4th April 2025 Literary
Renée Ahdieh Park Avenue Bedford Square Publishers, 17th, £14.99, TPB, 9781835013243
When junior partner Jia Song is invited to sit in on the hush-hush implosion of one of the most famous Korean families on the planet, it becomes clear they’re harbouring secrets. Billed as Crazy Rich Asians meets Succession.
Alina Bronsky, Tim Mohr (trans) Barbara Isn’t Dying
Europa Editions, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781787705814
A “bittersweet, droll” novel translated from the original German about a married couple whose decades-old routine is suddenly upended.
Ben Brooks The Greatest Possible Good
Scribner, 15th, £16.99, HB, 9781398542211
Arthur spends three days down a disused mineshaft with only his son’s drug stash, a book on the concept of “effective altruism” and a bottle of wine and emerges with a plan to become a good man in the “hilarious, thought-provoking” latest from the award- winning author.
Emily Buchanan Send Flowers Verve Books, 1st, £10.99, PBO, 9780857308931
“Eco-fluencer” Fiona hasn’t left her flat since her boyfriend Ed died,
blaming herself for what happened and for the failure of her climate- activist group. But when Ed’s favourite plant appears on her doorstep with a note, she feels a glimmer of hope.
Elaine Castillo Moderation Atlantic Books, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781838954963
Girlie takes up a new role at the social media company she works for,
moderating its new venture: virtual-reality theme parks, stunning simulations of civilisations long gone. But as she realises something dark is lurking at the heart of the company, she also realises her new boss might be her type.
Yrsa Daley-Ward The Catch Merky Books, 10th, £16.99, HB, 9781529923643
A “stylishly intriguing and experimental” debut exploring family, fate and
female fantasies from the award-winning author of The Terrible. Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey are estranged, until one day Clara sees a woman who looks just like their vanished mother.
Zoe Dubno Happiness and Love Doubleday, 10th, £16.99, HB, 9781529930160
An unnamed narrator who has fled a set of friends she despised finds herself once
more at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening in this darkly funny debut touching on art, capitalism and the homogeneity of creative culture.
Samuel Fisher Migraine Corsair, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781472158284
Opening in East London, Migraine follows two men as they cross the city in pursuit of a doomed love. From the co-owner of Burley Fisher Books and author of Wivenhoe and The Chameleon, which won a Betty Trask Award in 2019.
Emma Forrest Father Figure W&N, 3rd, £18.99, HB, 9781474620598
The Your Voice in My Head and Royals author returns with a short novel set in a London girls’ school about “an oligarch meeting his match in the lawless energy of a teenage girl”.
Esther Freud My Sister and Other Lovers
Bloomsbury Publishing, 3rd, £18.99, HB, 9781526685209
The latest from the Hideous Kinky author is about love, sisterhood, secrets and betrayal, set against a backdrop of ’70s counterculture.
Nicky Gonzalez Mayra Scribe UK, 17th, £14.99, PBO, 9781915590954
A twisty, Gothic debut about two women who shared an intense, toxic
friendship as children and reconnect at a secluded house deep in the swamplands of Florida.
Phoebe Greenwood Vulture Europa Editions, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781787705791
Described as “Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East”, this is a “darkly funny, heart- wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry”.
Tehila Hakimi,
Joanna Chen (trans) Hunting in America Footnote Press, 24th, £10.99, PBO, 9781804442531
A “thrillingly subversive” novel about an Israeli woman who moves to America, takes up hunting and is drawn into a world of predator, prey and dark attraction, for fans of Luster, Boy Parts and Assembly.
Lidija Hilje Slanting Towards the Sea Daunt Originals, 17th, £9.99, TPB, 9781917092210
An “evocative meditation on longing and buried resentment” set in
the Croatian city of Zadar, exploring what it means to come of age in a country younger than yourself as it sets a decades-long love story against an emerging Croatia.
Connor Hutchinson Dead Lucky Corsair, 10th, £20, HB, 9781472159069
Jamie loves his job as an embalmer at a funeral home, but his gambling
addiction has left him in debt. With his girlfriend piling on the pressure to buy their first home together, he places the biggest bet of his life in this “comic rollercoaster”.
Allison King The Phoenix Pencil Company
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Fourth Estate, 31st, £16.99, HB, 9780008700843
A “dazzling” debut about a long-hidden and nearly forgotten magic that holds the
power to transform a young woman’s relationship with her grandmother, and to mend long-lost connections across time and space. For fans of The Midnight Library.
Agnes Lidbeck,
Nichola Smalley (trans) Supporting Act Peirene Press, 2nd, £12.99, PBO, 9781916806085
As mother and wife Anna’s marriage collapses, she begins an affair with
an ageing author, only to find herself once again in the role of caregiver. Translated from the original Swedish.
Hafsa Lodi Turbulence Neem Tree, 3rd, £9.99, PBO, 9781915584380
Pregnant on a flight to the US and upgraded to business class, away from her husband and son and her life of domesticity in the Middle East, Dunya reflects on the choices that have led her on a trajectory she never meant to take.
Masashi Matsuie, Margaret Mitsutani (trans)
Summer at Mount Asama The Indigo Press, 10th, £12.99, TPB, 9781917378000
The winner of the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, in which graduate Sakanishi
joins an architecture firm and encounters four remarkable women who change the course of his life as the firm heads to a mountain village.
Thomas McMullan Groundwater Bloomsbury Publishing, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9781526678027
John and Liz move to a remote house by a lake, and Liz’s sister and her family come to visit. But as the weekend draws to a close and tensions rise, the landscape reveals a violence that has long lain hidden.
Leila Mottley ( 1) The Girls Who Grew Big Fig Tree, 10th, £16.99, HB, 9780241705506
From the Booker- nominated and internationally bestselling author of Nightcrawling comes a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town.
Ferdinand Mount The Pentecost Papers
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Emma Nanami Strenner ( 2) My Other Heart
Hutchinson Heinemann, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9781529154061
In 1998, Mimi and her baby wait restlessly at the airport gate in Philadelphia, a day’s
travel away from landing home on Vietnamese soil, when, as they prepare to board, the unthinkable happens. Seventeen years later, Mimi seeks her lost child.
John Niven The Fathers Canongate Books, 17th, £18.99, HB, 9781837260515
The lives of two men on a maternity ward are brought together when tragedy strikes in this “hilarious and heartbreaking” account of fatherhood, marriage, fertility, parenting, grief, class and masculinity.
Eloghosa Osunde Necessary Fiction Fourth Estate, 31st, £16.99, HB, 9780008708610
From the acclaimed author of Vagabonds! comes an “audacious and eye-opening” exploration of cross- generational queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
Jente Posthuma, Sarah Timmer Harvey (trans) People with No Charisma
Scribe UK, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781917189033
A “darkly humorous” novel about multigenerational family dynamics and individuality in a Dutch suburb from the International Booker- shortlisted author of What I’d Rather Not Think About.
Bloomsbury Publishing, 17th, £18.99, HB, 9781526682727
From financial corruption to environmental destruction, danger and murder, the bestselling author’s latest novel dissects the murky world of the super-rich, following a healer and security analyst on a journey down the dark canyons of capitalism.
Books New Titles: Fiction
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