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These are authonomy’s all-time favourite books – as voted for by members of the authonomy writing community and they’ve all been read by our Editorial Board

The Swan Bonnet

Historical Fiction, Children's, Young Adult, Crime

Swans are endangered in 1920s Alaska yet Dawn plans to see the fall migration. In their seaport town, her mother’s hat can decoy poachers.

The Öbergemau Key

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Crime

no more Mr. Nice Jew: post-modern James Bond as fraud investigator taking on a neo-Nazi conspiracy to save Her Majesty's life

A Grain of Salt

Fiction, Romance, Crime

Could a girl's death be the result of doctor error? Or unavoidable circumstance? Mark Colton has to find that out or never practice again.

The Silver Spoon Effect

Fiction, Thriller, Popular Culture, Crime

Troy receives an email update about the search for his mother's killers. Shortly after, someone he hates commits suicide. Coincidence? It happens after every update.

The Sea Pillow

Fiction, Fantasy, Children's

Jack's grandpa is in trouble. Jack falls asleep on an old pillow and becomes a pirate captain. Now can he save his grandpa?

Alby And Me

Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

A powerful and poignant evocation of the special friendship of two unusual boys, and the dramatic events that shaped their lives.

Relic

Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult

Everyone knows the rule: stay inside the Wall, but to sixteen-year-old Tisha Tremayne, the city of Relic isn't a sanctuary. It's a prison.

Deadly Nevergreen

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller, Crime

Saxon burial mounds and smugglers' caves; thatched cottages and village churches; not a setting in which you'd expect to be kicked to death.

Museum of Old Beliefs

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Comedy

What would you like to change from your past?
Now, how exactly would you like to pay for that?

The Time Hunters

Fiction, Children's, Young Adult

Becky, Joe, Uncle Percy, Will Scarlet and a Sabre-tooth tiger called Milly race through and against time on a quest for the legendary Golden Fleece.

Bailey of the Saints

Fiction, Romance, Popular Culture, Travel

A Premiership footballer finds his way through love, life and football when he is 'loaned out' to New Zealand.

MUCKERS

Literary Fiction

Character-driven tale of friendship between two young cousins in conflict-ridden Ireland, before and during the Troubles in the Sixties.

Sicilian Shadows

History, Biography, Travel, Crime

Based on real experiences.
An English child. An ancient isle.
A sweetheart, mythology, the Mafia, good food, Frank Sinatra, philosophy and...a shotgun.

Impeding Justice

Fiction, Thriller, Crime

The Unicorn returns with clear intent ... to make life unbearable for DI Simpkins!

BRAINRUSH

Fiction, Thriller, Popular Science

Given just months to live, Jake Bronson never dreamed that a freak accident would draw him into a whirlwind of terror, self-sacrifice and love.

BADD

Fiction, Children's, Young Adult, Comedy

COMEDY
He's so often in trouble - how could Barry Badd end up as a hero?

A Child from the Wishing Well

Literary Fiction, Thriller

Gerard's wish is to break out of paranoia, discover daughter Rosie's love.
Is music tutor Ruth's foul-smelling well a place wishes happen?
Psychological suspense thriller

Phasmatis: Back to Life

Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult

They're kids. They die. That's not the way it should be.
Alice and Luke need to get back and sort things out. But how?

Moonbeam Highway

Literary Fiction, Comedy

A tale of a madman, as told by a fool, inspired by Don Quixote and Boccaccio's Decameron.

Snowflake

Fiction, Thriller, Crime

Congressman Clark knows he must pay for his mistakes. What he doesn’t realize is that his ten-year-old daughter has decided to do it for him.

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