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The Villa of Mysteries by David Hewson

Police thriller set in Rome with engaging characters, sharp dialogue and lots of action-a modern thriller but filled with echoes of the past

Friends perform a ritual, entering their treasured items into a box buried in the woods. It must remain undisturbed or… So who opened it?

Suzie suffers from schizophrenia and when this starts to drag her life into darker realms, we go with Landt’s narrative to the Mole People

Why doesn’t Lena want to go home to Possett, Alabama? A book which explores the past, growing up, rites of passage and the ties that bind

Malouf retells, in his own words but with the air of the original Homer, the story of Priam and Achilles and the ransom for Hector’s body

A well-paced book which crosses genres into post-war thriller, murder mystery and amateur detective fiction with the odd historical cameo

Another great book from John Boyne which took me through the full range of human emotions, and the life and loves of Cyril Avery

More of the Fae realm and its troubles with a megalomaniac king, threats galore and, it has to be said, a fair amount of faerie smut

Family is family -nothing can be done about it. In this novel, Haddon shows how dysfunctional it can be whilst making a warm and funny tale.

A book of family, its history and the stories that shape us and how what we believe is true can be different to what our family’s truth is