GENERAL FICTION
going to end tomorrow, what would you do today?
Dulce Maria Cardoso, Angel Gurria-Quintana My Feelings MacLehose Press, 23rd July, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529402445 In the moments immediately after a car accident, a woman’s entire life flashes before her eyes. A second novel in translation from the award-winning author of The Return.
Lisa C Carey, Caroline Grace-Cassidy Bride Squad Runaway Black & White Publishing, 21st May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781785302893 Irresistible story of disaster averted, love found and friendships restored from a brilliant BFF double act.
Melody Carlson The Happy Camper Revell, 3rd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780800737238 When Dillion Michaels returns home after a breakup, her grand- father gives her a vintage camp trailer that needs restoration.
Jan Carson The Fire Starters Black Swan, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784163846 From a prize-winning rising star in Irish fiction comes this dark, propulsive literary novel about fierce familial love and sacrifice.
Candice Carty-Williams Notting Hill Carnival Trapeze, 20th February, pb, £1, 9781409196181 A Quick Read written by a Sunday Times bestselling author.
Frances Cha If I Had Your Face Viking, 28th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780241396070 Glittering and unsettling début novel about four young women struggling to survive in contemporary Seoul.
Diane Chamberlain Big Lies in a Small Town Macmillan, 6th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781509808601 Pan, 23rd July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781509808649 Emotional yarn from an internationally bestselling author.
Clare Chambers Small Pleasures Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9th July, hb, £14.99, 9781474613880 With the emotional intelligence of Maggie
O’Farrell and the compas- sionate, witty obser- vational skills of Kate Atkinson, this is a novel of unexpected second chances and secrets, set in 1950s England.
Steph Cha Your House Will Pay Faber & Faber, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571348220 In her blistering and beautifully written UK debut, Cha has crafted an urgent novel about the intertwined fates of two families.
Ilona Chavasse (tr), Aleksandr Skorobogatov Sergeant Bertrand Old Street, 12th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781910400906 Late 20th-century Russian classic about a husband tortured by jealousy. “With this beautiful, tragic novel, Skorobogatov has carved a place for himself in the grand Russian tradition”—Le Figaro.
Heather Chavez No Bad Deed Headline Book Publishing, 20th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781472264725 A split-second decision puts a family in danger. A gripping new thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay.
Chip Cheek Cape May Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 26th May, pb, £8.99, 9781474609555 The Great Gatsby meets On Chesil Beach in this dark and sexy début about marriage, love and betrayal.
Te-Ping Chen Land of Big Numbers Scribner, 28th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781471190599 Dazzling début collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth.
Tracy Chevalier A Single Thread Borough Press, 9th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008153847 From the globally bestselling author of Girl With A Pearl Earring comes a beautifully orchestrated novel that reveals one of our finest modern writers at the peak of her powers.
Susan Choi Trust Exercise Serpent’s Tail, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788161688 Powerful fictional contri- bution to the vital conver- sations we are having
about the complexi- ties of sex, power and consent. This deserves to be a defining novel of the #metoo era.
Agatha Christie Death on the Nile HarperFiction, 11th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008328948 Movie tie-in. Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, repackaged with a stunning contempo- rary cover and soon to be a major film featuring Kenneth Branagh as the famous Hercule Poirot.
Michael Christie Greenwood Scribe, 13th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781911617846 For readers of Cloud Atlas and The Overstory, this literary epic tells the story of the world’s last forest and the family connected to it.
Kristen Ciccarelli The Sky Weaver Gollancz, 14th May, pb, £8.99, 9781473218208 Lavish, romantic and magical, The Sky Weaver is a new standalone story set in the world of The Last Namsara. One for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black.
Anna Clark (ed), Wilkie Collins The Dead Alive Broadview Press, 28th February, pb, £15.95, 9781554814336 Based on the murder case of the Boorn Brothers, The Dead Alive is a legal thriller by Victorian sensation novelist Wilkie Collins.
James Clarke Hollow in the Land Serpent’s Tail, 2nd April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788163514 Remarkable work of fiction and a vivid portrait of modern Britain for readers of Jon McGregor, Sarah Hall and Jim Crace.
Louise Emma Clarke From Mum With Love Aria, 5th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781838930646 Full-time mum Jess has had enough and her husband Chris has just the solution to vent her frustrations—a blog.
Polly Clark Tiger riverrun, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786485434 Mesmerising literary novel set in the UK and Siberia about mothers, daughters and the wild side of female nature, from the prize-winning author of Larchfield.
Dhonielle Clayton The Everlasting Rose Gollancz, 14th April, pb, £7.99, 9781473224001 The sequel to Clayton’s Lodestar Award- nominated The Belles. In the opulent world of Orleans, beauty can be deadly.
Arthur Clifford Far, Far the Mountain Peak: Book 3 Book Guild Publishing, 28th March, pb, £9.99, 9781913208455 Third volume follows John Denby through his teenage years. Covering sexuality, youth devel- opment and religion.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Water Dancer Hamish Hamilton, 6th February, hb, £16.99, 9780241325254 Highly anticipated début novel from the award- winning author of We Were Eight Years in Power, this is a story of bondage, freedom and love.
Richard Cobourne Bandwagon Matador, 28th March, pb, £9.99, 9781838592981 Danny Owen, former investigative journalist but today a music and celeb- rity reporter, stumbles upon a people-smuggling racket concealed within a massive UK, European and African concert tour.
Tammy Cohen Stop At Nothing Black Swan, 16th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784162474 Gripping and relatable thriller from one of the best-loved writers in the genre. For fans of Lisa Jewell, Heidi Perks and CL Taylor.
Charlotte Collins (tr), Takis Würger The Club Grove Press, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781611854800 A runaway international bestseller, The Club is a smouldering story of class, privilege and matters of the heart.
Laetitia Colombani, Louise Rogers Lalaurie (tr) The Braid Picador, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509881109 Huge international bestseller about three women forced by circumstances to rebel against their fate. Story spans three continents.
Juliet Conlin A Hunger Artist Black & White Publishing, 16th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785302886
From an acclaimed author who brings people and places to intelligent life, here is a novel of contemporary Berlin.
Sarah Connell Random Three Book Guild Publishing, 28th April, pb, £7.99, 9781913208608 Teenager Mary must seek help before her young son ends up in care. Follows motherhood and the changing face of urban communities.
Victoria Connelly The Beauty of Broken Things Lake Union, 2nd June, Book, eb, £8.99, 9781542008167 Grief and painful pasts unite two strangers trying to find beauty in their broken lives.
Alys Conran Dignity Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 16th April, pb, £8.99, 9781474609456 Powerful novel about belonging, race, British India and contemporary Britain by the Dylan Thomas Prize-shortlisted author of Pigeon.
Susannah Constantine Summer in Mayfair HQ, 1st March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008219680 “Thoughtful and dark”— the Times magazine. “Captivating”—Woman & Home. “Beautifully written”—Hello.
Elizabeth Cook Lux
Scribe, 12th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912854745 “Hugely ambitious and very beautiful”—BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review. This sumptu- ous novel inspired by the life and work of Thomas Wyatt returns in paperback.
Nick Cook The Grid Corgi, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780552174350 A thrilling mix of Homeland and Inception, The Grid takes us to the edge of a new kind of battlefield— the human brain.
Emma Cooper The Day My Life Began Headline Review, 1st June, E-bookreader, eb, £8.99, 9781472265036 When Jennifer loses her sister, she realises it’s time to stop sleepwalking through life and to start living. A heartwarming and uplifting story for fans of Jojo Moyes.
Bernard Cornwell Sword of Kings HarperFiction, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008183929 The incredible 12th novel in the global bestselling series featuring Uhtred of Bebbanburg, from the No 1 Sunday Times bestselling author.
Connilyn Cossette Like Flames in the Night Bethany House, 3rd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780764234330 Hunting for his daughter’s killer, Liyam’s last hope is a bargain to rescue a strong-willed woman who refuses to leave her mission uncompleted.
David Coventry Dance Prone Picador, 23rd July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509839421 A wide-ranging reimagin- ing of an indie rock world and a psychological journey into the chaos of outsider art, youth and its various languages.
Emily Critchley The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers Everything with Words, 13th May, pb, £8.99, 9781911427094 Alice is an artist and a single mum. She has an intense relationship with her daughter Nell who enters into a dangerous relationship with disas- trous consequences.
Polly Crosby The Illustrated Child HQ, 9th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008358402 Captivating début about a girl living in a ramshackle house whose eccentric father sets her a treasure hunt which leads to a heartbreaking secret.
Peter Cunningham Freedom is a Land I Cannot See Sandstone Press, 30th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913207205 Living in the dangerous the early years of the Irish Free State, blind Rose Raven is a woman with secrets—every one of them a risk to Ireland.
Gayle Curtis Safe No Longer Tomas & Mercer, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781542008204 On a warm evening in late summer, best friends Raymond and Cara camp out overnight in the garden. By morning, Raymond is dead and Cara is missing.
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