2023 – Top Crime Reads

• Fearless – M W Craven
• Strange Sally Diamond – Liz Nugent
• All Of Us Are Broken – Fiona Cummins
• The Four – Ellie Keel
• Anna O – Matthew Blake
• The Silent Man – David Fennell
• Prey for the Shadow – Javier Cercas
• The Fury – Alex Michaelides
• The Torrent – Dinuka McKenzie
• The Devil You Know – Neil Lancaster
• Seven Days – Robert Rutherford
• The Shadow Network – Tony Kent
• Hotel Arcadia – Sunny Singh
• Finding Sophie – Imran Mahmood
• Unmarked Graves – Neil Broadfoot
• The Mercy Chair – M W Craven
• Leave No Trace – Jo Callaghan

2023 – Top Children’s / Teen Reads

• Skandar and the Unicorn Thief – A F Steadman
• The Nowhere Thief – Alice M Ross
• Finding Bear – Hannah Gold
• The Boy Who Made Monsters – Jenny Pearson
• The Wall Between Us – Dan Smith
• The Girl Who Fell To Earth – Patricia Forde
• The Final Year – Matt Goodfellow
• Northern Soul – Phil Earle

2023 – Top Non Fiction Reads

• The Escape Artist – Jonathan Freedman
• White Torture – Narges Mohammadi
• The Black Angels – Maria Smilios
• I Promise It Won’t Always Hurt Like This – Clare Mackintosh

2023 – Top Fiction Reads

• The Space Between Us – Doug Johnstone
• Talking At Night – Claire Daverley
• Wandering Souls – Cecile Pin
• Pod – Laline Paull
• Close to Home – Michael Magee
• Nightbloom – Peace Adzo Medie
• Empty Bed Blues – William Wall
• Black Butterflies – Priscilla Morris
• Lady MacBethad – Isabelle Schuler
• The Road – Cormac McCarthy
• Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
• Our Souls at Night – Kent Haruf
• In Memoriam – Alice Winn
• The House Of Whispers – Anna Mazzola
• The Kamogawa Food Detectives – Hisashi Kashiwai
• How to Build a Boat – Elaine Feeney
• Prophet Song – Paul Lynch
• The Door-To-Door Bookstore – Carsten Henn
• Water – John Boyne
• Fair Rosaline – Natasha Solomons
• Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa
• The Library Thief – Kuchenga Shenje
• The Seventh Son – Sebastian Faulks
• Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop – Hwang Bo-Reum
• The Nightingale’s Castle – Sonia Velton
• Beyond The Sea – Paul Lynch

2022 – Top 15 Crime Reads

• The Last Party – Clare Mackintosh
• The Paris Apartment – Lucy Foley
• The Coffin Club – Jacqueline Sutherland
• Breakneck Point – T Orr Munro
• Reputation – Sarah Vaughan
• Wrong Place Wrong Time – Gillian McAllister
• Overkill – Vanda Symon
• The Mystery of the Vanishing Mayor – L. J. Ross
• The Inheritance – Howard Linskey
• A Murder at the Castle – Chris McGeorge
• The Institution – Helen Fields
• In The Blink Of An Eye – Jo Callaghan
• Slaughterhouse Farm – T Orr Munro
• You Can Run – Trevor Wood
• Twin Truths – Jacqueline Sutherland

2022 – Top 12 Children’s / Teen Reads

• Like A Charm – Ellie McNicoll
• The Lost Whale – Hannah Gold
• Dead Good Detectives – Jenny McLachlan
• The Shark and the Scar – Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
• The Accidental Stowaway – Judith Eagle
• When The World Was Ours – Liz Kessler
• Operation Nativity – Jenny Pearson
• We Are All Constellations – Amy Beashel
• The Spell Tailors – James Nicol
• The Mystery Of Raspberry Hill – Eva Frantz
• S.T.E.A.L.T.H Ice Breaker – Jason Rohan
• Saving Neverland – Abi Elphinstone

2022 – Top 2 Non Fiction Reads

• Stalking The Atomic City – Markiyan Kamysh
• Just Sayin’ – Malorie Blackman

2022 – Top 12 Fiction Reads

• The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley – Sean Lusk
• The Poet – Louisa Reid
• One Italian Summer – Rebecca Serle
• Metronome – Tom Watson
• This Time Tomorrow – Emma Straub
• Trespasses – Louise Kennedy
• Madwoman – Louisa Treger
• Lucy By The Sea – Elizabeth Strout
• Foster – Claire Keegan
• Take My Hand – Dolan Perkins-Valdez
• My Father’s House – Joseph O’Connor
• Go As A River – Shelley Read

2021 – Top 21 Fiction Reads

• The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
• Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason
• Lean Fall Stand – John McGregor
• Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
• Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
• Consent – Annabel Lyon
• The Image of Her – Sonia Velton
• Nothing But Blue Sky – Kathleen MacMahon
• Should We Fall Behind – Sharon Duggal
• The Fell – Sarah Moss
• The Paper Palace – Miranda Cowley Heller
• Bewilderment – Richard Powers
• An Island – Karen Jennings
• Listening Still – Anne Griffin
• Wahala – Nikki May
• The Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
• Small Things Like These – Clare Keegan
• Oh William! – Elizabeth Strout
• Lessons In Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
• Exit West – Mohsin Hamid
• Idol – Louise O’Neill

2021 – Top 25 Crime Reads

• The Trawlerman – William Shaw
• I Know What I Saw – Imran Mahmood
• Before You Knew My Name – Jacqueline Bublitz
• A Suitable Lie – Michael J Malone
• Dead Ground – M. W. Craven
• People of Abandoned Character – Clare Whitfield
• Dead Man’s Grave – Neil Lancaster
• The Rising Tide – Sam Lloyd
• Box 88- Charles Cumming 
• The Blood Divide – A A Dhand
• Blood Ties – Brian McGilloway
• Next of Kin – Kia Abdullah
• Preserve The Dead – Brian McGilloway
• The Survivors – Alex Schulman
• Do No Harm – Jack Jordan
• The Dying Squad – Adam Simcox
• The Anomaly – Herve Le Tellier
• Even the Darkest Night – Javier Cercas
• Snow – John Banville
• To The Lions – Holly Watt
•  One for Sorrow – Helen Fields
• The Empty Room – Brian McGilloway
• First Born – Will Dean
• The Botanist – M. W. Craven
• Into The Dark – Fiona Cummins

2021 – Top 12 Children’s / Teen Reads

• We Go On Forever – Sarah Govett
• The Secret Detectives – Ella Risbridger
• The Week at World’s End – Emma Carroll
• Ghostcloud – Michael Mann
• Einstein the Penguin – Lona Rangely
• The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre – Clare Povey
• The Monsters of Rookhaven – Padraig Kenny
• Nisha’s War – Dan Smith
• The Secrets Act – Alison Weatherby
• The Good Turn – Sharna Jackson
• Escape to the River Sea – Emma Carroll
• The Hatmakers – Tamzin Merchant

2020 – Books of the year

• Dear Life – Rachel Clarke
• The Mask Of Aribella – Anna Houghton
• Guard Your Heart – Sue Divin
• The Curator – M. W. Craven
• Tender Is The Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica
• Going Dark – Neil Lancaster
• My House Is Falling Down – Mary Loudon
• The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually – Helen Cullen
• The Last Bear – Hannah Gold
• The Art of Death – David Fennell

2020 – Fiction

• My House Is Falling Down – Mary Loudon
• The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually – Helen Cullen
• Dignity – Alys Conran
• The New Wilderness – Diane Cook
• Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
• The Burning Chambers – Kate Mosse
• The City of Tears – Kate Mosse
• The Strays of Paris – Jane Smiley
• His Only Wife – Peace Adzo Medie
• If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin
• The 24-hour Cafe – Libby Page
• Away with the Penguins – Hazel Prior
• The Silent Treatment – Abbie Greaves
• Miss Benson’s Beetle – Rachel Joyce
• Property – Valerie Martin

2020 – Children’s – 9~12 Years / Teen & YA

• The Mask Of Aribella – Anna Houghton
• Guard Your Heart – Sue Divin
• The Last Bear – Hannah Gold
• Orphans of the Tide – Struan Murray
• The Pear Affair – Judith Eagle
• The Haunting of Aveline Jones – Phil Hickes
• The Beast and the Bethany – Jack Meggitt-Phillips
• Jane Austen Investigates: The Abbey Mystery – Julia Golding
• The Super Miraculous Journey of Freddie Yates – Jenny Pearson
• The Incredible Record Smashers – Jenny Pearson

2020 – Crime

• The Curator – M. W. Craven
• Cut Short – M. W. Craven
• The Last Thing To Burn – Will Dean
• The Art of Death – David Fennell
• Going Dark – Neil Lancaster
• Going Rogue – Neil Lancaster
• Going Back – Neil Lancaster
• A Song of Isolation – Michael J Malone
• The Honjin Murders – Seishi Yokomizo
• Firewatching – Russ Thomas
• Surrogate – Susan Spindler
• Containment – Vanda Symon
• Morte Point – Rob Parker
• The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman
• Tender Is The Flesh – Agustina Bazterrica

2020 – Non Fiction

• Dear Life – Rachel Clarke
• Breathtaking – Rachel Clarke

2019 – Books of the year

• Blackberry and Wild Rose – Sonia Velton (Fiction)
• Invisible In A Bright Light – Sally Gardner (Children’s MG 9~12)

2019 – Fiction

• Blackberry and Wild Rose – Sonia Velton
• An American Marriage – Tayari Jones
• What Red Was – Rosie Price
• Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
• Silver Sparrow – Tayari Jones

2019 – Children’s – MG – 9~12 Years

• Invisible In A Bright Light – Sally Gardner
• The True Colours of Coral Glen – Juliette Forrest
• Anna at War – Helen Peters
• High Rise Mystery (book 1) – Sharna Jackson
• The Last Spell Breather – Julie Pike

2019 – Crime

• When I Was Ten – Fiona Cummins
• Star of the North – D B John
• Salt Lane – William Shaw
• Perfect Kill – Helen Fields
• Assume Nothing, Believe Nobody, Challenge Everything – M W Craven

2019 – Non Fiction

• War Doctor – David Notts
• A Short History of Falling – Joe Hammond
• Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas – Adam Kay
• The Five – Hallie Rubenhold
• The Body: A Guide For Occupants – Bill Bryson

2018 – Crime

• The Puppet Show – M. W. Craven
• City of Sinners – A. A. Dhand
• Marked for Death – Tony Kent
• Blood Orange – Harriet Tyce
• Black Summer – M. W. Craven

2018 – Teen / YA

• A Thousand Perfect Notes – C. G. Drews
• The Territory – Sarah Govett
• The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas
• No Fixed Address – Susin Nielsen
• I Am Thunder – Muhammad Khan

2018 – Fiction

• The Winter Soldier – Daniel Mason
• Take Nothing With You – Patrick Gale
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
• Normal People – Sally Rooney
• The Binding – Bridget Collins

2018 – MG 9 ~ 12 Years

• The Boy at the Back of the Class – Onjali Q. Raúf
• The Dollmaker of Krakow – R. M. Romero
• The Clockwork Crow – Catherine Fisher
• The Train to Impossible Places – P. G. Bell
• The Wild Robot – Peter Brown

2018 – Non Fiction

• Educated – Tara Westover
• In Your Defence – Sarah Langford
• Butterfly Yusra Mardini
• All That Remains – Sue Black
• Hello World – Hannah Fry

2017 – Adult Picks

• Perfect Remains – Helen Fields
• My Name is Nobody – Matthew Richardson
• Dead Woman Walking – Sharon Bolton
• My Absolute Darling – Gabriel Talent
• The Less You Know The Sounder You Sleep – Juliet Butler
• Perfect Prey – Helen Fields
• Resurrection Bay – Emma Viskic
• You Don’t Know Me – Imran Mahmoud
• This Is Going To Hurt – Adam Kay
• Killing State – Judith O’Reilly
• Perfect Death – Helen Fields
• Almost Love – Louise O’Neill
• I Still Dream – James Smythe
• Dear Mrs Bird – A. J. Pearce
• The Child Finder – Rene Denfield

2017 – 9 ~ 12 / Teen Picks

• Things a Bright Girl Can Do – Sally Nicholls
• Skeleton Tree – Kim Ventrella
• Day 7 – Kerry Drewery
• Moonrise – Sarah Crossan
• The Great Chocoplot – Chris Callaghan
• Boy X – Dan Smith
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow – Jessica Townsend
• Below Zero – Dan Smith
• The Secrets of Hexbridge Castle – Gabrielle Kent
• The 1000 year old boy – Ross Welford

2016

• A whole life by Robert Seethaler
• The improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild
• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
• The Pomegranate Tree by Vanessa Altin
• Cell 7 by Kerry Drewery
• A Library of Lemons by Jo Cotterill
• Another One Goes Tonight by Peter Lovesey
• The wreck of the Argyll by John K Fulton
• Coffin Road by Peter May
• Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre
• Fellside by M R Carey
• Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
• Sirens by Joseph Knox
• The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

2015

• A place called winder by Patrick Gale
• The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
• Girl at war by Sara Novic. Fab debut!!
• Disclaimer by Rene Knight
• One night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
• Solomon Creed by Simon Toyne
• Red Notice by Bill Browder
• Asking for it by Louise O’Neill
• Looking at the Stars by Jo Cotterill
• Here We Lie by Sophie McKenzie