GENERAL FICTION


temptation, greed and the supernatural.


Christine Féret-Fleury, Ros Schwartz (tr) The Girl Who Reads on the Métro Pan, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509868353 Championing the intrinsic power of reading, this is a story for anyone who understands that a book can change a life.


Nell Freudenberger Lost and Wanted Penguin, 18th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241374559 “There aren’t many novels that bring to mind both Middlemarch and Bridget Jones’s Diary—but Lost and Wanted is one of them”—the Times.


Helena Frith Powell Thin Ice Gibson Square, 6th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781783341603 Immigration and tragedy follow Louise Redcliffe to a remote Swedish town in this suspenseful literary novel.


Jeaniene Frost Wicked Bite Avon, 20th February, pb, £6.99, 9780062695635 In the newest Night Rebel novel, set in Frost’s Night Huntress world, beautiful, daring vampire Veritas risks all to protect Ian.


Philip Gabriel, Natsu Miyashita The Forest of Wool and Steel Black Swan, 20th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784162986 Million-copy-bestselling winner of the Japan Booksellers Award, chosen as the title bookshop staff favourite to hand- sell, this is a feelgood story for fans of Robert Seethaler’s A Whole Life.


Michelle Gallen Big Girl, Small Town John Murray, 20th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529304206 Keenly observed and darkly comic story about a girl stuck in a very small town.


Emma Gannon Olive HarperFiction, 25th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008382728 Warm and modern tale about the obstacle course of adulthood, milestone decisions and the taboo about choosing not to have children.


Petina Gappah Out of Darkness, Shining Light


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Faber & Faber, 4th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780571345328 Gappah’s epic journey through 19th-century Africa following the funeral caravan that bore Bwana Daudi’s body is “engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative” (Yaa Gyasi).


Mike Gayle The Hope Family Calendar Hodder Paperbacks, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473608955 Compelling, emotional rollercoaster of a novel from the bestselling author of Turning Thirty and My Legendary Girlfriend.


Mike Gayle Half a World Away Hodder Paperback, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781473687370 Heartfelt new novel from the writer of The Man I Think I Know.


Mike Gayle All the Lonely People Hodder & Stoughton, 23rd July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781473687387 This is the story of Hubert Bird when he left Jamaica in the 1960s and arrived in London.


William Gay The Lost Country Faber & Faber, 9th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571247530 Ten years after it was acquired, and long thought lost, The Lost Country is the novel which the late William Gay often talked about before his death, now finally published.


Ciara Geraghty Rules of the Road HarperFiction, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008320690


Gripping, emotional and uplifting novel about the true power of friendship from the author described as “the Irish Jojo Moyes”.


Ruth Gilligan The Butchers Atlantic Books, 26th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786499448 The first novel truly to capture the story of Ireland during the BSE crisis, shown through the small, deeply intimate stories of four people caught up in its churn.


Nicola Gill


The Neighbours HarperCollins, 6th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008355395 Funny and honest exploration of life, love,


The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction


friendship and navi- gating the emotional rollercoaster of your thirties. For fans of The Flatshare and Ruth Jones’s Never Greener.


David Gilman Cross of Fire Head of Zeus, 6th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781788544948 The Hundred Years War still rages and the French army thirsts for Thomas Blackstone’s blood in the latest Master of War outing.


Natalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye (tr) The Dry Heart Daunt Books, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911547600 Ginzburg transforms the unhappy tale of an ordi- nary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don’t more wives kill their husbands?


Natalia Ginzburg, Frances Frenaye (tr) The Road to the City Daunt Books, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911547624 A short, poignant novel about the dreams of youth and the cruelty it takes to make them come true.


Paolo Giordano Heaven and Earth Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 14th May, hb, £14.99, 9781474612142 Epic love story that spans 20 years and half the globe from Puglia to a frozen cave in Iceland. A major literary achievement and a novel like no other.


Emma Glass Rest and Be Thankful Bloomsbury, 19th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781526601070 Darkly shimmering novel about a nurse on the edge of burnout, by “an immensely talented young writer [she] renews one’s faith in the power of literature” (George Saunders).


Joanna Glen The Other Half of Augusta Hope Borough Press, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008314194 Vibrant, funny and heartbreaking story for anyone who has ever felt like they didn’t belong.


Robert Gluck Margery Kempe NYRB Classics, 10th March, pb, £12.99, 9781681374314 Lust, religious zeal and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatua- tions, one between a


20th-century man and his young lover, the other between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus.


Clarissa Goenawan The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida Soho Press, 12th March, pb, £9.99, 9781641292023 From the critically acclaimed author of Rainbirds comes a novel of tragedy and dark histories set in Japan.


Rainald Goetz Rave Fitzcarraldo, 15th April, pb, £12.99, 9781910695319 This fragmentary novel attempts to capture the feel of debauchery from within while at the same time critiquing the media structures that contribute to the “epochality” of pop culture phenomena.


Melanie Golding Little Darlings HQ Fiction, 20th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008293710 Unsettling, taut and tense, Little Darlings is the début novel from an exciting new voice in sinister thriller writing.


Maria Goodin Where We Begin Legend Press, 15th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789559453 In a bid to gain closure on his past and move forwards, Jay decides there are three people he wants to make peace with.


Michele Gorman The Staycation Trapeze, 23rd July, pb, £7.99, 9781409190103 “The Holiday” meets National Lampoon’s Vacation—a smart comedy perfect for summer reading.


Victoria Gosling The Mysteries Serpent’s Tail, 2nd July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788163798 One long, hot summer Andy and her friends break into a crumbling mansion and begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.


Andrew Goss The Humanitarian Book Guild Publishing, 28th April, pb, £8.99, 9781913208530 Inspirational story set in the mountains of Pakistan highlights the human struggle in the face of adversity and questions the wider relationship of the developed world and poorer countries.


Ian Gouge The Opposite of


Remembering Coverstory books, 1st February, pb, £9, 9781999302795 Liam is haunted by age and the need for new memorie, especially when his wife turns his world upside down as does the woman he meets in an anonymous hotel.


James Gould-Bourn Keeping Mum Trapeze, 11th June, hb, £14.99, 9781409191247 Uplifting book about a man trying to reconnect with his son after they’ve both lost the woman they loved.


George Goulding (tr), Henning Mankell (tr) The Rock Blaster MacLehose Press, 14th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857059451 Early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series, charting the life of a principled man through tragedy, heartbreak, true love and the battle for a nation’s soul.


Shilpi Somaya Gowda The Shape of Family William Morrow, 14th May, hb, £20, 9780062933225 From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant novel about a family growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy.


Juliet Grames The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna Hodder Paperback, 31st March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473686298 From Calabria to Connecticut, a sweeping family saga about sisterhood, secrets, immigration, the American dream and one woman’s fight against her own fate.


Abbie Greaves The Silent Treatment Century, 2nd April, hb, £12.99, 9781529123944 Uplifting love story about a couple who have been married for 40 years and haven’t spoken for six months.


Linda Green One Moment Quercus Publishing, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787478749 Moving story about two strangers who change each other’s lives, from the million-copy- bestselling author.


Garth Greenwell Cleanness


Picador, 30th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509874637 Greenwell returns to the characters and setting of his debut, What Belongs to You in a deeply moving and elegantly written book.


Euron Griffith


Miriam, Daniel and Me Seren, 20th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725733 Griffith’s first novel in English is a gripping story of relationships and simmering unrest in 1960s Gwynedd, driven by love, jealousy and vendetta.


Paul Griffiths Mr. Beethoven Henningham Family Press, 30th April, pb, £12.99, 9781999797492 Griffiths, an internationally respected authority on classical music, celebrates Beethoven’s 250th anniversary by imagining the composer visiting the US to fulfill a commission.


Ken Grimwood Replay Gollancz, 20th February, pb, £8.99, 9781473225602 What if you could relive your life again and again? A superb novel of life, love and second chances and what it means to risk everything.


Andrew Gross The Fifth Column Pan, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509878444 Thrilling story about the only man who can stop Nazi sympathizers from plunging the world into darkness, from the bestselling author of The One Man and The Spy.


SERIES


Semiotext(e) / Native Agents Herve Guibert, Jeffrey Zuckerman Written in Invisible Ink: Selected Stories Semiotext (E), 28th April, pb, £14.99, 9781635901191 Stories that map a writer’s artistic development, written with candour, detachment and passion.


Helon Habila Travellers Penguin, 23rd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241986295 Poignant and beautifully sculpted, a novel about exile, identity and the many kinds of travellers moving through our modern world.


Mark Haddon The Porpoise Vintage, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529110708 From this bestselling author comes a wild


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