The TRE Bookshow. TRE’s Hannah Murray catches up with top authors, to discuss their latest releases 25/09/2026

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.

Ava Miller is a hugely respected historical fiction novelist. Under her other pen names she has been nominated for the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, to twice being a finalist in the Romantic Novelists' Association Saga of the Year Award. Her latest novel 'The French Resistance Hotel' is a one-of-a-kind sweeping novel based on the incredible true story of the Hotel Arbez, a refuge for prisoners of wars and Jews fleeing the Nazi's. 

C D Major is the pseudonym of novelist and screenwriter Cesca Major. She's been a Reese's Book Club Pick and nominated for both the CWA and HWA Awards. Her latest novel 'The Residency' is about Ginny, a single mother barely scraping by who goes to a remote Scottish Island with her daughter after being accepted into an artist's residency. 

Linda Sherlock undertook a creative writing course after a career in education. She is the author of the bestselling non-fiction book 'Shampoo and Set: 75 Years as a Hairdresser' Her new novel 'Carribay' was inspired by her mother's story, and is where family history meets charming Irish seaside village. 

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Guy Lloyd is our resident UK Publishing Expert. In a 40 year publishing career, Guy worked for some of the biggest publishing houses in the business, including Penguin Random House, BBC Books and Virgin. He joins us once a month for all the latest book news. This month he's talking about the Booker Prize Longlist, Super Thursday, Second Hand Book Sales are Up, and the Poetry Boom.

Heather Critchlow grew up in rural Aberdeenshire and trained as a business journalist after studying history and social science at Cambridge University.
Her debut novel 'Unsolved' was shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize and was the first in a series about true crime podcaster Cal Lovett. 'Unseen' is the final book in the series.

Emily Varga is a YA Fantasy author with a fondness for getting lost in bookstores. Her new novel 'The River She Became' is set in an epic new magical world with a sizzling romance at its heart.

Kieran Scott is the author of more than fifty novels for children and teens, each of which, written under the pen name Kate Brian, have been New York Times bestsellers. In 'The Getaway' five millennial couples who have gathered at a posh Hamptons estate for a week's vacation. Their relaxing getaway rapidly deteriorates and becomes a hellish trap when buried secrets, death and violent weather converge.

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