GENERAL FICTION


Marina Lewycka The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid Fig Tree, 5th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241430309 Laugh-out-loud novel about family, bank fraud and Britain from the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.


Rebecca Ley For When I’m Gone Orion, 5th March, hb, £16.99, 9781409195375 A life cut short, a griev- ing family and a mother’s manual for surviving her death. Emotional, upmarket women’s fiction for fans of If Only I Could Tell You.


Rosanna Ley From Venice With Love Quercus Publishing, 5th March, hb, eb, £20.99, 9781787476288 The bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel returns with an enchant- ing new holiday read about family bonds and following your heart wher- ever it might take you.


Elinor Lipman Good Riddance Lightning Books, 9th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785631689 One woman’s trash becomes another woman’s treasure. Much- anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of The Inn at Lake Devine and Then She Found Me.


Elinor Lipman On Turpentine Lane Lightning Books, 9th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785632006 First UK publication of Lipman’s funny and poignant 11th novel.


SE Lister Augury Old Street, 16th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781910400944 Gorgeous work of fantas- tical historical fiction with an unforgettable heroine, from the author of Hideous Creatures and The Immortals. A potential prize-winner.


Tess Little The Octopus Hodder & Stoughton, 30th April, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781529358803 Cinematic literary mystery about men who abuse power and the people who bear the cost.


Tracey Livesay Sweet Talkin’ Lover Avon, 20th February, pb, £6.99, 9780062979544 Livesay makes her Avon print début with


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a sparkling new series about lifelong friends and love stories that will last forever.


Yiyun Li Where Reasons End Penguin, 21st May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241985182 Devastating and origi- nal portrait of moth- erhood and grief.


Josie Lloyd The Cancer Ladies’ Running Club HQ, 25th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008373658 A cancer diagnosis makes Keira embrace running and she joins a group of brilliant, funny women each going through treatment.


Claire Lombardo The Most Fun We Ever Had Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9th July, pb, £8.99, 9781474611886 “The literary love child of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler”—Observer.


Sarah Long A Year in the Chateau Zaffre Publishing, 5th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781785764769 La vie en rose begins at 50. The gloriously charming and life- affirming new novel from Sarah Long.


Tim Lott When We Were Rich Scribner, 16th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471161582 New Labour are at their zenith. The economy is awash with cheap credit. An estate agent, Frankie is focused on getting rich. But can he survive the coming crash?


Mary Loudon My House is Falling Down Picador, 30th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529005233 Powerful and enthralling novel about a modern love triangle asks a provocative question: is it still infidelity if nobody lies?


James Lovegrove Firefly—The Ghost Machine Titan Books, 28th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781789092240 A smuggling mission goes wrong when ghosts paralyse the crew with hallucinations.


Carol Lovekin Wild Spinning Girls Honno Modern Fiction, 20th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912905096 Ida inherits a house that contains a disruptive secret. Wonderfully evoked gothic novel


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set in mid-Wales with an uplifting finale.


Maja Lunde


The End of the Ocean Scribner, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471175541 From the author of The History of Bees, this is a captivating novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.


Paul Lynch Beyond the Sea Oneworld, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786077608 Part survival story, part existential parable, Beyond the Sea is a powerful and redemptive novel from a master of lyrical prose.


Alice Lyons Oona Lilliput Press, 1st April, pb, £13, 9781843517719 Oona charts the evolution of an artist in an affluent suburban culture of first- generation immigrants where adolescent dissociation is thawed by an engagement with Irish community, culture and landscape.


Alain Mabanckou The Death of Comrade President Serpent’s Tail, 12th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781788162326 Poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa from one of the continent’s greatest living novelists.


Elizabeth Mac Donald A Matter of Interpretation Fairlight Books, 3rd March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912054725 Political intrigue in medieval Europe and a battle for power between Church and State. Impressive début by a new literary talent that would appeal to fans of Mantel.


Tim MacGabhann Call Him Mine Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 16th April, pb, £8.99, 9781474610469 Visceral, acid-soaked trip through Mexico’s many underworlds. A début novel by a crime writer of poetic genius.


Tim MacGabhann How to Be Nowhere Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 23rd July, hb, £16.99, 9781474610483 Taken meets Narcos in this adrenaline-fuelled sequel to MacGabhann’s genre-busting and critically-acclaimed début Call Him Mine.


Martin MacInnes Gathering Evidence


Atlantic Books, 6th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781786493453 From the author of the award-winning Infinite Ground comes a deeply intelligent, thrilling novel about a family stalked by fear and uncertainty and of a world both beautiful and terrible.


John MacKay Heartland Luath Press, 15th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781910022009 Large-print edition. Set in the present day Western Isles. Ian Martin, rebuilding the family home, soon discovers a secret that will cause him to re-evaluate everything in his life.


John MacKay Last of the Line Luath Press, 15th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781910022016 Large-print edition. The summons by a dying aunt drags Cal MacCarl away from city life to the Hebrides where time turns slowly and tradition endures.


John MacKay The Road Dance Luath Press, 15th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781910022023 Large-print edition. A woman tries to hide her pregnancy after she’s raped during farewell celebrations for soldiers leaving for the Western Front.


Frances Macken You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here Oneworld, 2nd April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786077653 Captivating portrayal of youth, friendship and the fine line that separates admiration from envy.


Caroline Mackenzie One Year of Ugly Borough Press, 1st March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008347079 Told with raw, acid humour, this is a story of family, first love and find- ing home. A blistering take on the migrant experience.


Sophie Mackintosh Blue Ticket Hamish Hamilton, 18th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780241404454 Chilling new novel about motherhood, luck and animal instinct, from the Man Booker-longlisted author of The Water Cure.


Kathleen MacMahon Nothing but Blue Sky Penguin Ireland, 7th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781844884759 Wise, thoughtful, beautifully observed and impossible-to-put-down portrait of a marriage.


Adam Macqueen Beneath the Streets Lightning Books, 13th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785631733 A Private Eye journalist’s début novel, a “what if” political thriller centred around the Jeremy Thorpe affair in the style of Robert Harris and set in the Soho of Jake Arnott.


SERIES


Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics Fred Majdalany vol 5: Patrol Imperial War Museums, 23rd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912423156 Intimate and tense novel set in 1943 in the North African desert. Major Tim Sheldon, exhausted and weary, is asked to carry out a futile patrol mission.


figures such as Cocteau and Camus and captures the spirit of Paris after a traumatic war.


Charline Malaval, Natasha Lehrer The Sailor from Casablanca Hodder & Stoughton, 28th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529351651 Perfect summer holiday read, this is an excit- ing, seductive story of passion, betrayal and self-reinvention, set between glamorous Golden Age Casablanca and the present day.


Michael Mallon The Disciple Zuleika, 5th March, hb, £20, 9781916197718 Love and obsession blur when a hopeful post- graduate meets his intellectual idol in Flor- ence. He is consumed by the art historian 50 years his senior.


Emily St John Mandel The Glass Hotel Picador, 30th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509882809 Captivating novel of money, beauty, crime, and moral compromise from the author of Station Eleven.


Lucy Mangan


Tim Major Hope Island Titan Books, 5th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789092080 Gripping supernatural mystery for fans of John Wyndam’s The Chrysalids from the author of Snakeskins.


Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Manchester Happened Oneworld, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786077769 New story collection from the acclaimed author of Kintu and winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018.


Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi The First Woman Oneworld, 4th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781786077882 Powerful feminist folktale rooted in Ugandan mythology.


Curzio Malaparte, Stephen Twilley Diary of a Foreigner in Paris NYRB Classics, 5th May, pb, £15.99, 9781681374161 Experience postwar Europe through the diary of a fascinating and witty writer. Mala- parte encounters famous


Diary of a Suburban Lady Souvenir Press, 4th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781788161084 Mangan’s first foray into fiction is a witty update of the classic Diary of a Provincial Lady.


Jill Mansell It Started With a Secret Headline Review, 11th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781472252012 Delicious new romantic novel set in sunny Cornwall from the bestselling author Maybe This Time.


Hilary Mantel The Mirror & the Light Whole Story Audiobooks, 5th March, audiobook, £37.12, 9781528880015 Long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell.


Nadia Maran The University Student: Melina’s Diary Matador, 28th February, pb, £10.99, 9781838592837 It’s September and the university halls are buzzing with excitement. Not for Melina Xydakis, new to Scotland and new to the situation of being a child of divorce.


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