Hello all. For those of you coming to this blog for the first time, this is a space where you can discuss the books you are currently reading, what you think of them, offer recommendations, and post your suggestions of things you'd like to see us covering on the books site.

It is also the place to post links to interesting book or author pieces you've discovered elsewhere on the web and would like to share. Here are a couple from me to kick things off:

• I'm enjoying Ian Rankin's tweets
• This book chart of top selling titles, including five self published books in the top 20, I thought was interesting.
• And I enjoyed Brain Pickings piece Literary Pets: The Cats, Dogs, and Birds Famous Authors Loved which complements nicely the photo at the top of the blog, kindly posted by mjeshenton.

Finally, a quick reminder that, as well our our weekly Reader reviews roundup, we're now featuring your reviews in a regular space on the front page of the books site. This week's pick is an excellent interrogation of a book about Shakespeare's authorship from rosbarber. We send free books to anyone featured in that spot, or mentioned in our editors' picks, or in the roundup, so why not join in. You can always contact us via this thread.

This is our review list, subject to last minute changes of course.

Non-fiction

• Drone Warfare by Medea Benjamin
• Mr Putin: Operative in the Kremlin by Fiona Hill and Clifford G Gaddy
• CS Lewis: A Life by Alister McGrath
• 1913: The World Before the Great War by Charles Summerson
• Stanley Matthews by Jon Henderson
• On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton
• Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn

Fiction

• Fuse by Julianna Baggott
• The Peacock Cloak by Chris Beckett
• Box of Birds by Charles Fernyhough
• The righteous mind by Jonathan Haidt
• The Best of all Possible Worlds by Karen Lord
• Between Two Thorns by Emma Newman
• Banner of the Passing Clouds by Anthea Nicholson
• The Grim Company by Luke Scull

Children's

• After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross