2018 In Books And Onwards To 2019

January 2, 2019 I Read, Therefore I BlogLeave a comment

2018 was an emotional rollercoaster for me. I don’t use this blog to talk about my personal life (and no doubt it would bore the pants off people here if I did) but let’s just say that my one take-away from 2018 is that nothing is forever, never ever say never and take your chances where you find them.

So with that trite lifeism out of the way, I’ll get to the good stuff.

I set myself a target of 125 books to read in 2018 and I actually beat that with 127 (full list is here). I wanted 20% of the books I read in 2018 to be non-fiction and in the end, I hit 34 in total (so that’s 26%). I am seriously starting to get into non-fiction, especially politics and social policy and 6 of my books of the year are non-fiction so you can definitely expect to see more of it on my blog in 2019.

I was less successful in reading writers of colour (WOC). I’d set myself a target of 20% of my list to be WOC but in the end only 16 of the books I read were by WOC (so that’s 12%). I’m disappointed in myself about that but I did search out more WOC for my To Read Pile and I definitely want to make that 20% target this year.

Gender wise my list was evenly split again – 49% by women and 51% men. It’s relatively easy to hit that as a target though because I read a lot of children’s and YA and it tends to be female author driven.

Aspirations for 2019 reading wise is to keep with the thrillers and crime novels as I am still working on one in real life and they help me to think about structure, plot and character. I’m looking at reading 20% of books by WOC and 50/50 male/female.

Because this remains a personal review blog, I’m not going to be scheduling posts and I’m not going to focus on any particular genre or market. I do appreciate everyone who stops by the blog and many thanks to those of you who have liked my posts or left a comment.

I’ve set out below my favourite books of 2018 (in no particular order):

NON-FICTION

In Pursuit Of Memory: The Fight Against Alzheimer’s by Joseph Jebelli – this is a fascinating if at times awful and depressing read about Alzheimer’s and how we’re working towards a treatment for it.

Refuge: Transforming A Broken Refugee System by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier – given how often we see refugees dominating the news cycle, this is a timely and compassionate book about how the refugee system works, the political compromises that have contributed to the crises and looks at a potential way of reforming the international system.

The Gender Games by Juno Dawson – this is a fascinating and thought-provoking book that’s part memoir and part sharp critique on society’s roles on gender and which is hilariously funny and sharply observed.

The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes The Way We Think, Live And Die by Keith Payne – is an eye-opening must-read about the social psychology of poverty and income and how it impacts on inequality and discrimination and frankly, if Barack Obama has it down as one of his books of the year, then really who am I to argue?

CHILDREN’S BOOKS (9 – 12)

A Spoonful Of Murder by Robin Stevens – the Wells and Wong mystery series just gets better and better with this book seeing the detective duo head for Hong Kong when Hazel’s grandfather dies and Daisy discovering that, for once, she’s not the most important person in town …

The Legend Of Kevin by Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre – just really tickled me. It’s a lovely, simple story of the friendship between a young boy and a flying horse but there’s some great humour, the illustrations are fabulous and the sea monkeys are really very naughty indeed.

What Is Race? Who Are Racists? Why Does Skin Colour Matter? And Other Big Questions by Claire Heuchan & Nikesh Shukla – confronts questions of racism, difference and racists straight on in an easy-to-understand way that doesn’t talk down to the reader and doesn’t avoid hard questions while adding personal experiences that help build empathy and understanding.

ADULT FICTION

London Rules by Mick Herron – I am a massive fan of the SLOUGH HOUSE SERIES anyway and this latest instalment is another hilarious and sharply plotted affair about MI5’s embarrassments and how they are each trying to deal with the fallout from the previous book.

The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton – is a brilliantly plotted mash-up of QUANTUM LEAP, GROUNDHOG DAY and Golden Age Detective fiction that kept me thinking long after I finished it.

YOUNG ADULT BOOKS

The 57 Bus: A True Story Of Two Teenagers And The Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater – is an astounding non-fiction book about a real-life crime that looks at both victim and perpetrator with huge empathy and respect.

My To Read Pile for 2019 stands at a horrifying 570 (for reference, I started 2018 with 416). I am going to cut down what I add to it during this year because I need to get it under control – I’m already almost out of shelf space and am reduced to piling them up around the house. Anyway, full list is behind the cut for those interested and if there’s anything you specifically recommend then let me know and I’ll move it up the list.

Thank you again for reading and best wishes to you all for 2019.

The Political Animal by Jeremy Paxman.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote.
The Classical World: An Epic History of Greece and Rome by Robin Lane Fox.
Don’t Know A Good Thing Edited by Kate Pullinger.
Collected Ghost Stories by M. R. James.
The Accidental by Ali Smith.
The Collected Stories by Arthur C. Clarke.
On Writing by Stephen King.
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith.
Saturday by Ian McEwan.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Vernon God Little by D. B. C. Pierre.
Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood.
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell.
China Shakes The World: The Rise Of A Hungry Nation by James Kynge.
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave Robbery in 1830s London by Sarah Wise.
The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy.
Flashman by George MacDonald Fraser.
Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson.
Leviathan by Paul Auster
The Bone People by Keri Hulme.
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith.
The Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke.
A Handbook On Hanging by Charles Duff.
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell.
White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
Blood and Oil by Michael Klare.
Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis by Jeremy Leggett.
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World by Richard Heinberg.
The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.
Jaws by Nigel Andrews.
Nemesis by Bill Napier.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond.
Gridlinked by Neal Asher.
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker.
Barrayer by Lois McMaster Bujold.
The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones.
Summer Chills Edited by Stephen Jones.
Past Magic by Ian R. MacLeod.
Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb.
Making Money by Terry Pratchett.
Movie Idols by John Wrathall and Mick Molloy.
Kings of Comedy by Johnny Actob and Paul Webb.
Winter Warriors by David Gemmell.
Dark Moon by David Gemmell.
Glasshouse by Charles Stross.
The Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
The Golden Age of Censorship by Paul Hoffman.
Extras by Scott Westerfeld.
He Kills Coppers by Jake Arnott.
The Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
The Penguin Book of Columnists edited by Christopher Silvester.
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
The World According to Clarkson by Jeremy Clarkson.
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin.
The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock.
The Shadow Of The Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski.
The Beach by Alex Garland.
The Consolation Of Philosophy by Alain de Botton.
Empire by Niall Ferguson.
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky.
How To Be Good by Nick Hornby.
The English by Jeremy Paxman.
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke.
Wannabe A Writer? by Jane Wenham-Jones.
Checkmate by Malorie Blackman.
Knife Edge by Malorie Blackman.
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz.
Stephen Fry in America by Stephen Fry.
Austerity Britain 1945 – 1951 by David Kynson.
The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham.
The Graduate by Charles Webb.
Out Of Africa by Karen Blixen.
Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
Triskellion 2: The Burning by Will Peterson.
Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks by Christopher Brookmyre.
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
A Journal Of The Plague Year by Daniel Defoe.
The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers.
The Lady With The Little Dog And Other Stories by Anton Chekhov.
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox.
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Under Enemy Colours by Sean Thomas Russell.
Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik.
Marketing Your Book: An Author’s Guide by Alison Baverstock.
The Faerie Conspiracies by Holly Stacey.
Midsummer Legend by Janet Foxley.
The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer.
Family Britain 1951 – 1957 by David Kynaston.
Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett.
Nation by Terry Pratchett.
Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan.
The Vampire’s Assistant by Darren Shan.
Tunnels Of Blood by Darren Shan.
The City & The City by China Mieville.
Angel of Death by J. Robert King.
A Web Of Air by Philip Reeve.
The Liberators by Philip Womack.
The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott.
The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Hello Dubai by Joe Bennett.
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory.
The Oath by Michael Jecks.
The Light of Burning Shadows by Chris Evans.
Of Saints And Shadows by Christopher Golden.
Time Riders: Day Of The Predator by Alex Scarrow
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater.
Clouds of Witnesses by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Death Most Definite by Trent Jamieson.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham.
Lustrum by Robert Harris.
13 Secrets by Michelle Harrison.
Shadow Chaser by Alexey Pehov.
The Fallen by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
Leviathan by Thomas E. Sniegoski.
Altar Of Bones by Philip Carter.
Urban Shaman by C. E. Murphy.
Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr.
Darkest Mercy by Melissa Marr.
The Dark And Hollow Places by Carrie Ryan.
Dancing Jax by Robin Jarvis.
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher.
The Crowfield Demon by Pat Walsh.
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie.
The Lancashire Witches by Harrison Ainsworth.
Anno Dracula by Kim Newman.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré.
Covenant by Dean Crawford.
The True Tale Of The Monster Billy Dean Telt By Hisself by David Almond.
Tideline by Penny Hancock.
Something Of The Night by Ian Marchant.
The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood.
The Humorist by Russell Kane.
Snakes And Ladders by Sean Slater.
Cinder by Marissa Meyer.
Zombie Apocalypse edited by Stephen Jones.
Huntress by Malinda Lo.
Snuff by Terry Pratchett.
Johnny Swanson by Eleanor Updale
Immortal by Dean Crawford.
It’s Not Me, It’s You by Jon Richardson.
The Blue Death by Joan Brady.
Johannes Cabal The Detective by Jonathan L. Howard.
The City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton.
Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher.
Dead Man’s Land by Robert Ryan.
The Painted Bridge by Wendy Wallace.
The Ripper Secret by Jack Steel.
Illegal by Miriam Halahmy.
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman.
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison Of Belief by Lawrence Wright.
The Invention Of Murder by Judith Flanders.
The Merchant Of Dreams by Anne Lyle.
Equations Of Life by Simon Morden.
Railsea by China Mieville.
Out Of The Easy by Ruta Sepetys.
The Poisoned Island by Lloyd Shepherd.
Jack Glass by Adam Roberts.
The London Of Jack The Ripper Then And Now by Robert Clack and Philip Hutchinson.
Starters by Lissa Price.
Looking For Alaska by John Green.
Every Day by David Levithan.
Feather And Bone by Gus Smith.
Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan.
The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig.
The Republic Of Thieves by Scott Lynch.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Hive Monkey by Gareth L. Powell.
Blood And Feathers: Rebellion by Lou Morgan.
The Burning Circus – A British Fantasy Society Anthology edited by Johnny Mains.
Unexpected Journeys – A British Fantasy Society Anthology edited by Juliet E. McKenna.
Monkey Wars by Richard Kurti.
Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake.
A Confusion Of Princes by Garth Nix.
Dream London by Tony Ballantyne.
The Watchers: A Secret History Of The Reign Of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford.
The Shock Of The Fall by Nathan Filer.
We Danced All Night by Martin Pugh.
Harbringer Of The Storm by Aliette de Bodard.
Ripper by Stefan Petrucha.
Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas.
The Art Of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar.
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Mammoth Book Of Steampunk edited by Sean Wallace.
The Victorian City by Judith Flanders.
A Clockwork Heart by Liesel Schwarz.
A Million Suns by Beth Revis.
The Bone Dragon by Alexia Castle.
Boneshaker by Cherie Priest.
Homunculus by James P. Blaylock.
The Lives Of Tao by Wesley Chu.
The Prince Of Lies by Anne Lyle.
Ashes Of Honour by Seanan McGuire.
One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire.
Seasons In The Sun by Dominic Sandbrook.
Hang Wire by Adam Christopher.
Lockwood & Co – The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud.
A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Murder On The Home Front by Molly Lefebvre
Flame by Amy Kathleen Ryan.
Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson.
Shadowplay by Laura Lam.
Gunnerkrigg Court: Orientation by Thomas Siddell.
Wounded: From Battlefield To Blighty by Emily Mathew
Our Lady Of The Streets by Tom Pollock.
The City Of Silk And Steel by Mike, Linda and Louise Carey.
Adam Robots Short Stories by Adam Roberts.
The Path Of Anger by Antoine Rouaud.
The House Of War And Witness by Mike, Linda and Louise Carey.
The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher by Hilary Mantel.
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America by John Waters.
Role Models by John Waters.
Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link.
Costume Not Included by Matthew Hughes.
Letters Between Gentlemen by Professor Elemental and Nimue Brown
Forensics: The Anatomy Of Crime by Val McDermid.
Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge.
Moon’s Artifice by Tom Lloyd.
Son Of The Morning by Mark Alder.
Half Wild by Sally Green.
Hack Attack by Nick Davies.
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis.
The Establishment And How They Get Away With It by Owen Jones.
Modernity Britain 1957 – 62 by David Kynaston.
The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey.
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard.
Magisterium: The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.
The Peripheral by William Gibson.
The Potion Diaries by Amy Alward.
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige.
Messenger Of Fear by Michael Grant.
Lock In by John Scalzi.
The Gospel Of Loki by Joanne Harris.
The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson.
Long Reach by Peter Cocks.
Body Blow by Peter Cocks.
Gilliamesque by Terry Gilliam.
A Robot In The Garden by Deborah Install
The Wolves Of London by Mark Morris.
The Society Of Blood by Mark Morris.
The Lazarus Gate by Mark A. Latham.
Marked by Sue Tingey.
Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien De Castell.
The Knight by Pierre Pevel.
Farlander by Col Buchanan.
Look Who’s Back by Timur Vermes.
Absolute Pandemonium by Brian Blessed.
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill.
Station Eleven by Emile St John Mandel.
Sleepless by Lou Morgan.
I Think You’ll Find That It’s A Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre.
Five Red Herrings by Dorothy L. Sayers.
Digital Divide by K. B. Spangler.
Mr And Mrs Prince by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina.
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson.
The Big Short by Michael Lewis.
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.
Rebel Of The Sands by Alwyn Hamilton.
The Art Of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson.
The Fourth Wish by Lindsay Ribar
Demon Road by Derek Landy.
Radio Silence by Alice Oseman.
Ace Of Spiders by Stefan Mohamed
Spy Out The Land by Jeremy Duns.
The Sleeping Prince by Melinda Salisbury.
Half Lost by Sally Green.
Uprooted by Naomi Novik.
The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty.
Near Enemy by Adam Sternbergh.
The Hangman’s Song by James Oswald.
Desolation by Derek Landy.
This Savage Song by V. E. Schwab.
The Somnambulist And The Psychic Thief by Lisa Tuttle.
And I Darken by Kiersten White.
This Is London by Ben Judah.
SS-GB by Len Deighton.
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon.
The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting by Holly Bourne.
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith.
They All Love Jack: Busting The Ripper by Bruce Robinson.
His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet.
Darkness Hidden by Zoe Marriott.
Iraq + 100: Stories From A Century After The Invasion edited by Hassan Blasim.
My Gym Teacher Is An Alien Overlord by David Solomons.
A Pocket Full Of Murder by R. J. Anderson.
Demon Hunters: Trinity by Olivia Chase.
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake.
The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee and David John.
Intercept: The Secret History Of Computers And Spies by Gordon Corera.
Skyfaring: A Journey With A Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker.
Way Down Dark by J. P. Smythe.
The Wrong Case by James Crumley.
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us And A Grander View Of Life by Ed Yong.
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant And Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between The Wars by Sian Evans.
The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle.
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach.
Hot Lead, Cold Iron by Ari Marmell.
The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams.
Those Above by Daniel Polansky.
The Famished Road by Ben Okri.
The One From The Other by Philip Kerr.
The Silk Weaver by Liz Trenow.
Die Of Shame by Mark Billingham.
You Can Run by Steve Mosby.
Straight Outta Crongton by Alex Wheatle.
Lovers And Strangers: An Immigrant History Of Post-War Britain by Clair Wills
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus.
The Death House by Sarah Pinborough.
Dead Man’s Blues by Ray Celestin.
Who Runs The World by Virginia Bergin.
After The Fire by Will Hill.
The Call by Peadar O’Guilin.
Contagion by Teri Terry.
Under My Hat: Tales From The Cauldron edited by Jonathan Strahan.
Dangerous Women Part III edited by George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois.
Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory
Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800 – 1906 by David Cannadine.
He: A Novel by John Connolly.
The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli.
Asia’s Reckoning: China, Japan, The US And The Struggle For Global Power by Richard McGregor.
The Econocracy: On The Perils Of Leaving Economics To The Experts by Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins.
Indigo Donut by Patrice Lawrence.
Theft By Finding: Diaries (Volume 1) by David Sedaris.
Moonlocket by Peter Bunzl.
My Evil Twin Is A Supervillain by David Solomons.
The Firm Divided: Manager-Shareholder Conflict And The Fight For Control Of The Modern Corporation by Graeme Guthrie.
Enemies And Neighbours: Arabs And Jews In Palestine And Israel, 1917 – 2017 by Ian Black.
A Legacy Of Spies by John Le Carré.
Nemesis by Brendan Reichs.
One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake.
Tarnished City by Vic James.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carré.
Pretend You’re Safe by Alexandra Ivy.
Lost Kingdom: A History Of Russian Nationalism From Ivan The Great To Vladimir Putin by Serhii Plokhy.
What You Did Not Tell: A Russian Past And The Journey Home by Mark Mazower.
The Den Of Geek Guide To The Movieverse: Movie Geek by Simon Brew, Ryan Lambie and Louisa Mellor
Auntie Poldi And The Fruits Of The Lord by Mario Giordano.
Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin
The Internationalists And Their Plan To Outlaw War by Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro
Zen And The Art Of Murder by Oliver Bottini.
The Feed by Nick Clark Windo
Now You See by Max Manning.
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt
White Bodies by Jane Robins
No Good Brother by Tyler Keevil.
The Perfect Girlfriend by Karen Hamilton.
M&A Disputes: A Professional Guide To Accounting Arbitrations by A. Vincent Biemans and Gerald M. Hansen.
I Still Dream by James Smythe.
The Bees by Laline Paull.
A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr.
What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible by Ross Welford.
Egypt by Robert Springborg.
Witchsign by Den Patrick
The Colour Of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J Harris
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
The Memory Chamber by Holly Cave
The Wicked Cometh by Laura Carlin
The Blood by E. S Thomson.
A Hero Born by Jin Yong
The Siege by Helen Dunmore.
Straight Razor Cure by Daniel Polansky.
Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari.
Hole In The Middle by Kendra Fortmeyer.
The Astonishing Colour Of After by Emily X. R. Pan.
Kiss Me Kill Me by J. S. Carol
Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto For Science, Reason, Humanism And Progress by Steven Pinker
The Long ’68: Radical Protest And Its Enemies by Richard Vinen.
Splinter In The Blood by Ashley Dyer.
The Lost by Mari Hannah
Marx And Marxism by Gregory Claeys.
God Save Texas: A Journey Into The Future Of America by Lawrence Wright.
Mass Starvation: The History And Future Of Famine by Alex de Waal.
Europe’s Crisis Edited by Manuel Castells
The Fire Court by Andrew Taylor.
Defectors by Joseph Kanon.
Greeks Bearing Gifts by Philip Kerr
American By Day by Derek B. Miller
The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton.
King Of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist.
Property by Lionel Shriver.
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Money In The Morgue by Ngaio Marsh and Stella Duffy
Not That I Could Tell by Jessica Strawser.
Understanding Business Accounting For Dummies by Colin Barrow and John A Tracy
The Queens Of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton.
Think Again: How To Reason And Argue by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
Digital @ Scale by Anand Swaminathan and Jürgen Meffert.
White Girls by Hilton Als. (STARTED)
Reinventing Capitalism In The Age Of Data by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Range
Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen.
The Silenced by Stephen Lloyd Jones.
The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox
Tin by Pádraig Kenny.
Love Like Blood by Mark Billingham
Everything Is Lies by Helen Callaghan.
This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada.
Children Of Blood And Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.
From Cold War To Hot Peace: The Inside Story Of Russia And America by Michael McFaul
The Wolf by Leo Carew
Bitter Sun by Beth Lewis.
Reporter: A Memoir by Seymour Hersh
The Value Of Everything by Mariana Mazzucato.
The Good Son by You-Jeong Jeong.
Too Close To Breathe by Olivia Kiernan.
The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers.
Shattermoon by Dominic Dulley.
The Death Knock by Elodie Harper.
State of Emergency: Travels In A Troubled World by Navid Kermani
Grace & Fury by Tracy Banghart
Brazil: A Biography by Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling.
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio.
This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay.
Skin Deep by Liz Nugent.
The Summer Of Us by Cecilia Vinesse.
The Liar’s Room by Simon Lelic.
Liar Liar by Lisa Jackson.
The Empowered Manager by Peter Block
A Brush With Death by Quintin Jardine
The Shape Of The Ruins by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Tell The Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams
The Adults by Caroline Hulse.
Empire Of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio.
City Of Devils by Paul French
The Truth Of Different Skies by Kate Ling
The Old Religion by Martyn Waites
Build It: The Rebel Playbook For World-Clas Employee Engagement by Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey.
Wyntertide by Andrew Caldecott
A Gathering Of Ghosts by Karen Maitland
The Free-Time Formula by Jeff Sanders.
The Inner Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.
Outpost H311 by Sara Jayne Townsend.
The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath.
Deadpool: The Complete Collection Volume 1 by Daniel Way, Andy Diggle, Steve Dillon, Pacp Medina, Carlo Barberi and Bong Dazo
The Unexpected Inheritance Of Inspector Chopra by Vaseem Khan.
On The Edge by Ilona Andrews.
Private Equity In Action: Case Studies From Developed And Emerging Markets by Claudia Zeisberger, Michael Prahl and Bowen White.
Inhuman Resources by Pierre Lemaitre.
Promise At Dawn by Romain Gary.
Lou Out Of Luck by Nat Luurtsema.
Release by Patrick Ness.
The Huntress: Storm by Sarah Driver.
The Returned: They Left To Wage Jihad, Now They’re Back by David Thomson.
Astroturf by Matthew Sperling.
Grist Mill Road by Christopher J Yates. (STARTED)
Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott.
Marked by Benedict Jacka.
The Huntress: Sky by Sarah Driver.
Th1rt3en by Steve Cavanagh.
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff.
Riddle Of The Runes by Janina Ramirez.
Walls by Emma Fischel.
The Ultimate Finance Book by Roger Mason.
The Hunter by Andrew Reid.
Primo Levi: The Last Interview – Conversations with Giovanni Tesio by Giovanni Tesio
Capitalism: A Conversation In Critical Theory by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi
Mastering Private Equity: Transformation Via Venture Capital, Minority Investments And Buyouts by Claudia Zeisberger, Michael Prahl and Bowen White.
Radicalized Loyalties: Becoming Muslim In The West by Fabien Truong.
Seduction: Men, Masculinity And Mediated Intimacy by Rachel O’Neill.
Where Do You Go, Birdy Jones? By Joanna Nadin
Digital Human: The Fourth Revolution Of Humanity Includes Everyone by Chris Skinner
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative To Central Banking by Saifedeen Ammous.
From The Corner Of The Oval Office by Beck Dorey-Stein.
The Coddling Of The American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
Inbound PR: The PR Agency’s Manual To Transforming Your Business With Inbound by Iliyana Stareva.
Inbound Selling: How To Change The Way You Sell To Match How People Buy by Brian Signorelli.
No Small Change: Why Financial Services Needs A New Kind Of Marketing by Lucian Camp and Anthony Thomson.
The Impossible: On The Run by Mark Illis.
The Chalk Man by C J Tudor.
Force Of Nature by Jane Harper.
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero.
The Future Of Capitalism by Paul Collier.
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story Of Cold War Espionage And Betrayal by David E. Hoffman.
City Of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab.
Under My Skin by Lisa Unger.
Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein.
The Price Guide To The Occult by Leslye Walton.
Do Robots Make Love? From AI To Immortality by Laurent Alexandre and Jean-Michel Besnier.
The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths.
National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy by Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin.
A Well Behaved Woman: A Novel Of The Vanderbilts by Therese Anne Fowler.
Attention Pays: How To Drive Profitability, Productivity And Accountability by Neen James
Girl In The Window by Penny Joelson.
This Book Is Not Rubbish by Isabel Thomas.
Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay.
Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions Of A Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday.
Snap by Belinda Bauer.
Floored: When Seven Lives Collide by Sara Barnard, Holly Bourne, Tanya Byrne, Non Pratt, Melinda Salisbury, Lisa Williamson and Eleanor Wood.
That’s Not What Happened by Kody Keplinger.
Struck by Jennifer Bosworth.
Shadow Of The Fox by Julie Kagawa.
Brothers In Blood by Amer Anwar.
Heimat: A German Family Album by Nora Krug
A Darkness Of Dragons by S. A. Patrick.
The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke.
Death In The Spotlight by Robin Stevens.
Between Worlds: Folktales Of Britain & Ireland by Kevin Crossley-Holland.
The Bus On Thursday by Shirley Barrett.
Stunt Double: Jungle Cruise by Tamsin Cooke.
The Right Amount Of Panic: How Women Trade Freedom For Safety by Fiona Vera-Gray.
The Lost Man by Jane Harper.
The Rumour by Lesley Kara.
A Fistful Of Shells: West Africa From The Rise Of The Slave Trade To The Age Of Revolution by Toby Green.
War Is Over by David Almond and David Litchfield.
Tombland by C. J. Sansom.
84K by Claire North.
The Alice Encounter by John Gribbin.
Touch by Claire North.
Bright Ruin by Vic James.
The End Of The Day by Claire North.
Skycircus by Peter Bunzl.
The Accidental President by Tom McLaughlin.
Battle Sight Zero by Gerald Seymour.
The Suspect by Fiona Barton.
Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity’s Surrender To Computers by Harry Collins
Why Social Media Is Ruining Your Life by Katherine Ormerod.
Cold Case by Quintin Jardine.
Still Lives by Maria Hummel.
AngloArabia by David Wearing.
The Happiness Fantasy by Carl Cederström.
Cold Bones by David Mark.
The Haven by Simon Lelic.
Forgotten Women: The Writers by Zing Tsjeng.
Light Years by Kass Morgan.
The Dark Days Deceit by Alison Goodman.
Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch.
Fated by Teri Terry.
Across The Void by S. K. Vaughn.
Flowers Over The Inferno by Ilaria Tuti.
How To Hold A Grudge: From Resentment To Contentment – The Power Of Grudges To Transform Your Life by Sophie Hannah.
Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor.
A Very Large Expanse Of Sea by Tahereh Mafi.
Amelia Fang And The Memory Thief by Laura Ellen Anderson
The Wolf And The Watchman by Niklas Natt Och Da
Deliver Me by Karen Cole.
The Magic Misfits 2: The Second Story by Neil Patrick Harris.
Diary Of A Brilliant Kid: Top Secret Guide To Awesomness. By Andy Cope, Gavin Oattes and Will Hussey.
To Kill The Truth by Sam Bourne.
Dirty Little Secrets by Jo Spain.
Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu.
Sunny Side UP: A Story Of Kindness And Joy by Susan Calman.
The Familiars by Stacey Halls.
How To Present To Absolutely Anyone by Mark Rhodes.
The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo.
English Universities In Crisis: Markets Without Competition by Jefferson Frank, ormal Gowar and Michael Naef.
Our Child Of The Stars by Stephen Cox.
The Expertise Economy by Kelly Palmer and David Blake.
Moscow, Midnight by John Simpson.
Leadership At Scale by Claudio Feser, Michael Rennie and Nicolai Chen Nielsen.
Farsighted: How We Make The Decisions That Matter The Most by Steven Johnson.
The Odysseum: Strange Journeys That Obliterated Convention by David Bramwell and Jo Tinsley.
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay And A Mother’s Will To Survive by Stephanie Land.
The Economics Of Arrival: Ideas For A Grown Up Economy by Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams.
Swiss Watching: Inside The Land Of Milk And Honey by Diccon Bewes.
A Long Night In Paris by Dov Alfon.
The Club by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg.
After She’s Gone by Camilla Grebe.
The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays To Be Privileged by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison.

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