4th April 2025


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Lauren Brown Lauren is a freelance writer and journalist from Teesside, now based in London. She has a degree in English from the University of Cambridge and has written for a range of national, consumer and trade publications, predominantly The Bookseller, where she is currently senior news reporter. Her first book, Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked, was published by HarperNorth in 2022.


New Titles: Fiction July


Previews


Temperatures to rise in a summer of hot releases


From fantasy stalwarts to YA authors breaking into the adult market, cult classic sequels to ultimate holiday reads, as well as an indie press bonanza, July is full of must-read titles


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eaders will be spoilt for choice in July, with new titles from the likes of Lisa Jewell, Frieda McFadden,


Juno Dawson, Ben Aaronovitch, Georgina Moore, Esther Freud, Holly Jackson, Irvine Welsh, Bolu Babalola and more. Human Rites, the “hotly antici-


pated” conclusion to Dawson’s Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series, will be published by HarperVoyager on the 17th, while the latest instalment of Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series, Stone and Sky, will be released by Orion on the 3rd. Also on the 3rd, River of Stars,


the second novel by Moore, author of The Garnett Girls and deputy managing director of Midas PR, will be published by HQ, while on the same day the


10th novel by acclaimed author Esther Freud, My Sister and Other Lovers, will be out with Bloomsbury. And Trainspotting fans are in for a treat, too, as on the 24th Jonathan Cape will publish Irvine Welsh’s sequel to the cult classic, titled Men in Love. Likely to be huge is the adult


thriller debut from the bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, Holly Jackson, publish- ing on the 17th. Rights to Not Quite Dead Yet (Michael Joseph) – in which a woman has one week to solve her own murder – were “immediately snapped up in 30 languages” according to the publisher, with a string of “record-breaking” six and seven- figure deals, and apparently there is a “major Hollywood option” to be announced.


Books New Titles: Fiction


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