Firstly, my sincere thanks to everyone who completed the latest survey – the information gathered is incredibly useful as I consider what to write in the future.
If you’re interested, here’s a snapshot of the data…
| GENDER | |
|---|---|
| Female | 39% |
| Male | 61% |
| AGE | |
| Under 18 | 0% |
| 18-24 | 0% |
| 25-34 | 3% |
| 35-44 | 30% |
| 45-54 | 48% |
| 55-64 | 15% |
| 65+ | 4% |
| INCOME | |
| Less than £20,000 | 6% |
| £20,000 to £29,999 | 14% |
| £30,000 to £39,999 | 11% |
| £40,000 to £49,999 | 13% |
| £50,000 to £59,999 | 11% |
| £60,000+ | 30% |
| Rather not say | 15% |
| POLITICAL LEANING | |
| Left | 24% |
| Centre | 28% |
| Right | 8% |
| Liberal | 16% |
| Rather not say | 24% |
| EDUCATION LEVEL | |
| GCSE/O-Level | 20% |
| A-Level | 18% |
| Degree | 46% |
| NVQ or Diploma | 16% |
| READING HABITS | |
| On my daily commute | 6% |
| Evenings | 8% |
| In bed | 25% |
| Weekends | 2% |
| On holiday | 7% |
| Whenever I get a chance | 52% |
And here are some of the books recommended (modesty prevents me from listing the many recommendations for my own books)…
- Sunshine Cruise Company
- A Prisoner of Birth – Jeffrey Archer
- Limpet Syndrome
- Amy Cross Mass Extinction Series
- The Map of Time (Felix J Palma)
- The Mobster’s Lament by Ray Celestin
- Shantaram
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
- Three Things About Elsie, by Joanna Cannon
- How To Stop Time
- Disaster inc
- Replay by Ken grimwood
- The Undead series (RR Haywood)
- Edward Adrift – Craig Lancaster
- The Magpies
- David Raker series
- The Farseer Trilogy
- Space Team
- The Rules of Seeing
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and the Awaken Online series by Travis Bagwell
- Anything by: Andy Weir, David Wong, Irvine Welsh, China Mieville, Mark Wilson, and maybe Luke Smitherd
- I Am Not a Serial Killer series by Dan Wells
- Location, Location, Damnation
- The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver
- Steve Higgs books
- The Passage
- The Hundred Year Old Man
- Schrodingers Cottage
- The Afterlife of Walter Augustus
- How to Stop Time, Matt Haig
- Life and Times of Owen Meaney
- Game of Thrones
- 11-22-63 by Stephen King
- The Room
- Mark Billingham – Die of Shame
- John McCabe (Stickleback)
- A Series by Joy Ellis
- Shoes for Anthony by Emma Kennedy
- The Vinyl Detective – Andrew Cartmel
- Ready Player One
- How it Ends – Saskia Sarginson
- Everything by Terry Pratchett
