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by King Charles VII, whose trading expertise made him the wealthiest man in France. But Coeur’s infatuation with Agnes Sorel, the King’s favourite mistress, precipitated a dramatic fall from grace.
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VIKING, 23RD, £12.99, HB, 9780241275849 A letter prompts a doctor living in London to remember life as a teenager in Rio and his infatuation with Luana, the daughter of his family’s maid.
EMILY RUSKOVICH IDAHO CHATTO & WINDUS, 16TH, £14.99, HB, 9780701189082 Ann tries to piece together the story of her older husband’s first family— his wife Jenny and two young children—and the events of one August day that shattered that family forever.
LUTZ SEILER KRUSO SCRIBE, 9TH, £16.99, HB, 9781911344001 A young East German student visits a Baltic island, home to hippies and idealists, and falls under the spell of the charismatic Kruso. Winner of the 2014 German Book Prize.
ELIF SHAFAK THREE DAUGHTERS OF EVE VIKING, 2ND, £14.99, HB, 9780241288030 Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, remembers her life-changing experience at Oxford University many
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years earlier. This is the 10th novel from the author of The Bastard of Istanbul, the most widely read female writer in Turkey. BookScan
WHITNEY TERRELL THE GOOD LIEUTENANT PICADOR, 9TH, £14.99, HB, 9781509836949 During the Iraq War, an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler goes very wrong and there are casualties both among her platoon and the local Iraqis. The novel spools backwards in time to reveal how Fowler was guided into disaster. Author Terrell was an
PETER TERRIN MONTE CARLO MACLEHOSE PRESS, 23RD, £12.99, HB, 9780857054371
Third novel from the Dutch author opens just before the start of the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix, when Jack Preston, a mechanic for Team Lotus, is scarred for life when he protects a budding film star from an explosion.
JACQUELINE WOODSON ANOTHER BROOKLYN ONEWORLD, 2ND, £10.99,
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HB, 9781786070838 A woman remembers her long-ago 1970s girlhood in Brooklyn. Best known as a children’s writer and for her 2014 National Book Award-winning memoir Brown Girl Dreaming, this is Woodson’s first adult novel for 20 years.
SU BRISTOW SEALSKIN ORENDA BOOKS, 15TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781910633601 Hebrides-set retelling of the selkie legend in which a young fisherman named Donald witnesses something miraculous, and then makes a terrible
mistake. Can he ever atone for the damage he has done?
AJAY CLOSE THE DAUGHTER OF LADY MACBETH SANDSTONE PRESS, 16TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781910985427
The desire for a baby has put Freya’s marriage under strain. Her own mother Lilias, an actress on and off the stage, will tell her nothing about her own father—not even his name.
DORTHE NORS MIRROR, SHOULDER, SIGNAL PUSHKIN PRESS, 23RD, £10, PBO, 9781782273127
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DANIEL COLE RAGDOLL TRAPEZE FICTION, 23RD, £12.99, HB, 9781409168744 A big book at the London Book Fair, this début police procedural/thriller has sold in 32 territories to date (in a seven-figure deal in Germany), with TV rights “snapped up”. It started life as a script for an unproduced television pilot before Cole, a former paramedic and RSPCA officer, decided to turn it into a novel. Detective William “Wolf” Fawkes of the Met Police is reunited with his former partner, detective Emily Baxter, for a particularly gory case—a single corpse is found, composed of the dismembered parts of six victims stitched together like a puppet. Hence the tabloid dubbing of the “Ragdoll killer”.
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LAURIE FRANKEL THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS HEADLINE REVIEW, 9TH, £16.99, HB, 9781472241580 There is a very topical theme at the heart of this novel about a modern family. Claude is the fifth baby born to Rosie and Penn—and the fifth boy. All is well with him and his brothers until the day he says that, when he grows up, he wants to be a girl. His parents are relaxed about his wishes, but not so his school or the wider community. So should Claude change to fit in, or should his parents try and change the world for him? Frankel is herself mother to a transgender child.
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AMOR TOWLES A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW HUTCHINSON, 9TH, £12.99, HB, 9780091944247 The second novel from the author of sparkling 1930s New York fairytale Rules of Civility (“irresistable”, said the Telegraph) is set in Moscow 1922, where Count Alexander Rostov is tried by a Bolshevik tribunal and declared an unrepentant aristocrat. He is frogmarched out of the Kremlin and into the glamorous environs of the Hotel Metropol. But he won’t be taking his usual suite; instead he must serve his sentence— indefinite house arrest—in a tiny box room. War and Peace meets The Grand Budapest Hotel, says Hutchinson, which will support with a gorgeous package and a full publicity and marketing campaign. BookScan
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