SAGAS, ROMANCE & HISTORICAL
April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781471189968 Is Zoë right to be sceptical about romance or is it time she changed her tune? A fantastic début from a brilliant new voice in women’s fiction.
Adrian Plass Shadow Doctor: The Past Awaits Hodder & Stoughton, 16th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781473675261 The continued adventures of the Shadow Doctor from the bestselling author of The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass.
Rosella Postorino, Leah Janeczko The Women at Hitler’s Table HarperFiction, 20th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008388331 Inspired by the powerful true story of Hitler’s food tasters, this is a heartbreaking and gripping historical novel for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
Lara Prescott The Secrets We Kept Windmill Books, 17th March, pb, £8.99, 9781786090744 Two women spies, a banned master- piece and a book that changed history.
Steven Price Lampedusa Picador, 20th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529019636 Novel about art and life, of loss and survival, imagining how one of the greatest novels of the 20th century came to be written.
Laura Purcell Bone China Raven Books, 2nd April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781526602503 A Daphne Du Maurier- esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset.
Julia Quinn First Comes Scandal Avon Books, 30th April, pb, £6.99, 9780062956163 Continuing her delightful Bridgertons Prequel series, a No 1 New York Times bestselling author pres- ents the latest love story between the Bridgerton and Rokesby families.
Christine Raafat The Will to Succeed Unicorn Publishing, 1st February, pb, £10, 9781912690688 A novel of love, loyalty and rights, set in the court of James I and based on
the true story of a North Country noblewoman’s stand against male power.
Philip G Reed Living With the Dead Book Guild Publishing, 28th February, pb, £8.99, 9781913208271 At an archaeological dig in 1930s India Rebecca pursues love but violence and a lone man on the mountain disrupt her plans.
Lynette Rees A Daughter’s Promise Quercus Publishing, 14th May, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781529403879 Heartwarming saga from the ebook- bestselling author of Workhouse Waif.
Tracy Rees
The House at Silvermoor Quercus, 6th February, hb, eb, £20.99, 9781786486714 31st March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781786486707 Fifth novel from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller Amy Snow. Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley and Dinah Jefferies.
Virginia Reeves The Behaviour of Love Scribner, 16th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471171970 Brilliant new novel from the author of Work Like Any Other, longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
Rachel Rhys Island of Secrets Black Swan, 11th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784164898 Mystery, romance and scandal in Rhys’ immer- sive new novel set in Havana on the cusp of revolution. For fans of Dinah Jeffries and Santa Montefiore.
Kelly Rimmer Truths I Never Told You Headline Review, 25th February, E-bookreader, eb, £8.99, 9781472247346 Gripping novel about the lies that can bind families together or tear them apart from the Top 10 bestselling Australian author of Before I Let You Go.
Kelly Rimmer Undone Headline Eternal, 25th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472257611 Unforgettable love story in the Start Up in the City series, perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis and Nora Roberts.
Lilly Robbins The Nightingales in Mersey Square
Orion, 2nd April, hb, £20.99, 9781409191995 For fans of Maureen Lee and Lyn Andrews, this is a heartwarming saga about three women brought together by war and held together by the Guernsey evacuee children.
Maya Rodale An Heiress to Remember Avon Books, 14th May, pb, £6.99, 9780062838841 USA Today bestselling author Maya Rodale’s Gilded Age Girls Club series continues with an enemies-to- lovers romance.
Helen Rolfe The Little Cottage in Lantern Square Orion, 25th June, pb, £7.99, 9781409191407 Warm, wise and welcoming women’s fiction. Rolfe writes from the heart and invites you into her comforting world.
Jennifer Rosner The Yellow Bird Sings Picador, 2nd April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529032468 Moving and utterly gripping début about a mother and daugh- ter forced into hiding during WWII.
James Runcie The Road to Grantchester Bloomsbury, 5th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781408886861 Captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of a young Sidney Chambers in postwar London.
Jennifer Ryan Tough Talking Cowboy Avon Books, 23rd March, pb, £6.99, 9780062851925 The heat reaches fever pitch in the third novel in Ryan’s romantic and scandalous Wild Rose Ranch series.
Lynsay Sands Hunting for a Highlander Avon, 19th March, pb, £6.99, 9780062855374 Four Buchanan brothers have found their brides and there are only three more to go in this scintillating romance.
Patricia Scanlan The Liberation of Brigid Dunne Simon & Schuster, 30th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781471151163 When four feisty women from the same family get together at a reunion, anything can happen.
Simon Scarrow Blackout Headline Book Publishing,
11th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781472258540 Winter has blanketed Berlin in snow and ice at the outbreak of World War II and a serial killer is at work. Historical thriller from bestselling author.
Whitney Scharer The Age of Light Picador, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509889150 Sweeping début tells the story of Lee Miller’s journey to become an artist and her love affair with Man Ray in bohemian 1930s Paris.
Caroline Scott The Photographer of the Lost Simon & Schuster, 25th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471183119 Sweeping and heartbreak- ing historical novel that takes us to the Western Front in 1917 and to the aftermath of war in 1921.
Lawrence Scott Dangerous Freedom Papillote Press, 4th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781999776862 London in 1802 is danger- ous for black people. Elizabeth d’Aviniere, the mixed race great-niece of the Lord Chief Justice, fears for her own children and yearns for her mother.
Cat Sebastian A Delicate Deception Avon Impulse, 20th February, pb, £5.99, 9780062821621 Final enchanting romance in Sebastian’s Regency Impostors series has a reclusive young woman and a wounded man find healing and love in one another’s arms.
Jill Shalvis Rainy Day Friends Avon, 28th May, pb, £6.99, 9780062963192 Following the USA Today bestselling author of Lost and Found Sisters comes Shalvis’ moving story of heart, loss, betrayal and friendship.
Jill Shalvis
The Summer Deal Headline Eternal, 2nd June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781472269621 Heartwarming new novel from Shalvis.
Nisha Sharma The Legal Affair Avon Impulse, 30th April, pb, £5.99, 9780062854384 Singh Family Tril- ogy Book 2.
Muna Shehadi Hidden Truths Headline Review, 6th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472258731
Compelling read of family secrets, romance and self-discovery. For fans of Lucinda Riley and Santa Montefiore.
Muna Shehadi Honest Secrets Headline Review, 31st March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472258755 Concludes the Fortune’s Daughters trilogy in which the girls find out the truth about their mother.
Laura Shepherd-Robinson Daughters of Night Mantle, 25th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781509880829 Second novel from the author of Blood & Sugar and this time Captain Harry Corsham’s wife, Caro, takes centrestage.
Joanna Shupe The Prince of Broadway Avon, 20th February, pb, £6.99, 9780062906830 Ruthless casino owner bent on revenge finds his plans upended by a beautiful women who proves to be more deter- mined than he is and too irresistible to deny.
Josie Silver The Two Lives of Lydia Bird Penguin General, 5th March, audiobook, £13, 9780241986615 Lydia and Freddie have been together for a decade and Lydia thinks their love is indestructible. She’s wrong.
Martin Sixsmith An Unquiet Heart Scribner, 9th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781471149818 Russian veteran Sergei Yesenin craves redemp- tion through poetry and love. Bursting with real- life drama, An Unquiet Heart is a magnifi- cently wrought novel of passion and tragedy.
Sjon, Victoria Cribb The Whispering Muse Sceptre, 14th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529342994 A master storyteller, Sjon seamlessly blends seafar- ing yarns of the ancient world with the manners of the modern age.
Jill Eileen Smith Star of Persia: Esther’s Story Revell, 3rd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780800734718 Esther is poised to save her people from annihilation. Relying on a fragile trust in a silent God, can she pit her wisdom against a vicious enemy and win?
Lauraine Snelling A Blessing to Cherish
Bethany House, 19th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780764232893 After years of widowhood and hardship, Ingeborg focuses on the good she’s been given and watches her widowed stepson fall in love again. But not everything is comfortable for Ingeborg.
Mia Sosa The Worst Best Man Avon Books, 19th March, pb, £9.99, 9780062909879 A sassy, steamy #ownvoices romcom about a woman whose new job requires her to work side-by-side with the best man who ruined her wedding.
John Spurling Mirror for Monkeys Duckworth, 16th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780715653623 Through the prisms of memory and art, award- winning author Spurling reimagines the tumultuous period of the Glorious Revolution and William Congreve as never before.
Mary Jane Staples The Lodger Corgi Books, 20th February, pb, eb, £6.99, 9780552176897 Moving family drama set against the backdrop of one of London’s poorest areas. Perfect for fans of Maggie Ford, Kitty Neale and Katie Flynn.
Mary Jane Staples Those in Peril Corgi, 2nd April, pb, eb, £6.99, 9780552177283 The wartime love story between a young English widow and a refugee from Nazi-occupied France.
Mary Jane Staples A Wartime Marriage Corgi, 16th April, pb, eb, £6.99, 9780552177290 Set against the tumultu- ous last days of World War I. A POW’s only way back to England and his lost love is through marrying and protect- ing another woman...
Sarah-Jane Stratford Red Letter Days Berkley Publishing, 25th February, pb, £12.99, 9780451475572 Striking novel about two daring women who escape McCarthy-era Hollywood for London.
Matteo Strukul, Richard McKenna Medici—Ascendancy Head of Zeus, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786692115 Financiers of kings, godfa- thers of the Renaissance, arbiters of peace or war: Emperors in all but name.
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