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Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper and Rise and Shine Benedict Stone features a bride-to-be, a fortune teller, too many ex-boyfriends and a life-changing European adventure. BookScan
Rachel Runya Katz Whenever You’re Ready Hera, 9th, £9.99, pbo, 9781804369630 From the author of Thank You for Sharing, a “sizzling”, diverse, friends-to-lovers Sapphic romance, for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Bolu Babalola. BookScan
Bal Khabra Spiral Bloomsbury Publishing, 28th, £9.99, pbo, 9781526677884 In the second romance from the author of Collide, a Toronto hockey player and an aspiring ballerina fake a romance to advance their careers. BookScan
A Y Chao Paris Celestial Hodderscape, 23rd, £20, hb, 9781399717465 In the sequel to Shanghai Immortal, Lady Jing is off to Paris, where she will encounter romance, danger and vampires. BookScan
Jo Segura The Temple of Swoon Piatkus, 7th, £9.99, pbo, 9780349438702 An archaeological adventure rom-com from the author of Raiders of the Lost Heart. When Dr Miriam Jacobs is charged with leading an unmapped Brazilian Amazon expedition to find the fabled Lost City of the Moon, she finally has her chance to prove to Dr Mejía that she’s capable. Little does she know that journalist Rafael Monfils is doing his best to scupper her efforts. BookScan
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Naina Kumar Flirting With Disaster Penguin, 16th, £9.99, pbo, 9781405974622 Meena and Nikhil got married in Vegas on a drunken whim. Years later, Meena wants to start her real life with her new fiancé. Unfortunately, she is still married to Nikhil. And they’re stuck together until a hurricane blows over… A forced-proximity romance from the author of Say You’ll Be My Jaan.
Chloe Liese Once Smitten, Twice Shy Piatkus, 28th, £9.99, pbo, 9780349436111 Opposites become allies to fool their match- making friends in this “swoony” reimagining of Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, “Much Ado About Nothing”.
Phaedra Patrick The Year of What If Aria, 16th, £9.99, pbo, 9781035914760 The new “feel-good” novel from the author of The
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Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson The Rule of Chaos Gollancz, 16th, £20, hb, 9781473234246 The second instalment in the centuries-spanning Order of Legends trilogy following The Principle of Moments, which won the inaugural Future Worlds Prize and was longlisted for the 2024 TikTok Book Awards for British Book of the Year. BookScan
entirely standalone, for fans of Stephanie Garber and R F Kuang. BookScan
Catherynne M Valente Space Oddity Corsair, 9th, £20, hb, 9781472160003 The Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza and part continuation of the wars of the past—returns, and the fate of the Earth is once again threatened in this sequel to Space Opera, a finalist for both the Hugo Award for best novel 2019 and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2019.
A S Webb Daughter of Chaos Michael Joseph, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9780241676363
Début In this epic fantasy set in
A K Mulford A Sky of Emerald Stars HarperVoyager, 2nd, £18.99, hb, 9780008601836 Following A River of Golden Bones, the second book in the Golden Court romantasy trilogy contin- ues wolf-shifter Calla’s journey as kingdoms clash and pack politics threat- ens to disrupt what Calla and Grae have built.
Isabel Agajanian Modern Divination Tor, 30th, £22, hb, 9781035049981
Début This magical cosy fantasy
featuring witches, a rivals-to-lovers romance, found family and yearning is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death duology. Dark academia with witches, perfect for fans of Olivie Blake and Rebecca Ross, says Tor.
Annabel Campbell The Outcast Mage Orbit, 28th, £20, hb, 9780356524184
Début A mage bereft of her powers must
find out if she is destined to save the world or destroy it, in this “glitter- ing” epic fantasy début full of intrigue, magic and dragons.
Kritika H Rao The Legend of Meneka HarperVoyager, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9780008650469 The first in a spicy roman- tasy duology reimagining the Hindu myth about a celestial dancer who is tasked with seducing a mortal sage, but when she starts falling for him, she is forced to choose between loyalties.
Lyra Selene A Crown So Silver Orbit, 21st, £22, hb, 9780356524948 Book two in the Fair Folk trilogy, following A Feather So Black. BookScan
Sue Lynn Tan Immortal HarperVoyager, 16th, £16.99, hb, 9780008556310 A romantic fantasy set in the same world as Tan’s Daughter of the Moon Goddess duology, but
Ancient Greece, a proph- ecy foretells that one will set mortals free from the Gods, but few believe it, until fisherman’s daughter Danae eats a mysterious golden apple and a dangerous path unfolds before her. The author is a playwright and actor who has starred in roles for the BBC, Channel 4 and Netflix.
Samantha Sotto Yambao Water Moon Bantam, 16th, £20, hb, 9780857505330
Début A young woman inherits a Tokyo
pawn shop where you can sell your deepest regrets, sparking a dreamlike and magical adventure, in this “whimsical, heart-warm- ing” love story about choosing your own path.
John Larison The Ancients No Exit Press, 2nd, £9.99, pb, 9781835010556 From the author of Whiskey When We’re Dry comes a “richly imagined” survival novel set in a post-apocalyptic future, in which three strands converge: orphaned chil- dren searching the wilder- ness for the last of their people, their captured mother and a young scholar at the centre of power in a waning empire. BookScan
Nick Newman The Garden Doubleday, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9780857529992
Début Two elderly sisters tend the
walled garden that is both their home and their only means of survival. The world outside has become a deserted wilderness. They think they are alone —until they discover a young boy in the garden. From the Costa-shortlisted children’s author and Daunt bookseller Nicholas Bowling, writing under a pseudonym.
Grady Hendrix Witchcraft for Wayward Girls Tor Nightfire, 16th, £22, hb, 9781035030873 A “dark and hilarious” feminist horror set in a maternity home for “loose” teenage girls in the 1970s, from the author of How to Sell a Haunted House. BookScan
Lauren Wiesebron The House of Frost and Feathers Hodderscape, 16th, £20, hb, 9781399723176 Spinning Silver meets “Howl’s Moving Castle” in this “beautiful” Slavic folklore fantasy about a woman who accepts a job working with the notori- ous witch Baba Zima in her house that glides on chicken feet through the snow, researching a cure for the sleeping plague.
Suzanne Wright The Monsters We Are Piatkus, 16th, £22, hb, 9780349434636 A new spicy romantasy trilogy “full of magic and moxie”, from the author of The Dark in You, for fans of Sarah J Maas and Raven Kennedy.
Deborah Tomkins Aerth Weatherglass Books, 25th, £10.99, pbo, 9781739570781 Winner of Weatherglass Books’ Inaugural Novella Prize, chosen by Ali Smith, this dystopian novella explores migration, climate, conspiracy theo- ries and interplanetary homelessness.
Horror & ghost stories
Camilla Bruce At the Bottom of the Garden Magpie, 30th, £9.99, pbo, 9780861549924 A gothic adult fairytale with a murderous aunt, witches and a vengeful housekeeper, from the author of You Let Me In and The Witch in the Well, for readers of Catriona Ward and C J Cooke.
Lucy Rose The Lamb
W&N, 30th, £16.99, hb, 9781399619714
Début A “sinister” folktale set in
contemporary Cumbria with a cannibalistic mother-daughter relation- ship at its heart, for fans of Sophie Mackintosh and Daisy Johnson, says W&N.
Charles Stross A Conventional Boy Orbit, 7th, £22, hb, 9780356524641 This collection includes the short Laundry Files novel A Conventional Boy, set during the 1980s Satanic panic. The series follows a British spy agency that deals with supernatural threats, chronic underfunding, rival agencies and, worst of all, each other.
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