Alison Flood Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Alison Flood on XAlison Flood is a books and culture editor. Comment and culture editor at the New Scientist; formerly @guardianbooks. Reviews thrillers for @ObsNewReview
Nuclear War: A Scenario
Annie JacobsenAlison FloodOne of the best and most important books I have read for some time. It sees Jacobsen lay out, minute by minute, what would happen if an intercontinental ballistic missile hit Washington DC... the scariest book I have possibly ever read.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookWe Solve Murders
Richard OsmanAlison FloodEven Osman’s minor characters are exquisitely ridiculous... The thing that shines through in Osman’s writing, for me, is that he really likes people and revels in all their foibles and eccentricities. All of which makes for a delightful read.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookFive Minutes' Peace
Jill MurphyAlison FloodSo many of these books have been a fundamental part of my, and my children's, childhood. RIP Jill Murphy. Five Minutes Peace is my absolute fave: "And off she went downstairs, where she had three minutes and forty-five seconds of peace before they all came to join her." https://t.co/MAIE4sbS6Z
Paperback, 1999
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookJonathan Abernathy You Are Kind
Molly McGheeAlison FloodUnemployed and in debt, Jonathan Abernathy takes a job as a dream auditor... I love this brilliantly sinister idea, and this novel has been described by one reviewer as the “spiritual sibling of Severance, but creepier”, which is right up my street.
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookNotes on an Execution
Danya KukafkaAlison FloodDevastating in its impact and impossible to look away from. I can’t remember the last time I finished a thriller in tears, not even sure by that point who my heart was hurting for.
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookWhite Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Don DelilloAlison FloodOur @newscientist review of DeLillo's White Noise isn't hugely positive - but it's meant to be unfilmable, right? https://t.co/7QP0crj467
Paperback, 2009
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookYou Like It Darker: Stories
Stephen KingAlison FloodYou Like It Darker is a new collection of short stories that moves from “the folds in reality where anything can happen” to a “psychic flash” that upends dozens of lives. There’s a sequel to Cujo, and a look at “corners of the universe best left unexplored”.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookExordia
Seth DickinsonAlison Flood“Michael Crichton meets Marvel’s Venom,” says the publisher of this story of Anna, a refugee and survivor of genocide, who joins a team investigating a “mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror” as “humanity reels from disaster”. I’m loving the drama we are being promised here.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookTomorrow's Children
Daniel PolanskyAlison FloodNothing can cheer me up more than a good post-apocalyptic romp, and the new novel from Polansky sounds like a corker. Manhattan has been enveloped by the funk, a “noxious cloud” that separates it from the world and mutates its population...
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
Richard OsmanAlison FloodOnce you read Osman’s funny, warm-hearted novels, it is hard not to be charmed by the eccentricities and the resourcefulness of his creations ... humour is gently threaded through every element of The Bullet That Missed.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book