THE BOOKSELLER BUYER’S GUIDE | PUBLISHERS’ AUTUMN TITLES
GENERAL FICTION HB & TPB
FOLEY, LUCY THE INVITATION HARPERCOLLINS, 14 JULY, HB, £12.99, 9780007575367 Rome 1950: Journalist Hal Jacobs joins a luxury yacht travelling from Rome to Cannes and meets again the beautiful and enigmatic Stella who is hiding a dark secret.
ALDERMAN, NAOMI THE POWER VIKING, 27 OCTOBER, HB, £16.99, 9780670919987 The connection between violence and power is explored in this novel set in a world where teenage girls have immense physical strength and women have the upper hand.
BARRY, SEBASTIAN DAYS WITHOUT END FABER & FABER 27 OCTOBER, HB, £17.99, 9780571277001
The latest novel from the much garlanded Irish writer takes us to1850’s America. Thomas McNulty and John Cole are barely 17 when they sign up for the US Army and go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War.
DURRELL, GERALD MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS PENGUIN BOOKS, 29 SEPTEMBER, HB, £14.99, 9780241976654 A beautiful hardback 60th anniversary edition of this well-loved classic about a boy who lives on Corfu with his eccentric family and an ever increasing collection of peculiar pets.
EGGERS, DAVE UNTITLED HAMISH HAMILTON, 03 NOVEMBER, HB, £18.99, 9780241278505 Not much info on this yet, but I’m told it’s a tense and brutally honest novel about the ongoing Yemeni Civil War from the author of A Heartbreaking work of Staggering Genius and The Circle.
EXTENCE, GAVIN THE EMPATHY PROBLEM HODDER, 11 AUGUST, HB, £16.99, 9781473605213 Ruthless banker Gabriel has a brain tumour and as it grows he changes, becoming less selfish and more empathetic. But is it too late for second chances? Second novel from the author of The Universe Versus Alex Woods.
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GAITSKILL, MARY THE MARE SERPENT’S TAIL, 28 JULY, HB, £12.99, 9781781255933 Ginger is a recovering alcoholic in her forties when she meets and marries Paul. She longs for a child, but Paul isn’t keen to adopt so they compromise by joining a scheme to give inner city kids a summer in the country. When Velvet arrives, Ginger is instantly besotted and the situation becomes difficult for everyone.
GAPPAH, PETINA ROTTEN ROW FABER & FABER, 03 NOVEMBER, TPB, £12.99, 9780571324187 A short story collection from the author of The Book of Memory which explores the causes and effects of crime and nature of justice in Zimbabwe.
HISLOP, VICTORIA CARTES POSTALES FROM GREECE HEADLINE REVIEW, 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £18.99, 9781472223203 This new book from hugely bestselling author Victoria Hislop is a love letter to Greece. Innovative in its design, it should make a beautiful gift for Hislop’s legions of fans.
IVEY, EOWYN TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD TINDER PRESS, 02 AUGUST, HB, £16.99, 9781472241658 Allen Forrester must leave his pregnant wife Sophie in military barracks when he undertakes a dangerous mission to open up the Wolverine River in 19th- century Alaska. From the author of The Snow Child.
KAVENNA, JOANNA A FIELD GUIDE TO REALITY RIVERRUN, 07 JULY, HB, £14.99, 9781780872292 When professor Solete dies, his clever friends are astonished that he has
bequeathed his legendary Field Guide to Reality to a scruffy waitress called Eliade Jencks. And the book has gone missing. Will Eliade be able to track it down?
KELMAN, JAMES DIRT ROAD CANONGATE, 14 JULY, HB, £16.99, 9781782118220 Can the hopes of youth conquer the fears of age? Murdo is a music-obsessed teenager looking for life beyond his Scottish island, Tom is struggling with the loss of everything. Together they set out on a road trip through the American South.
KINGSNORTH, PAUL BEAST FABER & FABER, 07 JULY, HB, £12.99, 9780571322077 The second book in the Buckmaster trilogy which opened with the Man Booker longlisted and critically acclaimed The Wake. Edward Buckmaster is alone on a West Country moor. He faces a battle with himself, with the elements, and with something else that he is beginning to sense following him . . .
KOCH, HERMAN DEAR MR. M. PICADOR, 25 AUGUST, HB, £14.99, 9781447294696 “I’d like to start by telling you that I’m doing better now. I do so because you probably have no idea that I was ever doing worse. Much worse, in fact, but I’ll get to that later on.” A famous writer receives a series of unsettling letters from an ardent fan in this literary thriller.
KHORSANDI, SHAPPI NINA IS NOT OK EBURY PRESS, 28 JULY, HB, £12.99, 9781785031366 Nina drinks a lot but so do all her friends. She likes that her drunken exploits are the stuff of legend and never worries when she can’t remember stuff, her friends will help fill in the blanks. And then one Sunday morning she wakes up knowing only that something very bad has happened . . .
LIVELY, PENELOPE THE PURPLE SWAMP HEN AND OTHER STORIES FIG TREE, 24 NOVEMBER, HB, £14.99, 9780241281147 The Man Booker Prize- winning author of Moon Tiger
offers a collection of short stories about two women who share a husband, an elderly woman with a secret, and, in the title story, a bird and a servant girl in ancient Pompeii.
MCCARTHY, MORGAN THE HOUSE OF BIRDS TINDER PRESS, 03 NOVEMBER, HB, £18.99, 9781472205841 When Oliver discovers a diary from the 1920s in a derelict house inherited by his girlfriend, he sets out to unravel the story of its author, and the truth behind the family feud. Perhaps he’ll find the key to his own future . . .
ROWLEY, STEVEN LILY AND THE OCTOPUS SIMON & SCHUSTER, 14 JULY, HB, £12.99, 9781471154348 A book about love, death and friendship starring somewhat unreliable narrator Ted Flask and his dog, Lily.
WATSON, MARK THE PLACE THAT DIDN’T EXIST PICADOR, 14 JULY, HB, £12.99, 9781447243359 Tim Callaghan is in Dubai to film an advert. He loves the city and feels nothing bad could ever happen there, but then a crew member is found dead in suspicious circumstances . . . Very funny.
WIERINGA, TOMMY; GARRETT, SAM TR A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WIFE SCRIBE, 11 AUGUST, HB, £9.99, 9781925228410 When Edward meets Ruth he thinks that all his dreams have come true and that a life of undiluted happiness lies ahead. This turns out not to be true. A masterful depiction, says Scribe, of a failing marriage by one of Holland’s finest living writers.
ZINK, NELL NICOTINE FOURTH ESTATE, 06 OCTOBER, HB, £14.99, 9780008179175 When conventional and proud of it Penny Baker inherits a house from her Bohemian father, her life changes when she gets to know the smokers’ rights activists who have become her squatters and have renamed the house “Nicotine”. A story of obsession, idealism and ownership from the author of Mislaid and The Wallcreeper.
SEETHALER, ROBERT THE TOBACCONIST PICADOR, 20 OCTOBER, HB, £12.99, 9781509806584 Franz is 17 when he leaves his home in the Austrian lake district to become an apprentice to a tobacconist in Vienna. He settles into selling cigars to professor Freud but it is 1937 and everything is about to change. From the author of A Whole Life, a tale of ordinary people affected by the Third Reich.
VICKERS, SALLEY COUSINS PENGUIN BOOKS, 03 NOVEMBER, HB, £16.99, 9780241187715 When Will Tye suffers a life-changing accident, the ripples are felt through three generations of his eccentric family and old secrets surface once more.
GENERAL FICTION
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ADIGA, ARAVIND SELECTION DAY PICADOR, 08 SEPTEMBER, HB, £16.99, 9781509806232 The latest from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger sees 14-year-old cricket fan Manju trying to work out his feelings for his domineering father and his brilliant elder brother.
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