Every month we’ll have an author with us, ready to share with you, inspire you and chat with you. We’ll have a Q&A with them, review their books, hear what they loved to read when they were younger, along with blog posts on anything they’d like to talk about.

It was great to have Julie Cross with us in January – thanks Julie! To find all of her posts with us, simply use the search box on the right.

Onto February, and we have Elizabeth Wein with us  - welcome Elizabeth! We’ll soon be bringing you our Q&A with Elizabeth, a review of her novel, Code Name Verity, and a giveaway! Watch this space…

In the meantime, Elizabeth shares with us her five favourite reads…

1. The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber

2. A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

3. A Horse without a Head by Paul Berna

4. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder

5. Elidor by Alan Garner

There are others. But these are the ones I still read over and over again. I reckon the number of copies I own is a good measure. I own at least 5 different editions of A Little Princess. The Horse Without a Head takes place in an industrial town in postwar France and I think it is one of the sources of my fascination with World War II. I have paid tiny tributes to it in Code Name Verity—‘the missing key’ is one that comes to mind.

Thanks, Elizabeth! You can find Elizabeth at: https://www.elizabethwein.com