Jeffery Deaver

American crime writer Jeffery Deaver is perhaps best known for his Lincoln Rhyme series. Rhyme, a quadriplegic detective with a genius for...

Karen Thompson Walker

Every so often one hears of a novel with a hook so strong as to be irresistible. In The Age of Miracles, the first novel from American...

"I always want a different way of [writing] about families. Families are hard, but they are worthwhile," says Mark Haddon. In his...

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...

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...