Non-fiction
The Bloody Sunday Report, volume III (2010)
Sculptor’s Daughter, by Tove Jansson (2015)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, by Yuval Noah Harari (2017)
The King of Almayne: a 13th century Englishman in Europe, by T.W.E. Roche (2022)
Non-genre
The Great Fortune, by Olivia Manning (2005)
The Spoilt City, by Olivia Manning (2005)
Friends and Heroes, by Olivia Manning (2005)
Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiassen (2005)
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio (2011)
Glimmer of Hope, Glimmer of Flame, by Ag Apolloni (2024)
SF
The Postscripts BSFA Sampler, ed. Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (2012)
Peter & Max, by Bill Willingham (2015)
Robot Visions, by Isaac Asimov (2018)
The Golden Fleece aka Hercules, My Shipmate, by Robert Graves (2020)
Land of Terror, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (2020)
Shadow Over Mars aka The Nemesis from Terra, by Leigh Brackett (2020)
Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord, by Olaf Stapledon (2020)
The Wind on the Moon, by Eric Linklater (2020)
The Winged Man, by A.E. van Vogt and E. Mayne Hull (2020)
The Memory Librarian, ed. Janelle Monáe (2023)
Ion Curtain, by Anya Ow (2023)
Doctor Who, etc
In The Shadows, by Joseph Lidster (2010)
The best, and also the one you haven’t heard of
The King of Almayne: A 13th Century Englishman in Europe is a fantastic biography of the English prince who almost became Holy Roman Emperor and died 750 years ago. Unless you’ve been subjected to one of my previous rants about Richard of Cornwall, brother of Henry III, you may not have heard of him. A remarkable individual in a remarkable time. (Review; get it here)
Honorable mentions
The Decameron – classic stories of grim Renaissance life, including a surprise reference to County Down. (Review; get it here)
Skinny Dip, by Carl Hiaasen – one of his many bizarre tales of the alternative reality that is Florida. (Review; get it here.)
Sirius, by Olaf Stapledon – Long before Diana Wynne Jones, a dog with extrahuman powers in today’s world… (Review; get it here)
The one you haven’t heard of
See above. (The King of Almayne)
The one to avoid
Land of Terror, by Edgar Rice Burroughs is racist rubbish. (Review; get it here)