Who is your favourite author?

[Daisychain]

Hi all,

I'm just wondering who your favourite author is :)

Mine is Marian Keyes for fiction , and Paul Mckenna for self help.

[IndieSoul]

Mine is Alice Sebold, the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. It's her way of writing that makes it sound so...I don't know...luminous, almost :)

[Jenny]

Irvin Yalom, definitely.. love his books :)

[andyhp]

Got a few really.

For therapy type stuff Michael Mahoney or Irving Yalom I guess.

For philosophical stuff, Nietzsche.

For 'serious' stuff, Solzhenitsyn or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

For lighter stuff, John Grisham, John Le Carre.

[Kankuro]

I've got three. Juliet Marillier, Andrew Greeley and Tom Robbins.

[geri]

julia parsons dark but insightful,uruska o farrell, anthony de mello,marian keyes for laughter in the depth of despair have recently got hooked on karin slaughter, now you know why i am rarely online!!!!!!!!!

[crookxshanks]

sophie kinsella for laughter (i love her shopoholic series), stephanie meyer and j k rowling for escapism, and actually like richard hammond as well

[TDM]

It changes regularly. At the moment it's Poe.

[Marlene]

Last year I was lucky enough to visit North Carolina, and stayed in the most amazing house situated in the most stunning and spiritual wildlife environment - completely different from my usual UK habitat - in the midst of all this someone lent me the Elegance of The Hedgehog as a relaxing holiday read....

The combination of these surreal experiences was unforgettable

A highly recommended read and leaves me posing the question; who are we to ourselves and others? The book put me in mind of Johari window.

[carlos64]

Alice Miller is a great read for that particular area of interest

Victor Frankl (although I'm not keen on logotherapy generally)

For pleasure, Thomas Hardy (Jude the obscure in particular)