Or perhaps you’re coming to an event and want to support the bookseller. (Thank you).
Here are a few suggestions – including Anne Buist’s solo books.
Crowdpleaser: The Rosie Project is regularly voted a favourite book and has sold over 6 million copies. Romantic comedy (including actual comedy) with some bigger themes. Biggest risk is that they’ve already read it.
Mental health workers and doctors – and those dealing with them (plus anyone who’d watch a TV medical series): The Menzies Mental Health series starting with The Glass House – or jump to The General Hospital for a more conventional medical drama. For autism, the Rosie series.
Mid-life reinvention: Two Steps Forward.
Crime: Medea’s Curse (Anne)
Mystery: Locked Ward and The Long Shadow (Anne)
Men who don’t read fiction: The Rosie Project or Two Steps Forward. If they like classic rock, then The Best of Adam Sharp.
Aspiring Writers: The Novel Project (very practical how-to) or Creative Differences (fictional version of same).
Travel: Two Steps Forward.
Short-story fans (if they still exist): Creative Differences and Other Stories
Litterateurs: Finnegan’s Wake.
