Underrated Book Recommendations by Jo Furniss

Read This: Books under the Radar is a weekly post written by a guest author – often a friend of mine, someone I’ve met on my writerly travels, or an author I admire – who recommends three books they think deserve more recognition. If you’re interested in buying any of the books, please click on the covers and give these hidden gems some love. You can see the full list of books which have been selected, as well as the author’s latest book on Bookshop.org, where you can have a browse and buy any that take your fancy. Happy reading!

Read This: Jo Furniss

Jo wrote me a lovely comment on one of my Read This: Books Under the Radar posts on Instagram, and as simple as that, I invited her on. Here’s what she has to say about herself:

After spending a decade as a broadcast journalist for the BBC, Jo gave up the glamour of night shifts to become a freelance writer and expatriate, living in Singapore, Switzerland and Cameroon.

Jo’s latest novel, Dead Mile, is a murder mystery set in a traffic jam on a gridlocked motorway. A twist on the classic locked-room mystery, it has been described as a “literary joyride” with a “deeply human protagonist in an all-too-relatable setting”.

Her debut, a survival thriller called All the Little Children, was an Amazon Charts bestseller. Jo lives on the south coast of England. http://www.jofurniss.com/
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Explore Lesser-Known Novels Worth Your Time, selected by Ruth Thomas

Read This: Books under the Radar is a weekly post written by a guest author – often a friend of mine, someone I’ve met on my writerly travels, or an author I admire – who recommends three books they think deserve more recognition. If you’re interested in buying any of the books, please click on the covers and give these hidden gems some love. You can see the full list of books which have been selected, as well as the author’s latest book on Bookshop.org, where you can have a browse and buy any that take your fancy. Happy reading!

Read This: Ruth Thomas

You might remember that a few weeks ago I had Jo Leevers, the author of The Last Time I Saw you, on Read This: Books Under the Radar and one of her choices was Ruth Thomas’s The Home Corner, and now here Ruth is with her three choices. Such pleasing circularity. Here’s what she has to say about herself:

Ruth Thomas is the author of three novels and three short story collections and her work has been shortlisted for various prizes including the John Llewellyn Rhys Award, the VS Pritchett Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line was a BBC Book at Bedtime in 2021. Ruth has taught Creative Writing at St Andrews University, been an RLF Writing Fellow and is a mentor for the Scottish Book Trust. She lives in Edinburgh and is working on a new novel and story collection.

Instagram and Bluesky @RuthieSThomas and at ruth-thomas.com

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