They Knew Mr. Knight

10 best books like They Knew Mr. Knight (Dorothy Whipple): A Single Thread, Frankissstein: A Love Story, The Porpoise, Spring, Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence, The Confession, The Far Cry, Expectation, The Benefit of Hindsight, Grandmothers

A Single Thread

Author

Tracy Chevalier

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother....

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Author	Jeanette Winterson
ISBN	1473563259

From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...

The Porpoise

Author	Mark Haddon
ISBN	1784742821

‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.

A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.

She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective...

Spring

Author	Ali Smith
ISBN	0241207053

From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...

Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence

Author	Lisa Cron
ISBN	1607742454

This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readers’ brains and captivate them through each plot element.

  Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story,...

The Confession

Author	Jessie Burton
ISBN	1509886141

The sensational new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.

One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is...

The Far Cry

Author	Emma Smith
ISBN	1903155231

In September 1946 23-year-old Emma Smith set sail for India, to work as an assistant with a documentary unit making films about tea gardens in Assam. She was dazzled by India ...

‘I went down the gangplank at Bombay, and India burst upon me with the force of an explosion.’

... and...

Expectation

Author	Anna Hope
ISBN	0857524909

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not...

The Benefit of Hindsight

Author	Susan Hill
ISBN	1784742791

In this, the tenth Simon Serrailler crime novel, Simon must engage with his own demons as Lafferton struggles to cope with a series of crimes that threaten the sanctity of hearth and home.

On the face of it DC Simon Serrailler has had time to recuperate after the violent incident that cost him...

Grandmothers

Author	Salley Vickers
ISBN	0241371422

The new novel from Salley Vickers, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Librarian, available for pre-order now

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent Nan, who leads a secret life as an award-winning...

The Weekend

Author

Charlotte Wood

Winner of the 2016 Stella Prize and Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction for THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS Charlotte Wood's THE WEEKEND, in which three friends in their 70s gather for a last weekend at the former holiday home of a mutual friend who has recently died, where they confront betrayals that...