The idea is delightfully simple: for 30 days, you post once a day in response to a book-themed question. That’s it. No essays, no footnotes, no need to summon the ghost of Shakespeare, just honest answers, curious reflections, and maybe a few cheeky confessions about your reading habits. I have decided to take part this year, and since I picked a month with 31 days (I know it would have made more sense to use a 30 day one) I am using March 1st to explain what I am doing.

Each day brings a new prompt: favourite characters, memorable endings, guilty pleasures, and the books that made you weep, rage, or fall in love with the written word. It’s a gentle nudge to celebrate your literary life, one post at a time.

So why not give it a go? Dust off your bookshelf, sharpen your wit, and join the challenge. Thirty days. Thirty questions. One slightly eccentric bookworm’s journey through the pages.

DAY 19. – A favourite author.

I have already mentioned several of my favourite authors in earlier posts, so for today I will choose someone different.

I will go with James Herbert. I have adored his work ever since I first read The Rats many years ago, after a conversation with my father. He had read the book in his youth and it genuinely unsettled him, because at the time his own neighbourhood was being overrun by unusually large rats. When a horror novel lines up a little too neatly with real life, it leaves a mark, and that story certainly left one on him. His enthusiasm passed straight on to me, and I have been a fan ever since.

For an honourable mention, I feel I should put forward myself. I am an author after all, and I happen to be very fond of me. In fact, I am one of my favourite people in existence. If you cannot champion yourself with a smile, who will.