Category: Books

Six books from February, featuring small-town mysteries, suspicious influencers, dysfunctional families and plenty of fictional bodies.

Six books and 1,880 pages in January, with crime fiction, time travel, a heist and an ever-growing trail of fictional bodies.

Meet Felixstowe author Melanie Green, whose candid cancer memoir and guided journal offer honesty, humour and practical support to others.

Meet Suffolk author Julie Missen, who writes as J.D. Missen across psychological thrillers, poetry and children’s books rooted in East Anglia.

Meet Felixstowe author Iain Maitland, whose psychological thrillers and candid memoirs explore mental health, family and emotional truth.

Meet Suffolk author Jeanette Hewitt, writing as J.M. Hewitt—creator of atmospheric psychological crime thrillers filled with tension and trauma.

Meet Felixstowe’s local authors and explore their books, from crime and psychological thrillers to memoir, poetry and children’s writing.

Meet Felixstowe author Ruth Dugdall, whose psychological crime novels explore guilt, justice and trauma with powerful real-world insight.

Genre statistics, most-read authors and a top 10 spanning thrillers, memoirs, music and politics—my 2024 reading year reviewed.

A record 124 books, 70 authors and one difficult top 10—here are the reading stats and standout books from 2023.