AUTUMN TITLES Publishers’ MMPB&PBO From bestselling fiction to the latest computer guides, not forgetting
e-books and audiobooks, the following pages list nearly 8,000 titles that are being published between July and December 2016
The books included in the Autumn 2016 Buyer’s Guide were submitted by publishers to The Bookseller via the Buyer’s Guide online database (www.
booksellerbuyersguide.co.uk) in April 2016. Publishers were restricted to submitting 10 titles and/or series (which could include a maximum of 10 titles) per category/imprint. The blurbs listed under the titles are the publishers’ own and were also limited to 15 words.
HB&TPB
ABDULRAB SARORI, HABIB SUSLOV’S DAUGHTER Darf, 9781850772880 October, tpb, £8.99 Set in South Yemen, Imran is drawn to the daughter of a Marxist party official. E
ADIGA, ARAVIND SELECTION DAY Picador, 9781509806232 September, hb, £16.99 A moving novel of adolescence, ambition and self-realisation set in contemporary Bombay. E
AHERN, CECELIA LYREBIRD HarperCollins, 9780007501861 November, hb, £16.99 An intriguing, remarkable love story, this cements Ahern as a writer of extraordinary talent. E
ALAS, LEOPOLDO; COSTA, MARGARET JULL TR HIS ONLY SON WITH DONA BERTA New York Review of Books Classics, 9781681370187 November, tpb, £11.99 By one of the most highly celebrated 19th-century Spanish writers, a powerful, humorous satire. E
ALDERMAN, NAOMI THE POWER Viking, 9780670919987 October, hb, £16.99 An astonishing novel that exposes the horrifying connection between violence and power. E
ALI, TARIQ FEAR OF MIRRORS Verso Books, 9781784786939 November, tpb, £9.99 A brilliant family saga stretching from the Russian Revolution to the collapse of the Soviet Union. E
APPLEGATE, TIM FEVER TREE: A NOVEL Amberjack, 9780997237733 August, tpb, £10.99 The curious journey of Dieter,
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a man guarding and dealing with secrets of his past.
ASHER, BRIDGET ALL OF US AND EVERYTHING Corvus, 9781782399421 November, tpb, £12.99 A colourful, spirited and darkly humorous novel celebrating of the impossibility of families. E
ASHWORTH, JENN FELL
Sceptre, 9781473630604 July, hb, £18.99
A powerful, haunting new novel by an award-winning young writer. E
ATOGUN, ODAFE TADUNO’S SONG Canongate, 9781782118053 August, tpb, £10.99
A powerful début from a new voice in contemporary African writing. E
AVIT, CLÉLIE I’M STILL HERE Hodder, 9781473626737 July, hb, £14.99 A modern-day Sleeping Beauty story of love and hope, for fans of Jojo Moyes. E
BABITZ, EVE SLOW DAYS, FAST COMPANY: THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND L.A. New York Review of Books Classics, 9781681370088 October, tpb, £8.99 A full-bodied evocation of a bygone southern California by the author of Eve’s Hollywood. E
BACKMAN, FREDRIK BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE Sceptre, 9781473617209 July, hb, £14.99 Number one European bestseller by the author of the international phenomenon A Man Called Ove. E
BAGCHI, DAVID THE MYSTERY OF BRIONY
Titles are divided up into 56 individual categories, which have been grouped together and colour coded. Within each category, except for fiction, the entries are listed under the publishers’ imprints, which have been ordered alphabetically according to the first letter of the name. E-books are listed within the subject categories and not in a separate section. The symbol E at the end of a blurb indicates that an e-book is available.
GENERAL FICTION
LODGE
Barbican Press, 9781909954076 August, hb, £9.99
In this mash-up of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K Jerome, their best-loved creations. E
BALLARD, J G; BECKETT, CHRIS ED CRASH: A SPECIAL EDITION Fourth Estate, 9780007378340 September, hb, £25 A special limited edition of Ballard’s cult, post-modern and shocking novel. E
BARRY, SEBASTIAN DAYS WITHOUT END Faber & Faber, 9780571277001 October, hb, £17.99 Multi-award-winning author Sebastian Barry returns with a sensational new novel set in 1850’s America. E
BAUSCH, ROBERT THE LEGEND OF JESSE SMOKE Bloomsbury USA, 9781632863973 October, hb, £18.99 Provocative, timely novel about unlikely star of Washington Redskins, female quarterback Jesse Smoke. E
BENJAMIN, WALTER THE STORYTELLER: TALES OUT OF LONELINESS Verso Books, 9781784783044 July, tpb, £12.99 A beautiful collection of the legendary thinker’s short stories. E
BERLINSKI, MISCHA PEACEKEEPING
Atlantic Books, 9781848871380 November, tpb, £12.99 A thriller about thirst for power by the National Book Award finalist of Fieldwork. E
BLAIN, GEORGIA BETWEEN A WOLF AND A DOG Scribe, 9781925228540 September, pbo, £12.99 A therapist works through issues within her own family in this exquisitely-written literary novel. E
BOSC, ADRIEN CONSTELLATION Serpent’s Tail, 9781781255360 August, hb, £11.99
Bestselling début based on the true story of the 1949 Air France Lockheed Constellation crash. E
BOYD, HILARY THE LAVENDER HOUSE Quercus, 9781784294151 August, hb, £16.99 A novel on risking everything for a second chance at love. E
BOYLE, T C THE TERRANAUTS Bloomsbury, 9781408881750 October, hb, £18.99
Eight people take part in an ecological experiement in 1990’s Arizona . . . E
BROWN, ELEANOR THE LIGHT OF PARIS Borough Press, 9780007393688 July, hb, £12.99 From the bestselling author of The Weird Sisters comes an enchanting tale of self- discovery. E
BUCHANAN, ROWAN HISAYO HARMLESS LIKE YOU Sceptre, 9781473638327 August, hb, £14.99 Written in startlingly beautiful prose, the début novel from an exciting new voice in fiction. E
BUSCHEL, ROBERT BY SILENT MAJORITY Post Hill Press, 9781682610565 September, hb, £16.99 President Daniel Carlson has a secret big enough to bring down his whole administration.
BUSH, REBECCA; KLIMASMITH, BETSY ED KELROY Broadview Press, 9781554812004 July, pb, £16.95 Tells the story of the star-crossed lovers Emily Hammond and the romantic Kelroy.
CANIN, ETHAN A DOUBTER’S ALMANAC Bloomsbury, 9781408879641 August, hb, £18.99
Astounding and intellectual novel in which personal ambition battles family love. E
CARDOSO, DULCE MARIA THE RETURN MacLehose Press, 9780857054326 July, hb, £14.99 A powerful coming-of-age story, set against the violent backdrop of decolonisation. E
CARMICHAEL, GLENN; EVANS, KEVIN STILL SEARCHING FOR THE BIG CITY BEATS Burning Eye Books, 9781909136762 July, tpb, £10
Re-release of 1998 cult classic set in a noir London.
CASEY, ANNE-MARIE THE REAL LIDDY JAMES Hodder, 9781848548343 August, tpb, £13.99 Hilarious novel about the lives and loves of a far-from-perfect modern superwoman. E
CELEDONE, MATIAS THE SUBSIDIARY Melville House, 9781612195445 August, hb, £16.99
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