I have several favourite books of all time, as we all probably do. One that I would save from a fire is “The Road to Reality” by Roger Penrose, who is number 2 to Steven Hawking as a mathematical physicist. I’ve done half of a maths degree, and I can only understand the first chapter of this big thick book. My sweet heart gave it to me when we got together, and she wrote the date in the front.
I also love “Fam – rolling in a London girl gang” by Chyna. A real slice of inner city gang life, written as a novel but everything in it actually happened, and it has the ring of truth and some choice London slang throughout.
For another rollicking English read, two more favourites are “Tom Jones” and “Joseph Andrews” by Henry Fielding, written in the 18th century, and both long, exciting and funny.