The Book List by Isabel Wylde

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan ...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but to join the circus on its magical tour through turn-of-the-nineteenth-century London, St Petersburg and Siberia.

He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter rivalry, from breathless highs to lifeless lows, Paul Brannigan gives an unparalleled, intimate and extraordinary account of the life and times of Dave Grohl. When Nirvana ended I wasn't finished. I'm still not f*****g finished. Dave Grohl is the man who changed music forever. This is an account of his life that's more personal, more thrilling, more heart-rending and more inspiring than any other. This is Dave Grohl revealed fully, for the first time.

Malcolm was the landlord's son, an only child...he had friends enough, but he was happiest on his own playing with his daemon Asta in their canoe, which was called La Belle Sauvage . Malcolm Polstead's life in the pub beside the Thames is safe and happy enough, if uneventful. But during a winter of unceasing rain the forces of science, religion and politics begin to clash, and as the weather rises to a pitch of ferocity, all of Malcolm's certainties are torn asunder. Finding himself linked to a baby by the name of Lyra, Malcolm is forced to undertake the challenge of his life and to make a dangerous journey that will change him and Lyra for ever... Twenty-two years after the publication of the ground-breaking His Dark Materials , Philip Pullman returns to this epic parallel world in a masterful new novel: the long-awaited volume one of The Book of Dust .

'Even Zenia's name is enough to provoke the old   sense of outrage, of humiliation and confused pain. The truth is that at certain times - early mornings, the middle of the night - she finds it hard to believe that Zenia is really dead.' Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy; by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and  ruthless; a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is also dead. Just to make absolutely sure, Tony, Roz and Charis are there for the funeral. But five years on, as the three women share a sisterly lunch, the  impossible happens: 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation', Zenia is back...

FAHRENHEIT 451 the temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermid, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451  stands alongside Orwell's 1984  and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a classic of twentieth-century literature which over fifty years from first publication still has the power to dazzle and shock.

'Dark and witty tales from the gleefully inventive Margaret Atwood. Witty verve, imaginative inventiveness and verbal sizzle vivify every page' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An elderly lady with Charles Bonnet syndrome comes to terms with the little people she keeps seeing, while a newly formed populist group gathers to burn down her retirement residence. A woman born with a genetic abnormality is mistaken for a vampire, and a crime committed long ago is revenged in the Arctic via a 1.9 billion-year-old stromatolite.  ' Stone Mattress , a collection of nine acerbic, mischievous, gulpable short stories, addresses themes that will resonate with anyone familiar with Atwood's writing. Atwood's gimlet eye and sharp tongue are turned on the ageing process to painfully accurate effect' Harper's Bazaar

  Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood  reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farmer, his wife and children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible, yet entirely and frighteningly human.  The book that made Capote's name, In Cold Blood  is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative.

After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. There she finds Patience a changed woman, downtrodden by her domineering, vicious husband Joss Merlyn. Mary discovers that the inn is a front for a lawless gang of criminals, and is unwillingly dragged into their dangerous world of smuggling and murder. Despite herself, she becomes powerfully attracted to a man she dares not trust - Joss Merlyn's brother. Before long Mary will be forced to cross her own moral line to save herself.

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist... ...and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It's a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Belle Dearhart would be nice, too.

A murdered bride. A cryptic message. A dangerous secret. One balmy June evening in 1881, Phoebe Stanbury stands before the guests at her engagement party: this is her moment, when she will join the renowned Raycraft family. As she takes her fiance's hand, a stranger with a knife steps forward and ends the poor girl's life. Amid the chaos, he turns to her groom and mouths: 'I promised I would save you'. Curl up for a sumptuous, exhilarating debut as a young legal clerk seeks to solve the mystery of Phoebe's death - and uncovers a secret world full of danger. 'A sumptuous, exhilarating debut' is the best way to describe this novel, recommended for fans of Kate Mosse and Jessie Burton. Claire Evans may be new to writing - she only left her career at the BBC in 2013 and combines her writing career with her job as Chief Operating Officer at Two Brothers Pictures - but she knows what she is doing. There is no doubt that her experience advising on Doct