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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McSweeney's 30
By Dave Eggers
Carnivorous butterflies are chased away by pestilential snails, which in turn are despatched by an 'animal rain'.
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The Pleasant Light of Day
By Philip O Ceallaigh
The hilarious parody of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist is even called ‘The Alchemist’ and features one Pablo Conejo.
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All the Living
By CE Morgan
Love, and work, and God are all treated as things not to be considered lightly.
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In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By Daniyal Mueenuddin
Sohail’s mother and Helen come to an understanding that is as brutal as it is compassionate.
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It's Beginning to Hurt
By James Lasdun
As we read on, our indifference falls away.
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The Believers
By Zoe Heller
Heller does not save her characters with hackneyed life-affirming epiphanies.
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Brodeck's Report
By Philippe Claudel
The Anderer’s murder plays out in the wake of a much, much larger crime against twentieth-century European humanity
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Ordinary Lives
By Josef Skvorecky
Danny is a nostalgic soul, sipping at Manhattan cocktails and pondering the ‘ungovernable flow of wayward memories’
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John the Revelator
By Peter Murphy
'That fecken thing,' she said, her face stony with resolve. 'The devil’s teat.'
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I Was Told There'd Be Cake
By Sloane Crosley
Our intrepid and beautiful narrator gets caught up in the horror of a modern wedding.
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Hang the DJ
By Angus Cargill
Brilliant writing about some of the most unusual, terrible, and sublime moments in pop/rock history.
Read our review of Hang the DJ
