BOOKS


Denny S Bryce The Other Princess Allison & Busby, 22nd, £16.99, hb, 9780749030544 This “vivid imagining” unearths the story of the real little African girl who overcame violent early years and being uprooted from her home in modern-day Nigeria to live as Queen Victoria’s goddaughter.


Joanne Burn The Bone Hunters Sphere, 8th, £16.99, hb, 9781408726518 The third novel from the author of The Hemlock Cure follows a young woman who finds some unusual fossils in Lyme Regis in 1824, and a geologist in search of the discovery that will make his name.


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Before the Mountain, this is the second volume in a trilogy exploring the impact of the First World War on an Austrian clan, inspired by her own family history.


Francesca Kay The Book of Days Swift, 1st, £16.99, hb, 9781800753495 The fourth novel from the prize-winning author of An Equal Stillness and The Translation of the Bones is a tale of troubled times narrated by the young wife of an old aristocrat during the reign of Henry VIII.


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Kathleen McGurl The Lost Child HQ Digital, 1st, £9.99, pbo, 9780008591670 This dual-timeline novel from the author of The Girl from Bletchley Park interweaves the search of a “Titanic” survivor for her baby, and the contemporary archivist who discovers her story. BookScan 


Lizzie Pook Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge Picador, 1st, £16.99, hb, 9781529072891 Set in “macabre” Victorian London, the second novel from the author of Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter tells the story of an intrepid hero- ine’s search for the truth about her missing sister.


Elle Machray Remember Remember HarperNorth, 1st, £16.99, hb, 9780008559533


Début An “incendiary” alternative


Yangsze Choo The Fox Wife Quercus, 15th, £20, hb, 9781529429756 The author of The Night Tiger explores a world of mortals, spirits, humans and beasts in this folk- loric novel set in early 19th-century northern China, about a mother seeking revenge.


history set in London in 1770 about one Black woman’s explosive plot to bring down the transat- lantic slave trade, this novel is the first fiction publishing deal to result from the HarperCollins Author Academy. The 28-year-old, neurodiver- gent author was partly inspired by her own fami- ly’s St Lucian heritage.


Kristin Hannah The Women Macmillan, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781035005673 The new novel from the author of Firefly Lane tells the epic story of a shel- tered Californian nurse who enlists to serves in Vietnam, where her eyes are opened to the horror of war, the power of friendship and the agony of heartbreak.


Monika Helfer, Gillian Davidson (trans) Library for the War-Wounded Bloomsbury Publishing, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781526657336 Following Last House


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Lesley McDowell Clairmont Wildfire, 29th, £16.99, hb, 9781035400249 Publishing 200 years after Lord Byron’s death, this novel reframes the story of the Shelleys’ visit to his Lake Geneva villa from the perspective of Claire Clairmont, Mary Shelley’s 18-year-old step- sister. McDowell is also the author of The Picnic and Unfashioned Creatures.


Anne O’Brien A Court of Betrayal Orion, 29th, £16.99, hb, 9781398711198 The new novel from the author of A Marriage of Betrayal gives voice to the strong-willed heiress Johane de Geneville, who is married to the Earl of March at 15. Soon Johane is swept up in court politics as her husband deposes Edward II and


Sara Sheridan The Secrets of Blythswood Square Hodder & Stoughton, 8th, £16.99, hb, 9781399701570 A tale of friendship and intrigue set in mid- 19th-century Glasgow, about a woman whose inheritance is tied up in a secret collection of erotic art. From the author of The Fair Botanists, the 2022 Waterstones Book of the Year. BookScan 


Paul Theroux Burma Sahib Hamish Hamilton, 22nd, £16.99, hb, 9780241633342 The new novel from the prolific travel and fiction writer follows George Orwell’s complex transfor- mation from Eric Blair, the unlikely colonial police- man in 1920s Burma, to the anti-imperialist, socialist novelist who would go on to write 1984 and Animal Farm.


In her 19th novel, the author of The Beach Café delivers a “life-affirming” tale of second chances, in which a single mum takes a writing job in Paris working with an iconic, scandalous artist. Amid a stormy working relation- ship, both face up to their pasts. BookScan 


Kate Quinn & Janie Chang The Phoenix Crown HarperFiction, 15th, £9.99, pbo, 9780008644543 Two historical novelists team up for this epic tale intertwining the lives of two wronged women, moving from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to the glittering palaces of Versailles. BookScan 


Mandy Robotham The Hidden Storyteller Avon, 29th, £8.99, pbo, 9780008599225 The protagonist of Robotham’s third book, The Berlin Girl, the reporter Georgie Young, is posted to Allied-run Hamburg in 1946, where she gets drawn into a murder investigation. BookScan 


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Milly Johnson The Happiest Ever After Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781398523524 A writer escapes her humdrum reality through the pages of the novel she’s working on, in the latest “feelgood” title from the author of Together, Again. BookScan 


Rosie Hannigan The Sunrise Swimming Society Avon, 29th, £8.99, pbo, 9780008599140 Three estranged friends rekindle their relationship by resurrecting their sunrise swimming ritual in this “heartwarming” tale by the author of The Moonlight Gardening Club.


Rebecca Ryan The Philosophy of Love Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 1st, £8.99, pbo, 9781398509283 In the second novel from the author of My (extra) Ordinary Life, former schoolmates with oppos- ing world views make a bet to test the philosophy of love. BookScan 


Cathy Kelly Sisterhood HarperFiction, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9780008544959 The author of Woman to Woman delivers another family saga about an explosive secret that takes two sisters from Ireland’s west coast to sun-baked Sicily. Warm and gripping, says HarperFiction. BookScan 


Lorraine Kelly The Island Swimmer Orion, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781398714458


Début The début novel from the ITV


Matt Coyne Frank and Red Wildfire, 1st, £18.99, hb, 9781472297426


Début The fiction début from the author


Carmel Harrington The Girl From Donegal HarperFiction, 29th, £9.99, pbo, 9780008528560 The new novel from the author of A Mother’s Heart connects two women across two continents, three generations and one century, moving from Ireland during the Second World War to modern-day Bermuda. BookScan 


of Dummy and Man vs Toddler is the “heartwarm- ing” tale of an unlikely friendship between Frank, a reclusive curmudgeon, and Red, the imaginative six-year-old who moves in next door. BookScan 


Lucy Diamond I Remember Paris Quercus, 1st, £16.99, hb, 9781529432930


broadcaster is inspired by her love of Orkney and cold-water swimming. It is a “beautiful and emotional” story of two estranged sisters, child- hood trauma and discov- ering a new community. Kelly has committed to an “extensive” press and events campaign.


Nathan Evans One Last Song Inkandescent, 1st, £9.99, pbo, 9781912620289


Début An “uproarious” romantic comedy


about grey liberation from the Polari Prize-longlisted writer of Threads, in which two gentlemen meet in a care home, fail to hit it off, then begin to suspect they might be batting for the same team.


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Josephine Cox Daddy’s Girl HarperFiction, 29th, £16.99, hb, 9780008650711 Written by Gilly Middleton channelling the late Josephine Cox, this family drama follows a young woman forced to set aside her dreams to care for her father and siblings after her mother dies, and her search for the truth about her new stepmother. BookScan 


Glenda Young The Toffee Factory Girls Headline, 15th, £22, hb, 9781035402472 The author of The Sixpenny Orphan is launching a new trilogy following three women working in a toffee factory in the North East market town of Chester-le-Street during the First World War.


Anna Jacobs Marrying Miss Martha Canelo Saga, 12th, £8.99, pbo, 9781804367223 In this 19th-century saga,


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