Every year, thousands of books are published in the UK.
The bestsellers receive huge amounts of attention, so every month Booktrust recommends great titles that might have escaped your notice and which we think you will like.
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An Elegy for Easterly
By Petina Gappah
In this debut collection of short stories, Petina Gappah dissects the lives of people caught up in situations over which they have no control
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Beside the Sea
By Veronique Olmi
Beautifully written and translated, this is the powerful story of a mother who kills her young children because she simply cannot cope.
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Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde
By Charles Juliet
This book is a transcript of conversations (written from memory) between the author and two celebrated artists: Samuel Beckett and the Dutch painter Bram van Velde
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Cross Country Murder Song
By Philip Wilding
This work of contemporary noir is dark as they come and brilliantly executed within its non-linear skewed dissection of America
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David's Revenge
By Hans Werner Kettenbach
David’s Revenge... is deeply engaged in the racial and political tensions of modern Germany, yet at the same time knows how to dish out the suspense and the thrills of a superb crime novel
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The House of the Mosque
By Kader Abdolah
...is a big, sprawling novel that manages to educate and inform without it ever feeling like a history lesson – and a hugely impressive and deeply absorbing read
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Little Hands Clapping
By Dan Rhodes
Dan Rhodes’ latest is a bizarre feast of macabre language and the blackest of laughs
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The Museum of Innocence
By Orhan Pamuk
The Museum of Innocence is a bravura performance from Pamuk, perhaps his most accessible and beautiful book yet
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Orphans of Eldorado
By Milton Hatoum
The myth that underpins this story concerns the Amazonian tales of an enchanted underwater utopian city and the search for Eldorado, the Enchanted City: a place at the bottom of the river
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Our GG in Havana
By Pedro Juan Gutierrez
The ‘dirty realism’ of Dirty Havana Trilogy is transported into a gritty metafictional thriller in this new translation of Pedro Juan Gutierrez’s book
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Shadow
By Karin Alvtegen
Shadow is a taut, suspenseful tale of the dark secrets at the heart of an already fractured family
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The System of Vienna
By Gert Jonke
The System of Vienna reminds us that the very act of describing a life turns it into fiction
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What If Men Burst In Wearing Balaclavas?
By John Osborne
Honest, funny and peppered with a series of expertly pitched cultural references, What If Men Burst In Wearing Balaclavas? will microwave the cockles to perfection.
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The Word Book
By Mieko Kanai
The stories that comprise The Word Book hold only a fragile grip on reality – and the effect is quietly unsettling
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Zeitoun
By Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers’ second book in as many months is another oral history of unspoken Americans, this time relocating from Darfur’s Lost Boys rehabilitating in the US to survivors of Hurricane Katrina
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Instructions, Guidelines, Tuteledge, Suggestions, Other Suggestions, and Examples Etc
By Tim Key
Instructions, Guidelines, Tuteledge, Suggestions, Other Suggestions, and Examples Etc: An Attempted Book by Tim Key (And Descriptions/ Conversations/ A Piece About A Moth)
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Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers
By John Harris Dunning
This dark tale, told in black and white, is both unsettling and full of black humour, and at its core is the story of a son trying to do right by his father
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Skippy Dies
By Paul Murray
Despite the trag-comedic nature of the plot, the book is fun and brimming with humour, and bounces along throughout.
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Ten Storey Love Song
By Richard Milward
Ten Storey Love Song nicely interweaves amongst the tenants of a rough council block in Middlesboro.
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The Unnamed
By Joshua Ferris
...man who has everything will without warning or catalyst walk till he collapses from exhaustion
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