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My cousin actually wrote one of their albums (sold it to them) but I don't think I have ever listened to one of their songs!!

'The Stories of Tobias Wolff' is a brilliant collection.

Aside from the Secret Seven series, I read Ruth Rendall's 'A Fatal Inversion' as a teenager and was hooked into crime fiction.

No one for a kebab then?

The new Cosmo Jarvis album 'Think Bigger'. Love This is such a great song.

I often read books that don't use speech marks, and that gets a little wearing. You never know whether it's something being said, thought, or just happening to move the plot on!

I prefer books written in the first person - it seems to draw the reader in more. I really love the way Julie Myerson writes: she uses mainly first person (although in one of her books part of it is written in the second person 'you' which I found intriguing).

Sorry, don't know what happened (previous post) - tried to include links but everything seems to have duplicated!

Recent reads: Sophie Hannah's Point of Rescue http://www.amazon.co...41&sr=8-1-fkmr0 which took me over three weeks and a lot of to-ing and fro-ing to remember the characters. Julian Barnes' Sense of an Ending http://www.amazon.co...51692194&sr=1-1 - just about to start it.

Wouldn't describe the following as chick lit, but more women's fiction: my favourite writer is Lesley Glaister. Others that come close are Julie Myerson, Nicci French, Maggie O'Farrell.