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Literary
Aisling Rawle ( 4) The Compound The Borough Press, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9780008710088
In Borough’s “event publication” for 2025, nine women – all young, beautiful
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and keen to escape the poverty, political unrest and environmental catastrophe of the outside world – wake up in a desert compound with cameras broadcasting their every move to millions of reality TV fans. When the men arrive, the group embark on a series of group and individual tasks that gain them rewards and expose their loyalties and weaknesses. An addictive literary dystopia billed as Love Island meets Lord of the Flies.
Romance
Bolu Babalola ( 6) Sweet Heat Headline Review, 3rd, £18.99, HB, 9781472286437
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Kate Sawyer ( 9) Getting Away Zaffre, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781804189139
From the 1930s to the 2020s, one family is transformed through their holidays, each new destination a backdrop as they grow and change, love stories begin and end, and secrets are revealed. Beautifully written and totally immersive, this riveting portrait of a family moving through time and the shifting nature of holidays – from the great British holiday to international travel – is the latest from the author of Costa-shortlisted The Stranding. I was rapt right to the last page.
8 Horror & ghost stories
Leigh Radford ( 8) One Yellow Eye Tor Nightfire, 17th, £22, HB, 9781035048274 If, like me, you have avoided novels involving anything even remotely virus-adjacent since Covid-19, then I implore you to also make an exception for this utterly brilliant literary zombie
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novel that follows a scientist as she tries to find a cure for the last victim of a zombie apocalypse, her husband, who is secretly handcuffed to a radiator at home. Humorous and heartbreaking, this is as much a novel about grief and love as it is about yellow eyes and hanging jaws.
The new romcom from the bestselling author of Honey & Spice, which was a Reese’s Book Club and TikTok Book Club pick, tells the love story of Kiki and Malakai. Three years after their epic break-up, with Kiki starting to feel like she has got her life under control, her career implodes, her family’s business teeters on collapse and Malakai returns. With him best man to her maid of honour at their friends’ wedding, their chemistry starts to crackle once more.
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Hye-Young Pyun ( 5), Sora Kim-Russell (trans) The Hole Doubleday, 24th, £16.99, HB, 9781529954869 Stephen King’s Misery meets Charlotte Perkins- Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper in this chilling, Shirley Jackson Award-winning Korean novel, published in English for the first time, about a man who wakes up after a car crash to find himself paralysed and under the control of his mother-in-law. This was a bestseller in Korea and a film is currently in production, with Theo James (The White Lotus) and HoYeon Jung (Squid Game) set to star. A gripping read for fans of literary horror.
Crime & thriller
Holly Jackson ( 10) Not Quite Dead Yet Michael Joseph, 17th, £20, HB, 9780241753682
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Irvine Welsh ( 7) Men in Love Jonathan Cape, 24th, £20, HB, 9781787335752
The immediate sequel to Trainspotting (1993) tells the story of four young men’s adventures through raves, sex and love. Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie leave heroin behind and seek joy, and the hope of redemption, on the dancefloor, each wanting to feel alive in the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. Taking in Edinburgh, London, Amsterdam and Paris, the group charges towards an unexpected event: Sick Boy’s wedding day. To be launched with an extensive author tour and “unmissable’ PR campaign.
In the adult thriller debut from the multimillion-copy- bestselling author of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, a woman has one week to solve her own murder. After being attacked by an unseen intruder, suffering a catastrophic brain injury, the doctor is certain that within a week Jet will suffer a deadly aneurysm. But she is determined to uncover the truth. Rights have been snapped up in 30 languages, with a string of record-breaking six- and seven-figure deals, the publisher says.
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ADRIAN SCOTTOW
ANDRIA LO
STEVE LANGAN
KELLY GREEN
ROSS FERGUSON
DESIREE ADAMS / PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
KIM SEUNGBUM
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