I am actively building a list of literary and upmarket fiction and non-fiction. Generally, I am looking for wonderful, clear writing with beauty at its heart, great hooky plot driven stories and/ or a combination of both! As examples of my taste, books I have recently loved include: Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel, All Fours by Miranda July, Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, Either/ Or by Elif Batuman, Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, The Details by Ia Genberg, Burntcoat by Sarah Hall and The Biography of X by Catherine Lacey.

I am currently particularly interested in fiction that is engaged in science in some way, for example Martin MacInnes’s In Ascension, Orbital by Samantha Harvey and Playground by Richard Powers. I love speculative and genre bending fiction as well as novels that play with form and structure, of which The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley, The Echoes by Evie Wyld and How High We Go in the Dark by Sequioa Nagamatsu are all good examples. I am always interested in short stories, dark comedies and books on the edges of horror. I would love to find a really wild idea that is immaculate on the page.

I would like to find a great (love) story set against the backdrop of historical events such as Matrix by Lauren Groff, Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck or In Memoriam by Alice Winn – as well as a swoony contemporary love story! You are Here by David Nicholls and Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal are good examples. I love literary crime and would like to find a detective novel or literary thriller such as Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead, Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood or Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie series.

In non-fiction, I am always looking to learn new things. Recent non fiction I’ve enjoyed includes: Munichs by David Peace, Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence by Frances Wilson, A Thread of Violence by Mark O’Connell, Monsters by Claire Dederer, A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar, and Question 7  by Richard Flanagan.

I would love to find a graphic novel on any subject.

Please note I am not looking for genre-based SFF.