GENERAL FICTION
HarperFiction, 2nd April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008373122 Pacy, gossip-fuelled school gates drama and the hottest novel of 2020.
Jeremy Tiang It Never Rains on National Day Epigram Books, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912098972 Wry, unsettling stories ask how we decide where we belong and what happens to those who don’t.
Andrzej Tichy, Nichola Smalley Wretchedness And Other Stories, 2nd June, pb, eb, £10, 9781911508762 Beauty and poverty, violence, addiction and brotherhood. Written with unstoppable flow, Wretchedness mixes high and low culture in an inimitable way.
Aleksandar Tisma, Richard Williams Kapo NYRB Classics, 5th May, pb, £14.99, 9781681374390 Masterful novel about the atrocities of World War II and the unspeak- able things people did to survive, by one of Yugoslavia’s great literary voices.
Su Tong, James Trapp (tr) Shadow of the Hunter Sinoist Books, 27th March, hb, eb, £19.99, 9781910760888 The internationally acclaimed author of Raise the Red Lantern returns with a dysfunc- tional vision of roman- tic obsession linked to Chinese fables, where the unwitting predator finds itself as the prey.
Paige Toon The Minute I Saw You Simon & Schuster, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781471179488 Hannah has her reasons for wanting to keep a budding friendship platonic. But as summer hots up, Hannah discovers that there’s more to Sonny than meets the eye.
Joanna Trollope Mum & Dad Macmillan, 5th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529003383 Mum & Dad by the Sunday Times bestseller Joanna Trollope is a wise, brilliantly drawn examination of a modern family dilemma.
Alan Trotter Muscle Faber & Faber, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571352227 Mind-bending slice of pulp fiction, which takes a traditional noir story
of detectives, toughs and femmes fatales and pushes it to the limits of our imagination.
David Trueba Rolling Fields Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 11th June, pb, £14.99, 9781474612876 A road trip across contemporary Spain and a trip down memory lane, a moving, funny and warm generational novel of friendship and love.
Chris Tutton The Failing of Angels Avalanche Books, 4th April, pb, £8.99, 9781874392040 Bittersweet, poetic meditation on social isolation, vulnerabil- ity and loneliness.
Anne Tyler Redhead by the Side of the Road Chatto & Windus, 9th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781784743475 From the bestsell- ing author of A Spool of Blue Thread: an offbeat love story about missteps, second chances and the elusive art of human connection.
celebrate during a joyous, bittersweet weekend.
Ozgur Uyanik Conception Fairlight Books, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912054879 Dark comedy set in the world of modern art with a sociopathic anti-hero desperate to succeed. Takes aim at who and what determines the value of conceptual art.
PJ Vanston Somewhere in Europe Matador, 28th March, pb, £10.99, 9781838593087 After reluctantly being “rationalised” from his Foreign Office job, Kevin Crump takes up a teaching position at the most improved univer- sity in South Wales.
Sam Tschida Siri, Who Am I? Quirk Books, 17th March, pb, £9.99, 9781683691686 Edgy comedy about a Kardashians-obsessed woman who wakes up in hospital with amne- sia, a torn party dress and a broken iPhone and uses Instagram to learn her identity.
Ivan Turgenev, Boris Dralyuk A Nest of Gentlefolk and Other Stories riverrun, 14th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529404050 With charm and warmth, Turgenev writes of provin- cial life in a quiet yet remarkably astute style.
JB Turner Hard Target Tomas & Mercer, 21st May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781542014434 Jon Reznick is on the run after intercepting intelligence that points to government black ops against whistle- blowers on US soil.
Scott Turow The Last Trial Mantle, 28th May, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529039085 Sandy Stern takes on his last trial in this scintillating courtroom thriller.
Ilaria Tuti Flowers Over the Inferno Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 31st March, pb, £8.99, 9781474609593 An idyllic village in the Alps, a legacy of sin and an evil hiding in the shadows.
Various Being Various: New Irish Short Stories Faber & Faber, 7th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571354108 Edited by prize-winning author Lucy Caldwell, Being Various brings together original stories from Ireland’s current golden age of writing.
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UCL Publishers’ Prize Team 2020 UCL Publishers Prize Student Writing 2020: Libraries University College London, June, pb, £7.99, 9780905937274 An anthology of short stories and poems comprising a variety of linguistic expressions on the theme ‘Libraries’.
Deb Olin Unferth Barn 8 And Other Stories, 9th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781911508885 Unforgettably exuberant and potent novel by a writer at the height of her powers.
Michaël Uras My Sardinian Summer Hodder & Stoughton, 19th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529351613 Story of self-redemption set against an irresistible Sardinian backdrop. Perfect for fans of Ruth Hogan and Andrew Sean Greer.
Luis Alberto Urrea The House of Broken Angels John Murray, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529359305 In this “raucous, moving, and necessary” (San Francisco Chronicle) story, the de-La-Cruzes, a family on the Mexi- can-American border,
The Anthology of Irish Folk Tales Te History Press, 2nd March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780750993210 The best tales from around the country, chosen from our popular series of Folk Tales.
Juan Pablo Villalobos, Daniel Hahn I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me And Other Stories, 30th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781911508489 The author of Down the Rabbit Hole delivers an hilarious and prize- winning tale of immi- grants, students and gangsters in Barcelona.
Hannah Vincent She-clown, and Other Stories Myriad Editions, 26th March, pb, £8.99, 9781912408382 Women exhilarated to discover the joy and surprise of other women’s company make bold sexual choices and go on night-time excursions.
Jeremy Vine The Diver & the Lover Coronet, 9th July, hb, eb, £20, 9781529308433 A novel of love, sacrifice and Salvador Dali set against the backdrop of post-civil war Catalonia.
Ocean Vuong On Earth We’re
Briefly Gorgeous Vintage, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529110685 Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender and highly original, poet Vuong’s début novel is a sweeping portrait of a family and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling.
Terry Waite The Adventures of Alice Hardcastle Marylebone House, 16th July, hb, eb, £20, 9781910674598 Following a huge win on the National Lottery, the redoubtable Alice Hardcastle, along with recently retired husband Albert, set off on what they imagine will be a luxurious cruise.
Fiona Walker Country Lovers Head of Zeus, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784977290 They say you should never go back, but Ronnie did just that—to the home she ran away from. Not everyone is finding it easy to forgive and forget.
Harriet Walker The New Girl Hodder & Stoughton, 9th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529304008 She’s borrowed your life. But what if she decides to keep it?
Kevin Walker Faerie Seeking Unicorn: A Reet Set of Queer Tales Te History Press, 1st July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780750993807 Tales focusing solely on the queer community show princesses falling in love with lady bards, warriors with noblemen, and that one born a prince may become the most wonderful queen.
Jemma Wallace The Truth About My Mother Trapeze, 20th February, pb, £8.99, 9781409173564 The début novel from the winner of the Gingerbread One in Four New Writer Award set up to raise awareness of single parent families.
Robert Walser Jakob Von Gunten Serpent’s Tail, 19th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788164504 Robert Walser’s great masterpiece, reissued with a foreword by JM Coetzee.
Julie Walters Maggie’s Tree Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 20th February, pb, £8.99, 9781474614610 Oscar-nominated star of Billy Elliot’s darkly funny début novel.
Xuan Juliana Wang Home Remedies Atlantic Books, 7th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786497437 Blazing, intimate collec- tion about a young gener- ation of Chinese millenni- als, their unconventional sex lives and fantastic technologies on a quest for every kind of freedom.
Susan May Warren The Way of the Brave Revell, 7th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780800735845 Jenny Calhoun climbs mountains to forget. But this time, when an excursion turns deadly, she is forced to accept the help of the man she hoped she’d never see again.
Kawai Strong Washburn Sharks in the Time of Saviours Canongate Books, 2nd April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786896483 Powerful début that delicately blends Hawaiian myth with the broken American dream.
Bryan Washington Lot Atlantic Books, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786497864 Stories of a young man finding his place among family and community in Houston from a powerful, emerging American voice.
Rebecca Watson Little Scratch Faber & Faber, 2nd July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780571356577 Whole Story Audiobooks, 1st July, audiobook, £17.01, 9781528892247 Explosive and virtuo- sic début by one of the most talented young authors to have emerged in recent British fiction.
Madeleine Watts The Inland Sea ONE, 5th March, hb, £14.99, 9781911590231 Fierce and beautiful début novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, each other and the world around us.
Jemma Wayne To Dare Legend Press, 1st June, pb, e
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