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growing up and learning to live in your own body— intense friendships, ambivalent mothers, uneasily blended families. “Tenderloin” was short- listed for the 2019 White Review Short Story Prize and “Overnight” was selected by Sally Rooney for the Stinging Fly.
Gwen E Kirby Shit Cassandra Saw Penguin Books USA, 13th, £12.99, PBO, 9780143136620 A memorably titled collection of stories about women at breaking point, from Hellenic times to the present day. Virgins escape from being sacri- ficed, witches refuse to be burned, whores aren’t ashamed “and every woman gets a chance to be a radioactive cock- roach warrior who snaps back at cat-callers”.
Adventure
Matthew Reilly The One Impossible Labyrinth Orion, 20th, £20, HB, 9781409194439 The Jack West adventure trilogy concludes (The Three Secret Cities, The Two Lost Mountains) as our hero has made it to the Supreme Labyrinth and now faces one last race against time.
Crime & thriller
Sam Blake Remember My Name Corvus, 6th, £12.99, TPB, 9781838952952 When Cressida realises her husband is cheating on her, she hires Brioni O’Brien to secure the
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Radhika Sanghani Thirty Things I Love About Myself Headline Review, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781472277664
30th birthday, where she discovers a tatty little self-help book that will inspire her to take a long, hard look at
her life, who she really is, and what she wants. First adult novel from the YA writer (Virgin and Not That Easy) and journalist. A “lead 2022 launch” for Headline, which will support with a “bold, ambi- tions and inclusive” marketing and PR campaign.
Edel Coffey Breaking Point Sphere, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780751582383
Début A superlead for Sphere, this
début from Irish journalist Coffey tells of high-flier Susannah who makes a devastating mistake in the morning rush on the hottest day of the year— she leaves her baby strapped in her car seat and doesn’t realise until it is too late…
Luca D’Andrea, Katherine Gregor (trans) The Wanderer MacLehose Press, 6th, £18.99, HB, 9781529407884 From “Italy’s answer
Lisa Gardner One Step Too Far Century, 20th, £12.99, HB, 9781529135565 Five men head into the Wyoming woods for a bachelor party weekend, but only four return. Amateur detective Frankie Elkin (Before She Disappeared) joins the search team, led by the missing man’s father, and ventures deep into the forest to uncover the truth… Author Gardner is a major focus for Century. BookScan
Elizabeth George Something to Hide Hodder & Stoughton, 11th, £20, HB, 9781529346541 The Inspector Lynley series
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evidence she needs for a speedy and financially rewarding divorce. But what Brioni uncovers goes way beyond infidelity: her husband is in bed with some very dangerous people… BookScan
Lucy Clarke One of the Girls HarperCollins, 6th, £12.99, HB, 9780008462376 Latest thriller from the author of The Castaways, a recent Waterstones Thriller of the Month, is set on the sun-drenched Greek island of Ageous, where six friends antici- pate a glorious holiday with a bride-to-be. But for one, it will be their last... BookScan
to Stephen King”, says MacLehose, a haunting thriller drawing on myths, legends and fairytales, set in a mysterious Italian valley. From the author of The Mountain. BookScan
Mark Dawson The Driver Welbeck, 6th, £12.99, HB, 9781787397033 The maverick ex-MI6 assassin John Milton returns (The Cleaner), now working as a taxi driver in San Francisco. After the girl he drives to a party goes missing, Milton becomes the unwelcome focus of attention for the local police. BookScan
reaches book 21. When a Nigerian-born detective working for the Met dies of a head injury inflicted in her flat by a person (or persons) unknown, DI Lynley, DS Barbara Havers and DS Nkata investigate. The BBC TV series “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries” has attracted 13 million view- ers. BookScan
Times Crime Book of the Month. Newly released from prison, Steven Smith investigates a mystery that has haunted him for decades: the disap- pearance of his remedial English teacher, who believed messages in secret code ran through all the novels of cele- brated children’s writer Edith Twyford.
Hodder & Stoughton, 18th, £16.99, HB, 9781444779790 Latest literary thriller from the author of Before the Fall and creator of the TV series “Fargo” is set in an America plagued by opioid addiction, environmental collapse and vigilante attacks, where a band of unlikely heroes set out to save one innocent life. BookScan
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David Gilman The Englishman — Betrayal Aries, 6th, £18.99, HB, 9781838931438 Former French Foreign Legion fighter Dan Raglan returns when an old legionnaire colleague, now an intelligence officer at the Pentagon, disap- pears. He leaves only this message: should he ever go missing, contact Raglan.
Chris Hammer Opal Country Wildfire, 6th, £16.99, HB, 9781472272966 In the desolate outback town of Finnegan’s Gap in New South Wales, an opal miner is found crucified. Detective Ivan Lucic is sent to investigate with inexperienced colleague Nell Buchanan, but soon both officers are facing damning allegations. From the author of Scrublands, winner of the CWA Dagger for Best Début in 2019.
Janice Hallett The Twyford Code Viper, 13th, £12.99, HB, 9781788165310 This sounds ace, the new novel from the author of The Appeal, a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and a Sunday
One to Watch
Début The story of Nina Mistry, who finds herself acci- dently locked in a prison cell on the night of her
Historical
Susan Stokes-Chapman Pandora Harvill Secker, 27th, £14.99, HB, 9781787302884
London, Dora Blake is intrigued by a mysterious ancient Greek vase that is delivered to the famous shop of antiq-
uities where she lives with her uncle (a shop which used to belong to her parents). With her uncle behaving suspiciously, Dora enlists the help of a young antiquarian scholar to investigate, and what he discovers about the vase will lead Dora to ques- tion everything she believes about her family, and the world as she knows it. Shortlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2020.
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Sophie Hannah The Couple at the Table Hodder & Stoughton, 27th, £16.99, HB, 9781529352818 Simon Waterhouse and Charlie Zailer are back in a twisty new psychologi- cal suspense tale which centres on six couples, one luxury resort and a seemingly perfect murder. BookScan
Noah Hawley Anthem
This Girl, That Girl Bantam Press, 20th, £12.99, HB, 9781787633261 Fourth thriller from the author of The Rumour follows two women: Scarlett, whose aunt was brutally murdered in the upstairs flat; and Dee, the funeral director she approaches to organise her aunt’s funeral. An “engaging” digital campaign is planned. BookScan
Lars Kepler The Mirror Man Zaffre, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781838776466 Latest in the Sweden-set Detective Joona Linna series concerns the discovery of a dead girl in a public park; five years earlier, she was abducted in broad daylight.
Hannah King She and I Raven Books, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781526637499
One to Watch
Début A “major” acquisition for the Vintage division, which will be supported by a “huge” campaign. In Georgian
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