Which, let’s face it, is a lot of the time.
These eight books aren’t self-help books or anything like that, they are just really lovely books, with amazing illustrations and photographs, or unusual stories. They are books that you can escape into, even if it’s just for ten minutes and you still have to clean the bathroom when you come out again.
I’ve chosen each of these because I think they are the perfect books to dip into when you need a bit of cheering up. With this in mind, I’ve taken a picture of a page inside each, to give you an idea of what you might find. Each title is a clickable link though, in case you want to find out more or see the front cover.
(Although you know you should never judge a book by its cover right?)
Highlands: Scotland’s Wild Heart
George Clarke’s More Amazing Spaces
The Un-Discovered Islands
A Charm of Goldfinches
The Urban Woodsman
A History of the World in 500 Walks
Great City Maps
Gardens of the National Trust
There was originally a competition as part of this post but that has now closed. Soz about that.
I love Jenny Colgans books, really easy, light reading with a wonderful feel good vibe.
I’ve always been a reader my first ever book I read when I was 12 was Stephen King’s The Dream catcher.. I’m now nearly 31 and I haven’t put him down I have his whole collection
Growing up, my parents had a whole series of Photography books, and I would spend hours pouring over the images again and again.
Now, I love reading fiction (and even have my own book blog, http://www.dickensdoesbooks.com) – but still find myself captivated by photography books :)
What a fantastic prize!! I a constantly reading so this would be perfect! Thank you x
i like YA fiction, including Philip Pullman
Anything light hearted and funny to take me away from stressful thoughts. Catherine Alliot and Lucy Diamond books are always good
I like to escape into travel books it’s a great way to find out about places you have never been to before :) x
At the moment I am trying to read books to hell with my anxiety. Would love to win to spoil my son though as he reads a lot at the moment
Anything by Sarah Addison Allen,my fave author or Autobiographies x
It may be strange, but I love to escape into cookery and food books from around the world, imagining. All the delicious flavours.
i like murder mysterys
Ive just had a book come that I want to read outside in my summer house when the weather is warmer.
The book is called The Bear and the Nightingale, can’t wait to read it <3
To escape into a book is my favourite thing Chick lit for the beach thrillers for my commute and big books full of gorgeous photos of exotic destinations or cookbooks at home xxx
I love to read Stephen King books as he writes so well it is like another life!
I like to re-read books from my childhood. Ballet Shoes is a favourite.
Ooh I love books! My favourites are fairytale-for-grown-up types, Victorian set novels or literary fiction. My favourites ever are probably Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Wuthering Heights :)
Some old philosophy books I have,Viktor Frankl my favourite.
Cookery books I can sit and read them for hours
I’m loving anything by Diana Gabaldon at the moment, there’s definitely plenty of books to keep you going in her series.
any form of travel literature or crime thrillers always please me
I love Victoria Hislop and would love to escape into any of her novels!
I love fantasy books, my favourite is A Song of Ice & Fire series by George R R Martin.
I like dramas I can get really into.
I like reading biographies and autobiographies.
Love a good crime novel, especially from the Golden Era of Crime. Plus anything featuring Nancy Drew or the Famous Five of course!
I’m an avid reader and have recently enjoyed a few books by Susan Lewis
I’m an avid reader. Recently I’ve enjoyed several books by Susan Lewis.
Anything by Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams
I absolutely love the Book People, they fuel my addiction! I can get lost in any fiction book. For me, it’s almost the act of reading rather than what I’m reading. Sitting down, turning pages, getting lost in the story; it’s like a form of meditation for me.
I rarely have my nose out of a book! I’m dying to read the new Jessie Burton book she’s such a great writer. A little bit of history, a whole lot of drama and no better escape from reality.
I loved the look of the Great City Maps book, def one i need to check out. I love looking at cookery books, history books and fiction i love to browse and see what catches my attention.
I Have loads of books about great 1950s Liners that sail to New York as we have made the trip many times.
Love books that take me to a foreign countries that I’ve never been to
I love James Patterson books x
I love a good simple read I can power through whilst half asleep!
I love any kind of book that transports you to a completely different place, time or world. Books are for getting completely lost in!
Travel books.
i like a humorous book x
I like epics, so anything from Lord of the Rings to War and Peace.
Fiction books, especially ones based in other countries.
I love history books all about kings and queens or fact based books
Basically anything fictional so I can escape from real life for a while
good thriller or dama
I love a good thriller like something by Lee Child, but if I’m in the mood for something more relaxing then its got to be a good romance!
I like romantic and historical novels and Cecelia Ahern books.
Mainly I love science fiction/dystopian YA although a good YA romance can be fun too.
Anything by Stephen King!
My favourite genre is crime thriller, but if I’m looking for real escapism then I’ll pick up one of my Terry Pratchett books.
I love fantasy (fae, magic, witches, goblins etc…) but I also love reading autobiographys and crime novels
I love escaping into almost any European travel book, especially ones that look at more than the usual tourist attractions.
I love Alice Hoffman’s books because they have such strong characters and storylines which draw me in and keep me reading into the small hours.
I love travelogues. To read of adventures in places unfamiliar to me is pure escapism.
Travelogues are my favourite to escape into.
I love Diane Chamberlain books and have read most of them. They have a social or family theme it’s lovely to get to know the characters.
travel books
I read mainly detective fiction but do like illustrated history books too.
The Art of Domesticity. Beautiful book, cover falling to tatters and permanently by my bed
I love cookery and foodie books
I love travel books, in my pre-child days I used to dream of travelling round the world. W
It’s a 5 year old and 2 year old this isn’t possible right now but I’d sit and plan out future travels as a family!
I love a fantasy comedy. Think along the lines of Terry Pratchett. You can escape into a completely different world and have a laugh along the way
Great prize – hoping I win so I can plan my great literary escape from the stress of life
I love to escape with the novels of Orhan Pamuk.
i actually adore escaping into children’s books – both the picture book style kids books that i read with my daughter (I LOVE all oliver jeffers books for example) and also ones for pre-teen/teen years like Ruby Redfort – so they are my escape books!
Beautifully illustrated books such as Theodore Grey’s gorgeous Elements and Molecules books or wonderfully well written books like Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk in which every sentence is so beautifully constructed that you want to read it again before moving on.
I like lots of different genre of book, it depends what mood I’m in. My go to book type is probably fantasy though. A bit of magic and vampires!
Me and my 5 year old have just finished The faraway Tree collection which was also lovely to.read even as an adult!
Bridge books, quiz books and humorous books.
Everytime I go into a book shop I go straight to the travel, I love looking at all the different places and imagining where I’ll go.
My most favourite books in the world are the Tales of the City books by Armistead Maupin. Nowadays I love my chick lit and also books that people write about how they have settled in other countries, so you get a travel book and a real life “story” all in one book. Excellent. To be able to buy a ton of books would be my idea of bliss.
I like a wide range of books from sci-fi and fantasy to historical and classic literature.
Love psychological thrillers.
I like practical books whether it’s knitting, cooking, sewing, or photography.
anime comics
Chronicles of Narnia, I want to walk through the wardrobe into a land of snow! Apart from the childhood reminiscences, Cook books of exotic food, inspiring next weeks dinners but also bringing a whole world in!
I love to sink into a romantic book
I love reading about the destinations on my wishlist, fuelling my travel plans.
I love books with maps, I find them fascinating. Even as a child I liked story books with maps like Winnie the Pooh and Milly Molly Mandy. :D
I like the classics such as Call of the Wild by Jack London
I escape into children’s books and to a more innocent time with less responsibilities.
I like to read crime and thriller books.
I love to escape into books on food and cooking
I like to read a variety of books from murder mystery to historical reference books. Just love reading.
Anything that grips me! My favourite author is Margaret Atwood but my mum usually recommends books to me
I love Jodi piccoult books. She has an exceptional way of tackling human issues and allowing each characters own perspective to be heard.
I’d love to escape into alot of my childhood classics, like A little Princess and the Oz books :) x
Love a good mystery/detective/murder with a romance thrown in. Especially set in an older time period.
What a beautiful collection of books. I’m a self confessed book lover and would love to win these. I know we have to accept that things change and technology continues to play a bigger and bigger part in our daily lives, but give me a real book over an e-reader any day xx
Would like a few novels for the bookcase to wile away lazy Sunday afternoons
I like historical books about the 2nd World War. It makes me feel so lucky that I live in such relatively peaceful times in the UK, though I know a lot of people are still suffering badly overseas.
I would love to add more children’s books to my collection. A teacher’s dream!
I like a good fiction story book. One of my fave authors is Dorothy Koomson.
I like Young Adult books
i like real crime books
I love chick lits and crime novels. Fab prize!
I like books on time travel .
I love Historical fiction – CJ Sansom’s books about Tudor detective/lawyer Shardlake are amazing & real escapism.
Lolita is my all time favourite, but i do love a bit of post-apocalyptic fiction too.
I like Katie Fforde books.
What a great giveaway!
I love to lose myself in a good romance!
i read anything and everything, especially crime novels murders the more gruesome the better or fantasy novels.
Science fiction and fantasy are what I’m reading most at the moment…
I like biographies
I love a good crime thriller, working my way through John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series at the moment. Absolutely gripping.
I love to read. When I want to escape I love to read something set in another land like Narnia, Alice in Wonderland etc
It depends on my mood but i do like a thriller but also comedy or adventure
I love escaping into the Harry Potter books have read them so many times.
I love Lee Child’s books and Sophie KInsella’s books
I always have two books on the go – my upstairs book and my downstairs book. Downstairs is usually a biography of a historical figure – I’ve just today finished one about Thomas Cromwell, Upstairs is either a light-hearted book by someone like Marian Keyes or something like The Girl on the Train .
Catherine Cooksons & Lyn Andrews though I do like a good book with humour
I like fantasy, sci-fi and thrillers.
Marian Keyes for laugh out loud moments or Peter James crime thriller when I’m in the mood for something darker
Travel books, daydreaming of all the places I want to visit.
I read a Liane Moriarty book for the first time the other day and loved it. Will work my way through all hers now, I think. Thanks for this giveaway.
I love to look through travel books,I won’t go to most of the places I read about but they are interesting to look at.
history books, or medieval murder mysteries. i like to escape into the past!
I love to read detective books as love a good mystery.
I love history books.
I love thrillers, especially physiological thrillers. I love the spine chilling need to know what happens nest.
All sorts but love martina cole , roberta kray ,manda sue heller books are among my favourite ones.
Horror, science fiction or humourous fantasy.
I like to escape into a good old who done it novel
I prefer a science fiction novel or a good thriller.
I love reading young adult books. mainly romance and fantasy
For escapism, I like to read powerful family sagas.
I like bird books, as I love birds. Close up bird photographs illustrate how beautiful all birds are – even the so called dull brown ones.
I like a good fantasy / romance such as the twilight saga.
I love any historical fiction books like Phillipa Gregory
I love getting into fiction books to escape – or cookery books! :)
I like escaping into novels with a twist, or with slightly sinister undertones… like Ice Twins by S J Tremayne.
I love to get to grips with a romantic novel.
game of thrones, love them
I like to escape into historical fiction and imagine what it would have been like to live in another time.
I enjoy reading autobiographys
Any fiction will do and I read copiously instead of doing the housework maybe i escape a little too much.
I love to read romance novels and autobiographies, pure escapism.
I love to read and my current favorites are the Anita Blake collection by Laurell K Hamilton.
I do like a fantasy fiction, currently reading the game of thrones books
Anything by Neil Gaiman Is great to escape into.
I love to escape into the Harry Potter books, such a magical world. Thanks for the giveaway.
I love reading through cookbooks getting a little inspiration
Good old chick lit or historic fiction
I love to look at recipe books and dream about making nice food
I really enjoy the cathy glass books
I like to escape into alsorts of books! From Harry Potter to Michael Morpurgo to James Patterson!
i love family sagas and biographies x
wow looks good!
I’ll read just about anything – but trashy chicklit novels – especially free kindle downloads – are usually the way I go!
But I do love both Lesley Pearce and Carole Matthews books – they are my favourites…
I’d love to win these eight books
Maybe i could learn to cook
The cookery book I’d love to pick
Hoping I’ll win then I could buy some chopsticks
I love fantasy books :)
I love to escape into cookery books, Especially ones that include travel too
I like cookery books, especially ones with recipes from exotic faraway places!
I love Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels
I love a good thriller or sometimes as a bit of escapism through chick lit. Also enjoy reading to my kids and you can’t beat the classics such as Enid Blyton to help you escape back to childhood.
London By Tube by Christopher Winn & London’s Parks & Garden by Jill Billington.
Thanks for a fantastic giveaway x
I love fantasy and sci-fi. Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett are favourites at the moment. Love a bit of horror too, and sometimes a Sunday afternoon reading a trashy crime thriller is just what’s needed. I read most things fiction tbh!
Horror is one of my favourite genres I like a good scare if its written well. Stephen King is what started me out on this genre, I like the kind of horror novel that causes you not to sleep on the night that you’ve finished reading it. A lot of King’s novels have this powerful quality to them. It sets this genre apart from others in a way. However, I am up for all kinds of fiction really. I appreciate well-written works of fiction.
A love nothing better than a good old romantic book x
I love YA books, particularly those by Holly Bourne.
Philippa Gregory… love me some Tudor/Wars of the Roses escapism…
Since I joined a book xkub, I read mostly anything but I guess I particularly historical fiction set in the last couple of centuries. Big old houses with stories to tell and that kind of thing!
Would love to win – love photography and motivational books !
Something where there is enough I can relate to but something about it that’s completely different to my own experiences
I’ve always liked to escape with some chick lit, however I’m starting to get into crime & thriller books too now!
I love to read autobiography books
I like a good horror or crime, such as Stephen King x
I love to escape in regency mills and boon xx
Depends on my mood I like biographies, Stephen king
Annie Proulx
Reading fullstop for me is an escape from real life – anything will do. Just being able to curl up and immerse myself, think about nothing other than the words in the book and the pictures they create in my head is a real treat.
I like escaping into funny historical roances.
If I’m having a bad day I really like to read David Walliams’ books, they really make me smile and cheer me up.
I usually read detective stories. I’m currently reading the Sherlock Holmes collection, which is really good :) x
I enjoy reading psychological thrillers :)
Depending on my mood I mainly read autobiographies, historical, crime, thriller, horror, fantasy and sci-fi.
I love reading everything from chick lit to classics, crime thrillers to historical novels. Rarely manage to enjoy sci-fi though :)
I like thrillers, things with a twist at the end. I love photography too and would love some books on that
Forensic crime thrillers are good escapism or books about people’s travels.
Recently, I’ve been loving escaping to Hogwatrs as I reread all of the Harry Potter books.
I really love crime novels. I am not sure why I find them so relaxing to read given that they can be quite gruesome! I think I enjoy trying to solve the puzzle.
I love Jodi Picoult books, they really make you think about other peoples views x
I will read pretty much anything but I love fantasy books – a real escape from reality!
I loved The Harry Potter books so I love Magical stories x
I love any thriller or mystery storesi, my favourite authors are dean koontz and karen rose. If i won this though i would probably buy my kids lots of new books instead
My boyfriend loves fantasy books so he would be over the moon to spend this on them.
I love books with unusual places and lots of photos.
I’ve just finished reading the secret life of the amir sisters by nadiya Hussain
I love a good romance book to totally escape into.
I like to escape into fantasy. Tolkien and Pratchett mainly.
I’d love to win this. Mia has just turned 13 and I keep thinking of fabulous life-changing books I read at that age that I want to line up on her teenage shelf for her.
I love a good crime thriller
I love a good thriller, but I also really like Jodi Picoult books too.
I love a good detective novel, I get so absorbed it takes away the worries of the everyday world!
I like books by Adele Parks as they’re easy to read!
Historical novels are my favourite.
LOVE BOOKS
I do like some quality world-building – think Pat Rothfuss, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman – so it’d be something like that. Worlds that feel slightly dangerous but I’m sorry I can’t visit them all the same.
H Is For Hawk by Helen Macdonald – makes we want to go goshawk watching
Days Out books with good illustrations.
i love crime or horror! love a good spine tingler!
I love wildlife photography books; I have so many now!
Reading Holy Island by L J Ross . I also love a good Agatha Christie book.
I like to curl up with a crime thriller.
I love escaping into any book. I sit outside school reading my Book waiting for them to come out. I especially love Lee Child at the moment
I like to read anything by Irvine Welsh and I love anything by DC.
I love reading a huge variety of books. My absolute favourite is The Time Travellers Wife
I read almost anything but my real favourites are historical novels.
Bill Bryson’s travel books – they always make me want to go visit the place immediately!
Cook books!
I have a book a bought hopefully many years ago called ‘Worlds great adventure treks’ I managed to do one of them! I look at it every so often and imagine the parallel li life me checking them all off!
I love to escape into fiction. I’m currently reading The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. She is a writer who creates such completely believable worlds to escape into. (Although I’m not sure I’d want to live in the dystopian world she has created in this particular novel!)
i love reading chick lits, easy tp pick up and then put back down when real life calls
I love reading thrillers myself – I’m currently re-reading the Millennium trilogy. But I also love reading with my toddler so we spend hours looking through pop-up books and lovely short stories. I can’t wait to read him Roald Dahl.
I love to get lost in a fantasy romance world :) xx
history books
I read the Disc World series by Terry Pratchett
I love reading real life stories/true biographies, as long as they aren’t about celebrities!
I love to get lost in crime/thrillers. Nothing better than a book that steals away your time, but I do also love nature books and the Highland one looks gorgeous!
I like to escape with thrillers and mystery books
I do love Autobiographies but on saying that i also love to read true life crime. All in all i just LOVE to read x x
I love reading autobiographies xx
I love to read war time novels
Psychological thrillers as I’m USUALLY hooked from the first page -perfect escapism
Ah you can never have too many books! I do like a good autobiography.. but thriller books are my fave! x x
Chick-lit that is easy to pick up and put down and doesn’t need a lot of concentration.
I like to escape into fantasy, books for children, teens, and Young Adults (like the Anne books or Laura Ingalls Wilder ones). Or Stephen King’s works. Pretty much anything that catches my interest.
Cosy Mysteries
I love reading Marian Keyes. I’ve been reading her books since she was a teen. She’s hilarious.
I love reading travel and nature books
Fab prize, I love recipe books, could spend hours flicking through
I normally pick up a light hearted romance book as most days it’s all my brain can absorb
I am a Discworld fan the late Terry Pratchett has always given me hours of laughter, smirks, guffaws and giggles, my favourite character has to be Nanny Og – I think I am modelled after her!
I love to escape into fiction – I love absolutely every genre except Westerns – and also into cookery books, to daydream ab out all the glorious dishes I would cook if only it was acceptable to eat 8 main meals a day, because that’s how many it would take to use all the recipes I want to before my 100th birthday!
My favourite are psychological thrillers, I get lost in them!
I like so many different genres from Stephen King to Jane Austen, but my favourites are mystery thrillers.
i will literally read anything! my book collection is really huge its takes up my spare room, i do find i mainly sway towards crime books though
I read and reread Harry Potter when i need a bit of escape… there’s something perpetually comforting about returning to Hogwarts for a few hours…
I like fantasy and YA books to escape real life.
I like cook books and classics.
I love to escape into a good murder mystery especially an Agatha Christie- you can’t beat it.
I love a classic whodunit mystery book but for real escapism I enjoy Jasper Fforde books and the Rivers of London books by Ben Aaronovitch
I love to escape with fiction usually historic novels especially ones set in London!
I like to escape to the wilds of the Yorkshire Moors with the Bronte sisters’ novels
I like to escape into mystery and crime novels – I get such satisfaction trying to solve the case!
I love crime books and historical fiction
I love science fiction – especially if it is humorous like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I also love reading recipe books looking for recipes I can adapt to accommodate family allergies.
Ohh I love a romantic love story in a wonderful setting to transport me away to another world.
My favourite books are psychological thrillers.
I love to escape with auto biographies
Autobiographies, graphic novels
Anything, I love to lose myself in a book. From Stephen King, to a good grubby, smelly Dickens, to textbooks on ancient Mesopotamia.
detective books
I love thriller books to escape with but a good historical one if I’m in the mood can be just as captivating. I’ve just read through the 50SOG trilogy though which I really escaped into with.
Great prize! I was never a big reader but I am on a mission for my daughter to have books all around her.
I love a good chick lit book to escape the rat race!
love to read murder mysteries
I usually escape into fiction, so was pleasantly surprised that you chose so many non-fiction books here. I can absolutlely see why, too.
A princess book where I lived happily ever after ( fat chance) where’s my prince charming
Some romantic novels, or stephen King, maybe some travel guides.
Books are the gateway to knowledge
It depends sometimes I like a good crime thriller, then other times a modern romance
i love a good crime thriller
horror or murder mystery
I like biographies and autobiographies
I love fiction books, to take my mind of my real world after a long hard day! xox
I love a good old novel, Jane Austen is my favourite but I’m quite eclectic in my tastes. Anything with a storyline gripping enough for me to get lost in.
Weirdly it’s crime that does it for me – totally escapism in a dark and freaky way!
Crime/thrillers at the moment
I love a historical/modern day mystery novel – Kate Mosse, Kate Morton, that kind of thing. Curled up in an armchair in the window with a hot chocolate and a roaring fire to go alongside the book. Perfect escape.
I like reading biographies and children’s books (I work in an infant school ).
A good thriller to keep me entertained on my train to work.
I love fiction, especially fantasy, my favourite authors are Tolkien, Terry Brooks and George Martin
Jane Eyre. Every time. Or The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike (my favourite book as a teenager).
I love historical fiction, particularly that around the First World War, and also contemporary crime fiction, particularl Nordic Noir.
I love escaping in to all sorts of fiction but especially fantasy and historic fiction.
I enjoy patricia cornwell books xx
I like to escape into my old travel diaries!
Love Sharon Penman books – great novels based on historical facts
Travel books and new escapes places to dream and fantasize about visiting
I find (auto)biographies and memoirs of remarkable women very inspirational, but also escapist.
I like fiction books about days gone by during and after the great wars
I like young adult dystopian novels
I’m a romance kind of gal. I really like Sophie Kinsella’s new book
I love to read fiction, especially crime thrillers- they take me away from my rather mundane life!
Sophie Kinsella books
I do love a good crime thriller, my favourite author is Chris Carter. Especially one where you are kept guessing. I lose myself in trying to work out “who the guilty party is” – usually get it wrong though. Also love the horsey/country type books like Fiona Walker and Jilly Cooper. :)
I escape into any books that connect to my interests at the time (varies!). So when I adored Tim Burton movies I bought his biography & illustrated books, now I’m really into golden era Hollywood so seeking similar themed books!
I love reading sports players autobiographies
Would love to read more thrillers and romance books
love the touch of frost books i can read them over and over again
I love reading Travel Books.
It’s my escapism.
Fantastic Prize.
Thank you for running such a generous giveaway.
Love the good old Jackie Collins, but also like thriller style books as well.
I look science fiction books – a real escape
I like Agatha Christie and PG Wodehouse books
I love fantasy Fiction and also a lover of mills and boon
I love to read humorous travel books, as I don’t get to travel myself much anymore, and authorised biographies of celebrities that I like or admire, often sportspeople.
I like Sophie Kinsella and Jenny Colgan books. They are warm, lighthearted and funny.
my favourite has to be autobiographies by interesting people
When i truly need to escape I like to return to the books I read when i was much younger. I still enjoy, and can easily escape into, “Watership Down” by Richard Adams, “Treasure Island” by Stevenson, and “The Hobbit”.
Great books!
A really good thriller that gets you thinking and you can’t wait to read more.
Comedy, romance or period dramas
Cookery Books
I like literary fiction which makes me think and ponder!
To truly escape and get my brain to switch off, it has to be fiction for me. I need to escape into another world, completely different to my own, perhaps a magical one like in Princess Bride, Stardust or Northern Lights, or I escape into a different time and place thanks to Jane Austen or Toni Morrison. But the best escape is to snuggle up and read old Enid Blyton or Shirley Hughes books with my kids!
I love reading any agatha christie, great escapism
I love to read Terry Pratchett and J. R. R. Tolkein. Can read them over and over again.
I love murder mysteries
I love travel books, reading about destinations I’d love and hope to visit over next few years.
I love reading- it’s my favourite thing to pass time. It also really helps with my depression and anxiety! I’d buy some travel related books and some fantasy novels. My FAVES!
Love escaping into page-turners. That hook that keeps you keen to know what happens next … the best books are the ones you wish you could keep on reading.
I’ve continued to love escaping to Hogwarts with the Harry Potter books since I was a child :)
any horror/suspense books are my fave
I now it may be old news but I haven’t yet read any of the 50 shades books and would really like to.
History books…now I know that sounds boring to some but I love them and love to know how we have lived throughout the centuries. I also like anything by Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper…old school
What a lovely giveaway! I love to escape to another place with a good read! :-)
love reading the harry potter books they are so much fun xxx
Peter James books. No matter how bad life can get it usually ends up worse in his novels but I have read the whole of the ‘Roy Grace’ series apart from the last one, which I am just about to start
I love to read Stephen King books – makes me feel on edge.
I like to escape into a good psychological thriller that keeps you guessing all of the way through it!
I love to read travel books and discover new places
Any genre – it just has to be well written.
YA and fantasy books are my favourite :)
I love escaping on an armchair culinary ride with cookbooks! I can read them pretty much cover to cover
I haven’t found time to read anything other than online blogs and children’s books for ages and have promised myself that I will get back into reading at night to help me relax after running around after 3 little ones all day. I really like thrillers and detective type series as well as a little chic lit but nothing too soppy. I’ve been recommended a few alternative parenting type books written by Mummy bloggers so have been looking out for some of those.
I love coffee table books full of beautiful photographs
I love to read fantasy books such as The Hunger Games trilogy, they’re so gripping and unputdownable, it’s like stepping into an entirely different world!
I like fantasy books, I’m currently reading my son’s Percy Jackson series
i love all sorts of books, but I do particularly like thrillers
I like to escape into any of the Harry Potter books :)
I love escaping into Lee Child’s Crime Thrillers with character Jack Reacher
At the moment I am reading a lot of plays – There is so much less detail in them than in a book that I can create more of the surroundings and character than if an author had set it all out for me. However, I expect ti be dipping in to The Kite Runner again soon (Which is now also a play!)
I like science fiction and fantasy books
I like ChickLit, e.g. books by Fiona Walker make me happy.
I always wished I could go into the world of Harry Potter to be able to do magic and just experience the magical world!
i love chick lit its a great way to unwind
I enjoy reading many different genres, fantasy, crime, sci-fi and thrillers. Just love reading generally, especially when the weather is like this, keeps me occupied when I can’t go out anywhere :)
I’m currently re-reading Harry Potter – perfect escapism!
Love to escape into a good Star Wars novel to go to a galaxy far far away!
I like fictional crime but also like diary like books like the confessions of a shopaholic
I love to escape into children’s books ! Especially the ones I loved to read as a child – a particular favourite of mine to escape into are the Jill books by Ruby Ferguson.
I love to read historical novels.
Anything by Stephen King
I love romantic comedy books. I love reading so much but I am a real sucker for a happy ending.
I love reading travel books- problem is I’m always wanting to go away to experience everything myself :)
Anything when I get a chance to read
I escape into Lee Childs/Stephen King/Peter James thrillers
oooo I haven’t read a book in so long.
Probably a local history book, Maybe a Mummy-parenting book, and maybe something indulgent
Love reading books it’s like bringing to life so many different lives
Kids should spend more time reading books instead of eyes fixed to phone or tablet . I know mine do
Terry Pratchett discworld books :) my fave characters are the witches. Once I pick one up I have to keep reading until the end. They make me laugh and they make me question things. Two very valuable things to do.
I like reading murder and thriller books :-)
I like reading novels – especially ones set during the Second World War .
romance books
i love horror books
I love escaping to France with Joanne Harris or Kate Mosse books
I like to escape into sci-fi books so I am transported to different worlds in different times
Crime novels from the 1920s and 30s
Almost anything by Jules Verne
I like photography books
And books about makeup and people’s faces,…..
Book people are my staple currently enjoying with my boys the person controller and the midnight gang and me the Girl on the Train this would be a dream come true
Harry Potter books!
Good luck everyone! ❤
John Lydon books
I love a love story which starts off sad but ends happy ever after
Either romance or fantasy books
I read detective novels
I have been getting into mills and boon recently, can’t be a good romance
Fiction Thriller
True story books do it for me, always fascinates me going into how other people live and the things they have done.
I quite like carol mason she is a great fictional writer
nothing beats a true story for me
like historical novels
The Magic Wishing Chair
for me i love inspiring biographies – more inspirational the better
Gardening books in winter – help me dream of spring planting and summer picking :)
I love crime thrillers – especially ones with serial killers, not sure what that says about my personality!
WOW This prize is heaven for me always have my nose in a book
I love a good Crime Thriller or Horror book, something that keeps me guessing .x
Tolkein :)
I love to escape into Sci-Fi books and comics!
i love reading about history
i love the post apocalypse books – they reflect how awesome people can be when its necessary!!
I love anything by Sophie kinsella!
Romance books are my favourites x
i love a true story book .
I love reading soppy romantic books
I love a good thriller by Lynwood Barclay and another crime writer Gail Bowen. But sometimes a great escape is also reading to my children, Roald Dahl or Julia Donaldson
I love a good autobiography, not necessarily famous people, just someone with a tale to tell – also love a good thriller too
I like a books by a guy called Patrick Redmond hes fantastic some of his book are a tad dark but hes so ace
I have no genre that I stick to. I can get lost in absolutely anything!
I find any book I read if it’s good I can escape into. One of my favourite authors tho is Victoria Hislop a lot of her books are based on the Greek islands, The Island is my favourite book about a leprosy colony off the coast of Crete it switches from present day to the past when it was occupied.
I’m always on the lookout for great thriller
i like mostly history based stories
I prefer to read non-fiction, especially history. I hated history at school because we only seemed to learn dates and names of kings & prime ministers, but I really enjoy reading a well-written history book. I’m currently reading Citizens by Simon Sharma, which I picked up in a 2nd hand store, it’s about the French revolution which I did not learn about in school.
Travel stories. I love reading about all the adventures that people have entailed.
I escape into books about Greece
I lgot be travel books and cooking books x
It has been ages since I’ve had the time to escape with a good book but I like historical, crime or science fiction as a rule.
Any true story I love them
I love the Book People – I get loads for Jake from them :)
Factual, Autobiography, Biography :- are my favourites. I enjoy learning, understanding, humour etc. I do enjoy AutoBiographies which contain some humour.
love and adore Anne Rice
I love Autobiographies to see what makes people tick as well as the ficiton series of Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella which have me in stitches
Fantasy books
I’m currently enjoying reading a tale of two cities, hard to follow but really enjoying it
The History of the world in 500 walks as could sit on the sofa and travel with my mind
I’m really into Irvine Welsh at the moment. I’m reading the prequel to Trainspotting and it’s grim but also very funny. It’s charting the descent into crime and heroin for the boys and it’s really very good
Books have always been my escape from worries, heartache or even just a boring day. I love both photographic books (of travel and animals) and crime thrillers especially ones that have a series of books to let you become really acquainted with the characters e.g. Val McDairmind with Tony Hill (Wire in the blood etc), James Patterson with Alex Cross & Karin Slaughter with Will Trent.
I’m loving that my baby seems to be enjoying books already and even though we’ve already started building her library up, I’d love to win to purchase her more and let her see that their is no greater tool than imagination and learning from the wonderful world of books. :)
I like to get into a good thriller or murder mystery book.
Light comedy fiction, takes me away from stresses of everyday life!
A good thriller or drama x
I love travel books and also books on self improvement. My latest purchases from the Book People were books to make a better me but I haven’t got round to reading them yet!
Astronomy and Science Books
Definitely an Agatha Christie book. I’m something of a Poirot-nut, so it’s always a joy to solve a crime along with the man himself.
Have been lusting after the Pattern & Print Geometrics and Nature books for a looooong while now! And the list of photography books I ‘need’ is getting quite frankly ridiculous!! Please help me