Books like The Last Days of Johnny Nunn — picked by fans

While this is a stand alone contemporary spy novel, it plays with the past catching up and haunting us, and it provides us with visions and glimpses of characters we now know to be other people in other times.

Sometimes I love a book because it’s firmly within the area of my reading taste, sometimes a book surprises me. I read Erin’s book ahead of interviewing her at a book festival and from the first page, I was blown away. ‘The House of Mirrors’ is a story of buried secrets and the lies we tell ourselves to maintain the world we’ve built. Flitting between the present day and the 1990s, Alice, our protagonist, is a wonderful creation and the entire novel is built around her somewhat skewed and damaged world view. Infused with lovely Gothic overtones, the first chapter is enough to pull any reader in.