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.
Servants
by Lucy Lethbridge — Vivid, informative and well written account of the lives of servants, drawn from the letters and memoirs of servants, from the 19C to today.
The Exiles
by Christina Baker Kline — A well-written, well-researched and gripping story about female convicts shipped to Australia in the mid 19th century
The Searcher
by Tana French — American ex-cop in the Irish countryside. Intelligent and well written, it debunks the tourist-brochure stereotypes. A cracking good read.
Under Violent Skies
by Judi Daykin — Police procedural. Set in ‘Escape to the Country’ territory, but there’s nothing twee here. Racism, sexism, human trafficking, murder…
When the Lights Go Out
by Carys Bray — The impact of climate change on one family: constant rain, unemployment and the stress of trying to live as though life was still ‘normal’.
Skeltons’s Guide to Domestic Poisons
by David Stafford — A delightful book, an absolute treat. Detective novel in the cosy/classic style set in the 1920s, but with a modern pace. Quirky and funny.
Where the Edge Is
by Grainne Murphy — a very readable and moving novel about people handling the intense emotional experience of a rescue operation.
The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman — Residents in a retirement community get together to use their not-forgotten skills to solve a murder. Fun, plot twists and witty dialogue.
Mayflies
by Andrew O’Hagan — A story of male friendship, youth, mortality, music, Margaret Thatcher and other weighty matters.
Accidental Evil
by Ike Hamill —
Kill Cycle
by Ike Hamill — Hamill never disappoints. Ordinary guy turns relentless amateur detective for a gripping story packed with twists and surprises.