What genres do you like and dislike? Do you want books set in the UK?
A random selection:
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn. Protagonist is small girl;
Under The Skin by Michael Faber. Central figure is an alien. Do read this eerie, completely original book. It's just been made into a well-received film, no idea if it's faithful to the novel.
(1) My Once Upon a Time and (2) Some Kind of Black by Diran Adebayo. Coming of age story about Londoners of Nigerian origin and an inventive private investigator story with supernatural/magic realist elements.
(1) Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned and (2) Walkin' the Dog by Walter Mosely (the Socrates Fortlow novels-these are not crime novels)
A Shadow of Myself by Mike Phillips for which the Amazon summary is:
"Attending a film festival in Prague, black documentary film maker Joseph Coker is approached by a complete stranger claiming to be his brother. George, who has been brought up in East Germany by his Russian mother, tells Joseph that they share the same father: Kofi Coker, a Ghanaian now living in London. Joseph’s reluctant acceptance of this relationship propels him into a nightmare world of intrigue and murder that threatens not just his identity, but his life.
And behind the two sons is the enigmatic figure of Kofi himself, an idealistic African whose time in Kruschev’s Moscow led to betrayal and planted the seeds of tragedy in the next generation.
Both thriller and love story, A Shadow of Myself is set against the backdrop of post-Cold War Europe, exploring the impact of the Third World on its future. Gripping and moving, it follows its characters from the fifties to the present day, as they move between the clashing ideologies of East and West."