Happy New Year from Lovereading! Whether you are resolutely sticking to your resolutions, or have already lost your resolve, we are determined to kick off 2016 with more fantastic suggestions to keep your literary love-life on track. With titles to liberate, educate and inspire, we’re starting this new year with a bang. So sit back, relax, reach for your favourite tipple and let’s guide you to your next perfect read. Why not start with our Best Books of 2015 section for some of last year’s greats that you may have missed? Read on for more.
It may be winter out there, but our January bookshelf is all toasty warm, crammed with hot titles for all tastes. We highly recommend…
| Coffin Road by Peter MayDescribed by members of our Reader Review Panel as “a remarkable thriller”, “beautifully crafted” and “A compulsive read”, a chilling mystery in a remote landscape filled with blood, bodies … and bees. Brilliant! |
The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. LeeA remarkably touching and quite beautiful read. Hong Kong is the vibrant backdrop to the intimate story of three women. There is real depth and energy to the writing and we absolutely loved it. |
A Game for All the Family by Sophie HannahTicktock, ticktock, this is a psychological mystery that encourages reading well past bed time and keeps minds ticking over and searching for rational (and perhaps not so rational) answers. |
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With so many terrific titles in just twelve months, spanning a gigantic gaggle of genres and catering for all tastes, it’s very possible that even the most dedicated readers among you will have missed some of 2015’s star turns. Fret not! We have put them all into
a handy category of heroes for you to dip into an expert-compiled retrospective of the literary gold dust of 2015.
Enjoy!
What better time to introduce you to the
brightest new writing talent. This month’s debutants are a shining bunch. Your new favourite writer is undoubtedly among them! We especially love…
And finally, we think, another soon to be hit –
Highbridge by Phil Redmond, the creator of
Grange Hill,
Brookside and
Hollyoaks. It’s a hard-hitting drama and the start of a new crime series set in a fictional town with complex secrets and shady characters.
It divided the opinions of our Reader Reviewers but the ones who liked it raved about it.
We think it is definitely worth finding out more.
Come January we all have thoughts to improve ourselves or the situations we find ourselves in … but doing new things needs help and support … and this is where our small but perfectly selected range of New Year, New You books could help. Titles like
D.I.Y Magic: A Strange and Whimsical Guide to Creativity by Anthony Alvarado. Described as “NOT a book merely to be read; it is a book to be lived!” it is refreshingly different and useful with ‘mind hacks’ that will change the way you think about yourself, about creativity, and about the world.
Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize,
Crooked Heart is a war tale with a difference. Perfect for fans of Beryl Bainbridge or Alan Bennett, it’s a surprising and thoroughly enjoyable story of a young evacuee from the Blitz and the family he is billeted with. Sparky, funny yet credible and touching, it was described by Nick Hornby as “the best novel I’ve read in the last five years”. You’ll devour
this lovely book and will probably buy several copies to give to your friends!
Cleverly crafted and mind-bendingly brilliant, Joseph D’Lacey’s two-book series
The Black Dawn is a delightfully dark delve into worlds past and present. With searingly plausible futuristic imaginings, you will be transported into a brave new world.
Black Feathers flits effortlessly between two realities, a world of an ecological apocalypse and its troubled, techno-free aftermath whilst
The Book of The Crowman hurls the reader towards a terrifying and terrible reckoning. You’ll be left emotionally exhausted, yet filled with hope.
See more here.
40 Years gone and not Forgotten
This month sees the 40
th anniversary of the death of one of the world’s best-loved crime writers, Agatha Christie. As well as her classics crime fans should also take a look at international bestselling author Sophie Hannah’s stylish sequel and Poirot homage,
The Monogram Murders. It’s the first time that the guardians of Christie’s legacy have authorised such a novel and fans new and old will not be disappointed. Sit back and let those ‘little grey cells’ astound you once again!
Plus, if you are a fan of
Sophie Hannah, then out this month is her brilliant stand-alone
A Game for All the Family, we also have an exclusive pre-publication extract of
The Narrow Bed, the latest in her Culver Valley Crime series, due out in February.
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.’ So begins
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. Trust us it is this year’s guilty pleasure and with over 50,000 copies already devoured in the UK alone, a new edition ties in with the all-star film release sure to set screens ablaze around Valentine’s Day this year.
And if this mash-up of regency and demons is your thing, check out superlative supernatural page-turner
The Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman, out later this month but on site now with an exclusive taster extract. And don’t miss the TV version of Cassandra Clare’s
Mortal Instruments coming to Netflix later this month. Sorted!
With a unique voice, author
Karen Rose has created a genre all for herself. Her
Cincinnati series blends explicit romance with great crime writing. Sex and serial killers. Just the thing for these cold winter months! Our Reader Reviewers raved about the first book,
Closer Than You Think, and the second title,
Alone in the Dark (available in physical form in February) was one of our top eBooks of 2015. See more
here.
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P.S. there are plenty of other film releases this month and next which are book based. Check them out here and why not enter our competition to win some cinema tickets too?
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