GENERAL FICTION
Jami Attenberg All This Could Be Yours Serpent’s Tail, 5th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781788163255 Unforgettable novel of family secrets from bestselling author of The Middlesteins.
Margaret Atwood The Testaments Vintage, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784708214 In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happened to Offred?
Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they used to be anyway.
Elizabeth Baines Astral Travel Salt, 15th February, pb, £9.99, 9781784632199 The power of storytelling, its tyranny versus its liberating power, lies and truth, and the fact that how we choose to tell stories can powerfully affect the lives of others.
Jo Baker
The Body Lies Black Swan, 23rd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784164522 A Guardian Best Summer read—a propulsive, highly topical thriller for fans of Lullaby and Apple Tree Yard.
Mona Awad Bunny Head of Zeus, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788545440 Darkly funny, gothic novel about a lonely graduate student drawn into a clique of rich girls at a New England university.
Mona Awad 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Head of Zeus, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789540826 Growing up in suburban hell, Lizzie has never liked the way she looks. Dark but humorous story about the harmful beauty standards imposed on women.
Tash Aw We, the Survivors Fourth Estate, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008318581 A murderer’s confession reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.
Bolu Babalola Love in Colour Headline Book Publishing, 30th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781472268860 Love stories that truly represent the world we live in are celebrated and retold in this unique illustrated collection by a début author.
Tessa Bailey Love Her or Lose Her Avon, 20th February, pb, £9.99, 9780062872852
Marco Balzano, Jill Foulston I’m Staying Here Head of Zeus, 2nd April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781789545081 Sweeping historical novel about the struggle of one woman and one village against war, racism and ecological devastation.
Annabel Banks Exercises in Control Influx Press, 20th February, pb, £9.99, 9781910312476 A lonely woman invites danger between tedious dates; a station guard plays a bloody game of heads-or-tails; an office cleaner sneaks into a forbidden room...
Andres Barba A Luminous Republic Granta Books, 4th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781846276934 Fearsome modern morality tale that retraces the lines between good and evil, the civilised and the wild, and drags our assumptions about childhood and innocence out into the light.
Wendy Louise Bardsley Bardsley The Passions of Mary Wollstonecraft Methuen, 9th April, pb, £9.99, 9780413777928 Eloquent and highly read- able novel on an eternal theme—the destructive power of sexual love.
Hazel Barkworth Heatstroke Headline Review, 28th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781472265609 Dazzling début about a dark love affair, set to ignite debate.
Jack Barratt Upsy-daisy
Matador, 28th April, pb, £9.99, 9781838593223 Laugh-out-loud novel populated by an array of colourful and entertaining characters. The hilarious misadventures of the inhabitants of a higgledy-piggledy village in East Anglia.
Judith Barrow The Memory Honno Modern Fiction, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912905133 Irene’s sister dies tragically young and 50 years later the secret that has haunted her life is slowly and shockingly revealed. From the author of the bestselling Howarth family saga.
Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangier Canongate Books, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782116202 Booker-longlisted novel drenched in sex, death and narcotics from the winner of the Impac Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
Sebastian Barry A Thousand Moons Faber & Faber, 19th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780571333370 Whole Story Audiobooks, 19th March, audiobook, £17.01, 9781528892223 Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster, in the end you have got to learn to live. Follow-up to the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Days Without End.
Don Bartlett (tr), Kjell Ola Dahl Sister Orenda Books, 30th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193027 Award-winning Oslo Detectives series continues. Frølich searches for the mysterious sister of a young female asylum- seeker, sparking a spate of murders with unexpected links to an old case.
Stephen Bayley The Art of Living Doubleday, 25th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857526397 Satirical, whip-smart and eye-wateringly funny, this is the fictional account of how one man reinvented design in the UK.
Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (tr) Tender is the Flesh Pushkin Press, 6th February, pb, £12.99, 9781782275572 Everyone’s eating human meat. A vivid, shocking dystopian novel from an Argentinian rising star.
Jen Beagin Vacuum in the Dark Oneworld, 13th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786077356 Edgy one-of-a kind novel, for fans of Sally Rooney and Joshua Ferris.
Clare Beams The Illness Lesson Doubleday, 6th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780857526311 Sarah Waters meets The Girls in this haunting, wickedly perceptive début set in an all-girl school and seeking to answer the timeless question: Who has authority over a woman’s body?
Laura Beatty Lost Property Atlantic Books, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786497406 Wild and brilliant tale about nationhood, borders, art and ideology.
Chris Beckett Two Tribes Corvus, 2nd July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781786499325 Timely new work that is both a reflection on class and the way that human beings construct and adapt stories to help them feel at home in the world.
Anna Beecher Here Comes the Miracle Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 28th May, hb, £14.99, 9781474610629 Tear-jerking literary début about a life cut short by cancer and a love cut short by fear and social pressure.
Louise Beech I Am Dust Orenda Books, 16th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193218 When iconic musical Dust is revived 20 years after the leading actress was murdered in her dressing- room, eerie events haunt the new cast in this bewitching, terrifyingly dark psychological thriller.
Hannah Begbie Blurred Lines HarperFiction, 9th July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008283261 Smart, compulsive literary domestic suspense that explores the effects of #metoo.
Olivia Beirne The Accidental Love Letter Headline Review, 14th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472259578 When Bea receives a love letter that isn’t addressed to her, the temptation to open it and reply is too strong and it changes her quiet, lonely life forever.
Hina Belitz To Lahore, With Love Headline Review, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472231734 A novel to warm the heart, tickle the tastebuds and take you on the journey of a lifetime. For fans of Nadiya Hussain and Ayisha Malik.
SERIES
Te Margellos World Republic of Letters Tahar Ben Jelloun Vol 111: The Punishment Yale University Press, 23rd June, hb, eb, £18, 9780300243024 An innocent man’s gripping personal account of his terrifying confinement by the Moroccan military during the reign of a formidable 20th-century despot.
Ali Berg, Michelle Kalus While You Were Reading Simon & Schuster, 5th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781471178009 After ruining her friend’s nuptials, Bea’s life is more stagnant than ever. Then she stumbles across a secondhand novel inscribed with notes and becomes determined to find the author.
Liz Berg Jewish Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland Te History Press, 1st June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780750991438 Folk tales from the Jewish communities of Britain and Ireland.
Mattias Berg The Carrier MacLehose Press, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857057914 The man with the nuclear briefcase has gone rogue in an explosive thriller about man’s capacity to destroy himself.
Ilaria Bernardini The Portrait Allen & Unwin, 2nd April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781911630401 Ambiguous, electrify- ing story of a lover, a wife and the man they have in common.
Fatima Bhutto The Runaways Penguin, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241347010 Exquisitely written novel following three brilliantly memorable characters on their path to radicalisation, from one of Pakistan’s most influential figures.
Alfred Birney, David Doherty The Interpreter From Java Head of Zeus, 4th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781788544320 After discovering his father’s memoirs about the Dutch East Indies and the war with Japan, Alan begins to understand how war transformed his father into the monster he knew.
Norman Bissell Barnhill Luath Press, 15th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913025519 Tells the dramatic story of the last years of George Orwell’s life. Deeply researched, it reveals the private man behind the celebrated public figure.
Sharon Blackie Foxfire, Wolfskin and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women September Publishing, 25th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912836246 Short stories that weave a magical world of possibility and power from female myths.
Mark Blacklock Hinton Granta Books, 2nd April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781783785209 Ravishing 19th-century tale of dangerous and pioneering mathematical ideas, based on the incredible true story of Howard Hinton.
Fanny Blake The Summer Villa Orion, 25th June, pb, £8.99, 9781409197706 Absorbing family drama in the sun and the perfect holiday read for fans of Celia Imrie and Fern Britton.
Sarah Blake Naamah Riverhead Books, 9th April, pb, £13.99, 9780525536345 Wildly imaginative novel about a reluctant heroine who rescued life on earth.
Aliette de Bodard The House of Sundering Flames Gollancz, 19th March, pb, £9.99, 9781473223417
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