Folklore, I think, is much more than an old story. It’s communal wisdom, shared over centuries, yet deeply personal, absorbing the fears and desires of each storyteller. And it’s a record of the rituals we create in order to survive. Rituals are at the very heart of Under a Fur Coat.

The parasocial, fame hungry novel for reality TV fanatics!

This is the impossible scenario Amanda finds herself in when one of her children’s teenage classmates takes her own life due to sexual bullying and it’s revealed that her son, Nathan, was involved. How could this be when he’s always been such a nice boy?

Late one night, he receives a visitor who asks him to take on the bizarre case of a man driven mad in a desolate lighthouse in Argentina.

I cleared an old laptop and I set up an email address for Nathan, the main teenage boy character in the novel. I set up social media and gaming site profiles for him and gave him typical interests such as football, gaming and good looking actresses - typical, innocent teen boy stuff. Then I sat back and waited.

She’s somebody I know unsettlingly intimately, and I’m probably so unsettled by her because I’m afraid to admit to myself how easy it would be to become her.

This is a raw and unflinching memoir of family, motherhood and a son’s struggles with mental ill health (bipolar disorder) and addiction.

The Strangling Fig is a gorgeously written ghost story that follows generations of women from the 1940s Partition of India through to 2000s America.

A friend asked me recently, “how does it feel to write about a version of the city that doesn’t exist anymore?”

Summer is a time that evokes childhood, beauty and freedom, but also becomes a setting to set a family’s tensions against, asking if they can ever break out of their own trappings.

With a Rooney-esque penchant for frustrating communication styles, you'll like this book if you enjoy wanting to shake characters through the pages. Be prepared to unravel along with them.

I love stories that explore working class community dynamics, especially those told from the perspective of children.

Will the Earth survive the Sun’s red giant phase, or will the Sun consume it? The projections have gone back and forth, wobbling, and no one can say for certain.

How would you go on if your home was taken from you? Your family? Your language?

Malc’s Boy is an experimental novel in the vein of French autofiction with a Cumbrian setting.

Still, a few weeks ago someone asked me what advice I would give my pre- publication self and I realised that I wouldn’t do very much differently.

From the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and through the Cultural Revolution to the present day, Yang explores the legacy of colonialism through three generations.

A gripping literary crime novel where snippets of interviews, articles and reports piece together what happened leading up to and after the mysterious death of Afghan American teenager Zorah Sharaf.

This highly anticipated debut novel after Jennette McCurdy’s bestselling memoir I’m Glad my Mom Died is an extraordinary look into power dynamics, female rage and desire.

Best read in one sitting, this short novel from Addie E. Citchens carries a weighty tale of religion, patriarchy and violence that feels urgent and impressive from the very first page.