SAGAS, ROMANCE & HISTORICAL
eb, £7.99, 9781848458116 Fabulous new work from- Mallery about friendship, love and bucket lists.
Hilary Mantel The Mirror and the Light Fourth Estate, 5th March, hb, eb, £25, 9780007480999 Stunning conclusion to the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. A defining portrait of Cromwell as predator and prey, between royal will and a common man’s vision.
Nikki Marmery On Wilder Seas Legend Press, 16th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789551136 Historical novel inspired by the true story of Maria, a slave woman who sailed to freedom on Sir Francis Drake’s ship the Golden Hind.
Charles Martin The Water Keeper Tomas Nelson, 11th June, hb, £18.99, 9780785230915 From a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author comes a tender and compelling new story about the memories that haunt us all.
Elsie Mason The Biscuit Factory Girls Orion, 16th April, hb, £20.99, 9781409196457 For fans of Nancy Revell, Elaine Everest and Daisy Styles comes a story of strength, love and finding your family in a time of war.
Cathy Maxwell His Secret Mistress Avon Books, 16th April, pb, £6.99, 9780062897268 At the Logical Men’s Society—an exclusive bachelor’s club—brandy flows like water, bawdy stories abound, and a gentleman tempted to marry is always persuaded to reconsider.
Sue McDonagh Meet Me at the Art Cafe Choc Lit, 11th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781781892886 Wonderfully uplifting read set in Wales. Book two in the series and the follow-on from Summer at the Art Cafe.
Mhairi McFarlane If I Never Met You HarperFiction, 5th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008169480 Hilarious and relatable new novel from the queen of romcoms.
Claire McGlasson The Rapture Faber & Faber, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571345199 As captivating as The Girls and with the vibrancy
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of The Miniaturist, this riveting novel is based on a true story.
Cressida McLaughlin The Cornish Cream Tea Summer HarperFiction, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008333478 Cressida’s vintage bus takes another charming drive through Cornwall. This time Charlie serves up cream teas to a TV production company filming a historical drama with a handsome leading man.
James Meek To Calais, in Ordinary Time Canongate Books, 2nd July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786896773 About home, belonging, love, courage and identity, set in the 14th century, from the Booker- longlisted author of The People’s Act of Love.
Helen Moffett Charlotte Manilla Press, 14th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781785769108 Powerful reimagining of Pride and Prejudice which takes up where Austen left off and shows us a woman determined to carve a place for herself in the world.
Sophia Money-Coutts What Happens Now? HQ, 16th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008288549 “Surprisingly funny and very saucy”—OK!’ “A laugh-a-minute page- turner, perfect for poolside reading!”—Hello.
Caroline Montague A Paris Secret Orion, 14th May, pb, £7.99, 9781409180821 Sweeping historical fiction set in the fragile world of postwar Paris.
Santa Montefiore The Secret Hours Simon & Schuster, 16th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471169656 Arethusa never told Faye why she turned away from her family. Faye is determined to fulfil her mother’s last wish, and travels to Ireland to lay her to rest.
Santa Montefiore There and Back Simon & Schuster, 9th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781471169663 Latest from Sunday Times bestselling author.
Jean Moran Summer of the Three Pagodas Head of Zeus, 5th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781788542586 9th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788542593
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Exotic saga set in postwar Hong Kong and Korea, where Dr Rowena Rossiter longs to follow her heart but the shadows of a violent past threaten to engulf her.
Serpent’s Tail, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788161701 For seven years, John Warlow will inhabit the cellar of a manor house in complete isolation. This seductive tale of self- delusion and obsession is both elegant and unforgettably sinister.
Sheila Newberry The Meadow Girls Zaffre Publishing, 14th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781785761904 Nostalgic family saga from the bestselling author of The Winter Baby and The Nursemaid’s Secret.
Katy Moran Wicked by Design Head of Zeus, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786695406 From the windswept cliffs of Cornwall to the glittering ballrooms of St Petersburg, this is Regency romance with a twist.
Sarah Morgan Family for Beginners HQ, 2nd April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781848457942 Brand new summer read from Sarah Morgan.
Kate Mosse The City of Tears Mantle, 28th May, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781509806874 Set across Paris, Amster- dam and London, Mosse is back with the second novel in The Burning Chambers quartet.
Jojo Moyes Night Music Hodder Paperbacks, 25th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780340895962 Discover the moving Moyes novel you haven’t read yet.
Annie Murray Girls in Tin Hats Macmillan, 6th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781529011753 Pan, 16th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529011760 Love, friendship, trag- edy and courage under Birmingham’s wartorn skies from the Sunday Times-bestselling author.
Benjamin Myers The Offing Bloomsbury, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526611307 Powerful novel about an unlikely friendship between a young man and an older woman, set on the North Yorkshire coast in the aftermath of the Second World War.
Alix Nathan The Warlow Experiment
Jonathan Nicholas Kittyhawk Down Book Guild Publishing, 28th April, pb, £9.99, 9781913208561 The story of flight sergeant Dennis Copping who disappeared on a short flight across Egypt. Pieces together real history to create an excit- ing wartime thriller.
David Nicholls One Day Hodder Paperbacks, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780340896983 Multimillion copy novel that brilliantly captures the experi- ences of a generation.
Chris Nickson The Anchoress of Chesterfield Te Mystery Press, 1st June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780750993098 Fourth title in the gripping medieval mystery series set in Chesterfield.
Kayte Nunn The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant Orion, 6th February, pb, £8.99, 9781409190561 Atmospheric and resonant novel that holds up a light to the heart’s choices and their consequences.
Anne O’Brien A Tapestry of Treason HQ Fiction, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008236939 1399. Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnifi- cently dysfunctional family, the House of York.
Joseph O’Connor Shadowplay Vintage, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784709150 Magnificent novel from the bestselling author about Bram Stoker’s intense relationships with the actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry and the
inspirations that led to the creation of Dracula.
Karen Odden A Trace of Deceit William Morrow, 6th February, pb, £9.99, 9780062796622 Following a daring female painter and the Scotland Yard detective who is investigating her brother’s suspicious death.
Maggie O’Farrell Hamnet Tinder Press, 31st March, hb, eb, £20, 9781472223791 Told in O’Farrell’s unique voice, Hamnet reveals for the first time in fiction the story of heartbreak- ing loss which inspired Shakespeare’s most celebrated play.
Jeroen Olyslaegers, David Colmer (tr) Will
Pushkin Press, 4th June, pb, £8.99, 9781782274254 Tense, thrilling and morally murky read, set in Nazi-occupied Antwerp and inspired by the author’s own family history of collabora- tion during WW2.
Kathy O’Shaughnessy In Love With George Eliot Scribe, 11th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912854752 Complex and compelling debut about one of England’s greatest women novelists, now in paperback.
Ambrose Parry The Art of Dying Black Torn, 2nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786896735 Will Raven and Sarah Fisher return in this gripping historical crime novel set in Edinburgh and penned under the Ambrose Parry name by the husband-and- wife writing team of Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman.
Phaedra Patrick The Secrets of Sunshine HQ, 27th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008237677 A single father gets an unexpected second chance at love in the heartwarming new novel from the bestselling author of The Library of Lost and Found.
Mary Paulson-Ellis The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing Picador, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781447293965 An heir hunter in modern- day Edinburgh searches out the rightful inheritor to a dead man’s fortune. From the author of The Other Mrs Walker.
Scarlett Peckham The Rakess Avon, 11th June, pb, £6.99, 9780062935618 From a new star in the historical romance world comes the first in Society of Sirens, a scandalous and subversive new series about three libertine ladies who weaponise their reputations to fight for love and justice!
Sophie Pembroke Summer on Seashell Island Orion, 11th June, pb, £7.99, 9781409189824 No information at time of going to press.
Sharon Penman The Land Beyond the Sea Macmillan, 5th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781447287537 Epic novel tells the story of a clash of cultures.
Robert Perisic,
Ellen Elias-Bursac (tr) No-Signal Area Seven Stories Press, 7th April, pb, £14.99, 9780995580718 Second novel by the highly praised postwar Croatian writer.
SW Perry The Saracen’s Mark Corvus, 2nd April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786498977 Third instalment of The Jackdaw Mysteries. A tale of conspiracy, murder and espionage in Elizabethan London and dazzling Marrakesh.
Tracie Peterson Secrets of My Heart Bethany House, 3rd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780764232251 Reunited with a child- hood friend and lawyer, recently widowed Nancy Pritchard must search through the pieces of her loveless marriage for the truth behind her husband’s death.
Tracie Peterson, Kimberley Woodhouse Forever Hidden Bethany House, 7th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780764232480 When her grandfather’s health begins to decline, Havyn is determined to keep her family together.
David Phelps The Hare at Morning Matador, 28th February, pb, £10.99, 9781838592745 The story of a Hereford- shire gamekeeper, born in the last years of the reign of Queen Victo- ria, looking back on his long and eventful life.
Christina Pishiris Love Songs for Sceptics Simon & Schuster, 30th
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