The Girl On The Train by Paula Hawkins is published in Doubleday, priced £12.99 (ebook £6.02). Available January 15 Like many commuters, every day Rachel distracts herself on her journey to and from work by indulging in fantasies about the lives of the people whose houses she peers into from the safety of the train.

Unlike most commuters though, Rachel develops a morbid obsession with a couple she passes every day, a couple who just happen to live a few houses down from where she used to enjoy domestic bliss with her ex-husband Tom.

Fuelled by many gin-and-tonics, our protagonist revels in fantasising about the couple's perfect life, until one day she notices something untoward. When the perfect wife is reported missing a few days later, Rachel feels compelled to get involved, with predictably sticky consequences.

This is a fast-paced clever thriller which grapples expertly with the reality of alcoholism and loneliness, a cut above the current crop of psychological thrillers featuring girls in peril.

9/10 (Review by Anita Chaudhuri) FICTION The Winter War by Philip Tier is published in hardback by Serpent's Tail, priced £12.99 (ebook £5.39). Available January 15 First-time novelist Philip Tier comes from the same ancient community of Swedish-speaking Finns as illustrator Tove Jansson, best known for the Moomin books. But though some of the Moomin characters make a brief and troubling appearance in The Winter War - they are the star attractions of an imaginatively sterile children's show on board a Baltic ferry - the two writers couldn't be more different. The luminous northern light of tradition has been banished to the margins of this funny, sharply observed and very readable tale of a middle-class Helsinki family going slightly mad during one of Finland's long, ferocious winters. The book's cover blurb suggests that it will blast away our preconceptions of Scandinavian society. But since the protagonist is a university academic who wrote an often-quoted study of Finnish sexual habits, and since one of the factors in the slow collapse of his marriage is a proposed kitchen redesign - really, not so much.

8/10 (Review by Liz Ryan) The Silent Sister by Diane Chamberlain is published in hardback by Pan, priced £7.99 (ebook £3.66). Available January 15 New mystery from the pen of international bestselling novelist Diane Chamberlain. High school counsellor Riley MacPherson has a lot on her plate. Out of town to settle her late father's estate, she accidentally uncovers a deep dark family secret that is linked to her sister, Lisa, who committed suicide when Riley was just a toddler. As the will is read, Riley finds out that her father knew more about things than he let on, leading her to ask questions about her childhood to war veteran brother Danny and tenants on her father's RV park. What happened all that time ago? Does anyone know the truth? Riley pulls out all the stops to find out what happened to the sister that she never knew. Diane Chamberlain has weaved a tale spanning two generations full of twists, turns and surprises. One thing is certain: Riley and Danny's lives will never be the same again.

7/10 (Review by Rachel Howdle) Runaway by Peter May is published in hardback by Quercus, priced £16.99 (ebook £9.02). Available January 15 In 1965, 17-year-old wannabe pop star Jack Mackay gets expelled from school in Glasgow, and persuades four of his friends to run away to London in search of musical stardom. They soon find, however, that the streets of London are paved with delusion rather than gold. A series of shocking events pushes their friendships to the limits, and within a month, three of them have returned home. Now 67, Jack is looking back on a life of failure and regret when news of a murder forces the three friends to go back to London and confront the truth they've been running away from for 50 years. The clever dual narrative highlights the contrasts between the Sixties and now, Glasgow and London, youth and old age, but this is not vintage May. It's a poignant study of the fragility and fickleness of friendship, but works less well as a crime thriller.

6/10 (Review by Catherine Small) NON-FICTION Why You? 101 Interview Questions You'll Never Fear Again by James Reed is published in paperback by Portfolio Penguin, priced £9.99 (ebook £4.68). Available now Here's a sobering thought: we spend a third of our adult lives working, according to James Reed - chairman of Reed Group recruitment agency and author of Why You? So, securing a job which gives you immense personal satisfaction is crucial. Having used feedback from employers to the Reed Group network of consultants on what questions they are most likely to ask in an interview, this book offers more than just a compilation of potential banana skins for the interviewee. Each entry is broken down into sections such as 'The Real Question', explaining what is the motive behind an enquiry, and 'Top-line Tactic', a concise and straightforward sentence on a recommended approach for your response. There are no quick-fix answers - indeed, Reed warns to avoid 'canned answers' - but questions do come with broad illustrative responses to help you down the path of tailoring replies to your needs, while there is also advice on the mindset you should apply when going for a job. Reed takes an extremely affable approach, managing to take what can be a dry, stress-inducing subject and lifting it with a light, easy-to-follow touch.

8/10 (Review by Gary Gilliland) The Power Of Negative Emotion: How Anger, Guilt And Self-Doubt Are Essential To Success And Fulfilment by Todd B Kashdan and Robert Biswas-Diener is published in paperback, priced £8.99. Available now In this entertaining and informative 'negative emotion' manifesto, two American psychologists argue that the modern pursuits of comfort and happiness are doing us more harm than good. We've got so comfortable in 21st century life with our air-conditioning and memory-foam mattresses that we've developed discomfort intolerance: we don't want to feel negative emotions like guilt, anger, and sadness, so we push them away - causing all kinds of trouble. Instead, we need to see such emotions as useful information: what is this telling me about myself and the world I'm in? How can it help me become a better, stronger, wiser person? The authors make one mistake. They misrepresent their ideas as radically different from mindfulness. By oversimplifying the mindfulness phenomenon, they get to claim that 'their' idea - paying attention to difficult emotions - leads to much-prized 'psychological flexibility'. Unfortunately, mindfulness training programmes have been doing this all along. Great ideas, nicely presented - but disingenuous marketing.

6/10 (Review by Kitty Wheater) CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK: Vendetta by Catherine Doyle is published in paperback Chicken House, priced £7.99 (ebook £3.09). Available now Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has inspired countless works of literature, and now one more can be added to the list with Vendetta. Set in a Chicago, it's a tale of revenge complicated by love as 17-year-old Sophie Gracewell falls for new bad boy in town Nicoli, not realising that their families are engaged in a secret and deadly war. But this Young Adult novel, the first in a trilogy, can't simply be labelled as a pastiche of the infamous story about star-crossed lovers. Young debut author Catherine Doyle has constructed an immersive and tightly woven story, with a series of explosive twists and turns that ensure readers are kept constantly on the edge of their seat. Featuring a dynamic cast of entertaining characters, some of whom occasionally border on the cliche, this isn't by any means a realistic story, but it's a wonderfully entertaining and original YA romantic crime thriller.

7/10 (Review by Alison Potter) BESTSELLERS FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 10 HARDBACKS 1. Girl Online, Zoe Sugg 2. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Jeff Kinney 3. Minecraft Blockopedia: Minecraft 4. Lamentation:The Shardlake Series, CJ Sansom 5. Guy Martin: My Autobiography, Guy Martin 6. The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of the World of A Game of Thrones, George RR Martin & Linda Antonsson 7. H is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald 8. The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, Boris Johnson 9. Awful Auntie, David Walliams 10. The Sunrise, Victoria Hislop (Compiled by Waterstones) PAPERBACKS 1. The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton 2. Elizabeth is Missing, Emma Healey 3. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel 4. Happiness by Design: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Everyday Life, Paul Dolan 5. The Bees, laline Paull 6. The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide 7. Davina's 5 Weeks to Sugar-Free: Yummy, Easy Recipes to Help You Kick Sugar, Davina McCall 8. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery, Henry Marsh 9. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler 10. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (Compiled by Waterstones) EBOOKS 1. Sleepyhead, Mark Billingham 2. The State We're In, Adele Parks 3. The Black Echo, Michael Connelly 4. Stardust, Neil Gaiman 5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson 6. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn 7. The Next Always, Nora Roberts 8. The Little Shop of Hopes and Dreams, Fiona Harper 9. The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton 10. The Magpies, Mark Edwards (Compiled by amazon.co.uk)