This preview highlights titles to be published in February 2024
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two sisters are left penniless and find work in a distant mill town, where they get caught up in riots. BookScan
Romance
follows two leap-year babies every four years on their birthday as they experience life’s milestones and fall in love. BookScan
Lucy Debussy Unspeakable Shaking Pleasures Trapeze, 8th, £12.99, hb, 9781398718869 A collection of “upmarket yet accessible” historical erotica centring feminine sexual power, publishing in time for Valentine’s Day. The pseudonymous author’s work has been published in Erotic Review, Best Women’s Erotica, and the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica.
Lynda Marron Last Chance in Paris Eriu, 8th, £13.99, tpb, 9781804184691
Début The story of an Irish couple’s
make-or-break weekend trip to Paris, following the tragic loss of their stillborn child. Funny, moving, above all life-affirming, says Eriu.
J F Murray Hitched Macmillan, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781529098716 “Bridesmaids” meets “The Hangover” in the second rom-com from the author of Fling, set over the course of a raucous hen weekend in Las Vegas, where the bride ends up accidently marrying her ex.
Analeigh Sbrana Lore of the Wilds HarperVoyager, 29th, £16.99, hb, 9780008671723
Début A cottagecore romantasy début
with a love triangle at its heart, featuring an enchanted library, two handsome Fae and one human who brings them all together.
Anna Bell Once Upon a Leap Year HQ, 1st, £8.99, pbo, 9780008467661 This rom-com from the author of Note to Self
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Tom Ellen The Lifeline HQ, 29th, £8.99, pbo, 9780008336066 Pitched as a modern “Sleepless in Seattle”, this high-concept love story follows two people who fall in love over the phone. Ellen is the co-author of three YA novels and one adult novel, All About Us.
S T Gibson An Education in Malice Orbit, 15th, £18.99, hb, 9780356519326 Dark academia meets sapphic vampire romance in this tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from the author of TikTok success A Dowry of Blood, which was short- listed for the Goodreads Choice Awards and the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Horror.
Beverley Kendall Token Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 15th, £9.99, pbo, 9781398530546 An enemies-to-lovers rom-com tackling racism and tokenism as experi- enced by a young Black American woman in the cutthroat world of public- ity. Fresh and topical, says Simon & Schuster.
début romance from a Hollywood screenwriter currently working on the film scripts for Emily Henry’s Beach Read and You and Me on Vacation.
Amy Lea The Catch Penguin, 15th, £8.99, pbo, 9780241997567 The third “spicy” rom-com from the author of Set on You and Exes and O’s finds two holidaymakers forced to share a crum- bling cottage for a week following an Airbnb error. BookScan
Monica Murphy Lonely For You Only Michael Joseph, 15th, £8.99, pbo, 9781405952675 In this “swoonworthy” spinoff to the Lancaster Prep series, a TikTok favourite, Scarlett Lancaster, a young heir- ess, and Tate, a former boy band member, go from loathing to loving after a compromis- ing photo goes viral. BookScan
the slow-burn chemistry between a grumpy, retired footballer and his sunny ghostwriter, from the author of more than 30 sexy novellas and novels. BookScan
SFF
group of renegade knights who disobey their Order and embark on a quest to discover why their world is dying. A new adventure fantasy series from the author of epic sagas The Moontide Quartet, The Sunsurge Quartet and The Tethered Citadel Trilogy.
Gareth Brown The Book of Doors Bantam, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9781787637245
Début Bantam is putting some
marketing muscle behind this contemporary fantasy début for fans of The Binding, about a New York bookseller who finds a magical book that bestows extraordinary powers on its owner—a book that other, darker forces will stop at nothing to possess.
Bethany Rutter Big Date Energy HarperFiction, 1st, £9.99, pbo, 9780008470036 A serial monogamist runs into her first love on the set of a TV dating show, in this queer rom-com starring a plus-size, bisexual protagonist, from the author of Welcome to Your Life. BookScan
Caroline Khoury Still Unwritten Canelo, 15th, £8.99, pbo, 9781804366608 In the new book from the author of It Must be Love and Always You, a failing actress and the lead singer of a K-pop band travel to Sicily and the US as they seek to unlock her family secrets.
Yulin Kuang How to End a Love Story Hodder Paperbacks, 15th, £8.99, pbo, 9781399716598
Début Sparks fly between an
author and the writer adapting her books, in this
Chloe Seager Open Minded HQ, 15th, £9.99, pbo, 9780008591960
Début Written by a children’s and
YA agent at Madeleine Milburn Agency, this rom-com explores female friendship and open relationships, and was inspired by the author’s personal experience. Fun and heart-warming, says HQ.
Charlotte Stein When Grumpy Met Sunshine Pan, 15th, £8.99, pbo, 9781035038121 A steamy, opposites- attract romance charting
Jasper Fforde Red Side Story Hodder & Stoughton, 6th, £20, hb, 9781444763669 Thirteen years after Shades of Grey, Fforde returns to the world where your social status depends on which colours you can see, for another adventure starring Eddie Russett and Jane Grey. Fforde is also the author of The Eyre Affair and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky. BookScan
Christopher Fowler The Foot on the Crown Bantam, 29th, £18.99, hb, 9781787637443 Publishing posthumously following the author’s death in March 2023, the genre-bending final novel from the “mischie- vous” mind that gave us the Bryant & May mysteries imagines London during the Dark Ages. An historical fantasy filled with Arthurian legend, seductions, executions, deceits and betrayals. BookScan
David Hair The Burning Land Jo Fletcher Books, 1st, £22, hb, 9781529433135 The first book in the Talmont Trilogy follows a
Paul E Hardisty The Descent Orenda Books, 15th, £9.99, tpb, 9781916788039 The “prescient, deeply shocking” prequel to the climate emergency thriller The Forcing, a SciFi Now book of the month.
Robert Jackson Bennett The Tainted Cup Hodderscape, 27th, £22, hb, 9781399725354 An eccentric detective and her long-suffering assistant untangle a web of magic and murder in this fantasy reimagining of the classic crime novel, from the author of The Founders Trilogy.
The Celestial Kingdom Duology is expanded by this illustrated compendium of stories set before, during and after the events of Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior, written from the perspective of beloved characters. BookScan
Daniel Polansky Tomorrow’s Children Angry Robot Books, 27th, £9.99, tpb, 9781915202857 From the Hugo Award- nominated author of The Builders comes a post- apocalyptic romp set in the ruins of Manhattan, for fans of The Dead Lands by Benjamin Percy.
Wole Talabi Shigidi Gollancz, 8th, £20, hb, 9781399615655 In this contemporary fantasy début set between London, Lagos and Singapore, Yoruba gods liberate a Nigerian artefact from London’s British Museum—a magi- cal heist story examining cultural appropriation. The Nigerian author’s short fiction has already won the Caine Prize and the Nommo Award.
Danielle L Jensen A Fate Inked in Blood Del Rey, 27th, £16.99, hb, 9781529916447 A shield maiden battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king, while fighting her growing desire for his fiery son, in this Norse-inspired fantasy romance from the TikTok-beloved author of The Bridge Kingdom series.
Hannah Kaner Sunbringer HarperVoyager, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9780008521516 The epic fantasy sequel to Godkiller, and the second book in the Fallen Gods Trilogy. BookScan
Jay Kristoff Empire of the Damned HarperVoyager, 29th, £22, hb, 9780008350482 The sequel to the bestsell- ing Empire of the Vampire. BookScan
Sue Lynn Tan Tales of the Celestial Kingdom HarperVoyager, 1st, £16.99, hb, 9780008640415
Horror & ghost stories
Jodie Matthews Meet Me at the Surface 4th Estate, 15th, £16.99, hb, 9780008585006
Début This début, short- listed for the
Bath Novel Award and the Blue Pencil First Novel Award, tells the story of a student who returns to the decaying Bodmin village where she grew up to attend her ex-girlfriend’s memorial service, and finds her home shrouded in secrets.
Graphic novels
Emma Vieceliand, Malin Ryden Breaks Volume 1 Orbit, 1st, £12.99, tpb, 9780356522272 An LGBTQ+ graphic novel for fans of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series, this enemies-to-lovers webcomic sensation is in print for the first time. The story of two young men discovering themselves at high school, it is a “love story, but a little bit broken”. BookScan
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