GENERAL FICTION


the nature of truth from an exciting new voice in contemporary US fiction.


Serge Pey, Donald Nicholson-Smith Treasure of the Spanish Civil War and Other Tales Archipelago Books, 18th February, pb, £12.99, 9781939810540 Intimate portrait of child- hood during Spain’s violent fascist regime, rendered in a surreal kalei- doscope of linked stories.


Gervase Phinn Tales Out of School Hodder & Stoughton, 5th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473650688 Second in a delightful new series set in a village at the top of the Yorkshire Dales.


Rosamunde Pilcher September Hodder Paperbacks, 6th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780340752456 Major bestseller from the much-loved Pilcher and the basis for the hit TV film.


Rosamunde Pilcher The Shell Seekers Hodder Paperbacks, 6th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780340752463 Phenomenal and heartwarming bestseller.


Rosamunde Pilcher Coming Home Hodder Paperbacks, 6th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780340752470 Tale of innocence and youth during the 1930s, reissued with a new jacket.


Rosamunde Pilcher Winter Solstice Hodder Paperbacks, 6th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780340752487 Brilliant and timeless novel.


Zoe Pilger Eat My Heart Out Serpent’s Tail, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788165617 Meet 2014’s most outra- geous, funny and shock- ing anti-heroine, Ann- Marie, in this Serpent’s Tail Classic edition.


Clare Pooley The Authenticity Project Bantam Press, 16th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781787631793 Julian begins the Authenticity Project, a small green notebook containing his truth. It leads to a life-changing world of friendship and forgiveness.


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Serpent’s Tail, 27th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781788164047 Remarkable début that follows one woman as she makes her way through two decades of bad relationships, motherhood and crisis. Narrated through the conversations she has with women.


SERIES


A Dover Mystery Joyce Porter Vol 9: Dead Easy for Dover Farrago, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788422123 A young pregnant girl known to no one in the town of Frenchy Botham is murdered.


SERIES


Vol 10: Dover Beats the Band 9781788422130 The naked, burned and mutilated body of a middle-aged man is discovered.


Max Porter Lanny Faber & Faber, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571340293 Devastating story told with the anarchy, humour and enchant- ment Porter’s readers will recognise from Grief Is the Thing with Feathers.


Marion Poschmann, Jen Calleja (tr) The Pine Islands Serpent’s Tail, 9th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788160926 Shortlisted for The Man Booker International Prize 2019—a charming, playful, profound tale of lost souls in search of transformation in modern Japan.


Alexandra Potter Confessions of a Forty-something F**k Up Macmillan, 30th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529022780 Hilarious, poignant, utterly relatable—Confessions of a Forty-Something F*** Up is a must-read for anyone whose life isn’t working out quite how they’d planned.


Cherry Potts (ed) Time and Tide: Stories and Poems From Solstice Shorts Festival 2019 Arachne Press, 21st March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781909208841 Stories and poems of fish- ermen, pirates, wreckers, dockers and refugees.


Rosie Price What Red Was Vintage, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529110784 Startling and sophisticated novel of modern love, sexual


The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction


violence and toxic inheritance from a brilliant new British voice.


Christopher Priest Episodes Gollancz, 14th May, pb, £8.99, 9781473200630 Collection of the best of Priest’s short fiction, spanning four decades of eerie, affecting, emotional work.


Hazel Prior


Ellie and the Harpmaker Black Swan, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784164232 Poignant, feelgood début about a man who gives a stranger a harp, and inadvertently gives them both a second chance at life.


Hazel Prior Away With the Penguins Bantam Press, 5th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781787630932 Veronica McCreedy is about to have the journey of a lifetime . A warm, witty story of late life revelations as one unique octogenarian decides to visit Antarctica.


Geraldine Quigley Music Love Drugs War Penguin, 27th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241984499 Poignant coming-of-age novel about friendship, innocence and war.


Ann Quin Three And Other Stories, 7th July, pb, eb, £10, 9781911508847 Enigmatic novel from one of Britain’s most important writers of the post-war avant- garde explores suicide, marriage and class.


Kate Racculia Tuesday Mooney Wore Black HarperFiction, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008326951 Brilliantly quirky mash-up of treasure hunt and whodunnit with an emotional heart.


Veronica Raimo, Stash Luczkiw The Girl At the Door Fourth Estate, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008326364 Tense, provocative and nuanced novel about a rape accusation in an idyllic commune. “Haunting, a book about harassment, consensus and vigilantism that has caught the zeitgeist of the times”—Vogue.


Sue Rainsford Follow Me to Ground Black Swan, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784164942


Highly praised literary début by a young Irish star-in-the-making: “A seethingly assured debut”—the Guardian.


Graciliano Ramos, Sarah Ann Wells, Padma Viswanathan (tr) São Bernardo NYRB Classics, 28th April, pb, £12.99, 9781681373850 A great Brazilian novelist, newly translated, tells of Paulo Honório, a labourer who learns to read and write in jail and his hopes of buying the great house where he once worked.


Joanne Ramos The Farm Bloomsbury, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526605238 Compulsive novel about race, class, family and power for fans of Celeste Ng, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman.


Mahesh Rao Polite Society Tinder Press, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472267214 Witty observational novel of matchmaking and mischief set in contemporary Delhi. For fans of Jane Austen’s Emma or Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians.


EM Reapy Skin Head of Zeus, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789540963 Full of self-loathing and ill at ease, Natalie metamorphoses into a more confident individual.


Liviu Rebreanu The Forest of the Hanged Histria LLC, 28th July, hb, £39.99, 9781592110308 Rightfully considered one of the greatest novels in Romanian literature. Rebeanu (1885-1944) was one of the coun- try’s most distinguished literary figures.


Elliot Reed A Key to Treehouse Living Melville House, 12th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911545415 Follow the unusual life and wisdom of parentless William Tyce as he shares his poignant adventures in this fictional A-Z coming- of-age compendium.


Celia Rees Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook HarperFiction, 14th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008347116 Beautifully crafted and gripping novel about loss, betrayal and female friendship. For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.


Poignant, bleakly comic début about loneliness, solipsism, rural gentrifica- tion Jack Black, and learn- ing to exist in the least excruciating way possible.


Pam Rhodes


Springtime at Hope Hall Lion Fiction, 21st February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782642855 Charming stories full of the heartwarming characters who use the church hall.


Hannah Richell The River Home Orion, 19th March, hb, £16.99, 9781409152255 A family home and a buried secret. A beautifully written, twisting novel.


Matteo Righetto, Howard Curtis (tr) The Last Homeland Pushkin Press, 26th March, pb, £8.99, 9781782274810 Epic second novel in an internationally acclaimed trilogy, set in the rugged mountains of the Veneto.


Marieke Lucas Rijneveld The Discomfort of Evening Faber & Faber, 19th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571349364 Sensational Dutch best- seller: Rijneveld’s extraor- dinary portrait of a Dutch farming family distorted by grief. Translated by Michele Hutchison.


Jane Riley The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock Lake Union, 1st February, Book, eb, £8.99, 9781542008143 Oliver Clock has been secretly in love with Marie for 15 years and is devastated by her death. Until he discovers that she was in love with him too.


Lucinda Riley The Sun Sister Pan, 23rd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509840151 Moving from the frenetic atmosphere of Manhat- tan to the magnificent wide open plains of Africa, this is the sixth instalment in Riley’s multi-million selling epic series, The Seven Sisters.


Richard Owain Roberts Hello Friend We Missed You Parthian Books, 1st May, hb, eb, £11.99, 9781912681495


Hilary Robinson, Lewis James (illus) Jasper Viking Dog Strauss House Productions, 13th February, pb, £7.99, 9781999338916 Jasper believes that he may descend from a long line of Viking dogs and that his heritage could mean he is an asset to the local Viking Museum.


Monique Roffey The Mermaid of Black Conch Peepal Tree Press, 2nd April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781845234577 Extraordinary love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea. By the award-winning author of Costa-short- listed House of Ashes.


Robert Ronsson Once Upon a Time in Chinatown Patrician Press, 31st March, pb, £9, 9781999703059 Second novel by Ronsson to be inspired by film. It starts with the narrator embarking on a search for the father he never knew.


Richard Roper Something to Live For Orion, 23rd July, pb, £7.99, 9781409185611 For fans of David Nich- olls and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, this story explores one man’s attempts to let go of the past and start life afresh.


Kate Rorick Little Wonders William Morrow Paperbacks, 30th April, pb, £9.99, 9780062877215 Smart, witty tale about super mummies, private schools and getting your worst moment plastered across the internet. Ideal for lovers of Amy Poepell and Laurie Gelman.


Karen Rose Into the Dark Headline Book Publishing, 6th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781472265685 Fifth novel in the explosive Cincinnati series from the bestseller.


Diana Rosie The Girl Who Turned Right Mantle, 25th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781447293057 Story about love and loss and how so much of our lives hinge on chance.


Alan Rossi Mountain Road,


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