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At My Mother's Knee...: And Other Low Joints

Paul O'Grady

Great for: Fans of Paul O'Grady himself or his much-loved Lily Savage

Kith

Jo Bell

Great for: Older readers, young adults and anyone in between

Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world

J. Mark G. Williams, Dr. Danny Penman

Great for: Anyone experiencing anxiety or depression, or those struggling with daily life

Genuine Fraud

E. Lockhart

Great for: Fans of mind-twisting stories like The Talented Mr Ripley

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun

Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Great for: Older readers and anyone who loves to reminisce

Our Summer Together

Fanny Blake

Great for: Older readers and fans of romantic, uplifting stories

What the Dog Knows: scent, science, and the amazing ways dogs perceive the world

Cat Warren

Great for: Dog-lovers and fans of true crime

Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

P. G. Wodehouse

Great for: Fans of the hit TV adaptation, or of whimsical, hilarious tales

Gilded Cage

Vic James

Great for: Fans of the Hunger Games trilogy and other YA fantasy

After The Fire

Will Hill

Great for: Young adults and fans of suspense

The Recovery Letters: Addressed to People Experiencing Depression

Olivia Sagan (Author), James Withey (Author), Tom Couser

Great for: Anyone who currently affected by depression or recovering from it

Dangerous Lady

Martina Cole

Great for: Fans of Lynda la Plante and gritty crime dramas

Satellite

Nick Lake

Great for: Fans of science fiction and The Martian

My Everything

Katie Marsh

Great for: Anyone who'd enjoy a story of both the ordinary and extraordinary dramas of family life

You Don't Know Me

Imran Mahmood

Great for: Fans of crime dramas

Elizabeth is Missing

Emma Healey

Great for: Older readers and anyone who loves poignant and compelling stories

Open: A Toolkit for How Magic and Messed Up Life Can Be

Gemma Cairney

Great for: Young people who'd benefit from practical, fun and kind-hearted advice

One Of Us Is Lying

Karen McManus

Great for: Perfect for fans of Gossip Girl and Pretty Little Liars

The Loney

Andrew Michael Hurley

Great for: Fans of gothic and eerie tales

The Woman In Black

Susan Hill

Great for: Anyone who loves horror and craves a genuine fright

The Detective's Daughter

Lesley Thomson

Great for: Fans of fast-paced, suspenseful mystery

The Beach Wedding

Dorothy Koomson

Great for: Less confident adult readers or those who need a short, punchy read

My Name Is Leon

Kit De Waal

Great for: Anyone who enjoys both the feel-good and gritty moments in life, who remembers early-80s Britain, or who has experienced or worked in foster care

Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Wonder

R. J. Palacio,

Sofia Khan is Not Obliged: A Heartwarming Romantic Comedy

Ayisha Malik

The Good Son

Paul McVeigh

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Robin Talley

The Bones of Grace

Tahmima Anam

The Traitor

Jonathan Holt

Streets of Darkness

A. A. Dhand

Raven Black

Ann Cleeves

The Girl Who Wasn't There

Ferdinand von Schirach, Anthea Bell

The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister

Cathy Rentzenbrink

Mr Loverman

Bernardine Evaristo

One False Move

Dreda Say Mitchell

The Missing

C. L. Taylor

The Beach Cafe

Lucy Diamond

The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old

Hendrik Groen, Hester Velmans

Faded Glory

David Essex

A Very Distant Shore: Quick Reads

Jenny Colgan

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Payback

Kimberley Chambers

The Secret Marriage Pact

Georgie Lee

Orangeboy

Patrice Lawrence

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding

Millie Marotta's Animal Kingdom

Millie Marotta

The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

False Nine

Philip Kerr

The Rotters' Club

Jonathan Coe

Great for: Brummies, teenagers, anyone who grew up in Thatcher's Britain

Am I Normal Yet?

Holly Bourne

Great for: Teenagers and young women (current and former)

Love Poems

Carol Ann Duffy

Great for: Anyone who's ever loved or lost

Now You See Me: Lacey Flint Series, Book 1

Sharon Bolton

Great for: Fans of TV crime dramas from Prime Suspect to The Killing

Treachery

S. J. Parris

Great for: Fans of TV historical thrillers and period dramas

Reasons to Stay Alive

Matt Haig

Great for: Anyone who's ever suffered, recovered from or encountered depression

A Baby at the Beach Café

Lucy Diamond

Great for: Expectant mums who might like a restful read

Perfect Daughter

Amanda Prowse

Great for: Exploring the everyday dramas and ongoing trials of family life

I Can't Begin to Tell You

Elizabeth Buchan

Great for: Anyone who loved The Imitation Game & spy dramas

Shadow and Bone

Leigh Bardugo

Great for: Game of Thrones-obssessives

Whispering Shadows

Jan-Philipp Sendker

Great for: Fans of cinematic thrillers and neo-noir

Too Good to be True

Ann Cleeves

Great for: Fans of Tartan noir and John le Carré

Band of Brothers

Stephen E. Ambrose

Great for: Military history buffs & fans of the TV series

Last Bus to Coffeeville

J. Paul Henderson

Great for: Any reluctant readers who need a careering, emotion-filled story to grip them

Someone Else's Skin

Sarah Hilary

Great for: Anyone who loves gripping, plot-driven crime stories

Assassin's Apprentice

Robin Hobb

Essential Poems from the Staying Alive Trilogy

ed. Neil Astley

Chickenfeed

Minette Walters

Honour

Elif Shafak

Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts

Mary Gibson

When God Was a Rabbit

Sarah Winman

After the Fall

Charity Norman

The Moaning of Life: The Worldly Wisdom of Karl Pilkington

Karl Pilkington

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece

Annabel Pitcher

The Martian

Andy Weir

Spring Tide

Cilla Borjlind, Rolf Borjlind

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

M. C. Beaton

Skellig

David Almond

Queen's Gambit

Elizabeth Fremantle

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Blaine Harden

Prime Suspect

Lynda La Plante

Street Cat Bob: How One Man and a Cat Saved Each Other's Lives. A True Story.

James Bowen

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Rachel Joyce

Dead Man Talking

Roddy Doyle

Black Hills

Nora Roberts

Getting Rid of Matthew

Jane Fallon

The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton

Sathnam Sanghera

Confessions of a GP

Benjamin Daniels

The Recruit

Robert Muchamore

Four Warned

Jeffrey Archer

Today Everything Changes: Quick Read

Andy McNab

The Perfect Murder

Peter James

The Humans

Matt Haig

Hello Mum

Bernardine Evaristo

Theodore Boone

John Grisham

Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne

59 Seconds: How Psychology Can Improve Your Life in Less Than a Minute

Professor Richard Wiseman

Whatever it Takes

Adele Parks

Vengeance is Mine

Roald Dahl

Rivers of London

Ben Aaronovitch

Geezer Girls

Dreda Say Mitchell

Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith

After the Funeral

Agatha Christie

Judge Dredd: the Dark Judges

John Wagner, Alan Grant, Brian Bolland, Brett Ewins, Cliff Robinson

Damage

Josephine Hart

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink, Carol Brown Janeway

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Tracy Chevalier

The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, Eoin Colfer, John Seelye

Red Dust Road

Jackie Kay

The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness

The Island

Victoria Hislop

The Secret Scripture: A Novel

Sebastian Barry

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

Last Night Another Soldier

Andy McNab

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

The White Queen

Philippa Gregory

A Little History of the World

Ernst H. Gombrich, Clifford Harper, Caroline Mustill

Little Face: Book 1: Culver Valley Crime

Sophie Hannah

Noughts and Crosses: Book 1

Malorie Blackman

Touching the Void

Joe Simpson

Room

Emma Donoghue

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger

Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson

Misery

Stephen King

I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith, Valerie Grove

The Player of Games

Iain M. Banks

Harlequin

Bernard Cornwell

How I Live Now

Meg Rosoff

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho

Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier, Sally Beauman

Small Island

Andrea Levy

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic: (Shopaholic Book 1)

Sophie Kinsella

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

The Damned Utd

David Peace

Let the Right One in

John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Sleepyhead

Mark Billingham

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The Take

Martina Cole

Someone Like You

Roald Dahl

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

Maggie O'Farrell

Good Omens

Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Mark Haddon

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Nigel Slater

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque, Brian O. Murdoch

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark, Candia McWilliam

Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: The Most Notorious Double Agent of World War II

Ben Macintyre

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John Le Carre, William Boyd, John Le Carre

The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Rachels Holiday

Marian Keyes

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

A Life Like Other People's

Alan Bennett

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Case Histories: (Jackson Brodie)

Kate Atkinson

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

Killing Floor: (Jack Reacher 1)

Lee Child

Stuart: A Life Backwards

Alexander Masters

Northern Lights

Philip Pullman

One Day

David Nicholls

Fingersmith

Sarah Waters

Dissolution

C. J. Sansom