Jonathan Bate has penned a biography about the life of poet William Wordsworth. Author says William who was born in Cumberland did his best work after meeting Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

This escapist read showcases stunning homes ensconced in nature across the globe

Five months after the death of her alcoholic mother, sales assistant Ava is hit by a car

Anne Tyler has recently finished reading Miriam Toews's All My Puny Sorrows. The American novelist revealed that she would take Eudora Welty's The Golden Apples to a desert island.

Sarah Vaughan brings to this book the same tension-building expertise that made her bestseller Anatomy Of A Scandal such a success

This brilliant novel, by the bestselling author of The Secret Life Of Bees, imagines that Jesus had a wife: brainy, rebellious and resourceful Ana.

In 1950 the Kaufman family - Ken, Sarah and daughters Jo and Bethie - have just moved into their new house in a pleasant Detroit suburb

When 11-year-old Elly disappears, last seen riding her bike to the sports field, she is presumed dead

Irish author Mark O'Connell, speaks to people from across the globe who are preparing for the end of the world in a new book, including one who claims a rogue planet will crash into earth.

Tim Dee examines how swallows migrate across Africa to Europe each year, in a new nature book. He begins his travels in the Sahara desert, where the birds are heading northwards.

In this opulent book, Christian Louboutin details his eclectic sources of inspiration, ranging from Cher to Japanese pipes.

Lancashire: a neglected space caught between the twin poles of tourist magnets the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales - two places, incidentally, that are also richly imagined in literature.

The title of this dark, dangerously funny collection comes from the Voyager satellite.

A strange mutation is sweeping the Victorian world. People don't so much emote as emit: clouds of scented smoke that are brewed in newly evolved glands and reveal true feelings.

This heart-rending story set in one of the poorest parts of rural America is among the most powerful and moving I have read in years.

Pericles, by Shakespeare, inspires the latest novel by Mark Haddon, author of the award-winning bestseller, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time.

A life-class model, a woman of some notoriety as a sexual predator, is found murdered at her place of work, an art school built on high ideals but down on its luck

Back in 2006, Thomas Harris published Hannibal Rising, the fourth of his Hannibal Lecter novels.

The swimming pool evokes holiday, exercise, tranquillity and perhaps even fantasy in the current climate

Robert Webb is currently reading Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking. The British novelist revealed he would take Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy stories by Douglas Adams to a desert island.

Greenwell's exquisitely written debut, What Belongs To You, followed an aspiring poet who moves from Kentucky to Bulgaria

I loved Hulse's hilarious, skilful debut The Adults, which was stuffed with believable characters, and this second book is just as witty, warm and brilliantly realised

With its commanding situation at the top of a hill on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the Dutch House is a glittering prize

How do you show people that you are a king? Gorgeous architecture, sumptuous feasts and, of course, enviable fashion.

Like the titular mammal, this is a curiosity: part 21st-century political satire, part unexpectedly affecting 19th-century love story.

Eve Chase's novels are about glamorous families with tragic pasts, set in wonderful locations

This collection shows that although a man may abandon his Muse for years, she'll tag along like a faithful wife

This widely anticipated debut comes surrounded by a lot of hype, sold to 25 countries, plus a hotly contested auction for TV rights

Amanda Owen is currently reading The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak And High Society Scandal In Kenya by Frances Osborne. The British writer would take Swaledale to a desert island.

This book opens with a vivid description of an unnamed woman watching an advertising company's office burning to the ground and a body bag being carried out

Thick fog, a Tiger Moth plane and an emergency landing provide the gripping opening to a terrific World War II novel

A library for rejected manuscripts established by a book-loving loner in a sleepy Breton town becomes the talk of literary Paris

This beauty of a book highlights the best wild swimming locations in the Lake District

Moggach's 2004 novel, These Foolish Things, which inspired the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, featured a cast of elderly characters

Emily Gunnis is currently reading Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey. The British writer would take The Wicked Wit Of Winston Churchill to a desert island.

Tom Standage reveals a series of fascinating little-known facts in a new book. The UK-based deputy editor of The Economist examines facts and figures, including what causes happiness.

Claire Nelson who shattered her pelvis when she fell 20ft while hiking in California, reveals how she survived in the desert until she was found in a new memoir.

Jan Morris, 93, who lives in the Llyn Peninsula has penned new book, Thinking Again. She would become the first transgender person honoured if made Dame Jan Morris.

John Carey takes the reader on a helter-skelter ride through 4,000 years of an art form central to human life in his book A Little History of Poetry. The book is 80,000 words in Yale's Little History series.

Hamnet is Maggie O'Farrell's first foray into historical fiction, and, as with her contemporary work. It follows Hamnet, the young, day-dreamy son of William Shakespeare.

Missing by Richard van Emden follows the story of Francis Mond who died on May 15, 1918, aged 23, when his RAF plane was shot from the skies and plummeted into no man's land in Northern France.

Marine scientist and science communicator Ellen Prager explores hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and also climate change in her book Dangerous Earth.

British writer Roger Lewis, rounded up a selection of the funniest stories ever written. Among his picks is the eccentric absurdity of the Starkadders in Cold Comfort Farm.

Former paratrooper Dan Jarvis, who is now Labour MP for Barnsley Central, has penned a memoir revealing the horrors of war and the heart-wrenching death of his first wife Caroline.

American professor of classics Michael Fontaine, has translated Vincent Obsopoeus's Latin poem The Art Of Drinking into English. The poet penned the work in 1536.

British foreign correspondent Christina Lamb, chronicles mass-rape in war in a devastating new book, featuring interviews with survivors.

Clare Hastings reflects on the life of her mother Ann Scott-James in a new memoir. The journalist who read at Oxford, once continued a dinner party although her husband had collapsed.

Lamorna Ash who took a break from her career in London as a playwright, spent months living with Cornish fishermen for a new book. Almost everyone she met has lost someone to the sea.

Roger Alton picks some of the best biographies ever to be written, including Diana: Her True Story. Pictured Princess Diana, inset, Camilla and Prince Charles.

Darren Coffield has written an oral history of The Colony Room, a shabby and cluttered little space at the top of a dingy staircase in the heart of Soho.