5th September 2025 Literary
Davey Davis Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
Cipher Press, 4th, £11.99, PBO, 9781917008174
A novel about art, desire and mortality, this follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter. Davis is the author of X (Cipher Press) and The Earthquake Room (TigerBee Press).
Fanny Howe Holy Smoke Divided Publishing, 1st, £11.99, PBO, 9781068439513
Published in the UK for the first time, this “missing novel in the UK Fanny Howe oeuvre” is the International Booker Prize-nominated author’s account of the frenzy and paranoia of US politics, refracted through one individual’s psyche.
Wendy Sacks Jones The Candidate’s Husband SRL Publishing, 9th, £10.99, TPB, 9781915073556
When headteacher Kirsty’s local MP resigns after a sex scandal, she
is determined to run in the by-election to replace him, but her husband Rick sets out to influence her campaign to his own advantage. Kirsty battles on as the domestic and the political start to collide, and a revelation from the past threatens to derail the whole operation.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Mark Polizzotti (trans) The Emotions
Other Press, 9th, £16.99, PBO, 9781635422160
An analyst at the heart of the European Union revisits his past and anticipates the future after his father’s death, in this “brilliant, nuanced” novel of love, politics, masculinity and memory. Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and film-maker, and the
award-winning author of 18 books.
Literary short stories
Brian Aldiss ( 2) Hello Earth, Are You There?
Harper Voyager, 18th, £9.99, PBO, 9780008779610
Comprises 27 short stories from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Brian Aldiss, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg’s film, AI: Artificial Intelligence.
Nelson Algren Entrapment and Other Writings
Seven Stories Press, 9th, £16.99, PBO, 9781644215128
A collection of lost and unfinished writings from the recipient of the first National Book Award for Fiction, including his unfinished last novel and several stories. Features a new introduction by Algren’s biographer Colin Asher.
Brandon Sanderson ( 1) Tailored Realities Gollancz, 9th, £25, HB, 9781399633222
A new short fiction collection, including the never-before- published novella Moment Zero from the bestselling author of the Stormlight Archive and the Mistborn saga.
Joy Williams The Pelican Child Tuskar Rock Press, 4th, £12.99, TPB, 9781805228578
The new collection from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist features twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family’s deeds; a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding- school innocence; and the “pelican child” who lives with the bony, ill- tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs.
Crime & thriller
MJ Arlidge Into the Fire Orion, 4th, £9.99, PBO, 9781398708303
When she sees a woman being pursued by two thugs, former detective Helen Grace races into the night and takes down the young woman’s attackers. But then she is struck from behind, regaining consciousness just in time to see the woman being driven off in a white van. Racing against the clock, she soon discovers a whole group of vulnerable women desperately need her help in the latest Helen Grace thriller.
Robin Cook Spasm Macmillan, 4th, £25, HB, 9781035079179
A fast-paced Jack Stapleton–Laurie Montgomery medical thriller set in a small upstate New York town where a bioweapon is at the centre of multiple murder-suicides among a group of scientists.
Maxie Dara A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death
Berkeley US, 2nd, £15.99, PBO, 9780593815816
Nora Bird works for SCYTHE, an organisation that enables her to learn all about the myriad ways you can kick the bucket, which is comforting for someone terrified of death, until one day a file crosses her desk with a name she recognises: her twin brother’s. Targeted by a killer, Nora risks everything to save him in this cosy mystery.
Sebastian Fitzek Mimik Aries, 4th, £9.99, PBO, 9781035918058
Struggling with the effects of memory loss after an operation, Hannah is confronted with the most terrible case of her career: a woman has confessed on video to murdering every member of her family, except her young son. Only Hannah can tell if the video actually holds the truth. But there is a problem: the woman in the video is Hannah herself.
Deborah Fowler Missing in St Ives Allison and Busby, 5th, £22, HB, 9780749032739
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Merrin has returned to her hometown of St Ives, where an old friend’s daughter, Emily, goes missing. Soon, a ransom demand is made to her parents
requesting £500,000 for the girl’s safe return, despite Emily having apparently left a note stating where she was going. Book three in the St Ives mysteries series.
Sam Frances One by One Headline Accent, 4th, £10.99, PBO, 9781035418442
Infamous rock band The Dolls are appearing for the first time since lead singer Ris was pushed to her death. It was an open and shut case: Ris’ best friend was seen committing the crime, but when The Dolls start receiving death threats, DS Alice Washington is forced to question everything. The second book in the series.
Joshua Moehling A Long Time Gone Poisoned Pen Press, 11th, £13.99, PBO, 9781728279039
A small-town cop finds himself at a low point. With no resources or support, he dives into a decades-old cold case as a civilian and uncovers far more than he bargained for. Features a queer main character, written by a queer author.
Hannah Morrissey The Widowmaker No Exit Press, 4th, £9.99, PBO, 9781835013885
A “haunting” thriller about a dead cop, a missing mogul and the woman who might hold the key to both. The second in the Black Harbor series, which is inspired by the author’s experience as a court transcriber.
Jeneva Rose One of Us Is Dead Orion, 4th, £9.99, PBO, 9781398723689
This deadly story of backstabbing and revenge follows the women of Buckhead, a place of expensive cars, huge houses, competitive friendships and secrets; “jaw-droppingly twisty”.
Jenna Satterthwaite The New Year’s Party VERVE Books, 4th, £10.99, PBO, 9780857309327
In this suspenseful locked-room mystery, 10 millennial friends gather for a New Year’s party that will end in blood – but whose body is it, and who is leaving the party as a murderer? Follows Sattherthwaite’s debut novel, Made for You, which was published by VERVE in April this year.
Sarah Sultoon Blackwater Orenda Books, 6th, £9.99, PBO, 9781916788985
As the clock ticks towards the millennium – and the threat of a potential new apocalyptic reality – Jonny Murphy is sent to investigate the discovery of a child’s body on a deserted swamp island, 50 miles from London. What he finds is more than just a tragedy, it is a warning. Something big is coming, but can Jonny stop it?
Christian Unge, George Goulding (trans), Sarah De Senarclens (trans) Blood Will Tell
MacLehose Press, 4th, £20, HB, 9781529418194
Emergency doctor and amatuer sleuth Tekla Berg grapples with her family’s past as a terror attack on Stockholm looms in this novel translated from Swedish. Unge works as a senior doctor in a Stockholm hospital.
Historical crime & thriller
Kay Blythe A Poisoning at Castle Gloaming
No Exit Press, 4th, £9.99, PBO, 9781835012147
Jemima combines her skills as a dressmaker and sleuth to solve crime in the crumbling stately homes of Britain in this cosy mystery from the author of The Dress Thief.
Georgina Clarke A Kiss from the Devil VERVE Books, 11th, £10.99, HB, 9780857309303
Brothel worker and sometime sleuth Lizzie Hardwicke is drawn into another deadly investigation following a spate of violent attacks against women. But when evidence begins to point to her own brother as the murderer, who can she trust? This historical mystery is the fourth novel in the Lizzie Hardwicke series.
Historical
Miguel Bonnefoy, Ruth Diver (trans) The Dream of the Jaguar
Other Press, 2nd, £16.99, PBO, 9781635425505
When a mute beggar from Maracaibo, Venezuela takes in
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