Whitcoulls recommends Harlan Coben and Olivie Blake

The Match by Harlan Coben: Sequel to a book called The Boy from the Woods a couple of years ago – but reads perfectly well on its own. Wilde is the boy who was discovered living and growing up in the woods as a child, now keen to find his family so he sends off to a DNA website who give him a match for his father – but then finds himself caught up in an online community who work to expose anonymous online trolls, at which point things get really dangerous.  The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake: this was originally self-published and got a lot of attention – was recently picked up by one of the big international publishing companies who are putting a lot of effort behind it and expect it to be huge – interest has been driven by prominence on the TikTok book sharing platform #Booktok. The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. When the candidates are recruited by the mysterious Atlas Blakely, they are told they will have one year to qualify for initiation, during which time they will be permitted preliminary access to the Society’s archives and judged based on their contributions to various subjects of impossibility: time and space, luck and thought, life and death. Five, they are told, will be initiated. One will be eliminated. The six potential initiates will fight to survive the next year of their lives, and if they can prove themselves to be the best among their rivals, most of them will.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.