GENERAL FICTION


of colourful characters living lives of quiet and not so quiet despera- tion in provincial Turkey.


Bette Howland Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Picador, 9th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529035827 Moving and bittersweet stories introduce British readers to Howland, a forgotten great of 20th-century American fiction.


Nazanine Hozar Aria Viking, 12th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241417904 International bestseller lauded as “a Doctor Zhivago of Iran” by Margaret Atwood.


Caoilinn Hughes The Wild Laughter Oneworld, 7th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786077806 Exhilarating, anarchic look at contemporary Ireland from one of the country’s most exciting new voices.


Nick Hughes Bahama Boyz Matador, 28th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781838592172 An East End boy in 1970s London stumbles into the world of casinos as a trainee croupier and discovers a life he never knew existed.


Tristan Hughes Shattercone Parthian Books, 1st May, hb, eb, £10, 9781912681471 Strange, compelling and sometimes heartbreaking journey through the junc- tures that bind landscapes and lovers. Subtly linked stories explore the threads that weave together places and people.


Caroline Hulse Like a House on Fire Orion, 30th April, hb, £14.99, 9781409178347 Another achingly funny, uncomfortably relatable novel from the brilliant Hulse, chock-full of black humour, family drama and a murder mystery with an explosive end.


Megan Hunter The Harpy Picador, 11th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529010213 Novel about a marriage, an affair and a very particular sort of revenge.


Andrew Michael Hurley Starve Acre John Murray, 31st March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529387308 The new novel from “the new master of menace” (Sunday Times).


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Graham Hurley Blood of the Wolf Head of Zeus, 4th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781788547543 Berlin, 1942. Propaganda journalist Werner Nehm- ann begins his terrifying descent into the hell of the Stalingrad cauldron.


Zora Neale Hurston Hitting a Straight Lick With a Crooked Stick HQ, 20th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008374716 Outstanding collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, racism and sexism that proudly reflect African American folk culture.


Sairish Hussain The Family Tree HQ, 1st February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008297459 Timely and profoundly important, this is a moving and unflinching novel which reveals how global events trickle down into communities and how a single action can change lives.


Siri Hustvedt


Memories of the Future Sceptre, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473694460 Provocative, wildly funny, intellectually rigorous and engrossing novel, punctuated by Hustvedt’s own illustrations. A tour de force.


MJ Hyland Even Pretty Eyes Canongate Books, 2nd July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781782119531 Gripping new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Carry Me Down.


MJ Hyland Carry Me Down Canongate Canons, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786898807 “A wonderful feat of imag- ination”—Hilary Mantel.


Abubakar Adam Ibrahim The Whispering Trees Cassava Republic Press, 14th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781911115861 Myth and reality inter- twine in these magical tales from Nigeria.


Celia Imrie A Nice Cup of Tea Bloomsbury, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781408883198 The witty, enchanting fourth novel from the actress and bestselling author follows the hilarious antics of a group of retired expats in the South of France.


Kirstin Innes Scabby Queen


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Fourth Estate, 30th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008342296 “Kirstin Innes is aiming high, writing for readers in the early days of a better nation”—AL Kennedy.


Catherine Isaac Messy, Wonderful Us Simon & Schuster, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471178078 Allie flies to Italy, accom- panied by her best friend, to unpick the truth about her mother. But the secrets that emerge don’t only concern her family’s tangled past.


Naomi Ishiguro Escape Routes Tinder Press, 6th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781472264855 Delightfully speculative, quirky and magical début story collection, for fans of David Mitchell and Angela Carter.


Sharon Jacksties Animal Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland Te History Press, 3rd February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780750991353 Collection about our native wildlife from a professional storyteller.


Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen, Caroline Waight (tr) Island


Pushkin Press, 2nd July, pb, £9.99, 9781782275800 Lyrical and moving tale of love, loss and belonging across three generations of a Faroe Islands family.


Howard Jacobson Live a Little Vintage, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529110555 Wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.


Erica James Letters From the Past Orion, 16th April, hb, £12.99, 9781409173854 Compelling new novel from a bestselling author.


Laura Jarratt Mother Trapeze, 2nd April, pb, £7.99, 9781409193791 Emotional story of one mother’s impos- sible choice between her two daughters, with a delicious side of tension. Perfect for fans of Linda Green and Amanda Prowse.


Sarah Jasmon You Never Told Me Black Swan, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780552774048


Is it ever too late to learn the truth? An emotionally gripping novel about the power of family secrets.


Balli Kaur Jaswal The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters HarperFiction, 28th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008209964 Full of warmth, charm and humour comes the new novel from the author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows.


Andrea Jeftanovic Theatre of War Charco Press, 21st July, pb, £9.99, 9781916465657 Chilean novelist Jeftanovic’s début is an exploration of the empty theatre of operations her memory provides for the domestic war she was part of as a child.


Beverly Jenkins On the Corner of Hope and Main William Morrow Paperbacks, 16th April, pb, £9.99, 9780062699282 There’s never a dull moment in Henry Adams’ Kansas and residents must learn to come together to rise above life’s challenges. A Blessings novel.


Luke Jennings Killing Eve: Die for Me John Murray, 19th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529351514 Concluding novel in the thrilling Killing Eve trilogy.


Mai Jia The Message Head of Zeus, 5th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781789543018 Five code-breakers gather in the mountains of China. Which one is a double agent? A World War Two spy thriller from the most translated Chinese novelist of our time.


Paulette Jiles Simon the Fiddler William Morrow, 28th May, hb, £20, 9780062966742 From a critically acclaimed author comes the story of an itinerant fiddle player, a band of musicians with whom he travels, and the charming Irish woman who steals his heart.


Annaleese Jochems Baby 11th June, pb, £7.99, 9781912854288 “Sultry, sinister, hilarious and demented”—Eleanor Catton. The highly acclaimed psychological thriller returns in B-format paperback.


Daisy Johnson Sisters


Jonathan Cape, 4th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787331624 Electrifying new novel from the Man Booker- shortlisted author of Everything Under: an absorbing, twisting liter- ary horror novel inspired by Shirley Jackson and Stephen King.


Debbie Johnson Maybe One Day Orion, 2nd April, pb, £7.99, 9781409187981 Johnson writes novels about the things that matter to women with an ability to tug at the heartstrings and make you think and feel.


Jane Johnson The Sea Gate Head of Zeus, 4th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781789545166 One house, two women, many secrets. A novel about the lives of two women, 70 years apart, and the secrets that bind them together.


Shane Johnstone The Gods of Frequency Arkbound, 1st February, pb, £5.99, 9781912092826 Written in a mix of Glasgwegian vernacular and standard English, The Gods of Frequency depicts a working class Glaswe- gian writer and musi- cian struggling against a predominantly middle- class Scottish folk scene.


Andy Jones The Last Act of Adam Campbell Hodder Paperback, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473680456 What happens the morn- ing after the night before?


Liz Jones 8 1/2 Stone Matthew James, 14th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781910265994 Pam has so many prob- lems but all of them will be fixed when she’s eight- and-a-half stone. Début novel from columnist and former Marie Claire editor.


Ruth Jones Us Three Random House Audio, 14th May, audiobook, £13, 9781473575486 Bantam Press, 14th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787632257 New from the co-writer of Gavin & Stacey and author of the smash- hit Never Greener.


Sandie Jones The Half Sister Pan, 25th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529033014 Page-turning psycho- logical thriller about two sisters and their new sibling from the author


of The Other Woman and The First Mistake.


Tayari Jones Silver Sparrow Oneworld, 5th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786077967 Breathtaking tale of family secrets from the bestselling author of An American Marriage, the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019 winner.


Jayne Joso Japan Stories Seren, 1st June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781725894 Joso’s new collection of short stories reveals Japa- nese life in city and coun- tryside through a variety of characters notable for their shared humanity.


Rachel Joyce Miss Benson’s Beetle Doubleday, 11th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857521989 A story about the smallest insect and the deepest friendship from the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.


Phillips Julia Disappearing Earth Scribner, 23rd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471169526 Set on the remote Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth draws us into the world of an astonishing cast of char- acters, all connected by an unfathomable crime.


Daniel Kalla The Last High Simon & Schuster, 23rd July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781471177729 When more and more people die from the same ultra-potent strain of opioid, the deaths begin to look deliberate.


Einar Karason, Quentin Bates Storm Birds MacLehose Press, 28th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780857059420 The desperate struggle of a crew of Icelandic fishermen against the ruthless forces of nature.


Heather Kassner The Forest of Stars Titan Books, 21st July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781789091809 Dark fantasy from the author of The Bone Garden. For readers of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.


Rebecca Kauffman The House on Fripp Island Serpent’s Tail, 4th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788165204 Taut novel of secrets and strife with a shocking conclusion that will shake your sense of right and wrong.


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