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Do you have favourite authors whose works you have exhausted? Do you like murder mysteries or thrillers? Only read chick lit? Or are romance or historical novels more your thing? Get some ideas of what to read next with our genre lists below.
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Jane Adams
Stephen Booth
Thomas H Cook
R J Ellory
Nicci French
Mo Hayder
Alex Kava
Val McDermid
Steve Mosby
James Patterson
Karen Robards
Karin Slaughter
Carol Smith
Barbara Vine
Minette Walters
Courtroom dramas that pit legal investigators against criminals.
Jeff Abbott
William Bernhardt
D W Buffa
Alafair Burke
Jeffrey Deaver
Linda Fairstein
Mark Gimenez
James Grippando
John Grisham
John Hart
Steve Martini
Perri O’Shaughnessy
Richard North Patterson
Christopher Reich
Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Lisa Scottoline
Peter Spiegelman
Scott Turow
Action set on the high seas or the battlefields of the past.
Bernard Cornwell
C S Forester
George Macdonald Fraser
Alexander Fullerton
Iain Gale
Duncan Harding
Alexander Kent
Jonathan Lunn
Philip McCutchan
Allan Mallinson
Patrick O’Brian
Peter Smalley
Julian Stockwin
John Wilcox
Richard Woodman
Lives and loves of more than one generation, set against a historical background.
Lyn Andrews
Tessa Barclay
Jessica Blair
Catrin Collier
Catherine Cookson
Josephine Cox
Katie Flynn
Christine Marion Fraser
Iris Gower
Audrey Howard
Anna Jacobs
Sheelagh Kelly
Gilda O’Neill
Frances Paige
Alexandra Raife
Mary Jane Staples
Jessica Stirling
Janet Tanner
Sally Worboyes
Cheerful, light-hearted stories featuring the lives and loves of modern young women.
Louise Bagshawe
Zoe Barnes
Colette Caddle
Jenny Colgan
Katie Fforde
Jane Green
Wendy Holden
Lisa Jewell
Christina Jones
Marion Keyes
Sophie Kinsella
Kathy Lette
Chris Manby
Jill Mansell
Freya North
Sheila O’Flanagan
Patricia Scanlan
Jennifer Weiner
Polly Williams
Police procedurals in a British setting
Jo Bannister
Robert Barnard
Deborah Crombie
Judith Cutler
Colin Dexter
Elizabeth George
Martha Grimes
Reginald Hill
Graham Hurley
P D James
Quintin Jardine
Roy Lewis
Barry Maitland
Ian Rankin
Ruth Rendell
Sally Spencer
Old-fashioned mysteries with amateur sleuths
Marion Babson M C Beaton Rhys Bowen Lilian Jackson Braun Agatha Christie Jonathan Gash Hazel Holt Katharine Hall Page Ellis Peters Ann Purser Dorothy Sayers Alexander McCall Smith
With a certain dark, chill quality
Kjell Eriksson Karin Fossum Arnaldur Indridason Mari Jungstedt Camilla Lackberg Stieg Larsson Henning Mankell Jo Nesbø Hakan Nesser Anders Roslund Yrsa Sigurdardottir Johan Theorin
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