Lightning Authors
Eight of the best from Down Under
Literary
Fiction
Three Lightning Authors
Four glittering comic novels
Comedy
Alastair Humphreys
Over a period of a year, world adventurer Alastair Humphreys turns his attention closer to home, exploring his local Ordnance Survey map one square per week, in a celebration of nature and curiosity
Nature
Non-fiction
Simon Edge
A colouring book for adults and children alike based on the 15th-century gentry immortalised in stained glass in the windows of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford in Suffolk
Activities
Nicola May
The queen of ladette lit turns her attention to the world of online dating in a another wild and witty tale
Romance
Douglas Board
Why is so much of the world managed by arseholes?
Sarah Laing
The acclaimed graphic biography of Katherine Mansfield
Graphic
Susan A. King
Murder, mystery...and marrows
The sequel to the number one bestseller
Ernest Ambrose
A classic East Anglian memoir describing a vanished world of rural customs and culture with wit, intelligence and freshness of observation, now in a 50th anniversary edition with a new foreword by Ashley Cooper
Memoir
Ash Dykes
A decade of living dangerously
Adventure
Mood of Future Joys follows round-the-world cyclist Alastair Humphreys on the first leg of his epic journey, starting in Yorkshire, then going down through Europe and travelling the whole length of Africa, including Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya
Travel
Elinor Lipman
From one of America’s most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love under house arrest in Manhattan
Peter Burden
"...that is what we do - we go out and destroy other people's lives." Former news editor on the News of the World
Business
Diane Esguerra
Can a parent ever survive the death of a daughter or son? Psychotherapist Diane Esguerra, a practising Buddhist, takes the ashes of her half-Colombian son, who died of a heroin overdose, to scatter at Machu Picchu in Peru. She learns along the way how to recover from grief without ever letting her precious memories go
Spiritual
James Kennedy
‘Easily one of the greatest books I’ve ever read about music and being in a band’ Eric Alper
Music
Polly Clark
Caught in a terrorist explosion on the London Underground, Helen is too devastated to go back to her own life. In a bid to preserve their shaky marriage, her husband Frank proposes they sell up and sail the Atlantic. But the boat that once brought them together becomes a crucible of passion and conflict, shattering the few certainties they have left
On Turpentine Lane
Martin Henwood
A new set of 104 photographic cards and linked commentaries, biblical verses and prayers to add depth and insight to your understanding of life
A new set of 104 cards to add depth and insight to your understanding of life and the Christian Bible
Paul Bassett Davies
A darkly comic dystopian crime novel
Sci-Fi
Hilda Reilly
By living among the people of Palestine, travel writer Hilda Reilly embedded herself in one of the most widely reported and long-standing struggles in the world. Prickly Pears of Palestine provides a much-needed human face to what life is really like for people in Palestine, a country torn apart by politics.
The Trump satire that America wouldn't publish
Simon Casson
Inspired by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Simon Casson and Richard Adamson follow on horseback the trail of their boyhood heroes
Gwen Maka
Riding with Ghosts is Gwen’s frank but never too serious account of her epic 7,500 mile cycling tour
Hilary Taylor
In her taut, lyrical debut novel, Hilary Taylor weaves the bleak power of the East Anglian winter into a searingly honest psychological drama, as gripping as any thriller.
George Harrison
The Young Man and the Old Man – two fanatics in adjacent seats – form a slow but steady friendship over the course of a football season. As their beloved club lurches towards relegation – and as they pour ever more of their hopes into the ailing team – both men come to realise how much they have in common
Part reportage, part travel writing, Seeking Sanctuary presents the stories of six Western converts to Islam seeking a better life for themselves by moving to a country more in line with their new religion. Their journeys – spiritual, cultural and geographical – told in their own words, are set within the wider context of the author's own experience as an expatriate in Khartoum.
Matthew De Abaitua
A memoir of literary ambition
Shakardokht Jafari
Born in Afghanistan, raised in Iran and now based in the UK, Shakardokht Jafari has defied convention, prejudice and illness to forge a career pioneering radical cancer technologies. As well as being an award-winning medical entrepreneur, she is a leading campaigner for girls’ education in her native country
Some of the finest debut fiction from Lightning Books
Emily Maguire
A stark look at sex, relationships and addiction
Tess Burrows
WARNING: this book may release the playful toy within you
Children’s
John Lenahan
In the sequel to the Shadowmagic trilogy, we return to the enchanted world of Tir na Nog where a new generation of the royal House of Duir are itching for adventure
Young Adult
Dan Rhodes
Set at a rural literary festival, a hilarious satire on the book world which takes no prisoners as it skewers authors, agents, publishers and reviewers alike
Caroline Kington
A tale of stargazing, skulduggery and stage-struck saddlebacks
Simon Fenton
On the cusp of middle age, Simon Fenton leaves Britain in search of adventure and finds Senegal, love, fatherhood, witch doctors – and a piece of land that could make a perfect guest house, if only he knew how to build one
Josh Berry
The memoir of Boris Johnson’s most classic SPAD: The ’Rona Years, Vol. 1
A compelling and claustrophobic thriller with a remarkable twist – as if Iain Banks had rewritten The Wicker Man
Thriller
Alastair Humphreys spent four years traveling around the world on his bicycle, a journey that covered 46,000 miles and five continents
Abi Silver
A new Burton and Lamb legal thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Pinocchio Brief.
Crime
Julia Miles
For 28 years, Julia was a ‘diplomatic spouse’, juggling a growing family while supporting the demands of one of the great Offices of State
In the sixth of Abi Silver’s nail-biting games of courtroom cat-and-mouse, Judith Burton and Constance Lamb defend a caterer accused of killing a food magnate by negligence. Is something darker afoot?
Greg McGee
The epic wartime love story that took New Zealand by storm
Andrew Stickland
The first part in the a thrilling adventure trilogy for young adults set three hundred years in the future, when humans have colonised the Moon and Mars
Paul Maunder
A gothic story of madness, revenge and Uranium-235, longlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award
Suzy K. Quinn
The complete best-selling comedy series
Christmas. A time for family. But what if your family is a total mess?
The second in the bestselling comedy series
Juliette had a baby with Mr Not-Quite-Right. Now what?
Every mother deserves a holiday
Catherine Chidgey
A found novel
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