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Crime/Girl Power!
Katy Brent - How To Kill Men… and You’d Look Good in a Coffin
Camilla Bruce - Triflers Need Not Apply
Nilesha Chauvet - The Revenge of Rita Marsh
Alexia Casale - The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
Ajay Close - What Doesn’t Kill Us
Julie Mae Cohen - Bad Men
Mackenzie Common - The Six Murders of Daphne St Clair
DG Coutinho - The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin
Helen Erichsen - Murder by Natural Causes
Eve Kellman - How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways
Bella Mackie - What A Way To Go
DB Stephens - The Serial Killer Support Group
Charlotte Vassell - The Other Half
Crime/Humour
Belinda Bauer - Exit
Colin Bateman - I Predict A Riot
Paul Carroll - Shaking Hands With Elvis
Terry Deary - Actually, I’m A Murderer
Karsten Dusse - Murder Mindfully
Holly Gramazio - The Husbands
Gay Marris - A Curtain Twitchers Guide to Murder
Laura Marshall - A Good Place to Hide a Body
Richard Osman | The Man Who Died Twice
Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
Nita Prose - The Maid, The Mystery Guest, The Maid’s Secret
David Stafford - Skeltons’s Guide to Domestic Poisons
David Stafford - Skelton's guide to Suitcase Murders
Benjamin Stevenson - Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
Tom Trott - You Can't Make Old Friends
Crime/Thriller
Kia Abdullah - What Happens in the Dark
Claire Allan - Ask No Questions
Emma Babbington - The Neighbours
John Banville - Snow
Susanna Beard - The Wonder Drug
R.S. Burnett - Whiteout
Judith Cutler - Legacy of Death
Judy Daykin - Under Violent Skies
Kemper Donovan - The Busy Body
Louise Doughty - A Bird in Winter
Richard Easter - Don't You Want Me?
Jim Eldridge - Murder at Madame Tussauds
Jim Eldridge - Murder at the Ritz
Tana French - The Hunter
Tana French - The Searcher
Celina Grace - Death at the Theatre
Celina Grace - Sanctuary
Carole Hailey - Scenes From a Tragedy
Ike Hamill - Kill Cycle
Georgette Heyer - Penhallow
Sarah Hilary - Black Thorn
Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders
Amy Jordan - The Dark Hours
Valerie Keogh - No Simple Death
Simon Kernick - Die Alone
Rosamund Lupton - Three Hours
Faith Martin - Murder by Candlelight
Faith Martin - The Last Word is Death
A.A. Milne - The Red House Mystery
Graham North - Holding
C.S. Robertson - The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
C.S. Robertson - The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
Sally Smith - A Case of Mice and Murder
Catherine Talbot - A Good Father
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Dystopia/Speculative
Carys Bray - When the lights go out
Scott Bartlett - Finished With Life
Kaliane Bradley - The Ministry of Time
Max Brooks - Devolution
Natasha Calder - Whether Violent or Natural
Will Carver - Kill Them with Kindness
Nick Cole - The Wasteland Saga
Roz Dineen - Briefly Very Beautiful
Cory Doctorow - The Lost Cause
Claire Fuller - The Memory of Animals
Carole Hailey - The Silence Project
James L. Halperin - The Truth Machine
Jane Hennigan - Toxxic
Jenny Morris - An Ethical Guide to Murder
Ina L. Nara - A Happy Wife
Michael Rogers - Email from the Future
Alex Scarrow - Last Light
Lionel Shriver - The Mandibles: A Family 2029-2047
Kim Stanley Robinson - The Ministry for the Future
Susannah Wise - This Fragile Earth
Magical realism
Grady Hendrix - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Karen Heuler - The Splendid City
Melinda Taub - The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
Emily Tesh - The Incandescent
Horror/Fantasy
J.L. Bourne - Day By Day Armageddon
David Brinson - Dead South
Bridget Collins - The Silence Factory
Simon Doyle - This is Not a Vampire Story
Rhiannon Frater - The First Days
Ike Hamill - Accidental Evil
Ike Hamill - Extinct
Ike Hamill - Spores
Rachel Harrison - Such Sharp Teeth
Al Hess - Key Lime Sky
LM Juniper - How We End
Stephen King - Cell
David Moody - Autumn
General Fiction
UK/IRL/Europe
Cecilia Ahern - Into the Storm
Clare Dowling - Expecting Emily
Roddy Doyle - Love
Roddy Doyle - The Women Behind the Door
Stella Duffy - Lullaby Beach
Anne Enright - The Gathering
Anne Enright - The Wren, The Wren
Elaine Garvey - The Wardrobe Department
Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things
Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl
Tessa Hadley - Free Love
Luke Kennard - The Answer to Everything
Emma Kennedy - The Things We Left Unsaid
Jodie Knight - Darling
Fiona McPhilips - When We Were Silent
Meryem El Mehdati - Checking Out
Gráinne Murphy - Where the edge is
Caroline O'Donoghue - Scenes of a Graphic Nature
Andrew O'Hagan - Mayflies
Kevin Power - White City
Julia Raeside - Don’t Make Me Laugh
Rose Ruane - Birding
Jessica Ryn - The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside
Elin F. Styve - Una, Unwanted
Simon Van Booy - Sipsworth
Jackie West - Shade of Violet
US/Other
Christopher Bollen - Havoc
Jeffrey Eugenides - The Marriage Plot
Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Kate Greathead - The Book of George
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Una Mannion - Tell Me What I Am
Ann Patchett - Tom Lake
Emily Perkins - Lioness
Marijke Schermer - Breakwater
Lionel Shriver - Big Brother
Trenton Lee Stewart - The Mysterious Benedict Society
Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
Historical
Historical fiction
Annabel Abbs - The Language of Food
Christine Baker Kline - The Exiles
Tania Bayard - Murder in the Cloister
Sarah Burton - The Strange Adventures of H
Tracy Chevalier - The Glassmaker
Martin Davies - Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident
Hannah Dolby - Violet Hamilton (series)
Virginia Feito - Victorian Psycho
Kate Foster - The Mourning Necklace
Alison Goodman - The Ladies Road Guide to Utter Ruin
Alison Goodman - The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
Philip Gray - The House With Nine Locks
Kate Griffin - Fynshade
Stacey Halls - The Household
Emilia Hart - The Sirens
Emilia Hart - Weyward
Grady Hendrix - Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
Antonia Hodgson - The Devil in the Marshalsea
Lora Jones - The Woman in the Wallpaper
Jenni Keer - The Ravenswood Witch
Clare Marchant - The House of the Witch
Anna Mazzola - The Book of Secrets
Colleen Mc Cullough - The Thorn Birds
Katherine Mezzacappa - The Ballad of Mary Kearney
Katherine Mezzacappa - The Maiden of Florence
Billy O'Callaghan - Life Sentences
Noel O'Reilly - The Darlings of the Asylum
E.S. Thomson - Under Ground
Chloe Turner - Blue Hawk
Maybelle Wallis - Heart of Cruelty
Michael Ward - Rags of Time
Michael Ward - The Wrecking Storm
Classic novels
Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year
Mary Elizabeth Braddon – The Queen of Victorian sensation fiction
J.S. Fletcher – Classic detective fiction influencer
John Galsworthy - A Forsyte Saga
Nonfiction
Psychology/Mindbody
Dr Gwen Adshead and Eileen Horne - The Devil You Know
Brené Brown - The Gifts of Imperfection
Joseph Burgo - The Narcissist You Know
Dr Rebecca Myers - Inside Job
Suzanne O'Sullivan - It's All In Your Head
Steven Ray Ozanich - The Great Pain Deception
Alastair Santhouse - Head First
Other
Fiona Brichaut - Writing for Mobile
Alan Davies - Just Ignore Him
Alain de Botton - The Course of Love: A Novel
Lucy Lethbridge - Servants
Darren McGarvey - The Social Distance Between Us
Shona Parker - How the Victorians Lived
Kate Summerscale - The Peepshow
Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Kate Summerscale - The Wicked Boy
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