Cath Staincliffe Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Crimewriter – novels, radio, TV, to-do lists. Reading junkie. Likes hill-walks, mum dancing, pootling in the garden. She/her. Latest book Running Out of Road.

Before You Knew My Name
Jacqueline Bublitz
#FridayReads Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz. 'Not just another novel about a dead girl.' A finely written, moving, wise look at male violence to women. The story of a murder victim and the woman who found her. Eloquent on friendship and a love letter to New York.
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Girl a
Abigail Dean
#FridayReads Haven't finished it yet but I am enjoying Girl A by @abigailsdean SO MUCH. Vivid, beautifully written, harrowing and often funny, it's a pleasure to read and utterly compelling. Should win prizes.
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lanny
Max Porter
#FridayReads Lanny by Max Porter. Inventive and funny and heart-breaking. Beautifully written. A really unique read, full of wonder, that I know will stay with me.
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
HIT AND RUN a gripping crime thriller filled with twists
Cath Staincliffe
US readers - HIT AND RUN a gripping crime thriller filled with twists (Detective Janine Lewis Mysteries Book 2) is featured today on @eBookDaily ! https://t.co/gYnGzoNXrU
Paperback, 2022
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Binding
Bridget Collins
#FridayReads The Binding by Bridget Collins. A rich Gothic fantasy, set in an alternative past which had me completely mesmerised. A powerful and poignant love story. Original and brilliant.
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Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Douglas Stuart
#FridayReads I'm having two this week because I can. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (breath taking, heartbreaking and so vivid) and Mrs England by Stacey Halls (twisty gothic chiller with a wonderful sense of time and place - the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire in 1904). https://t.co/Q6lT5eqjRU
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Farm
Joanne Ramos
#FridayReads The Farm by Joanne Ramos. A gripping dystopian story about women who act as surrogates, bearing children for the rich and powerful. Eloquent on inequality, class and race, with memorable well-crafted characters. Unputdownable.
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Starling Days
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
#FridayReads Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan. The Costa short-listed novel about a young couple who make a temporary move from New York to London, the woman struggling with depression, is sensitively, honestly told and very moving. I was completely immersed. @RowanHLB
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Exit
Belinda Bauer
#FridayReads Exit by Belinda Bauer. Another cracker from a truly original author. This farce about a man who assists dying people end their lives but finds he has helped the wrong person is full of wit and acute observation, with a fiendishly clever plot. A real pleasure.
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Early Warning
Jane Smiley
I’ve been lucky enough to go away on holiday recently, giving me even more time to read. Here are the books I devoured – all recommended. The Hike by @SJIHolliday Early Warning by Jane Smiley, In a House of Lies by @Beathhigh Wish You Were Here by @jodipicoult 1/2 https://t.co/KRIW38p0V6
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