FAVOURITE ADULT WRITERS
Classics
- Jane Austen – Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma
- Anne Brontë – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre
- Emily Bronte – Wuthering Heights
- Charles Dickens – The Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; A Christmas Carol; Great Expectations
- S. Lewis – Till We Have Faces
- Daphne du Maurier – Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel; Frenchman’s Creek; Jamaica Inn
- M. Forster –A Room With A View; Howards End; Where Angels Fear to Tread
- Harper Lee – To Kill A Mockingbird
- Mary Renault – The King Must Die
- Mary Webb – Precious Bane; Gone to Earth
- Maurice Walsh – Castle Gillian; The Small Brown Man
Contemporary
- Jesse Blackadder – Sixty Seconds
- Alice Hoffman – Practical Magic
- Josephine Moon – Three Gold Coins
- Richard C. Morais – The Hundred-Foot Journey
- Emily Maguire – An Isolated Incident
- Liane Moriarty – The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies; Truly, Madly, Guilty
- Debra Oswald – The Whole Bright Year
- Holly Ringwald – The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
- Heather Rose – The Museum of Modern Love; The River Wife
- Danielle Wood – Mothers Grimm
Dual Timeline/Historical Fiction
- Isabel Allende – The House of Spirits; Love and Shadows; Eva Luna
- Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace
- Vanora Bennett – Portrait Of An Unknown Woman
- Jesse Blackadder – The Raven’s Heart, Chasing the Light
- Geraldine Brooks – The Year of Wonders; March; People of the Book; Caleb’s Crossing
- Kate Lord Brown – The Beauty Chorus; The Perfume Garden
- Jessie Burton – The Miniaturist; The Muse
- S. Byatt – Possession
- Anthony Capella – The Food of Love; The Wedding Officer; The Empress of Ice Cream, The Various Flavours of Coffee
- Lauren Chater – The Lace Weaver; Gulliver’s Wife
- Tracey Chevalier – The Virgin Blue; Girl with a Pearl Earring; Falling Angels; Remarkable Creatures; Burning Bright; The Lady & the Unicorn; The Last Runaway
- Katherine Clements – The Crimson Thread; The Silvered Heart, The Coffin Path
- Christie Dickason – The Firemaster’s Mistress; The Principessa; The King’s Daughter
- Emma Donoghue – The Wonder
- Louise Doughty – Stone Cradle; Fires in the Dark
- Sarah Dunant – The Birth of Venus; In the Company of the Courtesan
- David Dyer – The Midnight Watch
- Karen Essex – Leonardo’s Swans
- Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong; The Girl at the Lion d’Or
- Marina Fiorato – The Glassblower of Murano; The Botticelli Secret; Daughter of Siena;
- Ken Follett –The Pillars of the Earth
- Anne Fortier –Juliet
- Essie Fox – The Somnambulist; Elijah’s Mermaid; The Goddess & the Thief
- Kimberley Freeman - Wildflower Hill, Lighthouse Bay, Ember Island; Evergreen Falls; Stars Across the Ocean
- Jackie French - Miss Lily’s Lovely Ladies; The Lily & the Rose
- Kate Furnivall – The Betrayal
- Kelly Gardiner – Act of Faith; The Sultan’s Eyes; Goddess
- Elisabeth Gifford – Secrets of the Sea House
- Anne Gracie - Marry in Haste; Marry in Scandal; Marry in Secret; The Autumn Bride; The Winter Bride; The Spring Bride; The Summer Bride
- Phillipa Gregory – The Queen’s Fool; The White Queen; The Other Queen; The Other Boleyn Girl; Lady of the Rivers
- Kate Grenville –The Secret River
- Sarah Gruen – Water for Elephants
- W. Gortner – The Last Queen; The Confessions of Catherine de Medici; Mademoiselle Chanel; Marlene; The Vatican Princess; The Tudor Secret
- Pamela Hart – The Soldier’s Wife; A Letter from Italy; The Desert Nurse
- Jane Harris – The Observations
- Joanne Harris – Chocolat; Five Quarters Of The Orange; Peaches for Monsieur le Cure
- Georgette Heyer – These Old Shades; Friday’s Child; The Devil’s Cub; The Reluctant Widow; Cotillion; Sophie’s Choice; Regency Buck; Black Sheep; Sylvester; Cotillion
- Toni Jordan – Nine Days
- Jeanne Kalogridas – I, Mona Lisa; The Borgia Bride
- Susanna Kearsley – Mariana; The Rose Garden; The Winter Sea; Season of Storms; The Firebird
- Hannah Kent – Burial Rites; The Good People
- Barbara Kingsolver – Prodigal Summer; The Poisonwood Bible; The Lacuna
- Elizabeth Knox – The Vintner’s Luck; Billie’s Kiss
- Elizabeth Kostova –The Historian; The Swan Thieves; The Shadow Land
- Natasha Lester – A Kiss for Mr Fitzgerald; The Paris Seamstress; The French Photograher
- Karen Maitland – Company of Liars; The Owl Killers; The Gallow’s Curse; Falcons of Fire & Ice; The Raven’s Head
- Ian McEwan - Atonement
- Katharine McMahon – The Rose Of Sebastopol
- Madeline Miller - Circe
- Rose Melikan – The Blackstone Key; The Counterfeit Guest; The Mistakan Wife
- Kate Morton – The Shifting Fog; The Forgotten Garden; The Distant Hours; The Secret Keeper; The Lake House; The Clockmaker's Daughter
- Kate Mosse –Labyrinth; Sepulchre; Citadel; Winter Ghosts; The Taxidermist’s Daughter
- Elle Newmark – The Book of Unholy Mischief
- Kate Quinn – The Alice Network; The Huntress
- Hannah Richell – Secrets of the Tides; The Shadow Year; The Peacock Summer
- Kelly Rimmer – The Things We Cannot Say
- Mary Ann Schaffer – The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Pie Society
- Lisa See – Snow Flower & the Secret Fan
- Dominic Smith – The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
- Deborah Swift – The Lady’s Slipper
- Susan Vreeland – Girl in Hyacinth Blue; Passion of Artemisia; Luncheon of the Boating Party; The Forest Lover
- Alice Walker – The Color Purple
- Sarah Waters – Affinity; The Night Watch; The Little Stranger; The Paying Guests
- Lauren Willig – The Secret History of the Pink Carnation; The Seduction of the Crimson Rose; The Ashford Affair; The Summer Country; The English Wife
- Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit; The Passion
- Marcus Zusak – The Book Thief
Fantasy/Magic Realism
- Joe Abercrombie – Half a World
- Katherine Arden – The Bear & the Nightingale; The Girl in the Tower; The Winter of the Witch
- Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon
- Susanna Clarke – Johnathan Strange and Mr Norrell
- Bridget Collins – The Binding
- Alison Croggon – The Gift; The Riddle; The Crow; The Singing
- David Eddings – Pawn of Prophecy; Queen of Sorcery etc
- Raymond Feist – Magician; Silverthorn
- Pamela Freeman – Blood Ties; Dark Water; Full Circle
- Neil Gaiman – Stardust
- Alison Goodman – Eon; Eona
- Lian Hearn – Across the Nightingale Floor; Grass for his Pillow; Heaven’s Net is Wide
- Robin Hobbs – Assassin’s Apprentice; Royal Assassin; Assassin’s Quest
- Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child; The Bright Edge of the World
- Robert Jordan – The Eye of the World; The Great Hunt
- Celine Kiernan –The Poison Throne; The Crowded Shadows; The Rebel Prince
- Margo Lanagan – Tender Morsels; Sea Hearts
- Juliet Marillier – Daughter of the Forest; Son of the Shadows;Child of the Prophecy; Heir to Sevenwaters; Seer of Sevenwaters; Flame of Sevenwaters; Wolfskin; Foxmask; The Dark Mirror; Blade of Fortriu; The Well of Shades; Heart's Blood; Wildwood Dancing; Cybele's Secret; Dreamer's Pool; Tower of Thorns; Den of Wolves; The Harp of Kings
- Robin McKinley – Beauty; Rose Daughter; Deerskin
- Jaclyn Moriarty – A Corner of White
- Garth Nix – Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen
- Naomi Novik – Uprooted; Spinning Silver
- Sarah Perry – The Essex Serpent; Melmoth
- Leife Shallcross: The Beast’s Heart
- Ilka Tampke – Skin; Songwoman
- R.R Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit
- Tad Williams – The Dragonbone Chair; Stone of Farewell
- Kim Wilkins – The Infernal; Grimoire; The Resurrectionists; Angel of Ruin; The Autumn Castle; Giants of the Frost; Rosa and the Veil of Gold
- Sarah Zettel – A Sorcerer’s Treason; Camelot’s Honour; Camelot’s Blood
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon – The Shadow of the Wind
Mystery, Crime & Thrillers
- Sarah Bailey – The Dark Lake; Into the Night; Where the Dead Go
- Alan Bradley – The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie; The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
- Agatha Christie – The Man In The Brown Suit; The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Lindsay Davis – The Silver Pigs; Shadows In Bronze
- John Dunning – Booked To Die; The Sign Of The Book; The Bookman’s Wake; The Bookman’s Promise
- Kathryn Fox – Skin & Bone; Malicious Intent
- Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle; The Key to Rebecca; Jackdaws; Hornet Flight
- Ariana Franklin – The Mistress of the Dead; Relics of the Dead; The Death Maze
- Robert Galbraith – The Cuckoo’s Calling; Career of Evil; Lethal White
- Elizabeth George – A Great Deliverance; Payment In Blood; A Suitable Vengeance
- Kerry Greenwood – Cocaine Blues; Flying Too High; Death by Water
- Jane Harper – The Dry; Force of Nature; The Lost Man
- S. Harris – What Angels Fear; When Gods Die; What Remains of Heaven
- Georgette Heyer –Footsteps In The Dark; Why Shoot A Butler?; The Unfinished Clue; No Wind of Blame
- Antonia Hodgson – The Devil in the Marshalsea; The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins; A Death at Fountains Abbey
- M. Kaye – Death in Kashmir
- Donna Leon – Death At Le Fenice; The Anonymous Venetian; Blood From A Stone; The Death of Faith
- Rosamund Lupton – Sister; The Quality of Silence
- Dervla McTiernan – The Ruin; The Scholar
- Caro Peacock – Death At Dawn; Death of A Dancer; A Corpse in Shining Armour
- Louise Penny – The Murder Stone; The Cruellest Month; Still Life; A Fatal Grace; Bury Your Dead; The Brutal Telling
- Anne Perry – Sins of the Wolf; The Face of A Stranger
- Ellis Peters – A Morbid Taste for Bones; One Corpse Too Many; The Rose Rent
- Michael Robotham – The Suspect; Lost; Shatter; The Night Ferry; The Drowning Man
- J. Sansom – Dissolution; Sovereign; Dark Fire; Revelation; Heartstone; Lamentation; Tombland
- Dorothy Sayers – Strong Poison; Have His Carcase; Busman’s Honeymoon
- Mary Stewart – Madam, Will You Talk; The Moon-Spinners; This Rough Magic; Nine Chariots Waiting; Touch Not the Cat; The Gabriel Hounds
- Emma Viskic – Resurrection Bay; And Fire Came Down
- Patricia Wentworth –The Catherine Wheel; The Listening Eye
- Minette Walters – The Sculptress; The Scold’s Bridle; The Ice House
- Martin Walker – The Dark Vineyard; Black Diamond
