Caroline Bott

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    By training she is a research chemist, specializing in physical chemistry (no innuendoes please). She now works in computing. Down the years, hobbies have included working at a preserved steam railway, singing in the chorus in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, epee fencing and, more recently, English Civil War battle re-enactments and living histories, not to mention keeping bees. She and her partner live in England and, when they are not at work or at English Civil War events, spend their time gardening, looking after the bees and writing sci-fi, fantasy and of course book reviews. To stop getting bored they also take on the odd cat from the rescue centre (and some are downright peculiar).

    Likes far too many books to restrict herself to a top ten! To give you an idea, if she picked one or two to represent all the areas she reads then any top ten would have to include;

• Anne McCaffrey, Barbara Hambly, Peter Hamilton and James White for fantasy/sci-fi,
• A Gerald Durrell or two for animals and humour,
• Terry Pratchett for humour and people,
• Ellis Peters for historical murder mystery,
• Ngaio Marsh or Dorothy Sayers for contemporary murder mystery,
• Georgette Heyer for historical romance,
• Bernard Cornwell for a thriller
• C.S. Forester or Alexander Kent for historical adventure at sea
• Somebody’s autobiography, and history text or two.