Joanne Harris is a best-selling author and scriptwriter. She was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels including Chocolat in 1999, which went on to be an Oscar-nominated film. Since then she has written eighteen more novels, as well as short stories, game scripts, cookbooks, screenplays and a musical. Her latest novel, Honeycomb, is out now.

These are a few of her favourite things…