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Reading recommendations...
If you liked Mo Hayder’s gruesome new novel Ritual, try these spine tingling terrors:
Simon Kernick, Severed
One night stand. One dead body. One bad day. A terrifying read-in-one-gulp thriller with a killer premise.
Alex Barclay, The Caller
NYPD Detective Joe Lucchesi is on the trail of a killer locked into a dark fantasy world that has come crashing into reality with devastating results
What’s on Isabella Wolf’s bedside table:
A fine balance, Rohinton Mistry
Set in mid-1970s India, a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters brought together in circumstances no one could have foreseen
The Vanishing act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O’Farrell
An intriguing and touching story about the cruel betrayal of a sister.
The Memory Garden, Rachel Hore
The hinge between past and present is opened as a young woman researches her book in Cornwall.
If you liked John Lloyd’s Book of General Ignorance then you’ll love these:
Do ants sleep? Find out in Emus can’t walk backwards: Another Round of Dubious Pub Facts, by Robert Anwood
How to talk about books you haven’t read – the perfect bluffers guide to lazy readers, by Pierre Baynard
If you liked Louis de Bernieres new novel The Partisan’s daughter, Celebrate the art of story telling with these beautifully written books:
Love in the time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez – the tangled tale of a 50 year love triangle
Marina Lewycka, a short history of tractors in Ukrainian – a more contemporary take on unlikely love where two warring sister’s learn to deal with their father’s new fiancé.
Books they wish they had written:
Mo Hayder -
Red Dragon, Thomas Harris
John Lloyd -
The Oxford English dictionary
Louis de Bernieres -
In the place of fallen leaves, Tim Pears