaret Brown

Wuthering Heights. It was responsible for my move to Yorkshire to teach at a school a stone’s throw away from Bronte Country. Lorna Smith

The Godfather. Read the whole thing in two days. Donnie Arthur

To Kill A Mockingbird. The lessons you learn from it are still as relevant today. Fiona Reid

A short story, Flowers For Algernon. A compelling piece of writing.

Liz Kelly

Little Women. Doesn’t translate as good in film, but still good!

Sandra Peterkin

1984, for George Orwell’s frightening vision of future conditions.

David Tulanian