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.

 

  • Ablutions

    By Patrick deWitt

    Ablutions is a collage of anecdotes and stories about a functioning alcoholic serving booze to career alcoholics in a sometimes sleazy, sometimes trendy LA bar.
    Read our review of Ablutions

  • Even the Dogs

    By Jon McGregor

    ...an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society, life overwrought with love, loss, despair, and the faint glimmer of redemption.
    Read our review of Even the Dogs

  • I See a Darkness

    By Rheinhard Kleist

    Rheinhard Kleist depicts Johnny Cash's eventful life from his early sessions with Elvis, through the concert in Folsom Prison, his spectacular comeback and the final years before his death
    Read our review of I See A Darkness

  • The Last Brother

    By Natacha Appanah

    The Last Brother is a powerful, poetic novel that sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of 20th-century history- Vichy French-occupied Madagascar.
    Read our review of The Last Brother

  • Our Circus Presents...

    By Lucian Dan Teodorovici

    A novel of black humour, absurd, self-referential irony, and great sadness from Romanian author Lucian Dan Teodorovici.
    Read our review of Our Circus Presents...

  • Pocket Book of Boosh

    By Noel Fielding Julian Barratt

    The Pocket Book of Boosh is a compilation from the characters of The Mighty Boosh and is a great companion to the TV series and live shows.
    Read our review of Pocket Book of Boosh

  • 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
    Read our review of Salem Brownstone

  • 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.
    Read our review of Skippy Dies

  • Ten Storey Love Song

    By Richard Milward

    Ten Storey Love Song nicely interweaves amongst the tenants of a rough council block in Middlesboro.
    Read our review of Ten Storey Love Song

  • The Unnamed

    By Joshua Ferris

    ...man who has everything will without warning or catalyst walk till he collapses from exhaustion
    Read our review of The Unnamed