Alison Flood Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alison Flood

One 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.

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Cronin’s gloriously dreamy novel The Ferryman, set on an apparently utopian island where things aren’t quite as they seem, is out in paperback this month. It was the first pick for the New Scientist Book Club, and it is a mind-bending, dreamy stunner of a read.

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So 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

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Unemployed 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.

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Devastating 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.

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@Louiestowell The Scribble Witch books by Inky Willis are adored in this house by 11yo and 8yo

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You 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”.

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“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.

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Nothing 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...

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Once 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.