4th April 2025
Brigitte Knightley The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy
Orbit, 8th, £20, HB, 9780356524733
From “a fan fiction sensation with over three million reads” comes a
debut, slow burn, enemies- to-lovers romance set in a fantasy world.
Elise Kova Arcana Academy Hodderscape, 22nd, £20, HB, 9781399728881
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arrogant and annoyingly handsome co-star. But their chemistry is palpable and the studio has them fake a romance to charm fans and draw crowds.
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Ben Aaronovitch Stone and Sky Orion, 3rd, £20, HB, 9781473226715
In the latest novel in the bestselling Rivers of London series, a body is found in a bus stop, fresh from the sea. Something may be stirring beyond the bay, but there’s something far stronger in the sky…
Chinaza Bado Birth of a Dynasty HarperVoyager, 31st, £16.99, HB, 9780008697624
The start of a “thrilling, epic” fantasy trilogy centred around three families’ fight for power in a land where magic is feared, giants are real and prophecy holds sway.
Jackson P Brown The Reaper Del Rey, 10th, £16.99, HB, 9781529907193
A “dark and gripping” urban fantasy set in the heart of a
hidden world beneath the streets of London by the founder of Black Girl Writers and winner of Penguin’s WriteNow competition.
Kalie Cassidy In the Veins of the Drowning
Gollancz, 17th, £9.99, PBO, 9781399632096
When a siren forms a marriage bond with a self-righteous
king, the line between duty and desire soon
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blurs in this “seductive siren romantasy with a dark twist”.
JR Dawson
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World Tor, 31st, £20, HB, 9781035018246
A “haunting and moving” story of family and grief, memory and magic and what it truly means to be alive.
Juno Dawson Human Rites HarperVoyager, 17th, £18.99, HB, 9780008478605
The “hotly anticipated” conclusion to Dawson’s bestselling Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series.
Sarah Beth Durst The Enchanted Greenhouse Tor, 17th, £22, HB, 9781035042371 A standalone sequel to The Spell Shop is a “warm, cosy and uplifting” romantasy.
Alex Foster Circular Motion Grove Press UK, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781804711088
The acceleration of the Earth’s spin begins gradually, but soon the days
spin to 23 hours and faster and faster, as Tanner and Winnie’s stories spiral closer together in this “propulsive” exploration of capitalism and technology.
Thea Guanzon Tusk Love Del Rey, 1st, £22 HB, 9781529954647
A merchant’s daughter who yearns for adventure gets more than she bargained for when she falls for a handsome stranger. Written by Guanzon at the behest of Critical Role’s Jester Lavorre.
A woman who wields magical tarot cards lands herself in a false engagement to the headmaster of a mysterious academy in this first instalment of an enthralling fantasy romance series.
Hal LaCroix Here and Beyond Bloomsbury Publishing, 3rd, £16.99, HB, 9781526678256
Six hundred humans journey into the darkness of space in search
of a new home in this “mesmerising”, literary speculative debut.
Jennifer K Lambert Never the Roses Tor Bramble, 10th, £22, HB, 9781035074983
Enemy sorcerers in love risk their freedom in this “epic” romantic fantasy debut from Lambert, the pen name of the celebrated romance author Jeffe Kennedy.
Alison Layland After the Clearances Honno Welsh Women’s Press, 10th, £9.99, PBO, 9781916821262
Set in 2056, this is a “gripping” cli-fi novel exploring the impacts of climate change through the story of a community of remote islanders.
Shannon Mayer Neverthorn Michael Joseph, 24th, £20, HB, 9780241701836
Magic school dropout Harlow must go back to school to perfect her magic and defeat the dark wizard Nocta before he destroys the magical and mortal realms in this “high-octane” romantasy.
Stacey McEwan A Forbidden Alchemy Simon & Schuster UK, 3rd, £18.99, HB, 9781398537293 This traces a fated pair who stumble upon a world-changing secret in youth and are catapulted into a violent class war in adulthood.
Emma Noyes Soul of Shadow Michael Joseph, 31st, £20, HB, 9780241683873
When Charlie meets the mysterious Elias, she is pulled into a world of magic, gods and monsters in this high school paranormal romance.
KJ Parker Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead
Orbit, 8th, £9.99, PBO, 9780356520926
The start of a “highly entertaining” new epic fantasy trilogy from the World Fantasy Award- winner and author of Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City.
Morgan Ryan A Resistance of Witches Bantam, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9780857506139
During the Second World War an academy of witches seeks a magical
artefact that, were it to fall into Hitler’s hands, could help him realise his twisted Aryan plans.
Julie Soto Rose in Chains Magpie, 3rd, £20, HB, 9780008711672
Captured by the enemy, princess Briony is stripped of her magic and auctioned off to Toven, the scion of a family known for their cruel control of magic, and the object of her long-time, unresolved infatuation.
LK Steven Silvercloak Del Rey, 24th, £18.99, HB, 9781529940978
The first in a new fantasy series set in a world where magic is fuelled
by pleasure and pain. An obsessive detective infiltrates a gang of cruel mages, where one wrong move means death. This adult fiction debut is a lead title for Del Rey.
Rachel Van Dyken Fallen Gods Tor Bramble, 3rd, £22, HB, 9781035050741
A “spell-binding and spicy” Norse fantasy of a war between gods, filled with
ancient secrets and perilous desire.
Michelle Wong House of the Beast HarperVoyager, 17th, £16.99, HB, 9780008672508
The dark fantasy debut by The Legend of Korra graphic-novel
illustrator centres on a young woman who strikes a deal with a god to seek revenge on her aristocratic family. Has illustrations by the author throughout.
Horror & ghost stories
Zoë Apostolides The Homecoming Salt, 7th, £10.99, PBO, 9781784633394
In this “quietly disturbing” debut about memory, isolation, spirits
and secrets, a young ghost writer is sent to record the memoirs of an elderly woman living in a remote village.
Mallory Arnold How to Survive a Horror Story
Poisoned Pen Press, 8th, £9.99, PBO, 9781464247200
Nine authors arrive at a legendary horror author’s manor to attend his
last will and testament reading, only to be invited to play a game. “Knives Out but make it horror” is the pitch.
Kathleen Kaufman The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey
Kensington, 29th, £26, HB, 9781496753908
As spiritualism reaches fever pitch at the dawn of the 20th century, a Scottish girl crosses the veil to unlock a powerful connection within an infamous asylum.
Silvia Moreno- Garcia ( 10) The Bewitching
Arcadia, 17th, £20, HB, 9781529441703
Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie, multigenerational horror saga blending folk horror and dark academia by the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.
Shannon Morgan Grimdark Kensington, 29th, £16.99, HB, 9781496753724
An “ambitious and evocative” novel spanning three timelines in a remote English seaside town where legends of witches and ghosts obscure an even stranger truth.
Toby Vieira The Undrowned Weatherglass Books, 31st, £11.99, PBO, 9781068794148
A novel of ghosts, contagion, conspiracy and the search for answers in a world that is spinning into disarray as the flood waters rise. Sebastian is the lone survivor of a virus, begging the questions: why is he alive? And where are his colleagues?
Books New Titles: Fiction
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