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Manhattan socialite Violet must teach an unpolished, denim-loving “nobody” from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with the upper crust of New York City society.
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trail of a runaway groom who leaves heartbroken brides in his wake. Second in the Riviera series follows Summer in San Remo.
Saga
space opera trilogy. Centuries after they were exiled to Dark Space, the Sturm are back and it doesn’t look good for humanity. The only hope lies with a few brave souls who survived the initial onslaught.
Bella Osborne The Library Aria, 6th, £8.99, PBO, 9781801100489 When their local library comes under threat, troubled teenager Tom and 72-year-old farmer Maggie form an unlikely friendship and rally the community to fight the closure. From the author of Meet Me at Pebble Beach. BookScan
Jill Shalvis The Family You Make Headline Eternal, 11th, £9.99, PBO, 9781472284426 A near-death experience on a ski lift in a snowstorm near Lake Tahoe, on the border of Nevada and California, causes Levi to make a wild claim to his family about his relationship status. Now he’s going to have to persuade a beautiful stranger to pretend to be his girlfriend…
Katie Flynn The Rose Queen Century, 6th, £20, HB, 9781529135411 When war is declared in 1939, Cadi and her best friend Poppy see a chance to escape their Welsh mining community for the bright lights of Liverpool. But city life doesn’t bring the opportunities they had hoped for. First in a two-part series, The Winter Rose will follow for Christmas 2022. BookScan
Lynne Francis The Lost Sister Piatkus, 27th, £19.99, HB, 9780349424637 Kent, 1816. Molly Dawson’s life on the Woodchurch Manor estate with her head-gardener husband Charlie is upended when her estranged half-sister Harriet makes an appear- ance, and reveals a secret that Molly has kept for 25 years…
Elle Spellman Two Doors Down Trapeze, 6th, £8.99, PBO, 9781409191575 Steph and Eric are lonely strangers in the city who live on the same street, either side of number 26. They used to take comfort from the piano-playing of this shared neighbour, but now the music has stopped and their mutual concern brings them together. For fans of Beth O’Leary.
Evonne Wareham A Wedding on the Riviera Choc Lit, 18th, £8.99, PBO, 9781781895016 A group of friends head to the French Riviera on the
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Libby Ashworth The Convict’s Wife Canelo Saga, 20th, £8.99, PBO, 9781800327610 When Molly Holden’s husband Thomas is convicted of being a Luddite and transported to Australia, she is deter- mined to join him. But the man who anonymously informed on Thomas wants Molly for himself… BookScan
SFF
Louise Carey Outcast Gollancz, 20th, £14.99, TPB, 9781473232754 Sequel to Inscape. When a bomb goes off at InTech HQ, Tanta is charged with getting to the bottom of the attack before violence and unrest overtake the city. All the evidence points towards rival corporation Thoughtfront, but Tanta can’t shake the feeling that she is missing something…
out as one to watch.”) Now Ariadne gets a message with unimagi- nable consequences: the Oracle has gone rogue.
picture—about a woman who has been saving the world for 27 years, ever since her seventh birthday party, when she defeated a giant snake. Sequel Constance Verity Saves the World (1529408133) is published simultaneously.
character sheets and stickers to chart your adventure. Also available as a deluxe limited edition £30 hardback.
Horror & ghost stories
Benjamin Percy The Unfamiliar Garden Hodder & Stoughton, 13th, £14.99, TPB, 9781473690134 Second in the Comet Cycle series about the devastation wrought on Earth by a passing comet. Marlon James is a big fan: “Take one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride them roughshod through a bleak and bloody west- ern, and it still wouldn’t get close to what Ben Percy does here, which is blow open the core of humanity’s dark heart.“
Theo Clare
The Book of Sand Century, 6th, £12.99, HB, 9781529135855 Theo Clare is a pseud- onym for the late Mo Hayder (real name Clare Dunkel), the acclaimed crime writer best known for the Jack Caffery series (Birdman), who died earlier this year. A “focus” title for Cornerstone, this fantasy is set in a hostile world of burning sun and shifting sand, where fami- lies must work together to avoid danger. Meanwhile, a teenage girl living in Virginia finds a sand lizard in her bed and starts to question everything around her.
Claudia Gray Star Wars: The Fallen Star Del Rey, 4th, £20, HB, 9781529150148 Sequel to Star Wars: The Rising Storm and third in the High Republic series.
John Birmingham The Shattered Skies Ad Astra, 11th, £20, HB, 9781789545951 Second in the Cruel Stars
Elizabeth May & Laura Lam Seven Mercies Gollancz, 20th, £18.99, HB, 9781473234963 The first in this series was a Waterstones Pick of the Month (“balancing high- octane interstellar thrills with nuanced, involving characterisation, Seven Devils marks Lam and May’s writing partnership
Charles Stross
Quantum of Nightmares Orbit, 13th, £18.99, HB, 9780356516936 Latest adventure set in the world of the Laundry Files, a nightmarish vision of Britain where magic has gone mainstream.
K J Parker A Practical Guide to Conquering the World Orbit, 13th, £8.99, PBO, 9780356514390 Gorgeous jacket for this action fantasy, set in the same world as Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City. K J Parker is a pseudonym for Tom Holt.
Sally Hinchcliffe Hare House Mantle, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781529061635 A modern-day witch story about a woman who leaves her old life in London for a remote estate in Scotland, and local tales of witchcraft, clay figures and young men sent mad. When heavy snowfall traps all inside, tensions rise to fever pitch.
Graphic novel
Anne & Christopher Rice Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris Anchor, 25th, £12.99, TPB, 9781101970331 A mother and son collaboration, this tells of Ramses the Great, a pharaoh made immortal by a powerful elixir, who wakes in Edwardian England to a world on the outbreak of war. BookScan
Sue Lynn Tan Daughter of the Moon Goddess HarperVoyager, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780008479299
Début This début from a Malaysian-born
writer begins the Celestial Kingdom duology, a story inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess. Young Xingyin’s perilous quest to free her mother pits her against the powerful and immor- tal Celestial Emperor.
A Lee Martinez The Last Adventure of Constance Verity Jo Fletcher Books, 20th, £8.99, PBO, 9781529408119 I believe this is the first UK publication for this superhero series—soon to be a major motion
H L Truslove Alba Open World Adventure Books, 27th, £15, TPB, 9781913921033
Début The first book from Inside the
Box, a tabletop games development studio, is an interactive reading experience where you, the reader, set out from your Vault to explore the Old World. It has more than 19 unique endings, and contains a map,
Julia Quinn & Violet Charles Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron Piatkus, 11th, £14.99, TPB, 9780349430454 Julia Quinn’s first graphic novel is the story of Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron, “a gloriously awful gothic novel” which first pops up in book seven of the Bridgerton series: It’s in His Kiss. What began as an in-joke for fans can now be enjoyed in its entirety. Slips from August.
Miscellaneous
James Joyce, Eduardo Arroyo (illus) Ulysses Other Press, 27th, £62.99, HB, 9781635420265 A splendid-looking illus- trated edition of James Joyce’s modernist master- piece. The neo-figurative Spanish artist Arroyo (1937-2018) began work on this in 1989 but it was blocked by the executor of the Joyce estate. An illustrated edition appeared in 1935—with lithographs by Henri Matisse, no less—which reportedly infuriated Joyce when he realised that Matisse, not having read the book, had merely depicted scenes from Homer’s Odyssey.
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