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It may be that the era of the box set binge, but Many of us are still doing the time and You enjoy books.

In the UK alone, sales of adult fiction, non-fiction children's print books have a healthy remained over The Past 12 months. Before the Christmas boost, You % were up 1 to 191. 5 million copies sold, according to market analysis firm Nielsen.

Meanwhile, Nielsen a plus in sales of audio books of 15% forecast of nine million recordings. Ebooks, however, are estimated to have declined by 10%.

To your appetite for books, in the years of 2020, we have a selection of adult titles in several genres. Hopefully You will find something to enjoy.

Fiction by established best-sellers, utopia Avenue - David Mitchell

Author : twice the Booker Prize -nominated Author , Mitchell's Work includes Cloud Atlas , The bone clocks, and number9dream. He has also translated (with his wife) of two books about autism from the Japanese writer Naoki Higashida, and contributed to, the Netflix series Sense8, and the next Matrix movie.

The book: utopia of Mitchell Avenue is The First full novel, The bone clocks in 2014. It tells of the meteoric rise and down fall of a British band in London in 1967 and, against the background of the unrest, drugs, love, sex, madness and death. stick

Published 2. June.

The Mirror and The Light - Hilary mantel

Author : coat won the Booker Prize for The First two novels in her epic story of Thomas Cromwell , Wolf Hall and Bring up the body. In may, "This book, the biggest challenge was to live of my writing and the reward; I hope my readers will find it was worth it The Wait . "

The book: The Mirror and The Light , the traces of The Last years of the Cromwell, The Man who rose from nothing to become one of The Top advisers of Henry Viii 's coat the story of the proud and tragic conflict between the royal and Cromwell, of the vision of a modern nation.

Posted on 5. March.

Hamnet - Maggie O'farrell

Author : O'farrell is the bestselling Author of novels, including, You 'd Gone, The distance Between Us and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. In 2010, The Hand , who won for The First time Instead of Mine for the Costa Novel Award. Instructions For the heat-wave was on the shortlist in 2013, This was to Be The Place in the year 2016.

The book: in the year 1596, Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, whose name inspired the acclaimed Play - Goes sick In Search of help for his heavy, his twin sister. Her mother is a long way, and your father is gone to Work . No parent knows that The Children will not survive this week.

Published March 31.

Just Like You - Nick Hornby

Author : Hornby is the Author of novels such as High Fidelity , About a Boy and Funny Girl . His recent marriage break-up amendment to the State of The Union , accompanied his BBC TV shorts series. Non-fiction include Fever Pitch , and he wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplays for An Education and Brooklyn.

The book: As we have come to expect from Hornby, and his latest story is both personal and universal. Just Like You the core of what it means to fall, surprising, and strongly in love with someone who is apparently totally unsuitable.

Published 17. September.

Strange Hotel - Eimear Mcbride

Author : McBride has made her name with her award-winning debut A girl is a Half-formed thing, about a young woman and her complex relationships in the family. Your follow-up of The Lower Boheme was about a relationship between a young student and a 38-year-old actor.

The book: the plushest Hotel room can figure without a soul, but for The Nameless female, each holding a complex of Memories - Many painful. As she travels from country to country and from room to room, we discover what has happened or may happen within its walls. Will You be ready to Go Home ?

Published 6. February.

Contemporary fictionThe girl with the Louding Voice - Abi Daré

Author : Daré live in the UK, but grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. As a child, she asked how it was that domestic workers were subjected to in their country to such a desperate Life . She hopes that her novel will be your Protagonist and other - the identity and dignity that they deserve.

The book: Adunni is a 14-year-old Nigerian who is stubborn, she wants An Education . But You broke father sees You as a means to an end - earning money. Adunni is sold to an old man. Tragedy leads to her secretly as a servant of a wealthy Lagos family have sold. Adunni is said time and again that she is convinced nothing, but it remains that the sheer determination to see, to break free.

Posted on 5. March.

The 24-hour Café - Libby -Page

Author : Libby -side of the debut novel, about the inhabitants, to save the rally together, your local swimming pool from closure and The Land used for luxury apartments. It was a Bestseller and be made into a movie.

The book: - Page re-focuses on the value of the community. Inspired by your local café, one Page tells of best friends Hannah and Mona, the operation in spite of artistically formed. You can dream of a different Life , but around You every kind of existence is played by the people who walk through the door.

Published 23 January.

Seven Lies - Elizabeth Kay

Author : Kay began her career as an assistant at Penguin Random House. She is now a contributing editor who writes in their Spare Time .

The book: Jane vows to tell You the whole truth about her relationship with her Best Friend Marnie. You have been very close as children totter now, but their friendship because of Lies told by Jane, a rotates by an increase in the severity, such as Jane's wish to have Marnie to the obsession. How have things so bad and where will it end?

Published April 16.

Saving Missy - Beth Morrey

Author : Morrey, the creative director at Rdf Television , where her credits: Channel 4 The Secret Life of Four-Year-olds and the ITV-100 year Old driver.

The book: On the eve of her 80th birthday, Missy Carmichael finds himself isolated and desperately lonely. She has no friends, and mourns the loss of A Family , the lost, or Alienated - and, You know, it's all your own fault. But a chance encounter with two very different women, dangling the possibility of a better Life - if You let it happen.

Published 6. February.

You Come Back - Robert Webb

Author : Webb is known for his comedy collaborations with David Mitchell on the TV hits Peep Show and That Mitchell and Webb Look. In the year 2017, he wrote his coming-of-age story, How Not to Be A Boy, is reminiscent of the Comedy and the tragedy of his early Life .

This book: Webb takes a Love Story - with a twist. Part Time Traveller's Wife, part Peggy Sue got Married, it tells of Kate, the lonely after the death of her love-of-your-Life -husband Luke. One Day , she wakes up to find she is 18 again in the body, but even more for your tyres even in the eye. It is The Day she met Luke. To know what You are doing, about their future, they will go away or try to re-enact their history and, perhaps, save time, Luke?

Posted on 5. March.

crime and thriller fictionThe Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

Author : The all-round mega-brain is The Creator and co-presenter of the TV Quiz Show is Pointless and Two Tribes Richard Osman 's house of games, along with creative Director for the TV production company Endemol.

The book: Osman has a fascination with stories of intrigue, his first novel, is thrown a Murder Mystery in The Classic Agatha Christie -Style , with a tongue-in-cheek touch of Midsomer Murders . You take four bored OAPs in an all-too-peaceful Kent village who meet every week to examine "" any unsolved murders. But You get a jolt of reality when a real suspicious death lands on your doorstep. The group got the guts to solve The Crime ?

Published 3. September.

held - Graham Moore

Author : Moore, a New York Times best-selling novelist, whose previous works, The Sherlockian, and the Last Days of The night. He also won a Golden Globe and an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for The imitation game, the film about Alan Turing starring Benedict Cumberbatch .

The book: Moore's story comes from his own experience as a "restraint" on a jury, which is a member of a different opinion than all The Others . Here The Disappearance of a 15-year-old heiress seems to be in dry cloths - your teacher is The Villain . But then to judge Maya Seale, who persuades tubes to agree with the other, Not Guilty . Scoot forward 10 years And One of the jurors, was found, dead, with Maya, the suspect prime. But she is forced to pay for their previous actions?

Posted on 20 February.

The Recovery-Rose Gold - Stephanie Wrobel

Author : Wrobel hails from Chicago and worked in advertising until she moved to London. You started a Creative Writing course and at the end of completing this book.

Posted on 5. March.

Historical fiction, miss Austen Gill Hornby

Published 23 January.

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Source of news: bbc.com