Titles in this preview are published in July
Roberta Recchia, Antonella Lettieri (trans) All That Is Left of Life
Dialogue Books, 10th, £20, HB, 9780349704586
While holidaying in their beach house on the Lazio coast, a family’s perfect life
is shattered forever in this “beautifully layered” Italian bestseller about, resilience, love and loss.
Maria Reva Endling Virago, 3rd, £20, HB, 9780349012711
A scientist, two sisters secretly searching for their missing mother
and an endangered snail journey across contemporary Ukraine in the debut novel from the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear.
Adam Roberts Food Person Hutchinson Heinemann, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781529154870
When Isabel is fired from her role at a digital food magazine,
she accepts a thankless job for the paycheck: write the very past- due cookbook for once-beloved actress Molly Babcock. From the founder of the food blog The Amateur Gourmet and author of three cookbooks.
Ayşegül Savaş The Anthropologists Scribner, 3rd, £9.99, PBO, 9781398529939
A “soulful” examination of home-building and modern love told over a series of apartment viewings, late night conversations, last drinks and lazy breakfasts.
Indyana Schneider Since the World Is Ending Scribner, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9781398501133
Maya is living her dream as a musician in Vienna, but when the ex-love of her life turns up on her doorstep, the perfect world she has built begins to unravel. A novel about music, love and art.
Alexander Starritt Drayton and Mackenzie Swift Press, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781800755260
An “astonishingly ambitious, moving” novel tracking two university acquaintances during the first 20 years of this century as their paths bisect and they found a clean energy company together.
Defne Suman The Last Apartment in Istanbul
Apollo, 3rd, £20, HB, 9781035902385
Through its 75-year-old narrator, this novel tells the story of Istanbul’s deterioration, beginning with the Covid-19 crisis and weaving its way backwards to the 1950s.
Austin Taylor Notes on Infinity Michael Joseph, 10th, £16.99, HB, 9780241729489
The “epic” love story of two young Harvard students with a shared dream
who are drawn into the vortex of American start-up culture. Publishing as a lead title for PMJ.
Jackie Thomas-Kennedy The Other Wife Viking, 17th, £14.99, HB, 9780241726563
A “bold” debut about race and class, love and nostalgia and
learning to live with the life we have chosen, following Susan, who at nearly 40 is living the life she has always dreamed of but can’t help wondering: “What if?”
Mizuki Tsujimura, Yuki Tejima (trans) How to Hold Someone in Your Heart
Doubleday, 3rd, £14.99, TPB, 9780857529664
This story of a young man with special powers to connect the living with the afterlife is the sequel to Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon.
Rebecca Wait Havoc Riverrun, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781529434453
Set in a run-down girls’ boarding school in the 1980s, with the Cold War still in full swing and featuring a curious case of mass psychogenic illness, Havoc is “another perfect tragicomedy” from the author of I’m Sorry You Feel That Way.
Benjamin Wood Seascraper Viking, 17th, £14.99, HB, 9780241741344
A “mesmerising” portrait of a young man confined by his class and the ghosts of his family’s past, dreaming of artistic fulfilment far beyond the world he knows.
Fumio Yamamoto, Brian Bergstrom (trans) The Dilemmas of Working Women
Virago, 3rd, £18.99, HB, 9780349019215
This Japanese bestseller being published in English for the first time is a “darkly funny and
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relatable” collection of five novellas about five ordinary women trying to get by in a grinding capitalist society.
Katie Yee Maggie: Or, A Man and a Woman Walk into a Bar
Brazen, 24th, £18.99, HB, 9781840918786
A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her
life falls apart, calling her tumour the name of the woman her husband is having an affair with, Maggie, in this “taut, wry” debut that grapples with grief and motherhood.
An Yu Sunbirth Harvill Secker, 10th, £18.99, HB, 9781787304970
As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations. For fans of Emily St John Mandel.
Literary short stories
Chris Green Takoyaki Tales Neem Tree, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781915584915
A collection of “quirky and darkly funny” short stories inspired by Green’s experience as a Brit living in Japan, illustrated by Becky Purton.
Rose Keating ( 3) Oddbody Canongate Books, 17th, £14.99, TPB, 9781837261864
A surreal, Gothic short story collection confronting themes
of fear, desire and shame for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh from a “thrilling” new Irish talent.
Etgar Keret, Jessica Cohen (trans), Sondra Silverston (trans) Autocorrect
Granta Books, 3rd, £14.99, HB, 9781803510668
The first new collection from the Israeli author since Fly Already is a “wildly inventive” series of stories ranging from SF scenarios to fictional thought-experiments and vignettes.
Liadan Ní Chuinn Every One Still Here Granta Books, 3rd, £14.99, TPB, 9781803513270
A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus, a bride-to-be
prays to St Valentine’s bones and bouquets are found all over a museum in this “searing and powerful” debut collection from a “stunning” new Irish voice.
Ed Park
An Oral History of Atlantis PRH USA, 29th, £20, HB, 9780812998993
A “deadpan” and “wildly imaginative” collection that “slices clean through the mundanity and absurdity of modern life” from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the LA Times Book Prize.
Crime & thriller
Megan Abbott El Dorado Drive Virago, 8th, £22, HB, 9780349020044
The “thrilling” new novel from the bestselling author is a story about three sisters who join an exclusive women’s club which promises to empower its members but will actually put them in mortal danger.
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir Home Before Dark Orenda Books, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9781916788602
In this “twisty, dark and utterly chilling” psychological thriller, Marsi’s sister goes missing, her bloody anorak found where Marsi was supposed to meet her pen pal.
Daniel Aleman I Might Be in Trouble Orion, 3rd, £9.99, PBO, 9781398723474
David’s writing career? Dying. And his hot new date? Dead in his
bed. A “heartfelt, hilarious and meta” adult debut mystery about a struggling writer who finds inspiration in total calamity.
Nikki Allen The Hideaway Pan, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781035071975
In this “twisty” destination thriller, five strangers invited to an influencer’s
exclusive retreat find themselves stranded in the rainforest, unable to trust anyone.
Kelley Armstrong Every Step She Takes Datura Books, 8th, £9.99, TPB, 9781915523426
Genevieve returns with her groceries to her flat in Rome to find the door unlocked and a box on the kitchen table, postmarked from the US and addressed to Lucy, a name she hasn’t used in 10 years.
Matthew Blake A Murder in Paris HarperFiction, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9780008607845
The author of Anna O returns with a novel about memory playing dark
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