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Micah Nemerever These Violent Delights Magpie, 9th, £9.99, pbo, 9781836430438
Début A “compulsive” début about two
college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence.
James Patterson The Texas Murders Penguin, 2nd, £8.99, pbo, 9781529159745 Book two in the Texas Ranger series. BookScan
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Rory Clements A Cold Wind From Moscow Zaffre, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781804185087 The new thriller in the Tom Wilde series about a Cambridge spy. BookScan
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promise of wealth and independence. All that is required is application, nerve, and a willingness to operate outside the law. BookScan
freedom fighting for the British in the American War of Independence. But they find themselves deep in London’s underworld, where they must unite a brotherhood of Black men, the Blackbirds of St Giles, against a cruel leader.
who stays in St Lucia, the other who departs for a new life in 1950s London, was inspired by the author’s Windrush- generation parents. An atmospheric and lyrical début for fans of Louise Hare and Kristin Hannah, says HarperFiction.
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Howard Linskey A Serpent in the Garden Canelo, 30th, £18.99, hb, 9781804368770 The first book in a “grip- ping” historical mystery series set in Elizabethan London, featuring William Shakespeare, from the author of the DC Ian Bradshaw series. Each novel revolves around the creation of one of Shakespeare’s plays.
Dana Stabenow Abduction of a Slave Head of Zeus, 30th, £20, hb, 9781035910069 The fourth mystery in the Eye of Isis series set in Ancient Egypt during Cleopatra’s reign.
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Philip Gray The House with Nine Locks Harvill Secker, 23rd, £18.99, hb, 9781787304420 In the “compelling” new historical suspense from the author of BBC Two “Between the Covers” pick Two Storm Wood, a young woman in post- war Flanders inherits a mysterious house and its contents, which hold the
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The Favourites Chatto & Windus, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9781784745486
This epic love story, for fans of Gabrielle Zevin and Taylor Jenkins Reid, reimagines the tempestuous romance of Wuthering Heights in the savage world of elite figure skating. When Katarina Shaw meets Heath
Rocha, a lonely foster kid, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating—and each other—to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweet- hearts to champion ice dancers, until a shocking incident at the Olympics brings their partnership to a sudden end. Fargo is the author of the thrillers They Never Learn and Temper.
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The Blackbirds of St Giles Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 30th, £18.99, hb, 9781398526570 In this novel co-written by Kate Griffin, the author of Fyneshade, and Marcia Hutchinson, a former Labour councillor, two siblings arrive in 18th-century London having escaped a Jamaican sugar plantation and won their
Karissa Chen Homeseeking Sceptre, 23rd, £18.99, hb, 9781399718356
Début Pachinko meets “Past Lives” in
this “transporting” novel about first loves, new beginnings and second chances, set between Shanghai, Taiwan, Hong Kong and LA over 70 years. Loosely based on the author’s family history, it was inspired by a long-forgotten photograph. Chen was formerly senior fiction editor at the Rumpus and is currently editor-in-chief of Hyphen magazine.
The Queen of Fives Headline Review, 30th, £18.99, hb, 9781035414291 In the second book from the author of The Housekeepers, which won the Caledonia Novel Award 2022, London’s most talented con woman has five days to lift a fortune from the rich- est family in Victorian England. But the Kendal family all have secrets of their own, and she may not be the only one playing a game of high deception “Delightfully mischievous,” said the Times, of his début.
Emma Hinds
The Quick and the Dead Bedford Square Publish- ers, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9781915798879 Following criminals and alchemists in Elizabethan London, the second novel from the author of The Knowing, a Sunday Times historical fiction book of the month, is one for fans of Sarah Waters and Jessie Burton.
Pepsi Demacque-Crockett Island Song HarperFiction, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9780008598754
Début This epic tale of two sisters, one
Wendy Holden The Teacher of Auschwitz Zaffre, 2nd, £20, hb, 9781804184646 Based on a true story, the “powerful” tale of a gay teacher in Auschwitz, who saved hundreds of children from death by
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The Book of George Atlantic Books, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781805463245
providing hope under the darkest conditions imaginable, from the author of Born Survivors and Tomorrow Will Be a Good Day.
chief Paul Hauptmann in a daring mission in occupied Rome, in the second book in the Escape Line trilogy. BookScan
Zora Neale Hurston The Life of Herod the Great HQ, 7th, £20, hb, 9780008732783 An unfinished, previously unpublished novel from the legendary Harlem Renaissance author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, revealing Herod the Great not as the demon the Bible makes him out to be, but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure. Hurston breathes life into first century BC Judea with vivid detail, says HQ. BookScan
Judith Lennox A Different World Headline Review, 16th, £22, hb, 9781035408801 A “mesmerising” story of one woman’s tumultuous journey through the 20th century, navigating the joys and challenges of marriage and mother- hood in an ever-changing world, from the author of Summer at Seastone.
Joseph O’Connor The Ghosts of Rome Harvill Secker, 30th, £20, hb, 9781787303874 The Contessa Giovanna Landini takes on Gestapo
John Sayles To Save the Man Melville House, 23rd, £25, hb, 9781685891411 In the vein of Never Let Me Go and Killers of the Flower Moon, the American filmmaker and author of Jamie MacGillivray sheds light on an American tragedy: the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the “cultural geno- cide” experienced by the Native American children at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Minette Walters The Players Allen & Unwin, 2nd, £20, hb, 9781805463153 An “inventive” tale of guile, deceit and compassion set during the turbulent days of the Monmouth Rebellion and Bloody Assizes of 1685, in the reign of James II, from the award-winning author of The Swift and the Harrier and The Last Hours.
Carmel Harrington The Lighthouse Secret HarperFiction, 30th, £9.99, pbo, 9780008528607 A “sweeping and emotional” novel that transports readers from 1950s Ireland to
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We all know a George. He’s brimming with potential but incapable of following through. He doesn’t know if he’s in love with his girlfriend, but he likes having her around; he’s distant from— but still reliant on—his mother; he
swears he’ll finish his novel one day. You might find him disappointing, but no one is more disappointed in George than George himself. Praised by Maria Semple, Adelle Waldman and Sharlene Teo, this is a “deft, unexpectedly moving, never-coming-of- age” story from the author of Laura & Emma, for fans of Dolly Alderton and Monica Heisey, says Atlantic.
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