Novelist Annalena McAfee said she would take Palgrave's Golden Treasury on a desert island. She said she is currently reading Self-Portrait, the memoir of the artist Celia Paul.

Why not make flower arranging your self-isolation hobby? In this joyous book, world-renowned flower farmer (what a job title!) Erin Benzakein will teach you.

The relationship between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen, for whom he wrote So Long, Marianne among others, has already been told on film.

Rachel Johnson reveals the challenges of life in the public eye and behind the scenes of the 'Westminster bubble' in her book, Rake's Progress, My Political Midlife Crisis.

A photograph in this book shows a grim-faced, elderly woman setting fire to a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover outside an Edinburgh bookshop.

Children trapped at home now have at least one reason to celebrate - the long-awaited return of The Wolf Brother series.

Sarah Cheesbrough kept coming across a fellow inhabitant of her road, a squirrel

Sarah J. Maas is currently reading Nalini Singh's A Madness Of Sunshine. The American fantasy novelist revealed that she would take Sally Thorne's The Hating Game to a desert island.

This is a terrifying but vitally important story about an affair between a 15-year-old schoolgirl and her 42-year-old English teacher

Locked in at home, now at least we have time to tackle those blockbuster novels we never got round to

Bourne won multiple plaudits for her Young Adult books but moved into grown-up territory in 2018 with How Do You Like Me Now?

Hold on - wasn't Anne Tyler going to retire? This is her third outing since 2015's A Spool Of Blue Thread, supposedly her final novel

A photograph in Annabel Venning's account of her family in wartime shows the six Walker children in order of height

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Former U.S. Secret Service Agent Evy Poumpouras, has penned a memoir. The tome started with the idea of how to create inner strength and mental resilience.

Maureen Waller's detailed portrait of London in 1945, has been reissued in paperback to commemorate this year's anniversary of VE Day.

Stephen Taylor examines the 'heroic age of sail' in a fascinating new book. The British author reveals how more sailors died from fever and accidents, than in war.