Mystery: Anything by Dorothy Sayers. Or my own Deadly Miss series available at rjamos.com. Or Donna Leon, her stuff is set in Venice and is great. And Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. And Anne Cleaves. And I could go on …

Urban Fantasy: The City Between series by WR Gingell

Science Fiction: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (absurd but excellent), and if you like that, a new one called The Pitfalls of Being a Goddess by Eva Leppard.

Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien but for something lighter and easier, try the Greenwing and Dart series by Victoria Goddard.

Historical Romance: Anything by Georgette Heyer. Hilarious and light. And Jane Austen, of course: Pride and Prejudice, but also I love Sense and Sensibility and I think my favourite is Persuasion.

Romance: My Small Town Trouble is a romantic suspense – a bit of romance, a bit of mystery. I’m not a huge romance fan, but there are so many books out there. Romance is probably the biggest genre there is.

I love stunt memoir – books where the author tries things for a year and writes about it. The Year of Living Biblically by AJ  Jacobs and A Year of Biblical Womanhood by Rachel Held Evans were both quite a lot of fun. And I love Deric Longden's writing especially Lost for Words.

Comedy: Can’t go past The Theatrical Tapes of Leonard Thynn by Adrian Plass. I cry laughing every time I read it.

Literary fiction: I love the My Friend series by Jane Duncan. And the book I love most of all is The Rosemary Tree by Elizabeth Goudge.