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Welcome to HH Recommends

For over eighty years Heywood Hill has been answering the question ‘What should I read next?’. Now we have put that accumulated expertise into HH Recommends, bringing you the best new books chosen by our expert booksellers. When it comes to book recommendations we prefer human rhythms - intelligence, humour and subtlety - to algorithms, believing the best recommendations come from someone you can trust.

 
Lanny 18 March 2019 An enigmatic child catches the attention of an ancient English figure in this stunning short novel
Memories of the Future 18 March 2019 Autofiction need not be banal, as Hustvedt's new novel shows
The Chronology of Water 18 March 2019 How do you reclaim a broken life? If you're Lidia Yuknavitch, by writing about it
Number One Chinese Restaurant 19 February 2019 Li's debut novel reveals the lives and loves of waitstaff at a suburban Chinese restaurant
The Five 19 February 2019 A lucid and gripping group biography that explodes sensationalist myth-making
The Library Book 19 February 2019 Orlean's sui generis latest is an absolute must for any book-lover
The Redeemed 21 January 2019 A lucid, sensuous depiction of a world now gone
The Order of the Day 21 January 2019 This short Prix Goncourt winner is a delicately damning portrait of pre-war Germany
When All Is Said 21 January 2019 One night, one life, five drinks: Anne Griffin's debut is moving and bold
Evening In Paradise 21 November 2018 Berlin's short stories are simply brilliant
The House on Vesper Sands 21 November 2018 There are elements of Dickens at his best in this wintry Victorian Gothic tale
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England 21 November 2018 Commanding, tough, and fair, Bess of Hardwick is hard not to admire
Melmoth 05 October 2018 Creepy ghost story meets Calvinist theology
Handel In London 05 October 2018 The perfect high-end Christmas gift for music lovers
A Field Guide to the English Clergy 05 October 2018 For the Anglophile, Anglican, or, indeed, eccentric of any persuasion
Ghost Wall 10 August 2018 A deceptively short book with a core of menace
The Madonna of the Mountains, by Elise Valmorbida 21 June 2018 Quiet, but brilliant - a completely convincing piece of historical fiction
The Burning Chambers, by Kate Mosse 19 June 2018 Set during sixteenth-century France’s Wars of Religion, Mosse's novel brings Carcassonne to life
After the Party, by Cressida Connolly 19 June 2018 An impressively nuanced novel set just before the outbreak of WWII
The Stopping Places, by Damian Le Bas 18 June 2018 This travelogue-cum-memoir reveals the historic world of Britain's Travellers
Social Creature, by Tara Isabella Burton 18 June 2018 What happens when you move to the big city and...the dream doesn't come true?
The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson 12 June 2018 An outstandingly readable account of a very unusual theft
A Spy Named Orphan, by Roland Philipps 12 June 2018 A sympathetic, nuanced and informative biography of Donald Maclean
The Hunters, by Kat Gordon 12 June 2018 Gordon's debut takes us into the heart of the Happy Valley set
Old Baggage, by Lissa Evans 12 June 2018 Wonderfully nuanced, this story of a suffragette after suffrage deserves to become a classic
Happiness 20 April 2018 A brilliant spring read: colourful, hopeful, a breath of fresh air
Stories of the Law and How It's Broken 20 April 2018 A scathing and brilliantly written analysis of what's wrong with English law
Painter To the King 20 April 2018 In her third novel, Amy Sackville zooms in on Diego Velazquez's life
Brainstorm: Detective Stories From the World of Neurology 20 April 2018 A series of case studies of epilepsy from a Wellcome Prize winner
The Overstory 20 April 2018 Powers is one of the most skilled writers currently working
Forest Dark 05 September 2017 Krauss's best book since The History of Love
Midwinter Break 05 September 2017 A master storyteller, deeply underrated
Beautiful Animals 05 September 2017 Privilege collides with the refugee crisis in this observant novel
Peculiar Ground 07 July 2017 Caroline Jackson recommends Peculiar Ground, by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
White Tears 15 May 2017 A novel that tackles the South's dark past along with current problems
The 7th Function of Language 11 May 2017 A thrilling murder mystery set in a circle of French intellectuals
Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers and the Fate of Populations 04 May 2017 Sir Crispin Tickell recommends Climate Change and the Health of Nations, by Anthony McMichael
The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain 27 April 2017 An immersive, absorbing look at a fascinating century
Let Go My Hand 26 April 2017 What could have easily been a true tear-jerker is exactly the opposite
Paradise City 18 April 2017 An atmospheric crime novel set in teeming Sao Paulo
Resolution 11 April 2017 Two brothers, a nation in crisis, and a world at war
The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner 31 March 2017 The bizarre adventures of a Scots-American explorer well ahead of his time
Spook Street 23 March 2017 A ragtag bunch of disgraced MI5 operatives must prove their worth in Herron's gripping thriller
Pachinko 15 March 2017 An epic tale of a family's survival in a foreign land
Birdcage Walk 07 March 2017 A thrilling novel of loyalty and betrayal
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: the Evolution of Minds 01 March 2017 One of our foremost philosophers explores consciousness
Days Without End 21 February 2017 A beautifully written saga of America, war, and finding love in unusual places
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: ‘Restoration' 31 December 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Tracy Chevalier chooses ‘Restoration' by Rose Tremain
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'The Razor's Edge' 28 December 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Leonie Frieda chooses 'The Razor's Edge' by Somerset Maugham
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'Animal Farm' 24 December 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Amanda Foreman chooses 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'Burr' 19 December 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Michael Dobbs chooses Gore Vidal's 'Burr'
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: ‘Miss Garnet's Angel' 15 December 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Tracy Borman chooses ‘Miss Garnet's Angel' by Salley Vickers
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: ‘The Hours' 10 December 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Victoria Hislop chooses ‘The Hours' by Michael Cunningham
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'The Pursuit of Love' 03 December 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Victoria Mather chooses 'The Pursuit of Love' by Nancy Mitford
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'The Old Man and the Sea' 29 November 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Gerald Seymour chooses 'The Old Man and the Sea'
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'Sophie’s Choice' 22 November 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Anne Sebba chooses 'Sophie's Choice' by William Styron
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'The Road to Oxiana' 15 November 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Colin Thubron chooses 'The Road to Oxiana' by Robert Byron
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'Homage to Catalonia' 07 November 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: John Simpson chooses 'Homage to Catalonia' by George Orwell
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'The Devils' 01 November 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Kazuo Ishiguru chooses 'The Devils' by Fyodor Dostoevsky
HH 80th anniversary recommendation: 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 27 October 2016 HH 80th anniversary recommendation: Philip Kerr chooses 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'

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