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Anthologies and Collaborations

Andersen, Knausgaard, Lagerlof, Hjorth A Scandinavian Christmas

Baddiel, Skinner, Lightning Seeds Three Lions: Football's Coming Home

Bloomsbury Yearbooks Writers' & Artists' Yearbook

Brownlie, Woolf Why Do People Fight Wars?

Collins Michelin I-Spy Guides I-Spy Castles: Spy It! Score It!

Lonely Planet Your Trip Starts Here: Journeys of self-discovery

Abbott, Rachel The Sixth Window

Abdullah, Kia Truth Be Told

Adams, Max The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria, In the Land of Giants: Journeys Through the Dark Ages

Adams, Richard The Plague Dogs, The Ship's Cat

Alexander, Claire Meredith, Alone

Almontaser, Threa The Wild Fox of Yemen

Andrews, Jessica Saltwater

Asquith, Kate Louder! A Guide to Finding Your Voice and Changing the World

Baldacci, David The Christmas Train, Walk the Wire

Banks, Ian The Wasp Factory

Banville, John April in Spain, The Lock-Up

Barker, Pat The Ghost Road

Barstow, Stan A Kind of Loving

Benchley, Peter Jaws

Benedict, Alexandra Murder on the Christmas Express

Bennett, Robin Fantastic Football

Bilston, Brian 50 Ways to Score a Goal and other poems

Black, Maggie The Medieval Cookbook

Blatty, William Peter The Exorcist

Bolton, Sharon Little Black Lies

Boyd, Douglas Plagues and Pandemics

Boyne, John A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom

Bradbury, Ray Fahrenheit 451

Bradley, Nick The Cat and the City

Brandon, Nathaniel The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

Brittain, Vera Testament of Youth

Brolly, Matt The Running Girls

Brown, Michael A Guide to Medieval Gardens: Gardens in the Age of Chivalry, Medieval Plants and their Uses

Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange

Burns, Anna Milkman

Butterworth, Nick One Snowy Night: A Percy the Park Keeper Story

Campbell, Michele A Stranger on the Beach

Camus, Albert The Outsider

Carle, Eric The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Carrisi, Donato The Whisperer's Game

Carver, Martin Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?

Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None

Cleeves, Ann The Heron's Cry

Cline, Ernest Ready Player One

Coben, Harlan The Innocent, The Boy From the Woods, The Match, I Will Find You,

Coeur, James Dance of the Rainmakers

Coleman, Keith J. The Afterlife of King James IV

Cowper, Frank Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk

Cummins, Fiona When I Was Ten

Dean, Abigail Girl A

Dean, Will First Born

Delaney, J.P. Playing Nice, My Darling Daughter

Denzil, Sarah A. Silent Child

Dickens, Charles The Signalman, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth

Ditlevson, Tove The Trouble with Happiness

Dolman, Gary The Eighth Circle of Hell

Eastham, Kate The Liverpool Nightingales

Edwards, Mark The Magpies, What You Wish For, Follow You Home, The Devil's Work, The Retreat, Killing Cupid, In Her Shadow, Here To Stay, The House Guest, The Hollows, Keep Her Secret

Eisler, Barry The Killer Collective

Elborough, Travis Atlas of Vanishing Places

Ellis, Bret Easton American Psycho

Ellwood, Nuala The House on the Lake, The Perfect Life

Esiri, Allie A Poem for Every Night of the Year (editor)

Ewan, C.M. The Interview

Farrell, Matthew I Know Everything

Feeney, Alice I Know Who You Are, Rock Paper Scissors, Daisy Darker

Figes, Orlando The Story of Russia

Filer, Nathan The Shock of the Fall

Finn, A.J. The Woman in the Window

Finney, Clare Hungry Heart

Fitzharris, Lindsey The Facemaker

Flanders, Judith Christmas: A History

Flynn, Gillian Gone Girl, Sharp Objects, Dark Places,

Foley, Lucy The Hunting Party, The Guest List, The Paris Apartment.

Ford, Richard Sorry For Your Trouble

Franchetti, Livia Shelf Life

Frank, Anita The Lost Ones

Frear, Caz Sweet Little Lies, Stone Cold Heart, Shed No Tears

Frech, Steve Nightingale House, Deadly Games

French, Tana The Searcher

French, Dr. Ryan The Sun: Beginner's Guide to Our Local Star

Garcia, Miki The Caribbean Irish: How the Slave Myth Was Made

Galvin, Anthony Death and Destruction on the Thames in London

Gennoe, Dan All Neon Like Love

Glasfurd, Guinevere The Year Without Summer

Goldin, Megan The Night Swim

Golding, William Lord of the Flies

Gorter, Herman Selected Poems, May

Gray, Daniel The Silence of the Stands

Gray, Philip Two Storm Wood

Gresham, William Lindsay Nightmare Alley

Griffiths, Elly Now You See Them

Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

Haig, Matt The Midnight Library

Halsall, Rona The Ex-Boyfriend

Hammad, Isabella The Parisian

Hanington, Peter A Single Source

Hardinge, Francis Deeplight

Harris, Robert Pompeii, V2

Hart, Andrew The Woman in Our House

Hawkins, Paula The Girl on the Train

Healey, Jonathan The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England

Hill, Joe Heart Shaped Box, Horns

Holmes, Marianne All Your Little Lies

Horst, Jorn Lier Dregs

Hubbard, Ben Lost at Sea! Shipwrecks

Hurley, Andrew Michael The Loney, Devil's Day, Starve Acre

Hurley, Graham Limelight

Hutchinson, Gillian Sir John Franklin's Erebus and Terror Expedition

Huxley, Aldous Brave New World

Iggulden, Conn Wars of the Roses: Stormbird, The Gates of Athens

Ishiguro, Kazuo The Buried Giant, Never Let Me Go, Klara and the Sun

Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House

James, Henry The Turn of the Screw

James, Linh Le #Toots

James, Maggie Blackwater Lake

James, P.D. The Mistletoe Murder, The Part Time Job

James, Peter The Secret of Cold Hill, Dead Simple, I Follow You, Find Them Dead, Left You Dead

Jewell, Lisa The Family Upstairs, The Night She Disappeared, The Family Remains, None of this is True

Jonasson, Ragnar Snowblind, The Girl Who Died, Outside

Jones, Dan The Tale of the Tailor and the Three Dead Kings, A Woman's World, 1850 - 1960

Jones, Terry Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Kane, Ben Spartacus, The Arena, The Shrine, Lionheart

Katz, Ani A Good Man

Kaufman, Andrew E. Twisted

Kawaguchi,Toshikazu Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Kay, Adam Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Kay, Susan Legacy

Keegan, Claire Small Things Like These

Kent, Anna The House of Whispers

Kepnes, Caroline You, You Love Me

Kern, Adam I Am the Secret Footballer

Kidd, Jess Things in Jars, The Night Ship

King, Stephen Pet Sematary, Misery, The Dark Half, Gerald's Game, Mr Mercedes, If It Bleeds

Koepp, David Aurora

Kostova, Elizabeth The Historian

Kristian, Giles Raven Blood Eye, Camelot, Where Blood Runs Cold

Kuang, Rebecca F. Yellowface

Kunzru, Hari Red Pill

Kwon Yeo-sun Lemon

Lanchester, John The Wall, Reality and Other Stories

Lea, Zoe The Secretary

Lees, Georgina The Girl Upstairs

Lefteri, Christy The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Leitch, Fiona A Cornish Christmas Murder

Leky, Mariana What You Can See From Here

Levy, Deborah The Man Who Saw Everything

Lewis, Beth Bitter Sun, The Origins of Iris

Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,

Leyser, Henrietta Beda: A Journey Through the Seven Kingdoms in the Age of Bede

Leyva, Jasmine The Invisible Vegan (documentary)

Linley, Sarah The Wedding Murders

Logan, T.M. Lies, Trust Me

Lonsdale, Kerry Last Summer

Lowe, Katie The Furies

MacDonald, Elizabeth A Matter of Interpretation

Maginn, Simon Sheep

Mahmood, Imran I Know What I Saw, You Don't Know Me, All I Said Was True

Mark, David Suspicious Minds

Mantel, Hilary A Place of Greater Safety, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia One Hundred Years of Solitude

Marrs, John What Lies Between Us, The One, The Good Samaritan

Marston, Edward The Railway Detective's Christmas Case

Martel, Yann Life of Pi

Martin, Claudia Ancient Rome: Visual Explorer Guide

Matthews, David Voices of the Windrush Generation

Mayhew, Mickey House of Tudor: A Grisly History

McAllister, Gillian Wrong Place Wrong Time, Just Another Missing Person

McCann, Colum Apeirgon

McCarthy, Cormac The Road, Blood Meridian, The Passenger, Stella Maris

McDonald, Helen H is for Hawk

McEwan, Ian On Chesil Beach, Lessons

McGowan, Claire What You Did, The Other Wife, The Push

Melville, Herman Moby Dick

Meredith, Harry Marcus Rashford: Football Rising Stars

Michaelides, Alex The Silent Patient, The Maidens

Michallon, Clemence The Quiet Tenant

Miller, Andrew Pure, The Slowworm's Song

Miller, Madeline The Song of Achilles, Circe

Mistry, Liz Last Request, Dark Memories , Blood Games, Dying Breath, End Game

Mitchell, Caroline Silent Victim, Left For Dead

Moncrieff, Ada Murder at the Theatre Royale

Moreton, Cole The Light Keeper

Morgan, Sarah The Christmas Escape

Morris, Marc A Great and Terrible King - Edward I and the Forging of Britain

Morrison, Dorothy Yule: A Celebration of Light & Warmth

Mosse, Kate The Taxidermist's Daughter

Mulrooney, Greta Never Came Home

Myers, Benjamin The Gallows Pole, The Offing, The Perfect Golden Circle, Male Tears, Cuddy

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Pride, Piazza We Are Not Like Them

Rider, McDonald A-Z Liverpool Hidden Walks: Discover 20 Routes In and Around the City

Sadler, Serdiville Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar in 1650

Samuels, Olorunnipa His Name is George Floyd

Shibata, Kawakami, Ito, Murakami, Matsuda, Furukawa, (authors) Goossen, Taylor (editors) MONKEY volume 2

Nancollas, Tom The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History in Eleven Vessels

Napolitano, Ann Dear Edward

National Geographic [Kids] Everything Anglo-Saxons: Unearth History with Facts, Photos and Fun

Natsukawa, Sosuke The Cat Who Saved Books

Nesbo, Jo The Snowman

Netley, Rebecca The Whistling

Neuvel, Sylvain Only Human

Nugent, Ashleigh Locks

O'Brien, Anne A Tapestry of Treason

O'Farrell, Maggie Hamnet

Osman, Richard The Thursday Murder Club

Oyeyome, Helen Gingerbread

Paris, B.A. Behind Closed Doors

Parry, Ambrose The Way of All Flesh, The Art of Dying

Parsons, Tony #Taken

Patchett, Ann The Dutch House

Patterson, James Criss Cross

Paver, Michelle Wakenhyrst

Peers, Chris Offa and the Mercian Wars

Pert, Rebecca Still Water

Picoult, Jodie The Storyteller, Small Great Things, The Book of Two Ways

Pinborough, Sarah Insomnia

Pobi, Robert City of Windows

Post, Andrew Chop Shop

Postorino, Rosella The Women at Hitler's Table

Price, Rosie What Red Was

Quinn, Frances The Smallest Man

Raisin, Ross God's Own Country

Ramos, Joanne The Farm

Ramos, Kate Plant Powered Mexican

Rashford, Marcus You Are a Champion

Reeves, Alex The Anarchists' Club

Reid, Iain We Spread

Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front

Rendell, Ruth Master of the Moor, A Demon in My View

Rennison, Nick 1922: Scenes From a Turbulent Year

Robertson, C.S. The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill

Robotham, Michael When She Was Good, When You Are Mine, Lying Beside You

Rooney, Sally Normal People

Roper, Richard Something to Live For

Rosen, Linda The Disharmony of Silence.

Rosen, Michael Many Different Kinds of Love

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Royce, Deborah Goodrich Finding Mrs Ford

Rudd, Alyson The First Time Lauren Paling Died

Russell, Kate Elizabeth My Dark Vanessa

Sacks, Michelle The Dark Path

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye

Sapkowski, Andrzej Blood of Elves.

Scott, Anika Finding Clara

Sefton, A.J. Growing In Damp Places

Selman, Victoria Truly, Darkly, Deeply

Sigurdardottir, Yrsa The Absolution

Simmons, Dan The Terror

Simms, Laura Looker

Singer, Brett The Petting Zoo

Skalietska, Yeva You Don't Know What War Is

Slater, K.L. The Silent Ones, The Apartment, The Girl She Wanted, The Evidence

Slaughter, Karin False Witness

Smith, Scott A Simple Plan

Smith, Wilbur Call of the Raven

Smith, Zadie Grand Union

Stevenson, Benjamin She Lies in the Vines

Stockham, Alison The Cuckoo Sister

Stoker, Bram Dracula

Strang, Em Quinn

Strauss, Barry Ten Caesars

Stuart, Douglas Shuggie Bain

Swanson, Peter Before She Knew Him, Nine Lives.

Swift, Graham Last Orders

Tan Twan Eng The Garden of Evening Mists, The House of Doors

Tartt, Donna, The Goldfinch

Taylor, C.L. Sleep, The Lie, The Accident, The Escape, The Island

Taylor, Pamela Pestilence

Thaine, Craig Teaching and Developing Writing Skills

Tolkien, J.R.R. Letters From Father Christmas

Trafford, J.D. Without Precedent

Tudor, C.J. The Burning Girls, A Sliver of Darkness, The Drift

Turow, Scott The Last Trial

Valentine, Danielle Delicate Condition

Vatner, Jonathan Carnegie Hill

Vaughan, Sarah Anatomy of a Scandal

Venning, Timothy Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain

Vonnegut, Kurt Slaughterhouse Five

Walker, Nico Cherry

Walker, Rosie The House Fire

Walter, B.P. The Dinner Guest, The Woman on the Pier, The Locked Attic

Ward, Catriona The Last House on Needless Street

Ware, Ruth The Tale of Mrs Westaway, The Woman in Cabin 10, The It Girl

Watson, S.J. Final Cut

Weston, Kate Murder on a School Night

Whitehead, Colson The Nickel Boys

Whitehead, Richard The Times World Cup Moments

Willder, Louise Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion

Wilkinson, Kerry What My Husband Did, The Ones Who are Buried

Williams, C.K. The Woman at No. 13

Williams, J. T. Portraits and Poison

Williams, Ursula Moray Gobbolino the Witch's Cat

Willingham, Stacy A Flicker in the Dark, All the Dangerous Things

Wilson, Antoine Mouth to Mouth

Wilson, Ryan Let That Be a Lesson

Wimpenny, Jo Aesop's Animals

Wood, Naomi The Hiding Game

Woods, Hannah Rose Rule Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain

Woolf, Jo Britain's Landmarks and Legends

Woolf, Virginia A Room of One's Own, To the Lighthouse, How Should One Read A Book?

Zusak, Markus The Book Thief

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The Invisible Vegan - Documentary by Jasmine Leyva

Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS by Michael Rosen

Trust Me by T.M. Logan

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