I battle my way through the TV adaptation of this - certainly not enjoying it but somehow invested in the story and curious about what comes next. The book is such a modern classic but it’s taken me a long time to get round to reading it, I wish I had read it earlier. It’s only the early events of the TV show but the way it’s written is perfection. Short, sharp, to the point, but also somehow woolly, dreamlike, because you need to dream to survive that life, and your memory will start to wobble.

A lovely memoir. I picked this up after watching Tony Robinson interview the author on his Walking Through History programme. It’s not an area I know a lot about, Guernsey, and it was fascinating and terrifying to think about the occupation by the Germans during the Second World War. This is the story through the eyes of a child, and it’s interesting to hear about the ways the kids tried to get extra food, the things that weren’t allowed (radios), and the way everyone tended to look out for each other. When the Red Cross ships arrived, I could feel the relief pouring from the page. Lovely.