Who Is Your Favourite Writer ?

[adrianben]

and name the book (or article). - D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers.

[shaneystar2]

Howard Spring ,My Son My Son.
The most memorable book I've read for a long time though was A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

[gness]

Dylan Thomas! Under Milk Wood........whatever Sandy posts mark for me too. :-)

[atalanta]

Dostoevsky

[Stargazer]

Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah and Sky Burial by Xinran both amazing true stories. Life in China during the last Century is a shocking revelation for those who know little about it.

[Flyhalf]

Although my favourite book is by Victor Hugo, I'm not keen on his other works.
I do like Wilkie Collins novels, and I'd plump for Armadale as my favourite of his.

[nidarehman]

I can read it over and over. I have never tired of it.
i think

[BlueToffee]

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[rockyracoon]

My favourite author is Michael Connelly but my favourite book is Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe.

[paddywak]

Favorite book is probably To Kill A Mockingbird. It was the first "proper book I read back when it came out in 1960 and I must have read it a hundred times since.

[Baldric]

Wainwright...........Walks

[yogasun]

I loved The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
plus lots of others listed by other posters!

Favourite children's (?) book Alice in Wonderland

[BongoFury]

The ragged trousered philanthropist robert tressell
Charles Dickens-The old curiosity shop
Hard times
Great expectations

[Stockethill]

Savages by Shirley Conran

[vetuste_ennemi]

First Christmas present to my second wife was Paul Gallico's "The Silent Miaow".

[tearinghair]

A very difficult question....I would generally go for individual works rather than an author; as several posters have said, you can love one book but not like another by the same writer. But I do go back time and time again to Lord of the Rings, Gaudy Night by Dorothy Sayers (I'm just an old romantic at heart!) and Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series.

A similar question on music might be interesting.

[robertbarker]

I like Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Peirs Anthony... and many more

[AlwaysConfused]

Tom Sharpe - Vintage stuff

[janbee]

Anything by Ian Rankin, Bill Bryson, Stuart MacBride, Peter Robinson, Peter James, Tom Sharpe, Leslie Thomas.

[Svejk]

Funnily enough, Hasek.

[Iluvspikey]

This to me is like my desert island discs question, narrowing fav records down to 8 was an impossibility - One book and author would be impossible for me, as my fav changes with my mood. I love Keith Waterhouse's Maggie Muggins, Office Life, Bimbo, and I also love Tom Sharpe, any of them - JP Donleavy The Ginger Man, any of the vet boos by James Herriot, or Police books by Harry Cole, for a fright I like James Herbert or Steven King. At the moment I'm reading Fear Nothing by Dean Koonz - it's a little bit different and I recommend it.