Books I’ve loved and think you might too. These aren’t reviews — just the ones I’d press into your hands if we met over a coffee.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: Stephen King

Return of the Native: Thomas Hardy

The Loved One: Evelyn Waugh

Burial Rites: Hannah Kent

Here One Moment: Liane Moriaty

And Mrs Arbuthnot: Patricia Fineberg Stoner

The Bee Sting: Paul Murray

 Terry Pratchett —- A Life With Footnotes: Rob Wilkins

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart: Molly Ringland

The Burnt Country: Joy Rhoades

The Crimson Thread: Kate Forsyth

A Man Called Ove: Frederik Backhouse

Skippy Dies: Paul Murray

The Marriage Portrait: Maggie O’Farrel