I'm always fascinated to know what other people are reading, and like many authors I usually have several books on the go at once. In fact, I get palpitations if I don't!
My tastes vary enormously, sometimes depending on what stage in the writing process I'm at myself... If I'm writing a first draft I try to steer clear of books which are in the same genre as my own, so I'll go for a nice juicy thriller instead. But if I'm editing then pretty much anything goes! The selection here is just a small sample of what I've been reading over recent weeks.
 Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce |  Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale |  Golden Hill by Francis Spufford |
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 Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz |  The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell |  Force of Nature by Jane Harper |
 The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton |  Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam |  The Offing by Benjamin Myers |
 After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell |  The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield |  Never Look Back by Mary Burton |
 A Man With One of Those faces by Caimh McDonnell |  The Murder game by Rachel Abbott |  One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson |
 The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths |  The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall |  The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz |
 Crooked heart by Lissa Evans |  Case histories by Anthony Horowitz |  Figuring by Maria Popover |
 False Value by Ben Aaronovitch |  A Dozen Second Chances by Kate Field |  The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon |
 The Levels by Helen Pendry |  Restless by William Boyd |  Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield |
 The Binding by Bridget Collins |  Overstory by Richard Powers |  Timbuktu by Paul Auster |
 Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz |  Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd |  The Silent Wife by Kerry Fisher |
 Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell |  Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet |  Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott |
 Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster |  Mr Godley's Phantom by Mal Peet |  The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton |
 The Man I Fell In Love With by Kate Field |  Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch |  A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes |
 The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon |  Letters To a Beekeeper by Alys Fowler and Steve Benbow |  The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce |
 Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon |  Rivers Of London by Ben Aaronovitch |  Stoner by John Williams |
 The Wisdom of Trees by Max Adams. |  Consolations by David Whyte. |  The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson |