There are so many ways a book can transport you – through time, around the world or to far-off fantasy worlds – and yet, I still can't think of a more transportive book than Virginia Woolf's evergreen classic, Mrs Dalloway. From the moment the eponymous character has agreed to "buy the flowers herself", readers are enrobed in Dalloway's every thought and feeling, propelled along by a stream-of-consciousness writing style that makes the novel's events unfold in something resembling real time.