To celebrate 25th Anniversary of World Book Day and to prove lawyers do read other books apart from The White Book, PG team members nominated their favourite reads, books they remember fondly from their childhood or that they love or loved reading to their children:
Favourite reads:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Never Hit A Jellyfish With A Spade by Guy Browning
Childhood choices:
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Dogger by Shirley Hughes, who sadly passed away last Friday, aged 94
The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear
Mr Men and Little Miss Books by the late Roger Hargreaves, and continued by his eldest son, Adam Hargreaves
Teenage picks:
The Hobbit (illustrated edition) by JRR Tolkien
The Harry Potter Books by JK Rowling
The Jaqueline Wilson Books
Evelina by Frances Burney
Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball! by Paul Zindel
Happy reading!