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Publishing Talk is an educational website for new and emerging authors. Writers also need to be readers, and the books in these lists will help you develop and grow as an author too. Some will help you write, get published, self-publish or market your books. Some will help you read around the genre you're writing in or discover what makes a bestseller. Some are prize-winning books, début fiction or books by underrepresented writers to inspire you to success. And some are simply cracking reads! Every purchase helps support both local, independent bookshops in the UK and Publishing Talk. 

Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2024: The best advice on how to write and get published
Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts
Writing Online and Audio Stories: Crafting Nonfiction for Websites, Podcasts, and Social Media
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
Your Story Matters: Sharpen Your Writing Skills, Find Your Voice, Tell Your Story
Everybody Writes: Your New and Improved Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content
Do Story: How to Tell Your Story so the World Listens
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book
The Right Word: A Writer's Toolkit of Grammar, Vocabulary and Literary Terms
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing That You'll Ever Need
Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
How To Write It: Work With Words
Exploratory Writing: Everyday magic for life and work
Masterclass: Write a Bestseller: How to plan, write and publish a bestselling work of fiction
Write a Novel in 10 Minutes a Day: Acquire the habit of writing fiction every day
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2024: The best advice on how to write and get published
How Words Get Good: The Story of Making a Book
Tips from a Publisher: A Guide to Writing, Editing, Submitting and Publishing Your Book
Why Will No-One Publish My Novel?: A Handbook for the Rejected Writer
Writing a Novel and Getting Published For Dummies UK
Writers' & Artists' Guide to Getting Published: Essential advice for aspiring authors
Writers' & Artists' Guide to How to Hook an Agent: Q&A help and advice for authors
How to Self-Publish a Children's Picture Book 2nd ed.: The Easy and Inexpensive Way to Create a Book and eBook: For Non-Designer Self Publisher's Toolkit: Includes Self Publishing in the 2020s and Marketing Your Book to Libraries The Self Publishing Toolbox: Tools, Tips, and Strategies for Becoming a Successful Author
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The Successful Author Mindset: A Handbook for Surviving the Writer's Journey
Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns: A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book
Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts
Mindset - Updated Edition: Changing The Way You think To Fulfil Your Potential
Reinventing Your Life: the bestselling breakthrough programme to end negative behaviour and feel great
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
The Way of the Fearless Writer: Ancient Eastern wisdom for a flourishing writing life
Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?
Self-Discipline for Writers: Writing Is Hard, But You Too Can Write and Publish Books Regularly
The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life
Your Story Matters: Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story
The Practice
Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and Get Out of Your Own Way
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
The Practice
Social Media Marketing in the Self-Media Era: A Self-Experiment on Tiktok
Social Media Marketing for Book Publishers
Effective Copywriting Strategy-for Money & Sales: Learn the secret formula copywriters use for Online Digital Marketing, Web Con
Do Story: How to Tell Your Story so the World Listens
Self Publisher's Toolkit: Includes Self Publishing in the 2020s and Marketing Your Book to Libraries
Storynomics: Story Driven Marketing in the Post-Advertising World
Social Media Marketing 2020: Secret Strategies for Advertising Your Business and Personal Brand On Instagram, YouTube, Twitter,
Digital Marketing For Dummies
Instagram Marketing: Grow Your Business Fast with the Help of Instagram and Social Media
Influencer Marketing Strategy: How to Create Successful Influencer Marketing
Digital Marketing Strategy: An Integrated Approach to Online Marketing
The Ultimate Digital Marketing Book: Succeed at SEO and Search, Master Mobile Marketing, Get to Grips with Content Marketing
The 1-Page Marketing Plan: Get New Customers, Make More Money, And Stand out From The Crowd
Marketing For Dummies
How to Self-Publish a Children's Picture Book 2nd ed.: The Easy and Inexpensive Way to Create a Book and eBook: For Non-Designer Get Started in Writing for Children: Teach Yourself: How to write entertaining, colourful and compelling books for children How To Write For Children And Get Published
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Written: How to Keep Writing and Build a Habit That Lasts
The Charmed Life of Alex Moore: A quirky adventure with an unexpected twist
Masterclass: Write a Bestseller: How to plan, write and publish a bestselling work of fiction
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
The River Between Us
Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
Tips from a Publisher: A Guide to Writing, Editing, Submitting and Publishing Your Book
How to Have a Happy Hustle: The Complete Guide to Making Your Ideas Happen
Welcome to Ferry Lane Market: Book 1 in a brand new series by the author of bestselling phenomenon THE CORNER SHOP IN COCKLEBERR
The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay: A sunny, funny, story of romance and mystery, guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart
Meet Me in Cockleberry Bay
The Gift of Cockleberry Bay
Christmas in Cockleberry Bay
Better Together
Writing Online and Audio Stories: Crafting Nonfiction for Websites, Podcasts, and Social Media
Do Story: How to Tell Your Story so the World Listens
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Non Fiction
Five Keys to Successful Nonfiction Writing: How I Write One Book per Month
Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction
Storycraft, Second Edition: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everythi
You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everythi
We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story
Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
Cult Following: My escape and return to the Children of God
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found
Educated: The international bestselling memoir
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
The Man He Used To Be: Dementia and My Mad Dad
The Salt Path
Corpsing - Four One-Act Plays
H is for Hawk: The Sunday Times bestseller and Costa and Samuel Johnson Prize Winner
Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons
Native: Life in a Vanishing Landscape
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They CommunicateA?Discoveries from a Secret World
I Belong Here: A Journey Along the Backbone of Britain
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir
Slow Horses: The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 1)
Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club
The Patient: The brilliantly twisty mystery with the unforgettable detective in 2025
My Sister, the Serial Killer: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle: The basis for the BAFTA-winning Killing Eve TV series
The Distant Echo
The Retribution: An unforgettably thrilling novel that will have you hooked
Behind Closed Doors
The Murder of Harriet Monckton
The Three-Body Problem: Now a major Netflix series
Get Started in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy: How to write compelling and imaginative sci-fi and fantasy fiction
Sea of Tranquility
Station Eleven
Roadside Picnic
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?: The inspiration behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Solaris
The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
The Best of World SF: Volume 1
The Sirens Of Titan: The science fiction classic and precursor to Douglas Adams
Slaughterhouse 5
Wild Seed
The Word for World is Forest
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Handmaid's Tale
Nineteen Eighty-Four
We
The Handmaid's Tale: the book that inspired the hit TV series
The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Station Eleven
The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose
Exit West: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Map of Hope and Sorrow: Stories of Refugees Trapped in Greece
Refugees: A Very Short Introduction
Refugee: A Memoir
The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
In the Wars: An uplifting, life-enhancing autobiography, a poignant story of the power of resilience
The End of Where We Begin: A Refugee Story
Refugees and Displacement
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: The heartbreaking tale that everyone's talking about
Refugee Boy
Borders: A Very Short Introduction
Border Lines: Poems of Migration
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
Live Green: 52 Steps for a More Sustainable Life
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future
Why Women Will Save the Planet
The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG
The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
365 Ways to Save the Planet: A Day-by-day Guide to Sustainable Living
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Silent Earth: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Three Things to Help Heal the Planet: Simple Ideas from 21 Environmental Trailblazers So You Can Start Making a Difference Today
Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution
Coming Out Stories: Personal Experiences of Coming Out from Across the LGBTQ+ Spectrum
Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
The Book of Non-Binary Joy: Embracing the Power of You
Queer Life, Queer Love: An anthology
Outrageous!: The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
Take Nothing With You: A richly absorbing novel of boyhood, coming of age, confusion and desire
Nora Webster
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven
This Book is Gay
Gender Explorers: Our Stories of Growing Up Trans and Changing the World
We Can Be Heroes: A Survivor's Story
It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World
Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life
Maybe I Don't Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery
Girl, Woman, Other
My Sister, the Serial Killer: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Queenie: Now a Channel 4 series
The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Noughts & Crosses
Becoming
The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
The Confessions of Frannie Langton: Now a major new series with ITVX
White Teeth
My Name Is Leon
The Shadow King
Real Life
Complete Ukrainian Beginner to Intermediate Course: (Book and audio support)
The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation
From “the Ukraine” to Ukraine: A Contemporary History of 1991-2021
Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches From Kiev
Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
Gates of Europe (Revised Edition) : A History of Ukraine
The Orphanage: A Novel
The House with the Stained-Glass Window
Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories
Dancing in Odessa
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023
The Bluest Eye
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol.1
The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Moon Tiger
Girl, Woman, Other
Little House on the Prairie
ANGELAS ASHES
Jumping The Queue
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter
Stet: An Editor's Life
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022
The Promise
Shuggie Bain
Girl, Woman, Other
The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Milkman: #1 IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Lincoln in the Bardo: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
The Sellout: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016
The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Discover the Booker prize-winning masterpiece
The Luminaries
Bring Up the Bodies
The Sense of an Ending
The Elected Member
The Finkler Question
Wolf Hall
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
A Good Man in Africa
On The Black Hill
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Continent
The Other Garden and Collected Stories
Gerontius
The Buddha of Suburbia: Faber Modern Classics
Alma Cogan
Swing Hammer Swing!
Saving Agnes
The Longest Memory
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
The Debt To Pleasure
The Ventriloquist's Tale
Factory Girls: A bold snapshot of working young women during the tumultuous Troubles
Love Marriage: Don't miss this heart-warming, funny and bestselling book club pick about what love really means
The Startup Wife
Either/Or: From the bestselling author of THE IDIOT
The Writing on the Wall
Lessons in Chemistry
Again, Rachel
Impossible
The Lock In
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Sorrow and Bliss: The funny, heart-breaking, bestselling novel that became a phenomenon
Wahala: Three friends, three ‘perfect’ lives. Here Comes Trouble
The Exhibitionist: The Times Novel of the Year 2022
One Day I Shall Astonish the World
Sedating Elaine: 'a riotous rollercoaster of hilarity, tenderness and beautiful craziness'
The Retribution: An unforgettably thrilling novel that will have you hooked
Behind Closed Doors
Noughts & Crosses
The Distant Echo
The Olive Season: By The Author of the Bestselling The Olive Farm
The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Old Trees, and Olive Oil
Return to the Olive Farm
The Murder of Harriet Monckton
You, Me & the Sea
Whatever It Takes: The unputdownable hit from the Sunday Times bestselling author of BOTH OF YOU
The Image of You: I thought I knew you. But you're a LIAR.
About Last Night: A twisty, gripping novel of friendship and lies from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author
Lies Lies Lies
The Distant Echo The Olive Season: By The Author of the Bestselling The Olive Farm The Olive Harvest: A Memoir of Love, Old Trees, and Olive Oil
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The Charmed Life of Alex Moore: A quirky adventure with an unexpected twist
Masterclass: Write a Bestseller: How to plan, write and publish a bestselling work of fiction
Tips from a Publisher: A Guide to Writing, Editing, Submitting and Publishing Your Book
The End of Magic
Murder Your Darlings
The Path to the Sea
The Sewing Machine
The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay: A sunny, funny, story of romance and mystery, guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart
The Gift of Cockleberry Bay
Bang!: A History of Britain in the 1980s
Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s
No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller THE PALACE PAPERS
A 1980s Childhood
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life
Corpsing - Four One-Act Plays
Ramble Book: Musings on Childhood, Friendship, Family and 80s Pop Culture
What a Way to Go
Labour and the Left in the 1980s
Images of the Past: The Miners' Strike
The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Any More)
Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4: Adrian Mole Book 1
The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots’ Invention of the Modern World
Thrive: The Freedom to Flourish
Shuggie Bain
Corpsing - Four One-Act Plays
His Bloody Project
Trainspotting
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
44 Scotland Street
Conviction: THE THRILLING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Superheroes: Inspiring Stories of Secret Strength
Lift Your Vibe: Eat, breathe and flow to sleep better, find peace and live your best life
The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind
This Way Out
Aftershocks
This Monk Wears Heels: Be Who You Are
You Think You Know Me
The Trust
Dear Edward: Now a Major new TV series with Apple TV
The Patient: The brilliantly twisty mystery with the unforgettable detective in 2025
Feel Good Food : Over 100 Healthy Family Recipes
The Songs You've Never Heard
One Body
Hello Mum: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Making It: How Love, Kindness and Community Helped Me Repair My Life
Up in the Attic Ask A Footballer Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
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World Book Night 2021

Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
The Shadow King
Shuggie Bain
Real Life
Who They Was
The Mirror and the Light
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM
Love and Other Thought Experiments: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
Reasons to be Cheerful: Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
Queenie: Now a Channel 4 series
Cassandra Darke
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Christmas Shopaholic
Diary of a Confused Feminist: Book 1
Frankissstein: A Love Story
In the Crypt with a Candlestick: ‘An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter' Rachel Johnson
Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Vampire Menace
So Lucky
The Blessed Girl
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill: 'GORGEOUS' Marian Keyes
The Flatshare: the utterly heartwarming debut sensation, now a major TV series
The Nursery
Bloodlust and Bonnets