This preview highlights titles to be published in May 2022


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Dual timeline. Grace comes to Hollowpark, a grand house in the west of Ireland, as a nanny for young Skye FitzMahon. But who is the woman she sometimes glimpses in the upstairs window? Author Crowley is the arts and media correspondent for RTE News in Ireland.


devil needs to be danced out of them. A story of lust, family secrets and women under the eye of the church, says Picador. BookScan


Amanda Geard The Midnight House Headline Review, 12th, £18.99, HB, 9781472283702


Début South-west Ireland, 1940.


Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she disappears by the lake of Blackwater Hall. Decades later, journalist Ellie Fitzgerald discovers a letter, tucked inside the pages of a book, which might hold the key to more than just Charlotte’s disappearance. For fans of Kate Morton.


Guinevere Glasfurd Privilege Two Roads, 12th, £16.99, HB, 9781529342901 A story of adventure and mishap set in 18th-century pre-Revolutionary France, a repressive society in which no book could be published without the permission of the king. A young Frenchwoman and an apprentice printer from London search for the mysterious author of incendiary papers known only as “D”.


Elodie Harper The House with the Golden Door Apollo, 12th, £16.99, HB, 9781838933579 Second in the Wolf Den trilogy, set in Pompeii. Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the town’s notorious brothel, but now her existence depends on the affections of her patron—and she may not know him as well as she thought. The Wolf Den was a Waterstones Book of the Month in paper- back. BookScan


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One Moonlit Night S&S Adult Fiction, 12th, £16.99, HB, 9781471187223 When the family home in London is bombed during the Second World War, Maddie and her two young daughters escape to the Norfolk country house where her husband Philip, now missing in northern France, spent his childhood summers. Something happened at Knyghton years before, but no one will speak to Maddie about it. BookScan


Siobhan MacGowan The Trial of Lotta Rae Welbeck Fiction, 12th, £12.99, HB, 9781787397316


Début Set in early 20th-century


Kiran Millwood Hargrave The Dance Tree Picador, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781529005219 I loved The Mercies, so am looking forward to this, set in 1518 in Strasbourg, where something mysteri- ous has happened to the women of the city, leading them to dance in the main square. The authorities decide that the


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London against the back- drop of the Suffragette movement, this tells of 15-year-old working-class Lottie, who is raped by a wealthy man and, with the support of her family, bravely testifies in court against her attacker. Welbeck will support with a “widespread” marketing and PR campaign. The author has a famous brother—Shane McGowan of beloved Irish band The Pogues.


Michael Joseph, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9780241508015


Début In 1955, in a apartment on the


Lower East Side, teachers Dovie and Gillian live as lodgers, fiercely guarding their private lives, until someone guesses the truth… In 1975, Ava’s mother, clearly haunted by something, disappears. Ava receives a parcel that may lead her to some answers, and the woman at the heart of it all…


Adriana Trigiani The Good Left Undone Michael Joseph, 5th, £14.99, HB, 9780241565841 Trigiani moves from S&S to Michael Joseph with this multigenerational story about the Cabrelli family, who gather to hear the secrets of their great- grandmother Domenica and her two great loves. Explores the little-known, tragic story of the “SS Arandona Star”, which set off to transport Italian and German civilians and PoWs to Canada in 1940.


Alison Weir Elizabeth of York, the Last White Rose Headline Review, 12th, £20, HB, 9781472278036 Following her Six Tudor Queens series—“a serious achievement”, said the Times—novelist and historian Weir returns with the first in a new trilogy, the story of Elizabeth of York, the first Tudor queen, born into a war between two families intent on seizing the English crown. BookScan


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Joanne Joseph Children of Sugarcane Icon, 5th, £9.99, PBO, 9781776191864 Teenager Shanti believes she will be able to escape rural poverty in her Indian village, and an arranged marriage, by travelling to the Colony of Natal. Months later, after a harrowing sea voyage, she arrives.


Julia Quinn Untitled Piatkus, 31st, £8.99, PBO, 9780349424859


Nothing on the plot but this is the latest Regency romance from the author behind Netflix’s smash hit “Bridgerton”. BookScan


Patricia Wilson The Summer of Secrets Zaffre, 26th, £8.99, PB, 9781838779016 After her mother’s death, Olivia travels to the island of Kastellorizo, where her mother was born, deter- mined to uncover family secrets that date back to the Second World War. From the author of Island of Secrets. BookScan


Historical adventure


Julie Owen Moylan That Green Eyed Girl


Jan Casey The Woman with the Map Aria, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9781803281322 London, 1941. Joyce works as a bomb plotter during the Blitz—marking the trail of loss and suffering following the nightly attacks on her map. In 1974 she observes the world from the safety of her basement flat, but now the council is to tear down the whole block. Can she bear to let go of the past? BookScan


Damion Hunter Shadow of the Eagle Canelo Adventure, 26th, £18.99, HB, 9781800326675 Faustus Valerianus, son of a Roman father and a captive British mother, joins Agricola’s campaign to conquer the British Isles after the death of both his parents, but feels the call of his mother’s true people.


Conn Iggulden The Lion Michael Joseph, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9780241513125 Third in the Athenian series follows The Gates of Athens and Protector. The Persians are back on Athenian shores, attempt- ing another invasion, but the breaking of Athens may be the making of young Cimon as he lives up to his destiny as a


Boyd & Beth Morrison The Lawless Land Aries, 12th, £18.99, HB, 9781801108638 Launches a new medieval historical adventure series featuring knight errant Gerard Fox. On the road to Canterbury in 1351, Fox has a chance encounter with an enigmatic woman and a relic of incalculable value, which leads him into the path of a danger- ously ambitious man on the cusp of seizing Christendom’s highest office. Slips from February.


A J MacKenzie The Fallen Sword Canelo Adventure, 12th, £9.99, PBO, 9781800329447 The Hundred Years’ War series (A Flight of Arrows, A Clash of Lions) concludes with Simon Merrivale discovering that the conspiracy against the thrones of England and France has gathered force and becoming desperate to uncover the traitor.


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Joni meets Ant via online dating although she has posted fake photos on her account. A few months in, she discovers she wasn’t the only one being deceit- ful as Ant’s phone contains intimate messages between him and two other women…Second hardback outing for the author after the success of Worst Idea Ever.


Carmel Harrington A Mother’s Heart HarperFiction, 26th, £12.99, TPB, 9780008415907 Loving stepmother and newly single parent Rachel is torn between Hawkes Bay, New Zealand—where she grew up and her family still live—and Malahide, Ireland, where her late husband’s parents are, and they want to keep their grandchildren close.


Laura Kay Tell Me Everything Quercus, 26th, £14.99, HB, 9781529409857 Natasha is a therapist who needs to start taking her own advice instead of flailing between mending broken relationships—she still lives with her ex-girl- friend—and starting new ones. Can she take control of her own happiness? From the author of The Split, who is a former PRH WriteNow mentee.


Esme King Reasons to Go Outside Hodder & Stoughton, 26th, £16.99, HB, 9781529362824


Début In Dartmoor, Pearl Winter


Katy Cox M is for Mummy Corvus, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9781838953133


Début First novel from the classical


musician turned blogger (Carry on Katy) and mother to two autistic boys. She draws on her own life for this tale of Lucy, who has gone from playing cello behind superstars at packed arenas to a mum mopping up broccoli vomit. One for fans of Why Mummy Drinks, says Corvus.


Jane Fallon Just Got Real Michael Joseph, 12th, £12.99, HB, 9780241541159


hasn’t been outside in 43 years; her isolated cottage is her whole world. But when troubled Connor takes a summer job as Pearl’s gardener, can their unlikely friendship heal them both? Former jour- nalist King was inspired to write her first novel after interviewing a woman with agoraphobia.


Nina LaCour Yerba Buena Coronet, 31st, £16.99, HB, 9781399701792 First adult novel from the


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