THE BOOKSELLER BUYER’S GUIDE | PUBLISHERS’ AUTUMN TITLES
ADVENTURE, CRIME & HORROR
MMPB & PO
ANDREW, SALLY RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER CANONGATE, 07 JULY, PB, £7.99, 9781782116486 The first in a new series featuring Tannie Maria, a columnist on a local South African newspaper who knows a lot about life and food. I really enjoyed this: cosy crime with a hard edge.
BARTON, FIONA THE WIDOW CORGI BOOKS, 25 AUGUST, PB, £7.99, 9780552172363 What is going on with those women who stand by the side of a man accused of a terrible crime? Jean Taylor’s husband was suspected of kidnapping and killing a two-year-old girl. Now he is dead, and reporters want her side of the story. Is she telling the truth? Should be huge in paperback.
GEORGE, ELIZABETH A BANQUET OF CONSEQUENCES HODDER, 20 OCTOBER, PB, £7.99, 9781444786590 Inspector Lynley investigates the links between a young man’s suicide in Dorset, and a shocking poisoning in Cambridge.
HANNAH, SOPHIE THE NARROW BED HODDER, PB, 28 JULY, PB, £6.99, 9781444795561 A killer nicknamed Billy Dead Mates gives a little white book to pairs of victims. A woman realises she was given one a year ago. Will she be the next?
HAWKINS, PAULA THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN BLACK SWAN, 22 SEPTEMBER, PB, £7 .99, 9781784161750 The runaway—couldn’t resist, sorry—Sunday Times No1
bestseller and all round record breaker shows no signs of slowing down. This is the film tie-in edition.
KERR, PHILIP THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE QUERCUS BOOKS, 06 OCTOBER, PB, £8.99, 9781784295585 I love all the books featuring Bernie Gunther from the Berlin Noir trilogy. This one is set on the French Riviera in 1956 with a former Nazi turned blackmailer who has the writer Somerset Maugham in his sights.
SEARLE, NICHOLAS THE GOOD LIAR PENGUIN BOOKS, 04 AUGUST, PB, £7.99, 9780241973295 An elderly conman has a scheme to separate a rich widow from her money but as the story unfolds it becomes less and less clear who is fooling who. A very good thriller with an interesting backwards structure.
WATSON, S J SECOND LIFE BLACK SWAN, 27 JULY, PB, £7.99, 9781784161644 The second novel from the author of Before I Go to Sleep. When Julia discovers that her murdered sister Kate was using dating sites to meet men for sex, she poses online as Kate to trace the killer.
ROMANCE & HISTORICAL HB & TPB
ARCHER, JEFFREY THIS WAS A MAN MACMILLAN, 3 NOVEMBER, HB, £20, 9781447252245 The seventh and final book in the mega-selling Clifton Chronicles opens with the firing of a shot and comes with twists and revelations galore.
COOPER, JILLY MOUNT! BANTAM PRESS, 8 SEPTEMBER, HB, £20, 9780593072905 Riders was the book that catapulted Jilly Cooper into the big league and now its hero Rupert Campbell-Black is back among a cast of familiar and new characters. Expect lots of horses, puns and guilt-free adultery.
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CORNWELL, BERNARD THE WINTER KING PENGUIN BOOKS, 20 OCTOBER, PB, £7.99, 9781405928328 I tend to leave out reissues for reasons of space, but I can’t resist tipping you off to one of my favourite trilogies. This is the first of the Warlord Chronicles series, a glorious adventure that imagines King Arthur and his court complete with scheming druids and ravaging Saxons.
DAVIS, LINDSEY THE GRAVEYARD OF THE HESPERIDES HODDER, 06 OCTOBER, PB, £7.99, 9781473613393 In the fourth in the historical Roman series Flavia Albia investigates when human bones are discovered during building works.
JEFFERIES, DINAH THE SILK MERCHANT’S DAUGHTER VIKING, 14 JULY, PB, £7.99, 9780241248621
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With a French father and a Vietnamese mother, 18-year- old Nicole doesn’t know who to trust amid the corruption of colonial rule in 1950s Hanoi. Jefferies is going from strength to strength at the moment with each book outselling the last.
Autumn, then, belongs to the big beasts—sure things and literary lions
DONOGHUE, EMMA THE WONDER PICADOR, 22 SEPTEMBER, HB, £14.99, 9781509818389 1850s Ireland: Anna O’Donnell hasn’t eaten for several months but remains alive, surviving on manna from heaven. Lib is the English nurse brought in to see whether Anna is fraud or a miracle, but soon wonders if what she is witnessing is a murder attempt . . .
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY MMPB & PO
BROWN, PIERCE MORNING STAR HODDER, 22 SEPTEMBER, PB, £7.99,
9781444759075 Plenty of twists and turns in the final instalment of the Red Rising trilogy as Darrow continues his struggle to defeat the Golds.
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY HB & TPB
CHAMBERS, BECKY A CLOSED AND COMMON ORBIT
HOBB, ROBIN FOOL’S QUEST HARPERVOYAGER, 14 JULY, PB, £8.99,
9780007444243
Book two of the new series finds the Fool and Fitz reunited in the Six Duchies, and the Fool is tempted back to his old ways to avenge his friend.
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HODDER, 20 OCTOBER, HB, £16.99, 9781473621442 Second in the Wayfarers series introduces Lovelace, once merely the ship’s Artificial Intelligence, who has woken up in a new synthetic body after a reboot of the system. Pepper is the ship’s engineer who wants to help her learn to adjust to her new life.
MARTIN, GEORGE R R A GAME OF THRONES HARPERVOYAGER, 20 OCTOBER, HB, £75, 9780008115401 Christmas is coming . . . Gorgeous collector’s item for those who lust after the hard-to-come-by hardback editions. This is the first in the series, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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