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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Diary of an Unsigned Band
By Tim Thornton
If you’ve ever been in a band that went nowhere, read this book. Even if you haven’t, read this book.
Read our review of Diary of an Unsigned Band -
C
By Tom Mccarthy
...a profound meditation on the nature of communication, on how we transmit our emotions, feelings and fears
Read our review of C -
Lights Out In Wonderland
By DBC Pierre
...a rich and rigorous exploration of these times and a bitter invective on the emotional bankruptcy of individualism and the moral vacuum inhabited by unchecked elites
Read our review of Lights Out In Wonderland -
Echoes
By Laura Dockrill
A ghoulish new collection of reinvented fairy tales from Laura Dockrill
Read our review of Echoes by Laura Dockrill -
To the End of the Land
By David Grossman
...a novel of immense power that gives depth and perspective on the human cost of war and warfare
Read our review of To The End of the Land -
How I Escaped My Certain Fate
By Stewart Lee
This is a comedic book about comedy, perhaps the finest book ever put together about stand-up comedy, and certainly the funniest book you will read all year
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Things We Didn't See Coming
By Steven Amsterdam
These apocalyptic stories make an oddly reassuring read. In the face of fire, flood, draught and plague, people remain basically the same they tell us
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Elliot Allagash
By Simon Rich
What happens if you use your wealth to turn an unknown schlub into the coolest kid in school. How does he deal with that?
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Zero History
By William Gibson
A thoughtful, exuberant and wickedly entertaining thriller... vintage Gibson
Read our review of Zero History -
The Lotus Eaters
By Tatjana Soli
... story about love, ambition and loss around the period in history that sits like a scar on the country’s beautiful landscape: the Vietnam War
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Stone in a Landslide
By Maria Barbal
...the story of one woman’s life in all its ordinariness and its extraordinariness
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Twenty-One Locks
By Laura Barton
Barton’s heavily descriptive, metaphor-laden prose paints a bleak picture of her homeland
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Portrait of the Mother as a Young Man
By Friedrich Christian Delius
...insightful and convincing, the text does much to encapsulate the mood of this period and of the German public
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The Confession of Katherine Howard
By Suzannah Dunn
Dunn's latest novel centres on the fourth wife of Henry VIII and the events which would lead to her ultimate execution by order of her husband
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Heaven and Hell
By Jon Kalman Stefansson
Icelandic tale of storms, death, fishing and the transcience of life...
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Phantoms of Breslau
By Marek Krajewski
...the perfect book for those looking for an alternative to Kurt Wallander
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Q
By Luther Blissett
A historical thriller... not by a former-striker for Watford FC...
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No and Me
By Delphine de Vigan
Both poignant and funny, this unusual French novel explores homelessness, friendship, love and loss
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The Baker Street Phantom
By Fabrice Bourland
...a great twist on the gold-age crime story, with fantastic characters, brilliant sense of place and a well judged period charm
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Random Prose
By Izzat Majeed
Izzat Majeed's new collection of poetry is a heartfelt attempt to mediate that space between creative and professional
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