Win a bottle of Paperback
I love books. hardback books with beautiful covers, tatty old well thumbed books that have been read hundreds of time. Gleaming spine unbroken paperbacks. I like thrillers, romances, classics, poetry just give me a good book and I am a happy lady.
Oh and I love bookshops too I love to see all these rows of book bursting with ideas and stories. Just perfect. Good coffee and a bookshop = bliss.
So imagine my delight when I was asked if I would like to try Paperback the perfume version. It’s smells like your favourite second hand book shop – such a very cosy scent for Autumn..
The Library of Fragrance ‘Paperback’ Cologne celebrates our love affair with literature, with a backdrop of milky-vanilla sweetness, joined by delicate woody facets and just a touch of must and dust… It smells just like your favourite second hand bookshop
The Library of Fragrance makes scents that are ‘real’ and ‘familiar’ rather than a concept – their first perfumes were called Dirt and Tomato! I rather like that!
I am enjoying wearing ‘Paperback.’ It smells cosy and comforting and clean. Just lovely.
It will be launching in Boots in September and will retail for £15.
Would you like to win a bottle?
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OOh and if you are looking for something for the man in your life here are some recommended colognes for men
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Watership Down
Marian Keyes, Watermelon
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
One Day by David Nicholls. Have read it three times willing the ending to be different every time.
any Anne Rice book
My family & other animals by Gerald Durrell – i read it at school at about 14 and laughed so much i bought every one of his subsequent books. All are ‘well-loved’!!
Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah. It’s one of the few paperbacks on my shelf that isnt in pristine condition because it’s been thumbed through so often and lent to almost everyone I know. I adore it <3
Alice in wonderland
Riding in Cars with Boys! Loved it so much I read it 7 times ^_^
Good Omens – Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
GONE Girl
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby one of my favourite books 🙂
Pride & Prejudice
The Closers by Michael Connelly
Of the River People by Anthony Perry.
The time travellers wife amazing story
My very old and well thumbed Little Women 🙂
My favourite paperback is ‘Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting’ by Lynn Grabhorn.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Flowers in the Attic
Fifty shades of Grey
I have an old battered copy of a Famous Five book which has been read to death but I still love it.
Wonder, but to be honest I have so many favourite paperbacks it’s hard to choose!
Stasiland – Anna Funder
I dont have a favourite
Bram stoker’s dracula
The Harry Potter series
I love the Harry potter books
flowers in the attic
Erika Johansen – The queen of the Tearling
I dont have a favourite as almost every time i read a new book it becomes a favourite 🙂
I love the Mistress of Rome
So many to choose from. One I re-read regularly is Some Lives! A GP’s East End by David Widgery – fantastic social commentary.
Little Women xx
The Hobbit
Gone Girl
The Bell Jar is my fave- read it over and over!
Bring Me Home by Alan Titchmarsh
has to ROSES by Leila Meacham, unputable downable for sure!!!
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby great read
50 shades 🙂
I loved Girl on The Train my current favourite
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie 🙂
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Night Circus
Golgotha Falls. Very Scaaaarrrey.
So many! I think (at the moment) it’s ‘Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down’ by Nicey & Wifey. Very funny.
The whitby witches – Robin Jarvis
brave new world
Markus Zusak – The Book Thief
Blood brothers, J Cox
Flowers in the attic
The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton
i love perfume x
twilight xx
1984 George Orwell
I’m lucky enough to own a personalised signed copy of my favourite paperback, The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. A close second would by Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. I get through a good few paperbacks being part of two book clubs too!
Cider with Rosie and I even met the author and named my son after him 🙂
lyla dune Low Tide Bikini
The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho 🙂 x
Jayne Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Pride and Prejudice
ANNE OF GREEN GABLES
Since a kid and always will be The Lion The witch and the wardrobe x
Anne Franks diary
So many… all the Dickens; Val McDermits; Martina Coles; Dean Koontz; Gerritsons and at the moment reading Gormenghast hardback.
Little house on the Prarie
the turning point
Postmortem by Patricia cornwell. It’s not the greatest ever literary tome but it got be back into reading as a young adult
The book that started it all for me – Enid Blyton The Faraway Tree
Flowers in the attic by Virginia Andrews
Gone Girl
Anne Franks diary
Georges marvellous medicine
4.50 from Paddington
There are loads which I love, but one to which I always return is My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.
Sharon Wright: Butterfly by John Lynch
The Prodigal daughter by Jeffrey Archer
lord of the rings is a brilliant read xx
Salem Falls at present but it will change as I read new books
My Bible!
Narrow Dog to Carcassone by Terry Darlington if you love dogs and a laugh then this is for you.
Murder on the Orient express
Harold Robbins – The Carpetbaggers
great gatsby
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Secret Garden
The hobbit
Halfway to Hollywood-Michael Palin
i love the books by giovanna fletcher, i’ve really got into them lately.
So many!!!!! Any PG Wodehouse or Agatha Christie
My favourite paperback book is from my childhood – The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton. This book ignited my imagination and love for reading. x
Gone girl!
bram stoker’s dracula
E by Matt Beaumont
Life Of Pi
Terry Pratchett’s Guards Guards the first discworld novel I ever read
love the famous five
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Cloud Atlas 🙂
The Beach by Alex Garland
Anne Franks diary
At the moment I am Pilgrim.
Murder on the Orient express
I love Harry Potter
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
My Family And Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
Catch 22
Jurassic park
Life Of Pi
Pride and Prejudice
sail james patterson
Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
I love the smell of books! I’m not sure I have a favourite as depends on my mood, I have just picked up a copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell though so looking forward to reading that. I’m also enjoying reading all of my old famous five books to my son.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Murder on the Orient Express
My favourite paperback is A Little Drummer Girl by John Le Carre. It is beautiful, thought provoking, complex and the love story of Charlie and Joseph always makes me cry. A wonderful book.
Lady of Hay – Barbara Erskine
The early ones (from the 1960’s) by Gerald Durrell
anything by jod picoult
The woman who stole my life Marian keyes
UP WITH THE LARKS BY TESSA AINSWORTH
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
Midwife on Call. It was written by my sister and I am so proud of her.
Jodie Picoult – my sisters keeper
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
I love reading autobiographies. so many to choose from.
The Quick by Lauren Owen
anything by Darynda Jones
Georges marvellous medicine
A kestrel for a knave
I’ve just read a great book called masquerade
The shining by Stephen king
the finkler question
i just read confessions from a nail bar nd it was really funny 🙂
One flew over the cuckoos nest by ken kesey…though written in the sixties its a book who’s themes and social injustice resonates anytime or any year
Cloud Atlas
Cold Comfort Farm xxx
flowers in the attic
Harry Potter 🙂
love twilight
The Harry Quebert affair
Life of Pi
I think it has to be Persuasion 🙂
jackie colins, married lovers
Ploughing through Game of Thrones at the moment!
the finkler question
Us by David Nicholls, but I am very fickle and will change very soon
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Murder on the Orient express
Probably Lord Of The Flies. I read it for GCSE English, and I’ve read it several times since then!
Anything by Phillipa Gregory
The Island by Victoria Hislop has to be my favourite paperback!
At the moment my favourite is I Am Pilgim!
lovely prize fingers crossed
My copy of Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights… I’ve had it since I was about 10 and the pages are very yellowed now and the cover a bit shabby and worn but STILL. One of my favourite books of all time, and even though my partner got me an ‘upgrade’ to the anniversary edition hardback recently, I just can’t bring myself to part with that old tatty paperback copy…
Life of Pi
I first read The Chrysalids by John Wyndham in my teens, and I still love to read it over and over now.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time for me.
Andy McNab – Fortress
My fav paperback is ‘The Kite Runner’
My favourite paperback would have to be the Harry Potter series tbh, I could read that over and over til the end of time!
Harry Potter!
Lord of the rings
I like Cathy glass books
my fave paperback is the passage by justin cronin fab giveaway x
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Little women is my fave x
A Place of Greater safety by Hilary Mantel xx
love perfume, can’t have too many so would love to win xx
Any book by Sophie Kinsella. But A Shopoholic Ties The Knot is my favourite book by her.
My favourite paperback is ‘ A Tuscan Childhood by Kinta Beevor
lovely prize fingers crossed
Chicken Soup for the Soul x
Goodnight Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson
The Strain
The Hobbit by J R.R. Tolkien 🙂
nice prize
At the moment i am reading Susan Hill – The Woman in Black.
It’s funny, but the name of my favourite paperback is one to do with scent: The Fragrant Pharmacy by Valerie Ann Worwood (about essential oils) -my copy is well thumbed!
These scents sound intriguing. Not sure I would want to try ‘Pizza’ but I do like the sound of ‘Thunderstorm’ and ‘Holy Water’ 🙂
the house of echoes by barbara erskine
flowers in the attic x
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. I just finished reading this and loved it!
Playdough haha love that scent
Twilight is probably the set ive read the most!
Mister Pip
Old edition of the Famous Five Enid Blyton
I don’t have a favourite paperback because it’s always changing! xxx