In the series Best Books, teacher and mother of one Yumna Mamode Ally, an ex South African living in Mauritius shares her favourite reads.

My top five reads are the Harry Potter collection by J.K. Rowling,  A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hoseeni, The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Safek, The Help by Kathryn Stockett and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

My best chick lit book is Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

My best coffee-table book is The Children’s Mandela

My favourite kids’ book growing up was We’re Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen

My best self-help book is The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Safak

The books that I’ll reread again and again are the entire Harry Potter collection

What I’m reading now? The Divergent series

If I was a writer, I wish I would have written a novel about finding oneself

My kid’s favourite books are The Gruffalo’s Child by Julia Donaldson and Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

My best author is J.K Rowling