Penny Vincenzi is a bestselling UK author whose new novel The Decision (Headline, $36.99) has just been released.
The book I love most is ...Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Haunting and beautiful, it's perfectly written and however many times I read it, it casts a new spell.
The bookI'm reading right now is ... The Good Life by Jay McInerney, the most riveting story of families and love affairs, set against the backdrop of 9/11. Atmospheric, emotional, and also a picture of privileged New York society.
The book I'd like to read next is ...Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. I've never read any Pullman and am painfully aware this is a huge loss.
My favourite bookshop is ... Wimbledon Books and Music, an independent bookshop that specialises in children's books and biographies and also sells a fair number of classical CDs and books about music.
The book that changed me is ...Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. I read it at the age of 14 and it took hold of my imagination and then my ambition in the most extraordinary way. That's what I want to do, I thought, write a book as spellbinding as that.
The book I wish I'd never read is ...The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson; yes, it was very exciting, but it was so sadistic, it gave me nightmares.
