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The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry

A unique book which is made up of detection mixed with a surrealist dreamscape of carnivals and the eccentric people who form them

Imagine if the Mona Lisa could talk! What stories could she tell? In Natasha Solomons’ book, we get a novel which imagines just that.

A book for everyone which highlights what it’s like to be a woman through the ages reflecting on past struggles/triumphs and the present day

Fast-paced and imaginative with whip-crack exchanges of dialogue, this is a great cross-genre read, mixing sci-fi with humour and romance

Irene Loftin’s book is a revelation to me as a Brit: that the Spanish were the first European colonists of America at St. Augustine.

A thriller which spans many things – love, terrorism, secrets, promises, espionage – all propelled by a meeting that might never happen

A book which conveys a rollercoaster of a story where a luxury life is all excess but can it endure with this as its foundation?

A light thriller and mystery where Emma, our heroine, is invited to a will reading but the legacy on offer is less prize and more challenge

Meet Thursday Next, literary detective and a female to be reckoned with, intelligent, resourceful and poised

Dark, tense, violent, the backpacker’s mecca of Thailand broods blackly as Dan, a reporter, investigates two brutal killings on an island