The TRE Bookshow. TRE’s Hannah Murray catches up with top authors, to discuss their latest releases 19/06/2026

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.Francesca de Tores is a novelist, poet and academic. She is the author of five previous novels including 'Saltblood' which won the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize. Her latest novel 'Cast Away' is the reimagined real-life story off Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for the classic, Robinson Crusoe. It's a sweeping tale of isolation and tenacity, asking: Who is a man, when everything is stripped away? Robert J Sawyer has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best science-fiction novel of the year. 'The Downloaded 2: Ghosts in the Machine' is the much-anticipated sequel to the bestselling 'The Downloaded'. It debuted in a six-month exclusive window as an Audible Original narrated by Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser. Tracey Cook read history at Oxford University, before producing a documentary series for the BBC, and working in journalism and PR. After graduating from the Faber Academy Writing a Novel Course, she was longlisted for the Bridport Novel Prize in 2021. Her debut novel 'Wings over Valletta' is an inspiring and heart-wrenching story of World ·War Two.It combines action at the secret nerve centre of Malta's military defence with a romantic entanglement and a desperate search for a child. ...Samantha Moody is a British American writer located in the Cotswolds. She got her start professionally writing custom smut romances for private commission. She now has a comic in development and writes for various podcasts. Her novel 'Sleuths' is about a fan, a celebrity and a crime...Brent van Staalduinen is the award-winning and bestselling author of the novels Unthinkable, Nothing By Life, and Boy. His latest novel 'The Peace Thieves' is about the search for peace during a civil war, and through the long, fraught years that follow. Eirinie Carson is a member of the Writers Grotto in San Francisco. Her debut novel 'Bloodfire, Baby' is a maternal gothic story of the fourth trimester, heritage, class, and all of the things our mothers pass along to us