The Best Classic Thrillers, recommended by Lucy Atkins Read 1 Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Read 2 The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Read 3 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Read 4 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Read 5 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins The Best Classic Thrillers, recommended by Lucy Atkins Every week, dozens of new thrillers appear in bookshops. But, often, the classic ones are the best of all. If you haven’t read any of these five yet, you have a treat in store.
The Best Classic Thrillers, recommended by Lucy Atkins Every week, dozens of new thrillers appear in bookshops. But, often, the classic ones are the best of all. If you haven’t read any of these five yet, you have a treat in store.
Sarah Perry recommends the best Gothic Fiction Read 1 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Read 2 Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin Read 3 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Read 4 We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Read 5 Fludd by Hilary Mantel Sarah Perry recommends the best Gothic Fiction The Gothic puts flesh on the bones of our darkest fears, novelist Sarah Perry tells Five Books. Here, she chooses five favourite novels in this ‘irresistible’ genre.
Sarah Perry recommends the best Gothic Fiction The Gothic puts flesh on the bones of our darkest fears, novelist Sarah Perry tells Five Books. Here, she chooses five favourite novels in this ‘irresistible’ genre.
Tracy Chevalier on Trees in Literature Read 1 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Read 2 Howards End by E M Forster Read 3 The Trees by Conrad Richter Read 4 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith Read 5 The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Tracy Chevalier on Trees in Literature Books are made of trees and sometimes they’re also about trees. Best-selling author Tracy Chevalier picks the five best trees in fiction.
Tracy Chevalier on Trees in Literature Books are made of trees and sometimes they’re also about trees. Best-selling author Tracy Chevalier picks the five best trees in fiction.
The best books on Victorian Fiction, recommended by John Sutherland Read 1 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Read 2 Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray Read 3 Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope Read 4 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Read 5 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The best books on Victorian Fiction, recommended by John Sutherland The professor of English literature tells us about his favourite novels in a golden era for fiction, and the dilemma, still with us today, that led Dickens to write two different endings for Great Expectations
The best books on Victorian Fiction, recommended by John Sutherland The professor of English literature tells us about his favourite novels in a golden era for fiction, and the dilemma, still with us today, that led Dickens to write two different endings for Great Expectations
Audrey Penn recommends her Favourite Teenage Books Read 1 Pollyanna by Eleanor Hodgman Porter Read 2 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Read 3 Red Dory by Hazel Hutchins Wilson Read 4 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Read 5 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Audrey Penn recommends her Favourite Teenage Books Children’s author, Audrey Penn, picks five books she loved as a teenager – all stories of struggle in the face of adversity.
Audrey Penn recommends her Favourite Teenage Books Children’s author, Audrey Penn, picks five books she loved as a teenager – all stories of struggle in the face of adversity.
Books that Changed the World, recommended by Amanda Craig Read 1 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Read 2 Pride and Prejudice (Book) by Jane Austen Read 3 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Read 4 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Read 5 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank Books that Changed the World, recommended by Amanda Craig Jane Eyre, 1984 and Anne Frank’s diary all make it onto novelist Amanda Craig’s list. On Black Beauty‘s underrated importance: ‘People forget that William Wilberforce, who abolished the slave trade, also founded the RSPCA.’
Books that Changed the World, recommended by Amanda Craig Jane Eyre, 1984 and Anne Frank’s diary all make it onto novelist Amanda Craig’s list. On Black Beauty‘s underrated importance: ‘People forget that William Wilberforce, who abolished the slave trade, also founded the RSPCA.’
The Best Psychological Novels, recommended by Salley Vickers Read 1 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Read 2 Villette by Charlotte Brontë Read 3 The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Read 4 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons Read 5 The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald The Best Psychological Novels, recommended by Salley Vickers The stories we tell ourselves affect our decision-making in profound ways, says psychotherapist turned bestselling author Salley Vickers. Here, she recommends five novels that delve into the psychology of the self—and of society.
The Best Psychological Novels, recommended by Salley Vickers The stories we tell ourselves affect our decision-making in profound ways, says psychotherapist turned bestselling author Salley Vickers. Here, she recommends five novels that delve into the psychology of the self—and of society.
