5th September 2025


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Lauren Brown Lauren is a freelance writer and journalist from Teesside, now based in London. She has a degree in English from the University of Cambridge and has written for a range of national, consumer and trade publications, predominantly The Bookseller, where she is a senior reporter. Her first book, Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked, was published by HarperNorth in 2022.


New Titles: Fiction December


Previews


Continuation is king


The year ends with a smaller number of new fiction releases, but there are still gems to be found in December’s round-up


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s the publishing year winds down, December is set to be a very slim month for new fiction


releases, with far fewer titles than in previous months. Romance, SFF and crime and thriller make up the majority – mostly as paperback originals – while there is just a handful of literary and historical novels. Expect lots of series continua-


tions, such as Deborah Fowler’s Missing in St Ives, book three in the St Ives mysteries series (Allison and Busby); Georgina Clarke’s A Kiss from the Devil (VERVE Books), the fourth novel in the Lizzie Hardwicke series; and Paisley Hope’s Protect (Pan), the second instalment in the


Sky Ridge Hotshots series. The second book in Carissa Broadbent’s The War of Lost Hearts series, a tale of dark magic and passionate romance, Children of Fallen Gods, will be out on the 11th with Bramble, while Bethany Jacobs’ Kindom Trilogy, which began with the Philip K Dick Award-winning These Burning Stars, will come to an “epic” conclusion in This Brutal Moon, out with Orbit on the 2nd. Also on the 2nd, Chloe Peñaranda’s Nytefall trilogy will wrap up with the finale, The Dark Is Descending (Wildfire). Other books to highlight are the


three debuts of the month: Victoria Prince’s The Chalet Girl (Michael Joseph), a “gorgeous romp of a novel” from “Jilly


Books New Titles: Fiction


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