GENERAL FICTION


Nadia Marks One Summer in Crete Pan, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781509889747 From the author of Among the Lemon Trees comes another gloriously sunny read, a must for any beach bag.


Karl Marlantes Deep River Atlantic Books, 2nd July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786498854 Expansive family saga of anguish, reinvention and courage from the bestselling author of Matterhorn.


John Marrs What Lies Between Us Tomas & Mercer, 1st June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781542017022 Nina can never forgive Maggie for what she did and she can never let her leave. In this house, the truth is more dangerous than lies.


Adam Mars-Jones Box Hill Fitzcarraldo, 18th March, pb, £10.99, 9781913097233 Box Hill is a sizzling, sometimes shocking and strangely tragic love story about two men, set in the gay biker community of the 1980s.


Geovani Martins The Sun on My Head Faber & Faber, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571348251 Bestselling literary sensation from Brazil, The Sun on My Head is a work of great talent and heartbreaking sensitivity. A daring evocation of life in the favelas.


Amanda Mason The Wayward Girls Zaffre Publishing, 28th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785767067 The Girls meets The Little Stranger in this dark début about sister- hood, family secrets and a dangerous game that becomes all too real.


Carol Mason Little White Secrets Lake Union, 1st May, Book, eb, £8.99, 9781542004978 When a dark secret from the past emerges, Emily’s life is turned upside down. Struggling to protect the people she loves, can she save her damaged family?


Daniel Mason A Registry of My Passage Upon Earth Mantle, 14th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529038491 Collection of short stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner.


Naoki Matayoshi, Alison Watts (tr) Spark


Pushkin Press, 5th March, pb, £9.99, 9781782275909 Hilarious, strange and moving in equal measure, this is a Japanese multimillion-copy smash hit about the struggles of a pair of young manzai stand-up comedians.


Nicolas Mathieu Their Children After Them Sceptre, 2nd April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529303827 The voice of a generation: an immersive, nostalgic novel recalling long, sultry summers of the 1990s from a hot new talent and the winner of the Goncourt Prize.


Ana María Matute, Laura Lonsdale (tr) The Island Penguin Classics, 28th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780241374283 Searing coming-of- age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on Mallorca during the Spanish Civil War.


Guy de Maupassant, Elsie Martindale Hueffer, Ada Galsworthy, Robert Hampson (tr) et al Mademoiselle Perle and Other Stories riverrun, 6th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781787479289 New selection of Maupassant’s finest stories includes an original preface by Joseph Conrad.


Nicola May The Gift of Cockleberry Bay Lightning Books, 1st April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781785632068 Third and final chapter of the bestselling Cockleberry Bay trilogy. Chick-lit with a kick.


Imbolo Mbue How Beautiful We Were Canongate, 18th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781838851347 From the author of the bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company.


Eimear McBride Strange Hotel Faber & Faber, 4th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780571355143 A nameless woman enters a nondescript hotel room she’s been in once before, many years ago. But while the room hasn’t changed, she is a different person.


Alexander McCall Smith The Second Worst


Restaurant in France Birlinn, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781846975479 Food writer Paul Stewart escapes to the south of France. Once there, he finds his fortunes tangled up with the fate of one eating establishment.


Colum McCann Apeirogon Bloomsbury, 26th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781526607904 From the Booker Prize- longlisted McCann comes the novel of a lifetime, about two men and their daughters, divided by conflict yet united in grief.


Jesse McCarthy The Fugitivities Melville House, 18th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781612198064 Bold début examines expat life and the signifi- cance of race, nation and community across a globalising world through the eyes of two African American acquaintances.


Jenny McCartney The Ghost Factory Fourth Estate, 1st February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008295516 Powerful début set in Belfast and London in the latter years of the 20th century.


Diana McCaulay Daylight Come Peepal Tree Press, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781845234706 How do you live when daylight kills? This uncom- promising dystopian climate change novel is a passionate work of fiction addressing one of the most pressing concerns of our time.


Una McCormack The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway Titan Books, 14th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781789094794 Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager tells the story of her life in Starfleet. For fans of Star Trek.


Gavin McCrea The Sisters Mao Scribe, 9th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781912854394 Much-anticipated follow up to McCrea’s first novel, Mrs Engels, about a theatre family in London in the 1950s whose fate becomes intertwined with the wife of Mao Tse-tung.


Andy McDermott The Resurrection Key Headline Book Publish- ing, 31st March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781472236944 In the most explosive book of the thrilling Wilde and


Chase series, the intrepid pair must race against time before an ancient force is unleashed.


Andy McDermott Operative 66 Headline Book Publishing, 9th July, hb, eb, £20.99, 9781472263773 Action-packed thriller about a deadly govern- ment assassin framed as a traitor. The start of an explosive new series from the inter- national bestseller.


Ian McEwan Machines Like Me Vintage, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529111255 Our foremost story- teller returns with an audacious new novel.


Ian McGuire The Abstainer Scribner, 30th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781471163593 From the widely acclaimed author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and obsession set in 19th-century Manchester.


SL McInnis Framed Headline Book Publishing, 2nd April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781472261021 Slippery thriller to read in one sitting. For fans of The Wife Between Us and Need to Know.


Ruth McIver I Shot the Devil Tinder Press, 9th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781472266019 Thriller about a small town’s buried secrets. Will appeal to readers of The Dry, The Girls and The Secret History.


Laura Jean Mckay The Animals in That Country Scribe, 11th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912854523 Subversive female-led apocalyptic novel that asks what it means to be human and what would happen if we understood what animals were saying.


Katharine McMahon The Rose of Sebastopol Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 30th April, pb, £9.99, 9781474616843 Spellbinding novel of love and courage set in the England, Italy and Florence Nightingale’s Crimea. A Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller.


Terry McMillan It’s Not All Downhill From Here Crown Books for Young Readers, 31st March, hb, £20, 9781984823748


After a sudden change of plans, a remark- able woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she’s going to do with the rest of her life.


Alan McMonagle Laura Cassidy’s Walk of Fame Picador, 5th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509829880 Comic story of ambition, tragedy and the lies we tell ourselves in pursuit of our dreams.


Anna McPartlin Below the Big Blue Sky Zaffre Books, 16th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781838770785 McPartlin’s new novel will make you laugh, cry and shout with joy. Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Marian Keyes.


Peter Meech Billy (the Kid) Sentient, 7th February, hb, eb, £23, 9781591813026 Pueblo, Colorado, 1932. Bootleggers thrive in a town where the sheriff is on the take. This remarkable first novel reimagines the figure of Billy the Kid with verve and humour.


Andrew Meehan The Mystery of Love Head of Zeus, 6th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781789544886 Original and witty reimagining of the rela- tionship between Oscar and Constance Wilde.


Brilliantly entertaining satire set in Brussels about the meaning of Europe. Winner of the German Book Prize.


Jan Menell After Charlie Matador, 28th March, pb, £8.50, 9781838593162 In this second novel featuring Maggie Edwards, mother, wife, midwife and animal lover, our hero finds herself at the heart of village life with all its ups and downs.


Thando Mgqolozana A Man Who is Not a Man Cassava Republic, 19th May, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781913175023 Recounts the personal trauma of a young Xhosa initiate after a rite-of-passage circumcision goes wrong.


Holly Miller The Sight of You Hodder & Stoughton, 11th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529324341 Unforgettable and life- affirming love story that will make the reader’s heart soar on one page and break on the next.


David Mitchell Utopia Avenue Sceptre, 2nd June, hb, eb, £20, 9781444799422 One of the most bril- liantly inventive writers turns his unique eye on the end of the 1960s in his enthralling new novel.


SERIES


Te Margellos World Republic of Letters Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti (tr) Vol 109: Sleep of Memory Yale University Press, 11th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780300248586 Newest bestseller by Modiano: a beauti- ful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters and frag- mented sensations.


Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes Hurricane Season Fitzcarraldo Editions, 19th February, pb, £12.99, 9781913097097 Written with a brutal lyricism that is as affect- ing as it is enthralling, Melchor’s first novel to appear in English is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico.


Robert Menasse, Jamie Bulloch The Capital MacLehose Press, 20th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857058645


Kenneth Moe Restless Nordisk Books, 14th May, pb, £9.99, 9780995485273 A short novel, in the form of a letter from a young man to a woman who has rejected him. Will appeal to fans of Knausgård.


Deborah Moggach The Carer Tinder Press, 31st March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472260499 From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Tulip Fever is this deliciously funny, poignant and wry novel full of surprising twists and turns.


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