GENERAL FICTION
The great Houses of Paris headed by fallen angels and magicians vie with each other for control of a city devastated by a magical war.
Caroline Bond The Forgotten Sister Corvus, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786493705 Heartrending and profoundly moving novel about protecting the ones you love from the secrets that will hurt them most. Good for fans of Jodi Picoult and Jojo Moyes.
Caroline Bond The Accident Corvus, 4th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781786499233 Rites-of-passage novel that challenges us to reflect on our own beliefs about guilt, responsibility and forgiveness.
Henri Bosco, Joyce Zonana Malicroix NYRB Classics, 4th February, pb, £14.99, 9781681374109 Bosco, four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of a recluse living in the French countryside. Published in English for the first time.
Holly Bourne Pretending Hodder & Stoughton, 2nd April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781473668133 Honest and hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of How Do You Like Me Now?
Damien Boyd Down Among the Dead Tomas & Mercer, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781542094276 DI Nick Dixon is hunting a serial killer. The Somerset Levels contains an ancient mass grave but these newly uncovered victims are much more recent.
Paul Braddon The Actuality Sandstone Press, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913207168 Evie, a bio-engineered human replica, lives with her husband and his servant. When knowledge of her illegal existence leaks, she is forced into the terrifying world outside.
Nick Bradley The Cat and the City Atlantic Books, 7th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781786499882 A stray cat dances through Tokyo, connecting a group of apparent strangers, in this inventive literary debut.
Vicki Bradley Before I Say I Do
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Simon & Schuster, 28th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781471185243 Perfect for fans ofJessica Knoll and Heidi Perks, this is a dark, twisty psychological thriller that asks the question: How well can you really know anyone?
Cathy Bramley A Patchwork Family Orion, 5th March, pb, £7.99, 9781409186731 Heartwarming and charming, this story from a Sunday Times bestseller is about the challenges and triumphs faced by Gina Moss as she swaps an easy life for a happy one.
Caroline learns that some secrets are best left hidden in the unforgettable new Cornwall-set novel.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Fleishman is in Trouble Wildfire, 21st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472267078 Blistering satirical novel about marriage, divorce and modern love by one of America’s most exciting new voices in fiction.
James Brogden Bone Harvest Titan Books, 12th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781785659973 From the critically acclaimed author of Hekla’s Children comes a dark and haunting tale of an ancient cult wreaking bloody havoc on the modern world.
Matt Brolly The Crossing Tomas & Mercer, 15th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781542006156 When a body is discovered bled dry on a beach, a seaside town wakes up to a nightmare. For Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell, it’s her first case on the job.
Lauren H Brandenburg The Marriage of Innis Wilkinson Lion Fiction, 22nd May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782642992 Roy and Margarette long to marry but they face feuding families and a murder involving scissors.
Ari Braverman The Ballad of Big Feeling Melville House, 16th July, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781612197678 Début about a woman’s often awkward interplay between her mind and body by an award- winning writer.
Carys Bray When the Lights Go Out Hutchinson, 21st May, hb, £12.99, 9781786332349 While Emma prepares for Christmas, her husband is preparing for power cuts, starvation and societal collapse. A novel about climate change.
Jamel Brinkley A Lucky Man Serpent’s Tail, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788163224 Uncovering the inner lives of black men and boys, this is an expansive fiction début from a major new voice.
Fern Britton Daughters of Cornwall HarperFiction, 1st March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008225254 25th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008225285
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Karma Brown Recipe for a Perfect Wife Legend Press, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99,
Stephen Anthony Brotherton One Last Shot Book Guild Publishing, 28th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781913208509 Concludes the romance trilogy of Freddie and Jo-Jo. Can first love ever be reignited?
Gordon Douglas Brown The House with the Green Shutters Birlinn, 9th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781846975387 Brutal novel written to push back against what Brown saw as the “sentimental slop” of much Scottish fiction. This uncompromising story shows the real world of rural Scotland in the early 1900s.
9781789559798 Story told in dual narratives about a woman who finds a cookbook in the basement of her new home and becomes captivated with the previous owner, a 1950s housewife.
Dominic Brownlow The Naseby Horses Louise Walters Books, 13th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781999630539 Beautifully written liter- ary début novel. Teen- age epileptic Simon searches for his miss- ing sister in a Fenland village which appears to be under the influence of an ancient curse.
Luke Brown Theft And Other Stories, 4th February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781911508588 Love, envy and revenge in a divided Britain.
Camilla Bruce You Let Me In Bantam Press, 5th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781787633162 From a startling new voice in contemporary gothic fiction comes a superbly creepy début about the elusive nature of truth.
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Starling Days Sceptre, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473638396 Moving new novel from Desmond Elliot- shortlisted author of Harmless Like You.
Tracy Buchanan Wall of Silence Lake Union, 1st April, Book, eb, £8.99, 9781542017091 One of Melissa’s children stabbed their father. But which one and why? Can Melissa find out the truth before the rumours spread?
Elizabeth Buchan The Museum of Broken Promises Corvus, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786495310 Beautiful, evocative love story and a heartbreaking exploration of some of the darkest moments in European history.
Emily Bullock
Inside the Beautiful Inside Everything with Words, 17th June, pb, £8.99, 9781911427193 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest meets Mutiny on the Bounty— an exploration of love, sanity, suffering and compassion. Based on the story of James Norris, inmate of Bedlam.
Amina Cain Indelicacy Daunt Books Originals, 21st May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781911547587 In a ghostly, undefined era and place, a cleaning woman at a museum of art aspires to do more than simply dust the paintings around her.
Madeleine Bunting Island Song Granta Books, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781783784639 Spellbinding novel of love, hidden World War II secrets and living with the enemy on the island of Guernsey, from the author of The Plot and Love of Country.
Gordon Burn Fullalove Faber & Faber, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571353620 “Remarkable, devastating . . . Required reading for anyone interested in what British fiction should be doing today”—Stephen Amidon, Esquire.
Emma Burstall The Girl Who Came Home to Cornwall Head of Zeus, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786698889 When a stranger comes to the Cornish village of Tremarnock to discover more about her Cornish ancestors, rumours start to fly. Is there more to her than meets the eye?
Jessie Burton The Confession Picador, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509886197 Powerful, suspenseful novel from the million- copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse.
DS Butler Don’t Turn Back Tomas & Mercer, 26th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781542017565 A man is found blud- geoned to death in the village of Canwick. Detec- tive Karen Hart, haunted by the tragic loss of her husband and daughter, is brought in to investigate.
Sarah Butler Jack and Bet Picador, 5th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509898152 Funny and uplifting novel about an elderly couple, the son who is trying desperately to care for them and the young woman who will change their lives forever.
Lucy Caldwell Intimacies Faber & Faber, 4th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571353743 Follow-up to Caldwell’s acclaimed début short story collection, Multitudes.
Jen Calleja I’m Afraid That’s All We’ve Got Time for Prototype Publishing, 18th March, pb, £12, 9781916052055 These 13 stories by writer and literary translator Calleja pick apart the hidden motivations behind our desires, and the ways we seek out distraction from difficult truths.
Euan Cameron Madeleine MacLehose Press, 9th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857058607 Young musician uncovers painful family history and must confront the realities of collaboration and betrayal in Vichy France.
Angus Peter Campbell The Girl on the Ferryboat Luath Press, 15th April, audiobook, eb, £24.99, 9781910745441 Unabridged audio version narrated by the author, an award-winning Gaelic poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor.
Niamh Campbell This Happy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6th February, hb, £16.99, 9781474611664 Fervid, glowing-hot novel about relationships and the way the past informs the present. Exciting new voice in contemporary literary fiction.
Megan Campisi The Sin Eater Mantle, 23rd July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529019063 For fans of The Binding and Station Eleven, The Sin Eater tells the story of a young girl sentenced to silence and the lies she must unravel.
Melanie Cantor Death and Other Happy Endings Black Swan, 28th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784164164 Smart, funny and uplifting début which asks big questions. If your life was
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