Mark asked Anna Faversham:

What is your favorite book or two you've read? What is the favorite of the books you've written?

Anna Faversham Oh ouch... this is difficult. I'll answer the second question first because I've only written five and a half books (the half is a little book of little stories) and so it should be easier to choose. Should be, but isn't because its like asking which of your children do you like best? After much tearing out of hair, I think I can say that I enjoyed the research for the Dark Moon Series (cheating, I know, as that's three of the five covered!). Of those I think the last one, One Dark Soul, wrenched my heart to the extent that I had to have a box of hankies nearby while I wrote the last chapters. It starts slowly and it ends reflectively and I loved it. The trouble with this one is that you have to have read the other two first to really understand why this one tugs at the heart strings. Hide in Time is the most successful so I like that one very much! The latest is a departure from my usual genre and it all but wrote itself, I just had to keep up on the keyboard. (Other writers might know what I mean!) So that is extra special too.

That's not a very good answer is it, Mark? Sorry.

As to which books I've read. Phew! Impossible. Maybe Wuthering Heights because it is so atmospheric, it took me deep into the Yorkshire moors (a place I've never been). Tess of the D'Urbervilles affected me most - how could any writer end a book like that? What's wrong with the man? But it's like a magnet for me. My head constantly rewrites the ending. Best Indie is possibly Replica by Lexi Revellian. Best of the books read in the last couple of years - Abir Mukherjee's Sam Wyndham series. Best... I'd better stop, I'm not doing as asked.

Thank you for making me think hard - I'm going to make a nice cup of tea now.

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