The TRE Bookshow. TRE’s Hannah Murray catches up top authors, to discuss their latest releases 27/02/2026
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Show Notes
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.
Bob Reiss is a bestselling author and journalist who has always been fascinated by the border between order and anarchy. His latest murder mystery novel 'The Impossible Detective' raises chilling questions about what would happen if technology had the power to choose evil. It's set against the vivid backdrop of New York City and beyond.
Kelsey O'Brien is a writer whose work often blends historical settings with the fight for social justice. Her debut novel 'The Three' is a tense historical crime novel set in the gay underworld of Georgian London.
Kin Dorton Broad is from West London, but her family's roots are in India. Kim was a trustee of the Katie Piper Foundation for 8 years and is now an ambassador. She is donating a portion of the profits from the sale of this book to the foundation. 'The Bombay Boys' is a compelling London gangster story inspired by Kim's family history in India.
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Joseph Ball is a working-class debut author who is a lifelong book lover. He wrote his debut novel 'Growing Pains' during early mornings before work. Inspired by his own childhood growing up in 1990s Essex, he hopes to open a bookshop one day and use his writing to raise awareness of emotional abuse, and create change. His novel is a quiet, coming-of-age story about emotional abuse, identity, and the cost of being unseen.
Peter Solomon is a physicist, inventor and educator, who has spent his life on the cutting edge of technology. Inspired by Stephen Hawking's dire warning that humanity could face extinction within 100 years, he explains the clock is ticking - with less than 92 years to change course. His novel '100 Years to Extinction: The Tyranny of Technology and the Fight for a Better Future' transforms this warning into a gripping, near-future story
Paul Waters is the co-organiser of the Chiltern Kills Crime Festival. He fell in love with India when he fell in love with his wife. He's from Belfast, she's from Delhi. He'd already set his first book in Ireland, so she suggested he set his next one in India, as they're there so much. 'Murder in Moonlit Square' was inspired by the life of his aunt, Sister Agatha McLoughlin, an Irish nun who served in India.
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