Wednesday, 22 February 2012

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Megan Abbott

Girl power is an understatement when summarising Megan Abbott's new novel Dare Me (Picador, May). Girl "marines", or even...

If you know one thing already about Kathleen MacMahon's début This is How it Ends, it's probably that the book secured...

A toxic marriage smoulders at the heart of Gillian Flynn's latest crime novel, Gone Girl (W&N, May). Nick and Amy Dunne were...

Weddings and family drama often go hand in hand and in Seating Arrangements (Blue Door, April), the van Meter clan are on fine...

At the heart of Stephen May's terrific new novel Life! Death! Prizes! (Bloomsbury, April) is the relationship between two siblings...

Billed as Orion's biggest début launch of 2012, Secrets of the Tides (April) is a family saga about the power of a long-held...

Striking fear into the hearts of her readers is of the utmost importance to S J (Sharon) Bolton. The author of five successful thrillers—...

Sean Taylor and Hannah Shaw's latest collaboration, Who Ate Auntie Iris? (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, April) has echoes...

Matt Haig's To be a Cat (Bodley Head, February) is a feline version of the body-swap films that contemplate what it would be like...

The ancient worlds of Greece and Rome, and the splendour of medieval Europe are well-worn historical topics, subject of a thousand worthy tomes...

At first glance, John Lanchester's latest book—his first novel since 2002's Fragrant Harbour—lands squarely in that...

Norwegian author Jo Nesbo is one of the leading stars of Scandinavian crime writing, a genre whose popularity with readers shows no sign of...

At the core of Absolution (Atlantic, March), Partrick Flanery's excellent début novel, is an interview between a journalist...