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portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can’t escape its history. Aber’s début poetry collection Hard Damage has been awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a 2020 Whiting Award.
Crime & thriller
Nina Bhadreshwar The Day of the Roaring Hemlock Press, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9780008645687
Début
Seized in a four-way auction, this début won Little, Brown’s UEA
Crime Fiction award in 2022. Detective Diana Walker is faced with a wall of silence when investigating a grisly murder that rocks inner-city Sheffield. Can she connect the dots between the body of a headmaster found in his derelict former school, a vanished teacher and a local drug dealer? A procedural with a social conscience, this page-turner illuminates the tensions of multicultural Sheffield, as well as the British violence against the Kikuyu people in 1950s Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising.
Freida McFadden The Crash Poisoned Pen Press, 28th, £9.99, pbo, 9781464228636 In the latest thriller from the author of The Housemaid, a young woman running from her past is taken in by an older couple, but it soon becomes clear they have no plans to let her go. BookScan
Sophie McKenzie Anything For You Canelo Suspense, 23rd, £9.99 pbo, 9781835980248 The first adult novel for almost a decade from the author of Richard & Judy pick Close My Eyes and YA novel Girl, Missing is a “timely” domestic psycho- logical suspense set in North London, focusing on the lengths we will go for those we love. BookScan
Alex Allison Greatest of All Time Dialogue Books, 30th, £18.99, hb, 9780349704548 A novel about queer love, coming-of-age and becoming a man in the masculine world of competitive football, from the author of The Art of the Body, which won a Maugham Award and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize.
Rachel Bower It Comes from the River Bloomsbury Circus, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781526672667
Début Infused with the folklore of
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northern England, this “uncanny” début follows three bitterly divided women of different gener- ations, and the mysterious force that binds them together, exploring violence, resilience and hope. Bower won the London Magazine Short Story Prize 2019/20 and the W&A Short Story Competition 2020.
is left questioning who will care for her. Enter Vincent, a man with his own history to unravel. The second novel from the author of Bellies is a “voice-driven, funny and poignant” exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic and the allure of bougie domesticity. BookScan
Elizabeth is Missing, which won the Costa First Novel Award in 2014, was made into a BBC film and has sold more than a million copies, comes a story of a controlling relation- ship dedicated to the pursuit of physical perfec- tion, breaking free and taking revenge. BookScan
Adrian Duncan The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth Tuskar Rock, 30th, £12.99, tpb, 9781805221944 In this novel of two halves, the Irish author of The Geometer Lobachevsky explores love and grief while finding their reso- nance in works of art.
Elizabeth Harris How to Sleep at Night Te Borough Press, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9780008726843
Début This American début for fans of
Literary Sanam Mahloudji
The Persians 4th Estate, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9780008589042
Début Snapped up in a five-way auction, this acid, immersive portrait of a
wealthy Iranian dynasty under pressure to adapt to a changing world is told through the voices of five female family members. Scattered between Iran and the US, as they move from the underground raves of Tehran to the salons of New York and mansions of LA, each woman makes discoveries about themselves and their history when a trip to Aspen exposes how little their heritage means in America. The author left her native Tehran during the Islamic Revolution, was raised in LA and lives in London.
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Rebecca Yarros Onyx Storm Piatkus, 21st, £25, hb, 9780349437064 The next instalment in the record-breaking Empyrean series, follow- ing Fourth Wing, the bestselling SFF title through TCM in 2023, and Iron Flame, the fastest- selling adult SSF title since records of TCM began. TV rights have been sold to Amazon Studios (Outlier). BookScan
Literary
Aria Aber Good Girl Bloomsbury Publishing, 14th, £16.99, hb, 9781526679031
Début Won by Bloomsbury in
a six-way auction, this electric début about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery is a
Taffy Brodesser-Akner explores what happens when politics invades the domestic sphere, through the stories of a couple, one of whom wants to run for Congress as a Republican—with his progressive partner’s blessing—and a political reporter whose ex-girl- friend slides into her DMs.
Katie Buckley Hero Tinder Press, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781035413072
Début “A love story for our times”
unfolding in the week after a marriage proposal, this “relatable” literary début draws on a rich history of myth and legend to expose the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free. For fans of Everything Under and Saltwater, says Tinder Press.
Nicola Dinan Disappoint Me Doubleday, 23rd, £16.99, hb, 9781529930627 When 30-year-old Max falls down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she
George Harrison Season Lightning, 9th, £14.99, hb, 9781785634147
Début Two men meet for 10 months in
adjacent seats of a foot- ball stadium, gradually developing a touching friendship, in this novel about football and male loneliness.
Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda (trans) Under the Eye of the Big Bird Granta Books, 16th, £14.99, hb, 9781803512358 From the author of Strange Weather in Tokyo, an “inventive and immersive” speculative novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction, drawing on Kawakami’s background in biology and concern about climate and human nature.
Juhea Kim
City of Night Birds Oneworld, 9th, £18.99, hb, 9780861549948 A once-famous ballet dancer faces a devastat- ing choice—to return to the cutthroat world of Russian ballet, or to walk away forever—in this “incandescent” novel of love and redemption, from the author of Beasts of a Little Land.
Alain Mabanckou Dealing with the Dead Serpent’s Tail, 16th, £14.99, tpb, 9781800817708 From a celebrated African novelist, author of the Booker International- shortlisted Black Moses, comes a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history, for readers of Lincoln in the Bardo.
Caryl Phillips
Emma Healey Sweat Hutchinson Heinemann, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781529154122 From the author of
Another Man in the Street Bloomsbury Publishing, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9781526678638 An “evocative and radi- cal” portrait of post-war immigrant London from the author of Crossing the River. Shadowing West Indian Lucky Johnson from his arrival in 1960s London to the present day, Phillips
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