This preview highlights titles to be published in May 2022
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Rosa Temple The Slow Lane Walkers Club S&S Adult Fiction, 26th, £8.99, PBO, 9781398509061 When go-getter Daniel finds himself unexpectedly jobless and back in his old Cornish hometown, he organises a walking club but is dismayed when the only person who turns up is eightysomething widow Hazel. But he will discover Hazel is one of the most fascinating people he has ever met…
the author of Our Stop. BookScan
A K Wilson The Manager WBE Creative, 17th, £8.99, PBO, 9781739808709
Début In the City of London, under-
achiever Katy begins working for charismatic and inspirational Riley Daniels, chief executive officer of a successful but very secretive tech company. Yet Katy is eventually forced to confront how far she will go to protect Riley’s secrets, and her own.
Saga
Anna Jacobs A Valley Wedding Hodder & Stoughton, 12th, £20.99, HB, 9781529353563
Jane Turner The Way from Here Orion, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9781398705890
Début When her young- est daughter
leaves for university, empty nester Kate joins a ladies’ rowing team and rediscovers her old passion for the sport, and a ready-made gang of fiftysomething friends, all asking the same question about what is next in life.
Abbi Waxman Adult Assembly Required Headline Review, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781472293619 When Laura’s life falls apart, she finds sanctuary in Nina Hill’s downtown LA bookshop, and meets the friends who will become her new family. From the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.
Elizabeth Morton The Girl from Liverpool Macmillan, 26th, £20, HB, 9781529060270 Just as Peggy O’Shea rekindles her childhood friendship with handsome Anthony Giardano, Italy joins forces with Nazi Germany and Liverpool turns on its Italian resi- dents overnight, making any relationship between Peggy and Anthony impossible...
Laura Jane Williams One Night with You Avon, 26th, £7.99, PBO, 9780008365479 Ruby is leaving London, and her ex, for an exciting new job in Manchester. Nic is moving to London after a bad break-up, eager to start again in a new city. So when a chance meet- ing throws them together for just one night, it’s obvious they’ll never see each other again… From
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Rachel Brimble A Very Modern Marriage Aria, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9781803281315 Manchester industrialist William Rose needs a wife to cement his image as a family man, but the only woman to catch his eye is Octavia Marshall, one of the notorious ladies of Carson Street. She too has a plan, and so they strike a deal. Third in the series.
Maggie Campbell Nurse Kitty’s Unforgettable Journey Orion, 12th, £6.99, PBO, 9781409191803 Sequel to Nurse Kitty’s Secret War. It is now
Nothing on the plot but this is the third and final book in the Backshaw Moss series, set in Lancashire.
1949 and nurse Kitty Longthorne travels from Manchester to Barbados to recruit nurses badly needed by the NHS to join her at Park Hospital. BookScan
saves the life of a cowardly prince, she comes to the attention of his sultan father, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp.
although, slightly confus- ingly, in the narrative order this would be book two, after A Brightness Long Ago and before Children of Earth and Sky. “The greatest living author of epic fantasy,” reckons Brandon Sanderson.
Jean Fullerton A Ration Book Victory Corvus, 5th, £7.99, PBO, 9781838950941 The final part of the Ration Book series brings to an end the trials and tribulations of the larger-than-life Brogan family. Queenie Brogan has the opportunity to speak her mind after keeping a secret for more than 50 years. BookScan
Sheila Newberry The Girl by the Sea Zaffre, 12th, £7.99, PB, 9781785769160 When the Second World War starts, Tess and her family move to Scotland, where she is reunited with the young Scottish pilot she once nursed back to health.
Mary Wood
The Orphanage Girls Pan, 12th, £7.99, PBO, 9781529033434 Ruth escapes her brutal orphanage in Bethnal Green, but finds that life can be just as tough on the outside. BookScan
SFF
Neal Asher Weaponized Tor, 26th, £18.99, HB, 9781529050035 Standalone adventure set in the world of the Polity. When a faraway colony is attacked by powerful alien raptors, a desperate battle rages across the planet Threpsis.
Andrew Caldecott Momenticon Jo Fletcher Books, 12th, £16.99, HB, 9781529415421 First of a speculative fiction duology from the author of the Rotherweird trilogy is set in a future world that has become all but uninhabitable. Survivors live in domes, serving one of two giant companies. A dark, offbeat adventure, says the publisher. BookScan
Mike Chen Star Wars: Brotherhood Del Rey, 10th, £20, HB, 9781529150209 The Clone Wars have begun, and Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must learn a new way to work together, moving beyond master and apprentice, to guard the peace.
Chelsea Abdullah The Stardust Thief Orbit, 19th, £12.99, HB, 9780356517438
Début Inspired by stories from One
Thousand and One Nights, this fantasy début tells of Loulie ai-Nazari, the Midnight Merchant, a criminal who, with the help of her jinn body- guard, hunts and sells ille- gal magic. When she
Mary Gentle The Landing Gollancz, 12th, £18.99, TPB, 9780575083530 First novel for 10 years from the author of Ash is a first contact tale, follow- ing NASA’s acting director of the New Earth Object Lab, who is overseeing the transit of a large unidenti- fied object past Earth’s orbit—when the asteroid suddenly changes course.
Guy Gavriel Kay All the Seas of the World Hodder & Stoughton, 17th, £19.99, HB, 9781529385175 Completes the epic fantasy trilogy set in a near-Renaissance world
found for some in The Nest, a fortress full of mages who offer protec- tion. Isha arrives as a refu- gee but her tattoo brands her as an outcast, even though she can’t remem- ber anything about it.
Alastair Reynolds Eversion Gollancz, 26th, £20, HB, 9780575090767 Gothic SF standalone. A small group of explorers are sailing north of Bergen in search of a remote and mysterious artefact when they spy a wreck ahead. Whatever ruined it may threaten them as well. BookScan
David Towsey Equinox Ad Astra, 12th, £18.99, HB, 9781801101646 Standalone fantasy from the author of the Walkin’ trilogy. An unholy ritual that can only be performed by a witch is investigated by a man who shares his body: night brother Christophor, one of the king’s inspector- ate, and day brother Alexsander, a musician who knows nothing of the night.
Jackson Ford A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers Orbit, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9780356514673 Latest in the action- packed Frost Files series. Teagan Frost has enough to deal with, between her job as a telekinetic government operative and a pair of siblings who have returned from the dead to wreak havoc with their powers. And things are about to get substan- tially worse…
Heather Walter Misrule Del Rey, 10th, £16.99, HB, 9781529101300 Sleeping Beauty’s dark sorceress reclaims her story in this queer re-tell- ing and sequel to Malice, continuing the story of Aurora and Alyce. Del Rey promises “a beautiful, world-building” campaign to support.
Rebecca Zahabi The Collarbound Gollancz, 12th, £14.99, HB, 9781473234376
Début As the world descends into
chaos, safety may be
Mark Stay The Ghost of Ivy Barn S&S Adult Fiction, 12th, £8.99, PBO, 9781471198014 As the Battle of Britain rages overhead, a warlock leader from the Council of High Witches comes to Woodville with a ritual to repel the imminent Nazi invasion. Third in the Witches of Woodville series (The Crow Folk, Babes in the Wood) which blends war, mystery and magic.
SFF short stories
Adam Roberts (intro) Classic Science Fiction Stories Macmillan Collector’s Library, 12th, £10.99, HB, 9781529069075 Cloth-bound, with gold foiled edges and a ribbon marker, a collection of classic science fiction stories from Edgar Allan Poe, H G Wells, H P Lovecraft, Florence McLandburgh, Mary Shelley and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.
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