Barbara Erskine

Barbara Erskine's novels occupy a unique place on the bookshelves. Part historical, part romance, with elements of mystery and shades of the...

Gaynor Arnold

Gaynor Arnold’s début novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, from Birmingham-based independent Tindal Street Press, achieved the...

Annabel Karmel is the biggest-selling author on the parenting bookshelf. Hot on her heels is Contented Baby guru Gina Ford, followed by...

One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Paul French is—apologetically— quoting Stalin as he explains what it was...

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

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—...