BOOKS
Christmas Love Letters comes the first book in a new trilogy set on the Isle of Skye, following three adopted sisters as they search for the birth family they’ve never known and find love along the way. BookScan
Romance
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from the author of Meet Me at the Lake, following a couple who reignite their passion every year during her holiday on Prince Edward Island. BookScan
Amber Rose Gill One Summer in Miami Mills & Boon, 23rd, £8.99, pbo, 9780008614010 The 2019 winner of “Love Island”, entrepreneur and social media star delivers a second romance for the digital age, following her début, Until I Met You. BookScan
Justin Myers Leading Man Sphere, 9th, £22, hb, 9780751583519 A shrinking violet takes centre stage and must confront some uncomfort- able truths in this coming- of-age comedy from the author of The Fake-Up.
Betty Cayouette One Last Shot Penguin, 9th, £8.99, pbo, 9781804946374
Début In the début novel from the
TikTok influencer behind Betty’s Book List, a super- model and a fashion photographer with a past marriage pact meet again 10 years later on a photo- shoot in Cinque Terre, Italy.
Lucy Chalice The Hot Henry Effect One More Chapter, 23rd, £9.99, pbo, 9780008646196
Début In this “STEMinist rom-com”, two
old university friends reconnect over a profes- sional mishap, but how long can Dr Clara Clancy remain immune to the Hot Henry Effect, which leaves broken hearts trailing in his wake?
Nicolas DiDomizio Nearlywed Sourcebooks Casa- blanca, 21st, £8.99, pbo, 9781464225857 An engaged gay couple’s compatibility is put to the test during their ill-fated early honeymoon in this “provocative” summer comedy from the author of The Gay Best Friend.
Carley Fortune This Summer Will Be Different Michael Joseph, 9th, £8.99, pbo, 9781405965453 Another summer romance
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Christina Lauren The Paradise Problem Piatkus, 14th, £9.99, pbo, 9780349440415 The author of The Unhoneymooners returns with a new fake-dating romance between a buttoned-up grocery chain heir and his free-spirited artist ex. BookScan
Jenn McKinlay Love At First Book Penguin, 16th, £8.99, pbo, 9781804945056 In this bookish romance from the author of Summer Reading, a librarian moves to the Irish village where her favourite novelist lives and unexpectedly falls for the author’s prickly son.
K J Micciche A Storybook Wedding Sourcebooks Casa- blanca, 14th, £8.99, pbo, 9781464220135 A librarian and a strug- gling author decide to tie the knot, in this bookish fake-dating romance from
Bal Khabra Collide Bloomsbury Publishing, 14th, £8.99, pbo, 9781526677525 Previously self-published, this opposites-attract sports romance has been snapped up by international publishers. The first in a series, it stars a college hockey team captain who becomes the reluctant subject of a research paper by an aspiring sports psychologist.
the author of The Book Proposal. BookScan
The Last Unicorn follows a reluctant dragon catcher who dreams of transcend- ing his humble origins to become a prince’s valet. Perfect for fans of “The Princess Bride”, says Gollancz.
Annabel Paulsen and Lydia Wang Here for the Wrong Reasons Headline Eternal, 21st, £10.99, pbo, 9781035416127
Début In a twist worthy of a romance
plot, sparks flew during the writing of this lesbian rom-com, and the authors now cohabit in Brooklyn. The story features two dating show contestants who fall for each other, rather than the leading man.
Suzanne Rindell Summer Fridays Zaffre, 30th, £9.99, pbo, 9781804186671 “You’ve Got Mail” for a new generation, about an editorial assistant who winds up spending her “summer Fridays” with the person she least expects. "A witty and emotional love letter to New York from the author of The Other Typist," says Zaffre.
Aman J Bedi Kavithri Gollancz, 16th, £22, hb, 9781399609852
Début A fierce heroine makes her way
through a magical land- scape in this “empower- ing” South Asian epic fantasy drawing on the history of post-colonial India. For fans of The Unbroken and The Poppy War, says Gollancz.
Genevieve Cogman Elusive Tor, 23rd, £18.99, hb, 9781529083774 The second adventure in the vampire trilogy retell- ing the Scarlet Pimpernel stories, following Scarlet. BookScan
“Constantine” in this “richly imagined” urban fantasy set in a magical Boston, the first in a four-book series from the author of A Dowry of Blood. BookScan
Manda Scott Any Human Power September Publishing, 16th, £18.99, hb, 9781914613562 The author behind the Boudica and Rome series and the standalone A Treachery of Spies deliv- ers a “visionary” mythic thriller about a family at the centre of a global uprising, for readers of Ursula le Guin and Naomi Alderman. BookScan
Sydney J Shields The Honey Witch Orbit, 16th, £18.99, hb, 9780356522524
Début The Honey Witch of Innisfree is
cursed to never find true love. But when a young woman who doesn’t believe in magic arrives on her island, sparks fly in this whimsical fantasy début. Shields has over 30,000 TikTok followers.
Jessica Yale He’s a 10 Michael Joseph, 30th, £9.99, pbo, 9781405962537
Début In this British sports romance,
winner of the I AM In Print’s 2022 Romance Writing Competition, a football club’s head of player care must decide whether to risk her career when she falls for their controversial new number 10.
SFF
Peter S Beagle I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons Gollancz, 16th, £22, hb, 9781399616959 The first new novel in decades from the much- garlanded author of
Mai Corland Five Broken Blades Zaffre, 21st £16.99, hb, 9781804186589 Zaffre is launching an SFF list with this romantasy trilogy set against a fantasy backdrop of Korean history and folklore, for fans of Leigh Bardugo. Corland writes children’s and young adult books under the name Meredith Ireland.
Anne Corlett The Theatre of Glass and Shadows Black & White Publishing, 23rd, £16.99, hb, 9781785305528 “The world-building is wonderful,” says Bridget Collins of this coming- of-age novel set in an alternate London where the all-powerful Theatre District decrees that the show must go on, whatever the cost. Corlett is also the author of The Space Between the Stars.
S T Gibson Evocation Angry Robot Books, 28th, £18.99, hb, 9781915202680 Ninth House meets
Various Jared Shurin (ed) The Big Book of Cyberpunk, Vols. 1 & 2 Vintage Classics, 2nd, £25, hb, 9781784879297/ 9781784879617 A genre-defining inter- national collection of sci-fi’s most progressive subgenre, publishing to coincide with the 40th anniversary of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
Cari Thomas Shadowstitch HarperVoyager, 9th, £16.99, hb, 9780008407056 The fantasy sequel to Threadneedle, set in London’s magical underworld.
Megan E O’Keefe The Bound Worlds Orbit, 16t, £9.99, pbo, 9780356517407 For fans of James S A Corey and Alastair Reynolds, the first book in a new space opera trilogy from the author of the Philip K Dick-nominated début Velocity Weapon is about a planned psychic infiltration that goes wrong.
Vaishnavi Patel Goddess of the River Orbit, 23rd, £9.99, pbo, 9780356520209
The author of Kaikeyi returns to Indian mythology with a “powerful” reimagining of the story of Ganga, goddess of the river, and her doomed mortal son. BookScan
C J Piper
The Deer and the Dragon Bloom Books, 7th, £8.99, pbo, 9781464219955 From the author of The Night and Its Moon, the first in a new urban fantasy series following an author who gets catapulted into the very world of gods, demons, and monsters that inspires her work.
Django Wexler How to Become the Dark Lord Orbit, 23rd, £9.99, pbo, 9780356518985 In this comic fantasy adventure, a young woman stuck in a time loop tires of trying to defend the kingdom from the Dark Lord and instead decides to become the Dark Lord herself. Film rights have been sold to a Hollywood studio.
Horror & ghost stories
Layla Martinez Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott (trans) Woodworm Harvill Secker, 2nd, £14.99, hb, 9781787303973
Début In this début, which took the
Spanish literary world by storm, a grandmother and granddaughter live together in a house haunted by shadows of the dead, when the grand- daughter is accused of a terrible crime. Martinez blends horror and folklore to tell a story of class, rural tradition and revenge.
Graphic novels
Luke Healy Self-Esteem and the End of the World Faber & Faber, 2nd, £20, hb, 9780571375608 From the author of The Con Artists and Americana comes a story of tragicomic self- discovery in a changing global climate, for fans of Alison by Lizzy Stewart and Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
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