The TRE Bookshow. TRE’s Hannah Murray catches up with top authors, to discuss their latest releases 18/09/2026

Hannah Murray will start by looking at the bestseller lists on Amazon.co.uk and The Sunday Times, the oldest and most influential book sales chart in the UK, and seeing what new entries there are.

Gervase Phinn is an author, poet, broadcaster, and educational guru, affectionately dubbed "the James Herriot of Schools". His warm-hearted reminiscences about life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales have featured prominently on Radio 4 Book of the Week. His new novel 'Chalk Dust and New Chapters' is set in 1950s Yorkshire, and celebrates those memorably early schooldays. 

Joanna Foat grew up in Surrey with a love of forests, nature and history. After more than a decade researching the Lumberjills and meeting many of the women who served, she brings their courage, friendship and resilience to life in 'The Lumberjills Under Suspicion', the second in her Lumberjills series, inspired by true events, bringing to life the forgotten story of the Women's Timber Corps - women who kept Britain's forests working during the Second World War. 

Alex Gerlis is the author of multiple Second World War espionage thrillers. His latest 'City of Traitors' is the third in his Double Agent series. 

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Carole Ryder is a former English teacher and Marketing Director whose husband's work to her to LA in her fifties. Navigating the menopause and expat life there, she embraced LA's culture of creativity and reinvention. 'Unleashed in LA' is what Hollywood taught a British woman abut reinvention and bonkers ideas! 

Marcus Bone spent 30 years in serious journalism, technology and finance reporting. His novel 'Evil Goods' is a laugh-out-loud journey into a quirky alternative universe. It's the first in a hilarious new series , that features logic puzzles throughout 

Rhiannon Grist is a Welsh writer of weird, dark and speculative fiction. 'Home Sick' is her psychological thriller debut, about a troubled woman seeking a fresh start in the Scottish countryside who believes her neighbour may be behind the strange disturbances in her home. 

Sue Moorcroft is a bestselling author of romantic fiction set in beautiful places. 'Secrets of the Italian Guesthouse' is set on Lake Como, and filled with new beginnings and second chances, and is the first in a new trilogy.

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