This preview highlights titles to be published in January 2022


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Stockholm to seek adven- ture in Svalbard. After a devastating accident while digging for coal, he banishes himself to a soli- tary life, until the arrival of a surprise visitor.


Niklas Natt och Dag 1794: The City Between the Bridges John Murray, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781529304626 Sequel to The Wolf and the Watchman. Young nobleman Eric Three Roses languishes in a Stockholm hospital, obsessively writing down memories of his lost love, who died on their wedding night. Her mother also mourns, and enlists the help of Jean Mickel Cardell, the one-armed watchman. BookScan


1944, where Simone faces a choice between love and duty.


Rebecca F John The Empty Greatcoat Aderyn Press, 20th, £8.99, PBO, 9781916398603 In 1907, aged 15 years and three months, Francis House enlists in the British Army to see the world. Seven years later he is at Gallipolli, hoping to prove himself a man—but first he needs to find his miss- ing friend Berto. John’s début, The Haunting of Henry Twist, was short- listed for the Costa First Novel Award in 2017.


Beth Underdown The Key in the Lock Viking, 27th, £14.99, HB, 9780241503300 Gothic mystery set in Cornwall that shifts between 1918 and 1888 by the author of The Witchfinder’s Sister, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick. By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the First World War. But by night she mourns another boy, one whose death decades ago haunts her still. BookScan


Lisa Berne The Redemption of Philip Thane Pan, 6th, £8.99, PBO, 9781529078374 Julia Quinn’s “Bridgerton” meets “Groundhog Day” is the pitch for this Regency romantic comedy follow- ing the scoundrel rake Philip Thane who, though he lives the same day over and over again, is mysteri- ously unable to capture the heart of Miss Margaret Allen.


Suzanne Fortin All That We Have Lost Aria, 6th, £8.99, PBO, 9781800243781 A dual-timeline novel that moves from the abandoned chateau in modern-day France that Imogen plans to restore, to Occupied France in


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Nicola Pryce The Cornish Captive Corvus, 6th, £7.99, PBO, 9781838954598 Cornwall, 1800. Imprisoned on false pretences, Madeleine Pelligrew, former mistress of Pendenning Hall, has spent the past 14 years being shuttled between madhouses. When a strange man appears out of the blue to release her, she can’t believe that her freedom will come so easily. Sixth in the series. BookScan


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Robert Fabbri An Empty Throne Corvus, 6th, £17.99, HB, 9781786498045 Third in the series set after the death of Alexander the Great follows To the Strongest and The Three Paradises. Who will win the fight to control the largest empire the world has every seen? BookScan


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Diane Chamberlain The Last House on the Street Headline Review, 20th, £20, HB, 9781472271204 North Carolina, 1965. A white female student involved in the fight for civil rights falls for a Black activist, but their relationship must stay hidden. In 2020, a widow moves into the home she designed, but someone seems to be trying to frighten her away. Why? Author Chamberlain has sold more than 1.5 million copies in the UK, accord- ing to the publisher.


Polly Crosby The Unravelling HQ, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9780008358457 Second novel from the author of The Illustrated Child. Tartelin Brown accepts a job on a wild, remote island with the reclusive Marianne Stourbridge. Initially tasked with hunting butterflies for Marianne’s research, she soon discovers that the island harbours dark and unusual secrets.


meet, then fall in and out of love without ever getting the timing quite right. This is Manning’s second adult novel for Hodder, following Rescue Me. She is also Red’s liter- ary editor.


Jill Mansell Should I Tell You? Headline Review, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781472248589 Amber, Laclan and Raffaele met as teenagers in the Cornwall home of kind-hearted foster parents, and as adults their bond is stronger than ever. But Amber has a secret: she’s in love with Laclan, but doesn’t dare confess her true feelings. BookScan


Christine Simon The Patron Saint of Second Chances Sphere, 13th, £16.99, HB, 9780751582932 A celebration of the underdog, says Sphere of this feel-good novel about a vacuum-cleaner repairman, who decides to save his tiny Italian village (when the water board threatens to cut off its supply) by starting a rumour that a major star will film his next movie in the village.


Angus Donald The Saxon Wolf Canelo Adventure, 13th, £8.99, PBO, 9781800321892 Sequel to The Last Beserker. Saxony, AD 773. Bjarki Bloodhand is now Fire Born, a beserker inhabited by the spirit of a ferocious bear in battle. But he has sworn never again to allow that sacred rage to possess him. BookScan


Lucy Diamond Anything Could Happen Quercus, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781529419603 Lucy Diamond moves to Quercus with her 17th novel, and a “big” pre-publication campaign is planned. When Eliza turns 18 and wants to find her father, single mother Lara is forced to admit a secret that she has been keeping from her daughter for her whole life. As both women set off in search of answers, their journey will take them back to New York, where it all started… BookScan


Sarra Manning London, With Love Hodder & Stoughton, 20th, £16.99, HB, 9781529336603 This sounds lovely, a “grown-up” London-set rom-com which follows Jennifer and Nick from 1986 to 2005 as they


Freya North Little Wing Welbeck, 20th, £12.99, HB, 9781787397606 Telling the story of two families over three generations and moving between Camden, Colchester and the Outer Hebrides, this begins in the 1960s, when a pregnant 16-year-old is banished to a remote part of the UK. A lead fiction title for Welbeck, which will support with a “major” year-long PR and marketing campaign. BookScan


Danielle Steel Invisible Macmillan, 6th, £20, HB, 9781529021813 The daughter of a French mother who abandoned her to find fame as an actress in Hollywood, Antonia must decide whether to seek the spot- light herself, or remain invisible. BookScan


Helen Buckley Strictly on Ice Choc Lit, 11th, £8.99, PBO, 9781781894781 A former Olympic ice- skating champion reluc- tantly agrees to take part in a new TV skating show, just for the money, and finds herself partnered with an infamous love rat rugby player.


Amber Crewe That Jewish Thing Coronet, 13th, £8.99, PBO, 9781529366921 London-based rom-com about Tamsyn, a young, single, workaholic Jewish woman who is stubbornly determined not to fall into the trap of her family’s idea of a “happily ever after” with nice Jewish boy Ari Marshall. Amber Crewe is the pen name of Nicole Burstein, a former Waterstones bookseller.


Saskia Sarginson The Central Line Piatkus, 20th, £14.99, TPB, 9780349428697


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rom-com, then two come along at once (see also London, With Love). Cora and Jacob live at either end of the Central Line and their paths have crossed a thousand times without them knowing. Are they meant to be together, or were they never meant to meet?


Sarah Stovell Other Parents HQ, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780008441616 A move away from psychological thrillers (Exquisite), Stovell’s fifth novel centres around a village school which intro- duces an LGBTQ+-friendly curriculum, and the row that develops among the parents afterwards. Explores privilege, preju- dice, poverty and class with sensitivity and wit, says HQ.


Darcie Boleyn Coming Home to Cariad Cove Canelo Escape, 13th, £8.99, PBO, 9781800323797 Newly widowed Ffion moves back to the family hotel in Wales and takes up running. Then she meets Joe. She will keep running no matter what, but will it be away from Joe or towards him? BookScan


Holly Hepburn The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures S&S Adult Fiction, 6th, £8.99, PBO, 9781471170355 Newly widowed Holly leaves London for York to be closer to her family and takes a job at an antique shop. She then crosses paths with two men who potentially offer her two very different happy endings. Can she trust herself to choose the right man? From the author of Coming Home to Brightwater Bay. BookScan


Marie Laval Escape to the Little Chateau Choc Lit, 25th, £8.99, PBO, 9781781894729 Amy is determined to make Bellefontaine, her farmhouse hotel in the French countryside, a success, not least because of her arrogant, patronis- ing neighbour Fabien Coste, the owner of the nearby chateau.


Lauren Layne Made in Manhattan Headline Eternal, 18th, £9.99, PBO, 9781472275349 A contemporary update of “My Fair Lady”, with a twist. Over-privileged


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