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the remote English village of Imber and forced every inhabitant to leave. Each winter, on one night only, the former residents return to visit loved ones buried in the overgrown churchyard. But this year, something has gone wrong.
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trilogy set in 1670-71, during the reign of King Charles II. It features Colonel Thomas Blood, an ex-Parliamentarian soldier turned rascal for hire, and his son Holcroft Blood, newly employed by the Duke of Buckingham, one of the most powerful men in the country.
NICK RENNISON SUPERNATURAL SHERLOCKS NO EXIT PRESS, 26TH, £9.99, PBO, 9781843449751 Fifteen tales from the period 1890-1930, the Golden Age of the occult detective, in which horrors from beyond the grave visit the everyday world and demand to be investigated. BookScan
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SAMANTHA SILVA MR DICKENS AND HIS CAROL
ALLISON & BUSBY, 31ST, £12.99, HB, 9780749022914 A Christmas tale about the creation of the most famous Christmas tale ever written.
J P CROSS OPERATION JANUS MONSOON, 4TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781912049141 Malaya, 1950s, and the British are battling the communists during the Malayan Emergency. When a British officer turned communist sympathiser deserts his post, a fellow officer is sent with five Gurkhas to track him through the jungle.
JOHN GREENWOOD FORBIDDEN HILL MONSOON, 2ND, £8.99, PBO, 9781912049189 The first volume of a historical series which will span the first 100 years of Singapore begins in 1819, with the travails of Scottish merchant adventurer Ronnie Simpson.
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From the author of A Pug Like Percy (which sold 10,500 units last Christmas, according to HQ), this is the story of one of Percy’s puppies who becomes a companion to an elderly man in need. BookScan
KEVIN MACNEIL DIARY OF AN ALPACA POLYGON, 12TH, £9.99, HB, 9781846974069 The thoughts, feelings, loves and hates of Archie the Alpaca from The Brilliant & Forever (“terrific stuff”—Independent). This is billed as a unique diary, packed with hilarious observations on life and advice on how to survive it.
ROBYN HARDING THE PARTY S&S UK, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781471168635 In a wealthy San Francisco suburb, a Sweet 16 party goes horribly wrong and leaves the lives of the girls involved, and their parents, changed forever. Think The Slap meets Big Little Lies, says S&S.
SARAH LONG INVISIBLE WOMEN ZAFFRE, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781785762659 Tessa, Sandra and Harriet have been best friends through first crushes, careers, marriages and the trial of motherhood. Now they are all about to hit the big 5-0, and each wants to do something for themselves. Zaffre will support with a “full” marketing and PR campaign. BookScan
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VICTORIA CORNWALL THE THIEF’S DAUGHTER CHOC LIT, 3RD, £7.99, PBO, 9781781893975 Eighteenth-century Cornwall-set tale about a young woman who reluctantly agrees to help her brother pay his creditors by getting involved in the smuggling trade.
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ANGUS DONALD BLOOD’S GAME ZAFFRE, 5TH, £18.99, HB, 9781785762048 The first in a planned
EMMA BURSTALL TREMARNOCK SUMMER HEAD OF ZEUS, 5TH, £18.99, HB, 9781784972530 Third in the Tremarnock series. Londoner Bramble Challoner inherits her grandfather’s rambling house in the sleepy Cornish village of Tremarnock. BookScan
GEORGE CRAWLEY HENRY THE QUEEN’S CORGI AVON, 19TH, £9.99, HB, 9780008263133 Pet lit. A family’s corgi is mistaken for one of the Queen’s and is swept into Buckingham Palace, where he discovers how the other half (of the dog world) lives.
FIONA HARRISON A PUPPY CALLED HUGO HQ, 19TH, £9.99, HB, 9780008256791
FIONA WALKER THE COUNTRY SET HEAD OF ZEUS, 5TH, £18.99, HB, 9781784977238 Begins a new series, but this is also a return to classic territory for Fiona Walker. In the monied Cotswold village of Compton Magna, glamorous Ronnie Ledwell returns to take over her father’s stud farm, years after causing a scandal when she abandoned her husband and children to run off with her lover. Slips from July. BookScan
SARAH MORGAN MOONLIGHT OVER MANHATTAN HQ, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781848456679 Sixth in the From Manhattan with Love series finds shy dog-walker Harriet Knight challenging herself to do one thing a day in December that scares her. BookScan
DOMENICA DE ROSA ETERNAL CITY QUERCUS, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781786484338 The de Angelis family travels to Rome to scatter the ashes of patriarch Enzo, leading youngest daughter Gaby to question the decisions she has made about love.
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JEMMY FRAN DAVIS EVERYTHING MUST GO CORSAIR, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781472153081 Epistolary coming-of-age novel based on the correspondence—letters, emails and clippings—of Flora Glasswasser, who has left her elite private girls’ school in Manhattan to finish high school at Quare, an “alternative” Hudson Valley establishment.
JOSIE SILVER ONE DAY IN DECEMBER VIKING, 5TH, £6.99, PBO, 9780241982273 Two people. Twelve chances. This follows Laurie and Jack through 12 Christmases of love, heartbreak and friendship, and is the novelistic equivalent to “Love Actually”, promises Viking.
HEIDI SWAIN SLEIGH RIDES & SILVER BELLS AT THE CHRISTMAS FAIR S&S UK, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781471164859 The new festive tale from the author of Mince Pies and Mistletoe at the Christmas Market (“a total
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gem”–Heat). Jamie makes a promise to Anna that he can make her fall back in love with Christmas.
JODI TAYLOR THE SOMETHING GIRL ACCENT PRESS, 12TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781786152794 Sequel to The Nothing Girl. Described as a blend of contemporary women’s fiction and magical realism by the publisher, this finds that Jenny Dove has grown up, conquered her stutter and low self-confidence, acquired a husband and a life at Frogmorton Farm. From the author of the Chronicles of St Mary’s time-travel series.
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Originally the TV series “Home Fires”, this continues the story of the Great Paxford Women’s Institute, whose members pull together when an enemy plane crashes in the village. Also available as a four-part e-book serial, with Part One: Spitfire Down! out in July (5763564).
ANNIE GROVES WINTER ON THE MERSEY HARPERCOLLINS, 5TH, £6.99, PBO, 9780007550869 Final part of the
Merseyside-set Empire Street series, and Wren Kitty finds herself stationed back home just as Britain is on the verge of victory. BookScan
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HELEN WALLEN JUST A NORMAL MUMMY: BABY. BOOM HODDER PAPERBACKS, 5TH, £7.99, PBO, 9781473661714
First novel from the Just a Normal Mummy blogger has “bite-sized chapters for the frantic on-the-go mum”, says Hodder, as it follows the pregnancies of three friends.
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ROSIE HENDRY EAST END ANGELS SPHERE, 19TH, £6.99, PBO, 9780751566796 Launches a trilogy following the lives and loves of three young women working at a London Auxiliary Ambulance Service station in the East End during the Blitz. Début author Hendry will deliver two books a year, and is a saga star in the making, says Sphere.
FERN BRITTON A CORNISH GIFT HARPERCOLLINS, 5TH, £9.99, HB, 9780008253103 Festive collection of short stories set in the Cornish village of Pendruggan, from the TV presenter turned author. BookScan
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ANNA JACOBS IN SEARCH OF HOPE ALLISON & BUSBY, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9780749021443 Second in the Hope trilogy, available for the first time in paperback, follows A Place of Hope. An unexpected inheritance offers Libby Pulford the chance to escape her abusive marriage and return to Lancashire with her young son. BookScan
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ZAFFRE, 19TH, £6.99, PBO, 9781785763601
KATIE KING THE EVACUEE CHRISTMAS HQ, 19TH, £7.99, PBO, 9780008257545 Autumn 1939, and 10-year-old twins Connie and Jessie from Bermondsey are billeted to a rambling vicarage in the Yorkshire Dales. As autumn turns to winter, Connie’s
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