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Books I Love
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items These are all books that I have read and loved. I enjoy lot's of different books and also read with a book club, so there is quite a mix of genres here
Sections
7
Thrillers
Dystopian/Apocalypse
Non-Fiction
Historical Fiction
Travel Writing
Modern Fiction
Thrillers
You never know what's happening on the other side of the wall. Your neighbour told you that she didn't want your six-month-old daughter at the dinner party. Nothing personal, she just couldn't stand her crying. Your husband said it would be fine. Aft...
The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena | Waterstones
Alicia: Alicia Berenson writes a diary as a release, an outlet - and to prove to her beloved husband that everything is fine. She can't bear the thought of worrying Gabriel, or causing him pain. Until, late one evening, Alicia shoots Gabriel five tim...
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides | Waterstones
Featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton, this time untangling the vast web of deception surrounding the disappearance of a disease control specialist. Pulsating with unexpected, explosive twists, The Last Widow shows Katrin Slaughter at the top of her g...
The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter | Waterstones
500 years ago: eight martyrs were burnt to death 30 years ago: two teenagers vanished without trace Two months ago: the vicar committed suicide Welcome to Chapel Croft. For Rev Jack Brooks and teenage daughter Flo it's supposed to be a fresh start. N...
The Burning Girls by C. J. Tudor | Waterstones
St Christopher's College, Cambridge, is a closed world to most. For Mariana Andros - a group therapist struggling through her private grief - it's where she met her late husband. For her niece, Zoe, it's the tragic scene of her best friend's murder. ...
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides | Waterstones
Miranda Cotton thinks she's put boyfriend Brendan out of her life for good. But two weeks later, she discovers that he's intimately involved with her sister, and what began as an embarrassment becomes threatening. And then utterly terrifying . . . Be...
Secret Smile by Nicci French | Waterstones
When she stumbles across the advert, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss. A live-in nanny position, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is sm...
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware | Waterstones
She scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escape. She doesn't know how long she's been there. She vows not to go mad. She would rather die. Copenhagen detective Carl Morck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created d...
Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen | Waterstones
A Secret Negotiation 1914. Tensions are rising as Europe finds itself caught in a web of alliances and dangerous warmongering. To help tip the balance in their favour, Britain aims to draw Russia into an alliance with them instead of Germany. Czar Ni...
The Man From St Petersburg by Ken Follett | Waterstones
Dystopian/Apocalypse
In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no idea what, if anything, awaits them there. The landscape is destroyed, nothing moves save the ash on the wind and cruel, lawless...
The Road by Cormac McCarthy | Waterstones
Mindy McGinnis depicts one girl's journey in a frontierlike world not so different from our own. Teenage Lynn has been taught to defend her pond against every threat: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and most important, people looking for a drink...
Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis | Waterstones
In a Handful of Dust is set ten years after the first novel, Not a Drop to Drink, as a dangerous disease strikes the community where teenage Lucy lives. When her adoptive mother, Lynn, takes Lucy away from their home and friends in order to protect h...
In a Handful of Dust by Mindy McGinnis | Waterstones
A chair, a table, a lamp. Above, on the white ceiling, a relief ornament in the shape of a wreath, and in the centre of it a blank space, plastered over, like the place in a face where the eye has been taken out. There must have been a chandelier, on...
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood | Waterstones
Picking up ten years after its predecessor’s tantalisingly open-ended conclusion, The Testaments provides a new window into Atwood’s dystopian world, as seen through the eyes of three women of Gilead: a girl brought up within its confines, another on...
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood | Waterstones
THE WORLD HAS ENDED. AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE DOGS. My name's Griz. I've never been to school, I've never had friends, in my whole life I've not met enough people to play a game of football. My parents told me how crowded the world used to be, before a...
A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher | Waterstones
Non-Fiction
Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and Four Futures imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures from current changes the world is now ...
Four Futures by Peter Frase | Waterstones
In 1893, two years after the last Ripper murder, Detective Inspector William Race met with two journalists working for The Sun and told them that he knew the identity of Jack the Ripper. Two years earlier, Race had arrested 25-year-old Thomas Hayne C...
The Man Who Would be Jack by David Bullock | Waterstones
Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships… Welcome to the life of a junior do...
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay | Waterstones
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious and sometimes heartbreak...
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay | Waterstones
Eating Animals is the most original and urgent book on the subject of food written this century. It will change the way you think, and change the way you eat. For good. Whether you're flirting with veganuary, trying to cut back on animal consumption,...
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer | Waterstones
I am David Attenborough. At time of writing, I am 93 years old. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it w...
A Life on Our Planet by Sir David Attenborough | Waterstones
An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food. It's not you, it's the food. We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances call...
Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken | Waterstones
Historical Fiction
The girl turned her hypnotic golden eyes on the three strangers, the knight, the monk and the priest; and then she pronounced her curse, callling out the words in ringing tones: "I curse you with sickness and sorrow, with hunger and pain; your house ...
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett | Waterstones
On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who wants to be a doctor. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives w...
World Without End by Ken Follett | Waterstones
A World in Turmoil 1558, and Europe is in revolt as religious hatred sweeps the continent. Elizabeth Tudor has ascended to the throne but she is not safe in this dangerous new world. There are many who would see her removed, not least Mary Queens of ...
A Column of Fire by Ken Follett | Waterstones
A Time of Conflict It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better future after a devastating Viking raid shatters the life he hoped for. Lives Intertwined A ...
The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett | Waterstones
During a sweltering week in late August, as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the grea...
Pompeii by Robert Harris | Waterstones
A stunning new departure for Maggie O'Farrell's fiction, Hamnet is the heart-stopping story behind Shakespeare's most famous play. On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet,...
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell | Waterstones
It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers e...
Dissolution by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones
Spring, 1549. Two years after the death of Henry VIII, England is sliding into chaos… The nominal king, Edward VI, is eleven years old. His uncle Edward Seymour, Lord Hertford, rules as Protector, presiding over a collapsing economy, a draining, prol...
Tombland by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones
Autumn, 1541: King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisti...
Sovereign by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones
England, 1543: King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting. Archbishop Cranmer and the embattled Protestant faction at court are watching keenly, for Lady Ca...
Revelation by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones
England, 1546: King Henry VIII is slowly, painfully dying. His Protestant and Catholic councillors are engaged in a final and decisive power struggle; whoever wins will control the government of Henry's successor, eight-year-old Prince Edward. As her...
Lamentation by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones
England, 1540: Matthew Shardlake, believing himself out of favour with Thomas Cromwell, is busy trying to maintain his legal practice and keep a low profile. But his involvement with a murder case, defending a girl accused of brutally murdering her y...
Dark Fire by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones
England, 1545: England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has...
Heartstone by C. J. Sansom | Waterstones
London, 1563. England is a troubled nation. Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth spring up all over the country. The herald William Harley - known to everyone as Clarenceux - receives a book from his friend and fellow Catholic, Henry Mach...
Sacred Treason by James Forrester | Waterstones
Betrayal. Magic. Murder. A tale of three siblings and three deadly sins. In a magical ancient Britain, bards sing a story of treachery, love and death. This is that story. King Cador's children inherit a land abandoned by the Romans, torn by warring ...
Sistersong by Lucy Holland | Waterstones
Travel Writing
Travels with Boogie is the story of two city slickers - one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell, the other the long-suffering author - and how they came to terms with England's countryside and waterways. First they had to survive ag...
Travels With Boogie by Mark Wallington | Waterstones
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years is terminally ill, their home and livelihood is taken away. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South We...
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn | Waterstones
Modern Fiction
Veronica McCreedy lives in a mansion by the sea. She loves a nice cup of Darjeeling tea whilst watching a good wildlife documentary. And she's never seen without her ruby-red lipstick. Although these days Veronica is rarely seen by anyone because, at...
Away with the Penguins by Hazel Prior | Waterstones
On a perfect Spring morning at Windsor Castle, Queen Elizabeth II will enjoy a cup of tea, carry out all her royal duties... and solve a murder. The morning after a dinner party at Windsor Castle, eighty-nine-year-old Queen Elizabeth is shocked to di...
The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett | Waterstones
Fantasy
It begins with a girl and her daemon The girl is Lyra Belacqua, an orphan who lives in a place like, and yet unlike, Oxford in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Yet for Lyra, her world is about climbing the roofto...
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman | Waterstones
Will has just killed a man. Frightened and with nowhere safe to turn, he runs. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of the deserted city of Cittàgaze, and to a girl, Lyra Belacqua, who comes from a world that runs ...
The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman | Waterstones
Will is the knife-bearer and his instructions from his father are clear: find Lord Asriel. But Will and Lyra have been separated and Lyra is the sleeping prisoner of Mrs Coulter and her vicious golden monkey daemon. They must find each other, for the...
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman | Waterstones
Set in the world so masterfully established by Philip Pullman in his trilogy His Dark Materials, La Belle Sauvage is a story of survival, where two children, with everything at stake, find themselves pursued by a terrifying evil. In their care is a t...
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman | Waterstones
Lyra Silvertongue is now studying at St Sophia's College, Oxford, with her daemon Pantalaimon. They are not getting on. Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misses the impulsiveness of their youth. When an act of terrible violence b...
The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two by Philip Pullman | Waterstones