Recommended Reads

If you are interested in books on a particular subject or theme, or just want to try something different, booklists can help and don't forget to check out our pick of the month.

We also have Recommended Reads for Children.

• Prize Winners
  Orange Prize for Fiction, Man Booker Prize, William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards, Prize Winning Children's books, Costa Book Awards

• General Fiction
  A write laugh, Hot Scots; Sea Stories, Partners in Crime, First Fiction, Black and Write, Art in Fiction

• Around the World
  The Arab World, Tales of Afghanistan, Africa, Spanish Settings, What's in your suitcase?

• Sports Fans
  A Sporting Life, Footballers Lives, William Hill Sports Book of the Year, Cycling

• Books made into film and television
  Watching the detectives, Oscar Winners

• Teen Reads
  Full throttle, Girl talk, Get real, Out of this world

• Non-Fiction
  D-day; Conspiracies, SeaBritain,Beneath the Waves, The Anglo Saxon World, Give a bird a home, Poems and Poets, A taste of Britain, Books on Prescription, Now how about those resolutions…;

• Hampshire Heritage
  Alfred the Great, Jane Austen