Is TV Guide a book?

No really, aside from the Harry Potter series, one of my favourite reads is Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks. It is about a soldier named Stephen Wraysford, and his experiences during the First World War, which also flashes forward to the present day, folowing his great-granddaughter researching her family tree, and discovering the tragic story, and what links the past and present.

I haven't read it for a while, and yet I was still able to remember all that. It must have had a profound effect on me.

I also love Susan Townsend's Adrian Mole series, and Number Ten, where the (fictional) Prime Minister decides to go undercover for a week, dressing up in his wife's clothes, in order to discover what the people of Britain really think and feel, along with the policeman who minds his door. It's really funny, and quite shocking in places.