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AKAdam KayAdam Kay is a British writer and former doctor best known for This Is Going to Hurt. His memoirs draw on medical life with blunt humour and compassion, exploring the pressures of hospital work and the people behind the uniform.Visit shelf →1workASAdam SilveraAdam Silvera is an American author of young adult fiction, including They Both Die at the End and More Happy Than Not. His stories explore queer identity, friendship, grief and the choices people make when time feels uncertain.Visit shelf →1workAAkalaOn the shelf — open it upVisit shelf →1workASAleksandr SolzhenitsynAleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist and essayist whose work confronted Soviet repression. His books include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago, exploring imprisonment, conscience and the struggle to preserve human dignity under state violence.Visit shelf →1workAMAlex MichaelidesAlex Michaelides is a novelist and screenwriter known for psychological thrillers including The Silent Patient, The Maidens and The Fury. His stories turn on obsession, concealed motives and unreliable accounts, inviting readers to question who is telling the truth.Visit shelf →1workAHAli HazelwoodAli Hazelwood writes contemporary romance, often featuring women working in science and academia. Her books include The Love Hypothesis, Love on the Brain and Love, Theoretically. Professional rivalries, awkward attraction and questions of confidence sit alongside humour and emotional connection.Visit shelf →1workAFAlice FeeneyAlice Feeney is a British novelist known for psychological suspense, including Sometimes I Lie, His & Hers and Rock Paper Scissors. Her stories explore secrets within intimate relationships, using shifting perspectives and carefully withheld information to unsettle what readers think they know.Visit shelf →1workAOAlice OsemanAlice Oseman is a British writer and illustrator best known for Heartstopper and novels including Solitaire and Radio Silence. Their work explores queer identity, friendship, mental health and growing up, with close attention to the different ways young people find belonging.Visit shelf →1workAFAmanda Foody & Christine Lynn HermanAmanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman co-wrote All of Us Villains and All of Our Demise. Their fantasy collaboration follows rival families and young competitors caught in a deadly contest, exploring ambition, inherited power and the cost of refusing the roles others assign.Visit shelf →1workAAANDRE ACIMANAndré Aciman is a novelist, essayist and memoirist whose books include Call Me by Your Name, Find Me and Out of Egypt. His writing explores desire, memory and displacement, tracing the powerful afterlives of encounters and places that cannot quite be recovered.Visit shelf →1workAMAndrea MorstabiliniAndrea Morstabilini is an Italian writer whose books include A Blood as Bright as the Moon. His fiction brings a Gothic sensibility to desire, secrecy and the supernatural, exploring the uneasy boundary between attraction and fear.Visit shelf →1workAMAndrew MotionAndrew Motion is an English poet, novelist and biographer, and a former Poet Laureate. His writing moves between personal memory, history and imagined lives, with a quiet attention to landscape, loss and the ways the past remains present.Visit shelf →1workAOAndrew O'HaganAndrew O'Hagan is a Scottish novelist and essayist whose books include Our Fathers, Mayflies and Caledonian Road. His work examines friendship, class, public life and private loyalties, tracing the pressures that families and changing societies place on individual lives.Visit shelf →1workACAngela CarterAngela Carter was an English novelist and short-story writer whose work reimagines fairy tales, myths and Gothic traditions. Her books include The Bloody Chamber, Nights at the Circus and The Magic Toyshop. Richly inventive stories explore desire, gender, power and the possibilities of transformation.Visit shelf →1workACAngie CruzAngie Cruz is an American novelist whose books include Dominicana and How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water. Her fiction explores migration, work, family and reinvention, bringing close attention to Dominican lives and the voices often pushed to the margins.Visit shelf →1workAFAnne FrankAnne Frank was a German-born Jewish diarist who recorded her life while hiding from Nazi persecution in Amsterdam during the Second World War. Published after her death as The Diary of a Young Girl, her writing captures family tensions, growing independence, hopes and fears amid the realities of the Holocaust.Visit shelf →1workALAnnie LowreyAnnie Lowrey is an American journalist and the author of Give People Money. Her writing examines economic policy, inequality and everyday financial insecurity, using reporting and clear explanation to explore proposals such as universal basic income and their possible effects on people's lives.Visit shelf →1workADAnthony DoerrAnthony Doerr is an American novelist and short-story writer whose books include All the Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land. His fiction connects lives across distance and time, exploring survival, human curiosity and the power of stories to carry meaning through upheaval.Visit shelf →1work