Lianne Dillsworth's debut novel Theatre of Marvels was published in April 2022. Theatre of Marvels follows a young actress on a dangerous quest for truth that will take her from the glittering parlours of Mayfair to the seedy criminal underbelly of Victorian London. Previously, Lianne won a place on the London Library Emerging Writers Programme and has MASs in Creative Writing and Victorian Studies, as well as being first runner up in the 2020 SI Leeds Literary Prize for Black and Asian Women Writers in the UK. Here are her recommended reads from the Hay Festival 2022 programme...