Claire Fuller trained as a sculptor before working in marketing for many years. In 2013 she completed an MA in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of Winchester, and wrote her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days.
The Barbecue at No.9 (2026) Jennie Godfrey "Brilliantly evocative and deliciously addictive. I couldn't stop reading until all the characters' secrets were revealed."
The Original (2025) Nell Stevens "A delightful, playful puzzle of a novel, and a brilliant twist on the nineteenth century orphan-makes-good story. THE ORIGINAL asks whether, sometimes, faking it is the right thing to do."
Idle Grounds (2025) Krystelle Bamford "Unsettling, puckish, and brilliantly written, this novel is an absolute one-off. I loved it."
Clear (2024) Carys Davies "Clear is a love letter to a vanished way of life, to a landscape, and to human relationships. Captivating, tender, and satisfying, this is a novel to be savoured."
Glorious Exploits (2024) Ferdia Lennon "What a voice! What a story! A darkly funny double act from Lampo and Gelon, sandwiched in between the transformative experience of theatre and forgiving your enemies. I loved it from the first line."
Hot Springs Drive (2023) Lindsay Hunter "In Hot Springs Drive, Hunter mixes a perfect cocktail: precise and gritty writing, achingly and terrifyingly real characters, with a dash of mystery and darkness. Intoxicating."
The Porcelain Maker (2023) Sarah Freethy "A searing and propulsive novel about bravery and betrayal, love and art. I was pulled into the story and swept along until the very end."
In Memoriam (2023) Alice Winn "Alice Winn has pulled off a remarkable feat in making these men and the horrors of the First World War come so viscerally alive. It was like looking at a black and white photograph which has been colourised, and suddenly you understand that these shadowy people from the past also dreamed and cried and breathed just as we do now. I was completely absorbed, moved, and transported."
Other Women (2023) Emma Flint "Other Women is compelling and twisty, and wonderfully suspenseful, and yet still full of empathy for the female characters."
The Swimmers (2022) Chloe Lane "Darkly funny, desperately sad, brilliantly written. I absolutely loved it."
Non-Fiction (2022) Julie Myerson "Searing and tragic and cleverly layered, this thought-provoking novel about mothers and daughters, guilt and responsibility, fiction and truth, took me to the dark interior of family relationships and left me heart-broken. Just wonderful."
How to Gut a Fish (2022) Sheila Armstrong "In sumptuous and evocative prose, Sheila Armstrong writes stories that are unnerving and unsettling. Stories which make you go, wait, wait, what was that?"
The Key in the Lock (2022) Beth Underdown "A beautifully observed novel. Intriguing, beguiling and surprising until the very end - I was transfixed and moved by Underdown's storytelling."
Good Neighbours (2021) Sarah Langan "Good Neighbors was such a fun read—fun in a brilliant, twisted, dark, compulsive-reading kind of way! I loved the structure of it, with the little hints Langan threw my way about the Maple Street Murders—I just had to keep reading, because I had to know what happened. She is so good at showing how the idle gossip of suburbia can turn darker, malevolent, and downright dangerous. Wonderful stuff!"
The Hare (2021) Melanie Finn "With The Hare, Melanie Finn has written a powerful story of female perseverance, strength, and resilience. This book has rare qualities: beautiful writing while being absolutely unputdownable, and I will be pressing it into the hands of every reader I know."
The Weekend (2020) Charlotte Wood "The Weekend positively hums with life even as these three women are approaching the end of theirs. The book is exquisitely wrenching and poignant when dealing with female friendship and old age, yet it still manages to be funny and very real. I loved it."
Valentine (2020) Elizabeth Wetmore "In outstanding prose, Wetmore has created a handful of extraordinary women out of the dust of West Texas, 1976. They are all so real, with their hard lives lived with absolute humanity. Valentine is both heartbreaking and thrilling, I loved it."
The Better Liar (2020) Tanen Jones "A compulsively page-turning story. [Tanen Jones] cleverly drip-feeds nuggets of information, each more surprising than the last, until the final shocking revelation."
(Tuesday Mooney, book 1) Kate Racculia "In Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts Kate Racculia has created a host of wonderful odd-ball and eccentric characters, not least Tuesday Mooney herself: smart, vivacious, and beguiling. I was swept up in her crazy treasure hunt through Boston, looking for ghosts—real and imagined. A book for the curious and spirited."
Little Disasters (2019) Sarah Vaughan "Each character is brilliantly drawn, and the book delivers surprise after surprise."
Resin (2018) Ane Riel "A chilling story about the lengths a man will go to protect his family and way of life. Liv and the terrifying place she manages to survive in will stay with me for a long time."
Elizabeth Brooks "An atmospheric, beautifully paced novel about sacrifice, the urge to belong and revenge. It's full of well-drawn characters I loved to hate, and those that I didn't want to let go, even after I closed the last page."
The Immortalists (2018) Chloe Benjamin "The four siblings were so real to me that when I turned the last page I immediately missed their company. I was fascinated by the idea of knowing the date of one's death and seeing how each character in The Immortalists handled that knowledge, but maybe even more than that, I loved how Benjamin conveyed the intimate details of these people, which made them and their stories come alive."
The Last of Us (2016) Rob Ewing "An amazing book of courage and survival … a book about memory, friendship and hope. It's the kind of book that made me want to wake my children from their beds, just to kiss them and whisper that I love them. A tremendous novel – I absolutely loved it."
(b.1967)
