4th April 2025


World War about an American woman, a dashing pilot and a Jewish girl whose fates unexpectedly entwine.


Vikki Heywood Miss Veal and Miss Ham Muswell Press, 3rd, £10.99, PBO, 9781838340100


The debut novel from the former director of the RSC is a “tender, witty”


lesbian love story spanning five decades from the suffragette movement through the Second World War to the early 1950s.


Roy Jacobsen Don Bartlett (trans), Don Shaw (trans) The Unworthy


MacLehose Press, 3rd, £20, HB, 9781529436112


In the new standalone novel from the International Booker- shortlisted Norwegian author, a gang of working-class boys in occupied Oslo get caught up with the enemy regime when a secret map falls into their hands.


Hilary Jones Under Darkening Skies Mountain Leopard Press, 31st, £20, HB, 9781035421794


A “rich, absorbing, epic” tale of love, courage and a life-changing medical discovery set against the background of the Second World War.


Dan Jones Lion Hearts Aries, 31st, £18.99, HB, 9781838937973


The “unmissable” conclusion to the Essex Dogs trilogy. When one of their own is threatened, the Essex Dogs must fight again and the war that lasts 100 years will end, for one of them at least.


Ruchir Joshi Great Eastern Hotel Fourth Estate, 17th, £18.99, HB, 9780007143931


A “rich, teeming” epic of war, famine, love and culture clash in imperial Calcutta during the Second World War.


Melissa Lucashenko Edenglassie Oneworld, 3rd, £10.99, PBO, 9781836431060


Two extraordinary stories set five generations apart are connected by a violent colonial history in this “stunning” historical epic. Over 10,000 copies sold in publication month in Australia, says Oneworld.


Katy Moran


The Nightingale Dilemma Apollo, 3rd, £9.99, PBO, 9781803280240


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A “fast-paced, breathtaking” Regency novel that transports readers from a Spanish battlefield to the drawing rooms of London and the Scottish Highlands.


Kaarina Parker Fulvia Manilla Press, 15th, £16.99, HB, 9781786585196


A story about female ambition and learning where true power lies and


exactly what it costs, set in the world of Ancient Rome.


Lesley Pearse


The Girl with the Suitcase Michael Joseph, 3rd £22, HB, 9780241678114


Set in London and Ireland in 1941, this is the story of a woman from harsh beginnings seizing the opportunity for a fresh start, but one which rests on a secret that could ruin it all.


Matthew Plampin These Wicked Devices The Borough Press, 3rd, £18.99, HB, 9780008163662


Set in Rome in 1650, this novel “weaves a canny, intriguing story connecting characters from the pope to the most destitute in a web of conspiracy, rebellion and unexpected connection”.


Neema Shah A Thread of Light Picador, 10th, £16.99, HB, 9781529030556


The lives of Ruby, a ballsy air raid warden, and Kitty, an industrious lawyer fighting for Indian independence, collide during the Blitz.


Michelle Sloan Mrs Burke and Mrs Hare Polygon, 3rd, £9.99, TPB, 9781846976803


Reimagines the lives of the wives of the infamous body snatchers, casting them as complicit schemers in a story set amid the darkness of Victorian Scotland.


Laura Spence-Ash Beyond That, the Sea Unbound, 17th,, £9.99, PBO, 9781789652642


A “sweeping, tender- hearted” love story that tells the stories of two families living through the Second World War and the young woman who calls them both her own.


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Catherine Alliott Annabel and Her Sisters Michael Joseph, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781405975971


Widowed for a decade and bringing up teenagers alone, Annabel faces the


dilemma of how best to care for her ageing mother. After years of caring for others, she opens herself up to the idea of meeting someone special.


Trisha Ashley ( 7) The Book of Lost Stories Penguin, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781804997178


When Cleo is gifted a forgotten journal by her favourite author, reading the truth about the novels she loves inspires her to write a Gothic romance of her own.


Abigail Bergstrom Selfish Girls Hodder & Stoughton, 10th, £20, HB, 9781399719483


Ines is reluctantly moving home on the edge of a breakdown, Dylan is licking her wounds from a rejection and Emma is quietly suffocating in the marriage she wanted so badly in this “clear- eyed portrait of a dysfunctional family”.


Carol Drinkwater One Summer in Provence Corvus Books, 3rd, £9.99, PBO, 9781805462767


A “heart-warming, sun kissed” novel of family, community and winemaking from the All Creatures Great and Small actress, writer and filmmaker.


Liz Fenwick The Secrets of Harbour House


HQ, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9780008608743


When Kerensa is sent by her father’s auction house to catalogue a neglected house overlooking the sea in Cornwall, she ends up captivated by the secrets it reveals.


Nina George One Night in Paris Michael Joseph, 24th, £16.99, HB, 9780241436608


A “beautiful” novel of self-discovery and new beginnings set against the backdrop of Paris and the French coast, from the author of The Little Paris Bookshop.


Niamh Hargan Nothing Good Happens After 2AM


HarperFiction, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9780008700584


Starting in the London club scene, Robbie and El’s fates unfold over three decades as their story takes them from California to Berlin to Tokyo.


Rachel Hore The Secrets of Dragonfly Lodge Simon & Schuster UK, 31st, £16.99, HB, 9781398518001


Set in the beautiful environs of the Norfolk Broads in 2010 and London in the ’40s and ’50s, Nancy Forster is harbouring a secret, but a journalist thinks she can help restore Nancy’s reputation, if only she is able to trust her.


Sarah MacLean These Summer Storms Piatkus, 8th, £20, HB, 9780349444789 A “sexy, sharp, big summer read” about a hugely wealthy family forced together on a private island after the death of their patriarch.


Emma Medrano Venus Fly Trap Michael Joseph, 24th, £18.99, HB, 9780241703588 This follows university student Louise’s growing infatuation with her enigmatic and sexy flatmate, with a “stinging” twist.


Georgina Moore River of Stars HQ, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9780008506384 In the latest novel from the author of The Garnett Girls, Jo’s life is upended by the arrival of an old flame who left her with a baby and a broken heart.


Eleanor Ray See the Stars Piatkus, 10th, £20, HB, 9780349436760


When Alice collapses in the street from burnout, she returns home to Yorkshire and rediscovers a passion for astronomy. But as secrets resurface, she must find the courage to live the life she wants.


Caroline Roberts The Second Chance Supper Club


HQ Digital, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9780008769680


When Cath moves to rural Northumberland to escape her husband’s betrayal, she starts a cosy supper club that shows her the healing power of community.


Rebecca Ryan The Next Chapter Simon & Schuster UK, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781398538795


Lily prides herself on her organised, surprise- free life, but when her adoptive father asks her to reconnect with her birth mother, a legendary pop-punk singer who vanished from fame, she ventures onto a different path.


Danielle Steel A Mother’s Love Macmillan, 3rd, £22, HB, 9781529085945


A “gripping” tale of a seemingly trivial crime and a woman’s journey to confront the ghosts of her past.


Adriana Trigiani The View from Lake Como Michael Joseph, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781405977159


Eat Pray Love meets Carley Fortune in this love story about making your own fate, set on the shores of Lake Como.


Mark Watson One Minute Away HarperFiction, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9780008347000


When Damir, who bikes around people’s food orders, arrives on Decca’s doorstep with a bag of spilled edamame beans, there’s an immediate connection that sets off a chain of events that will change their lives.


Hattie Williams Bittersweet Orion, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781398722804


A young publicist has an affair with a much older, celebrated author in


this book-club debut.


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