Hannah Murray will start by looking at the bestseller lists on Amazon.co.uk and The Sunday Times, the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and seeing what new entries there are.
Guy Lloyd is our resident UK Publishing Expert. In a 40 year publishing career, Guy worked for some of the biggest publishing houses in the business, including Penguin Random House, BBC Books and Virgin. He joins us once a month for all the latest book news. This month he's talking about the new EU tariff on small parcels causing bad ripples in the book trade, new books coming out by Mariam Margolyes and Nick Hornby, and why The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is doing so well
Gillian Edwards' debut novel 'The Posting' is based on her mother-in-law's jaw dropping account of her life in WWII, including her memories of the Japanese prison camp survivors.
Caroline James is the celebrated author of later life fiction. Her latest novel 'The Nile Cruise', which asks 'will the magic of moonlit nights on the Nile bring romance and renewal? Or will whispers of the past and the infamous curse of Tutankhamun cast a shadow when least expected?'
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Chris Mapp's debut novel 'Songs of Expectation' was inspired by the true story of 100,000 British children from pauper backgrounds who, between the late 1860s and 1939, were sent to Canada as cheap labour. They were called the 'British Home Children' and in 2010 the British Government formally apologized for its involvement. Chris' father was one of them, and led a remarkable life from pauper child to Whitehall Civil Servant, via a Canadian farm.
P N Johnson now writes fast-moving thrillers after a long and successful career in television journalism with the BBC and ITV. He became the face and voice of regional Crimestoppers, and created the successful TV series 999 Frontline. His new novel 'Killer on the Set' has large parts set in Spain, mostly in Valencia and Mojacar. One of the leading characters is a Spanish hero cop called Blanca Lopez.
Andrew M Buckley's debut novel 'Diagonal' re-imagines a forgotten heroine called Felicia Brown, a little-known artist who was the first and only British woman to die in the Spanish Civil War.