The New October Reads You Won't Be Able To Put Down!

Nothing beats curling up with a good read so we've rounded up the best October books to keep you entertained and intrigued all autumn long.

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With so many exciting new books being released this month, the problem isn't what to read - it's finding the time to read them all! Here's our pick of the best reads to dive into this October...


Lila book by Marilynne Robinson
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LILA by Marilynne Robinson


Virago, £16.99

Revisit the characters and setting of Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead in this touching story of an unlikely preacher's wife in small town Iowa and her struggle to make sense of her troubled past.


Station Eleven book by Emily St John Mandel

STATION ELEVEN by Emily St John Mandel
Picador, £12.99

Twenty years after the Georgia flu wiped out civilisation, a small band of musicians and actors tour the settlements that survived the pandemic. This is beautiful and unsettling.

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Pegasus book by Danielle Steel

PEGASUS by Danielle Steel


Bantam Press, £18.99

This historical novel set during WWII tells the story of two lifelong friends, their families and how fate - and one beautiful stallion - will keep them together. Out 23 October


Saving Grace book by Jane Green

SAVING GRACE by Jane Green


Macmillan, £14.99

Grace doesn't understand why her comfortable life is derailing. Could it have something to do with her author husband's perfect assistant, Beth? A highly satisfying page-turner.


The Rosie Effect book by Graeme Simsion

THE ROSIE EFFECT by Graeme Simsion


Michael Joseph, £14.99

Don and Rosie settle down to life in New York, but when Rosie announces she is pregnant, Don goes into a tailspin of panic. Laughs galore from this delightful sequel to The Rosie Project.


Miss Carter book by Sheila Hancock

MISS CARTER'S WAR by Shelia Hancock


Bloomsbury, £12.99

Marguerite Carter survives the war as a resistance fighter in France and becomes an English teacher in a girls' grammar school, but her struggle against injustice of all kinds is not over. A powerful portrait of Britain.

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