by Daniel Defoe — An intimate, readable, day-to-day account of life in London during the plague of 1665, remarkably similar to life during a pandemic today.
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Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson — There’s no magic bullet for the climate. We may need a complete rectification of our values, lifestyles and social structures.
Just Ignore Him
by Alan Davies — A glimpse into the lifelong effects of terrible childhood events. Just Ignore Him is a a beautiful, unforgettable, sad, funny and brave book.
Don’t You Want Me
by Richard Easter — Race riots, royals and gender bending. No, it’s not 2020. It’s 1981 and there’s a serial killer at large in this indy British crime novel.
Extraordinary Hope
by Jessica Ryn — Plenty of sugarcoating in this feelgood novel about the homeless, junkies, alcoholics and people with mental health problems.
Life Sentences
by Billy O’Callaghan — A long and unrelenting story of miserable poverty, hard work and bare survival. It’s miserable to read, too, despite often lyrical prose.
A Good Father
by Catherine Talbot — Des is a good father. He loves his wife and children more than anything. So much that he’s determined to take care of them, once and for all.
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy — An incisive depiction of the decline of the Victorian era and the rise of the Modern era, and a gripping multi-generational family saga.
Die Alone
by Simon Kernick — Action-packed distraction. A serial killer politician faces an ex-cop duo determined to stop him. But he’s not going down without a fight…
In defense of zombie novels
The best zombie novels invite us to think critically about the collective, about society and about our role in preserving it.
The First Days
by Rhiannon Frater — As The World Dies Book 1. Great story, characterization and dialogue, tense plotting and emotional impact… and the best ever opening scene.
Three Hours
by Rosamund Lupton — A school is under siege by gunmen for three hours on a snowy morning. A tense, gripping and very moving story. Superbly written and plotted.
Devolution
by Max Brooks — Experts may warn us and small outbreaks may scare us, yet we still manage to convince ourselves that nothing will go wrong. Till it does.
Love
by Roddy Doyle — Love between friends, between parents and children, between spouses. And that weird, unreliable, deceptive kind of love — being ‘in love’.
Writing for Mobile. And Other Media.
by Fiona Brichaut — Discover a new method to structure, write and format any non-fiction text. Step by step instructions on how to make long texts easy to read.
The Things We Left Unsaid
by Emma Kennedy — Parents, if they love you, will never fully reveal the past. No matter how much you know, you’ll never have the full, lived story.
Snow
by John Banville — There’s a body in the library of the Big House, but nothing is quite as it appears in Snow, an atmospheric whodunnit set in post-war Ireland.
The Wasteland Saga
by Nick Cole — Introspective, melancholy but ultimately uplifting exploration of the human condition after the apocalypse.
The Truth Machine
by James L. Halperin — More relevant than ever. Imagine if we could wipe out Fake News and lying, scumbag politicians thanks to a reliable lie detector?
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – The Queen of Victorian sensation fiction
Best known for her sensationalist novels, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (née Maxwell) published more than 80 wonderful novels between1860 and 1910.