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engagement party. As a storm descends, his fian- cée goes missing. This was a Sunday Times top-three bestseller. Lots of creepy fun.
in Paris as the Nazis invaded.
Historical adventure
Riley Sager Survive the Night Hodder Paperbacks, 23rd, £8.99, 9781529379945 Charlie is getting a ride across the country from Josh, another student. But is one of them the Campus Killer, who has tied up and stabbed three students in the span of a year?
J D Davies Destiny’s Tide Canelo Adventure, 9th, £8.99, 9781788639378 When Henry VIII dissolves the monasteries and wages war against France and Scotland, Jack Stannard must head up the Dunwich fleet. Canelo is also publishing the Stannard novels Battle’s Flood and Armada’s Wake this month.
Scottish army sweeps into northern England.
Jonathan Spencer Emperor of Dust Canelo Adventure, 2nd, £9.99, 9781800324770 In 1798 Egypt, where Napoleon and his army are trapped, Hazzard is searching for the French spy-catcher Citizen Derrien.
Historical crime & thriller
Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton investigate when a body is found encased in wax at Madame Tussauds in 1896.
20th century. Lily works in the Chrisp Street Market and searches for her long- lost sister while the man she loves fights in France.
Ann Granger The Truth-Seeker’s Wife Headline, 9th, £9.99, 9781472270658 Granger’s eighth Victorian murder mystery featuring Scotland Yard’s Inspector Ben Ross and his wife Lizzie sees them inves- tigating the murder of a wealthy landowner in 1871.
Wendy Corsi Staub Lullaby and Goodnight Pinnacle, 28th, £6.99, 9780786046362 Peyton is having a baby alone but is starting to feel paranoid that some- one is watching her.
Historical
Janet Skeslien Charles The Paris Library Two Roads, 9th, £8.99, 9781529335460 A New York Times best- seller, following the true story of the librarians at the American Library
Self-help Fearne Cotton
Speak Your Truth Orion Spring, 9th, £8.99, 9781409183181
A J MacKenzie A Clash of Lions Canelo Adventure, 9th, £9.99, 9781800324848 Simon Merrivale is out to uncover a powerful spy operation in 1346, as a
Adrian Goldsworthy The Fort Head of Zeus, 9th, £8.99, 9781789545760 In AD105 on Rome’s Danubian frontier, centurion Flavius Ferox is sent to command an isolated fort. First in a new series.
Steve Berry The Kaiser’s Web Hodder Paperbacks, 9th, £8.99, 9781529363982 Former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is out to uncover the truth about the fates of Hitler, Eva Braun and Martin Bormann, Hitler’s close confidant.
Anna Jacobs Mara’s Choice Allison and Busby, 16th, £8.99, 9780749026264 Launches a new series set in a riverside community in contemporary Australia, where Mara Gregory receives a letter from the father she believed died when she was a child.
Lies sees poison-taster siblings Jovan and Kalina up against a mysterious enemy.
Sabaa Tahir A Sky Beyond the Storm HarperVoyager, 9th, £8.99, 9780008411695 This crossover fantasy, picking up a few months after A Reaper at the Gates, sees the long-imprisoned jinn on the attack. Film rights have been bought by Paramount.
Biography & memoirs
Stephanie Graves Olive Bright, Pigeoneer Kensington, 28th, £12.99, 9781496731548 Olive Bright, a spirited young pigeon-fancier in a Hertfordshire village during the Second World War, finds herself at the heart of a murder.
Jim Eldridge Murder at Madame Tussauds Allison & Busby, 16th, £8.99, 9780749027858 The sixth in the crime series set behind the scenes at England’s most celebrated museums, this sees museum detectives
Saga
Kay Brellend Stray Angel Piatkus, 2nd, £9.99, 9780349425160 Start of a new saga series set in the Whitechapel Union workhouse in East London at the start of the
One to Watch
The Sunday Times bestseller (it reached number three in the charts) in which Cotton explores the ways we learn to stay quiet for the wrong reasons and looks at how to find a voice and speak out with confience. The broadcaster
began contemplating what silence would mean after she was told that she was at risk of needing a throat operation, followed by two weeks of being unable to speak. “This book is going to help a lot of people,” said Philippa Perry.
Self-help
Elizabeth Day Failosophy Fourth Estate, 9th, £8.99, 9780008420413
Sam Hawke Hollow Empire Bantam, 2nd, £8.99, 9780857504258 This continuation of the story begun in City of
Richard N Bolles What Color Is Your Parachute? 2022 Ten Speed Press, 14th, £15.99, 9781984860347 A guide to a life of
Maggie Sullivan The Land Girls from Coronation Street HarperFiction, 9th, £7.99, 9780008393991 The “Coronation Street” girls sign up for the Land Army and are sent to Kent, in this latest in the series drawing from the history of the ITV soap.
Science fiction & fantasy
Michelle Morgan Carole Lombard: Twentieth-Century Star Te History Press, 1st, £12.99, 9780750998529 A biography of the Hollywood legend, the first for more than 40 years.
Business & economics
One to Watch
A guide to life’s rough patches, drawn from Day’s conversa- tions with guests on her award-winning “How to Fail” podcast, and from her own life. Day’s How to Fail was a Sunday Times best- seller and has sold over 40,000 copies
to date, says HarperCollins. This is aimed at the gifting market and is “a pragmatic and pocket-sized guide to failure—how to cope with it and what to learn from it,” according to Glamour. With black and white line drawings.
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