I still have to read Villette and the Professor. Wuthering Heights is my favourite book of all time (joint with the Bell Jar). The first time I read it I didn’t like it - didn’t understand why people thought it was such a good love story. Then I read it again with the knowledge that it’s not a positive example of what love looks like - it’s passion, jealousy, selfishness. Now I love it and reread it every few years.

I still have to read Villette and the Professor. Wuthering Heights is my favourite book of all time (joint with the Bell Jar). The first time I read it I didn’t like it - didn’t understand why people thought it was such a good love story. Then I read it again with the knowledge that it’s not a positive example of what love looks like - it’s passion, jealousy, selfishness. Now I love it and reread it every few years.

You can’t get lost in Cape Town by Zoe Wicomb - 426 ratings. Mixed race young woman in Apartheid South Africa living as a white woman.

Dancing in the Dust by Kagiso Lesego Molope another South African book. This is a coming of age story of a girl growing up and being made to grow up be society. Was incredible. Needs to be more widely available!