GENERAL FICTION


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General fiction


Ben Aaronovitch False Value Gollancz, 20th February, hb, £18.99, 9781473207851 New in the bestselling Rivers of London series.


Ben Aaronovitch The October Man Gollancz, 2nd April, pb, £7.99, 9781473224322 Standalone novella in the bestselling Rivers of London. If you thought magic was confined to one country think again.


Kia Abdullah Take It Back HQ, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008314712 Brave and thrilling courtroom drama that’s perfect for fans of Anatomy of a Scandal, He Said/She Said and Apple Tree Yard.


Narine Abgaryan, Lisa C Hayden (tr) Three Apples Fell From the Sky Oneworld, 5th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781786077301 Unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village.


Nathalie Abi-Ezzi Paper Sparrows Holland House Books, 5th March, pb, £8.99, 9781910688892 It’s summer 2006 and 19-year-old Layla returns to Lebanon. Her troubled younger brother is miss- ing. She searches for him, but Beirut comes under fire as a new war begins.


Leila Aboulela Bird Summons Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6th February, pb, £8.99, 9781474600934


Enchanting and deeply felt portrait of three women searching for free- dom by the three-times Orange Prize longlisted, Scottish Book Award and Caine Prize-winner.


Susan Abulhawa Against the Loveless World Bloomsbury, 23rd July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526618795 Furious and beautiful book from an internation- ally bestselling author of formidable standing, this is about sex, power,


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Andre Aciman Find Me Faber & Faber, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571356508 In this spellbinding new exploration of the varieties of love, the author of Call Me by Your Name revisits his characters in the years after their first meeting.


Helly Acton The Shelf Zaffre Publishing, 9th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781838770877 Six women, four weeks, one house. Who will be left on the shelf? The breakout début novel of 2020.


Hope Adams Conviction Michael Joseph, 25th June, audiobook, £13, 9781405943673 Inspired by a true story, Conviction is a devastat- ing and thought-provok- ing tale about female anger, subservience and, ultimately, strength.


Aravind Adiga Amnesty Picador, 20th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781509879038 Riveting, exuberant novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day.


Kaouther Adimi A Bookshop in Algiers Serpent’s Tail, 23rd April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788164696 Celebrates the devotion to and love of books of Edmond Charlot, who at the age of 20 founded Les Vraies Richesses (Our True Wealth), the famous Algerian bookstore.


Mary Adkins Privilege Hodder & Stoughton, 10th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473673380 From the author of When You Read This, a smart, sharply observed novel about gender and class on a college campus in the spirit of The Female Persuasion and Prep.


Haleh Agar Out of Touch Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2nd April, hb, £14.99, 9781474612241 When a brother and sister receive a letter from the father they haven’t seen in 20 years, they must confront long-buried tensions in ways that will change them for ever.


Samira Ahmed Mad, Bad & Dangerous


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to Know Soho Press, 9th April, pb, £8.99, 9781641291996 Two women fight to write their own stories hundreds of years apart in this novel of alternating narratives from a bestselling YA author.


Sakinu Ahronglong, Darryl Sterk (tr) Hunter School Honford Star, 1st May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781999791285 Set in an aboriginal village in the Taiwanese mountains, this award- winning book of semi- autobiographical stories and folklore is translated from Chinese.


Shahnaz Ahsan Hashim & Family John Murray, 2nd April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781473665224 Extraordinary début novel of family, migration and the desire for a homeland.


George Alagiah The Burning Land Black Torn, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786897947 Exhilarating début political thriller explores land ownership in South Africa. Written by popular BBC broadcaster.


Layla AlAmmar The Pact We Made Borough Press, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008284480 Set in contemporary Kuwait, this is a deeply affecting and timely début about family, secrets and one woman’s search for a different life.


Mark Alder Devil’s Blade Gollancz, 19th March, pb, £16.99, 9780575129726 Riotous semi-histor- ical romp through 17th-century France in the company of Julie D’Aubigny—Mademoiselle Maupin—swordswoman, opera singer, duellist, lover of men and women, and servant of the devil.


Cristina Alger The Darlings Mulholland Books, 16th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529351767 From the author of The Banker’s Wife and Girls Like Us comes an explosive drama about family, greed and high- society scandal.


Nelson Algren, Kurt Vonnegut, Irvine Welsh The Man with the Golden Arm Canongate Canons, 2nd April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786899187 Modern American classic


is an unflinching look at postwar America. Introduced by Welsh with an afterword by Vonnegut.


Jakuta Alikavazovic Night As It Falls Faber & Faber, 2nd April, hb, £12.99, 9780571342266 Paul, a student who works as a night guard in a hotel to make ends meet, falls under the spell of Amelia, the young woman who rents room 313.


Nina Allan The Dollmaker riverrun, 31st March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787472563 A love story about becoming real by an award-winning genre author emerging on the literary scene.


Claire Allen The Blackbird Henningham Family Press, 30th June, pb, £12.99, 9781999797409


Hope nurses a husband with Alzheimer’s. A secret he guards threatens the peace made with her past—what happened while her obsessive father built Liverpool Cathedral during the Blitz.


Susan Allott The Silence Borough Press, 30th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008361303 Impressive début from rising literary star deftly explores the deterioration of relationships and the devastating truths we keep from those we love.


Muhsin Al-Ramli, Luke Leafgren Daughter of the Tigris MacLehose Press, 9th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857056849 Follow-up to the inter- nationally acclaimed Iraqi novel The Presi- dent’s Gardens.


Andrew Altschul The Gringa Melville House Publishing, 10th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781612198224 Activist or terrorist? The fate of one woman sentenced to life imprisonment unravels in this powerful and stirring novel exploring youthful idealism gone horribly awry.


Rosanna Amaka The Book of Echoes Doubleday, 27th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780857526717 Tender and intimate story of an African slave in search of her scattered descendants. A power- ful début perfect for fans of Small Island, Wash- ington Black and The Underground Railroad.


Elizabeth Ames The Other’s Gold ONE, 2nd April, pb, £12.99, 9781911590323


Poignant and sparkling novel that opens on a college campus and follows the friendship of four women through life- defining turning points.


Tahmima Anam A Golden Age Canongate Canons, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786898623 A mother struggles to protect her children as Bangladesh fights for independence. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award.


Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Sam Taylor (tr) Hundred Million Years and a Day Gallic Books, 11th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781910477830 How far would you go to follow your dreams? One man’s obsession with a mythical dino- saur fossil takes him to the very edge of the world, and of life itself.


Jessica Andrews Saltwater Sceptre, 31st March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473682801 New voice in British literary fiction, for fans of Sara Baume and Sally Rooney.


Carol Anshaw Right After the Weather Fig Tree, 13th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241392805 From the New York Times bestselling author of Carry the One, a new novel explor- ing the consequences of a terrible crime.


Jessica Anthony Enter the Aardvark Doubleday, 14th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780857526991 A budding politician’s career is put in jeopardy when he receives a large stuffed aardvark in the post. Brilliant and funny, this is a biting satire about politics, love and taxidermy.


Ali Araghi The Immortals of Tehran Melville House, 16th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781612198187 Sweeping multi- generational début tells the story of a centuries- old curse carrying one family to the brink of the 1979 Iranian revolution.


Fernando Aramburu, Alfred MacAdam (tr) Homeland Picador, 2nd April, pb, eb,


£9.99, 9781509858040 Epic and heartbreaking story of two best friends whose families are divided by the conflicting loyalties of terrorism.


Leaf Arbuthnot Looking for Eliza Trapeze, 14th May, hb, £14.99, 9781409185796 An elderly widow puts up adverts to “Rent a Granny” in an attempt to reconnect with people. It’s not until she finds Eliza, a student, that she feels less alone.


Jeffrey Archer Nothing Ventured Pan, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509851300 Start of a new series from the bestselling author of The Clifton Chronicle tells the story of the life of William Warwick.


Julia Armfield Salt Slow Picador, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529012590 Electrifying début collection of short stories about the monstrous in all of us from a prize- winning new British talent.


Graeme Armstrong The Young Team Picador, 5th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529017328 Inspired by real events, this is a story about gangs, growing up in Scotland and the struggles young people face in choosing a future in Britain today.


Guillermo Arriaga The Untameable MacLehose Press, 9th July, hb, eb, £20, 9780857058195 Gripping coming-of-age thriller of vengeance and destiny set between Mexico City’s murderous 1960s underworld and the bleak tundras of Canada’s most remote province.


Afia Atakora Conjure Women Fourth Estate, 2nd April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008293918 Dazzling début novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing and the conjuring of curses.


Lucy Atkins Magpie Lane Quercus Publishing, 16th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781786485571 Roaming through Oxford’s secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of family and what it is to be denied one.


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