What hooks YOU on the first page of a book?

What makes you want to keep turning pages to find out what happens next?

It might be the characters that have you intrigued from the first few paragraphs - or a tense situation. Perhaps you're a sucker for prologues that offer a glimpse of the future... or the past. Whatever it is, you're likely to find it somewhere in this section - a collection of first pages that have whetted the reader's appetite for more.