Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide : Discover Your Next Great Read

Deciding what to read next when you've just finished an unputdownable novel can be difficult and daunting. But the Read On sections in the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide will direct you to similar authors and works, leading you on a rich journey through some of the best literature ever written. Other topics include Startpoints, introducing major genres like crime, science fiction and thrillers and Read on a Theme menus listing books by topic. There is also a fascinating Literary Trivia section with a wealth of strange facts such as strange authorial deaths, curious pseudonyms and authors who were jailbirds. New sections include New Writers to Watch and Hidden Gems. Book club and prize-winner lists keep you up to date with some of the most popular and critically acclaimed novels.
This eighth edition has been revised and expanded, featuring 40 new author entries including more recently established authors with a proven body of work- Monica Ali, Anne Enright, Jonathan Franzen and Marina Lewycka plus more non-fiction writers- Roger Deakin, Robert Macfarlane, Graham Robb, Kate Summerscale. Covering hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, the Good Reading Guide is an accessible and authoritative guide that no serious book lover should be without.
'The essential guide to the wild uncharted world of contemporary and 20th century writing.' Robert McCrum, The Observer