Books Audiobook Spotlight Biography
Sandi Toksvig Between the Stops
Hachette, August, £19.99, 9781405534796
Self-described as “part memoir, part diary, part travelogue and history, all from the top of a double-decker”.
Linda Nolan From My Heart
Macmillan, March, £19.99, 9781509876396
Linda Nolan reveals her experience of coping with cancer and loss, and how to make every day count.
Kevin Keegan My Life in Football
Macmillan, September, £12.99, 9781509877249
He last wrote about his life in 1998. Now, in 2018, a new and full history of his life in football.
Richard Morris Yorkshire
Orion, January, £19.99, 9781409168058
A history of England’s “greatest” county.
Crime fiction Ian Rankin The Deathwatch Journal
BBC, December 2017, £9.25, 9781785299179 (1 CD)
An Ian Rankin original which ran in the “Book at Bedtime” slot, read by Jimmy Chisholm. The CD contains additional unre- leased material.
P D James P D James
Drama Collection
BBC, February, £35, 9781787530010 (17 CDs)
Full-cast radio dramati- sations featuring Adam Dalgliesh and Cordelia Gray. Seventeen hours of top crime.
Jane Harper Force of Nature
Hachette, February, £19.99, 9781405535168
Described as a “female Lord of the Flies”, and said to be as compulsive as the author’s The Dry.
Clare Mackintosh Let Me Lie
Hachette, March, £19.99, 9781405535489
More of the twisty, sin- ister and claustrophic crime genre.
Mark Billingham The Killing Habit
Hachette, May, £19.99, 9781405536585
Thorne and Tanner are tasked with finding a killer who’s yet to kill. Inspired by the real case of the M25 Cat Killer.
Dorothy L Sayers Lord Peter Wimsey: The Complete Short Stories
Hodder & Stoughton, February, £25, 9781473657762
Colin Dexter Inspector Morse Drama Collection
BBC, March, £20, 9781787530591 (4 CDs)
Three full-cast radio dramas starring John Shrapnel and Robert Glenister. Includes a bonus short story read by Colin Dexter.
Collected together for the first time, the 21 sto- ries, complete and in chronological order.
Jeffery Deaver The Cutting Edge
Hodder & Stoughton, May, £21.99, 9781473620537
A Lincoln Rhyme thriller. There will be major pro- motion for the book and audio edition, with Jef- fery Deaver coming to the UK.
John Connolly The Woman in the Woods
Georges Simenon Maigret: Collected Cases
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Hodder & Stoughton, April, £19.99, 9781473643291 A new Charlie Parker
BBC, November 2017, 9781785297038 (5CDs)
More classic radio crime, these five full-cast recordings are led by Maurice Denham as the voice of Maigret.
thriller.
David Baldacci End Game
Macmillan, November 2017, £21.99, 9781509838455
Fifth in the Will Robie series, published in April, the 4th (untitled) in the Amos Decker series. (£21.99, 1509874323).
Peter James Untitled (Grace 14)
Macmillan, May, £27.99, 9781509826414
Panic over a missing child descends into nightmare when a black- mail note arrives. Com- ing in October is James’ standalone thriller Absolute Proof (£24.99, 1509860555).
C J Sansom Untitled
(Shardlake Book 7)
Macmillan, October, £29.99, 9781509838448
No reader announced but for the sake of con- tinuity—and he’s a good reader—let’s hope it’s Steven Crossley.
Linwood Barclay Bad News
Orion, November, £19.99. 9781409174042
Read by William Hope, the final story in the Zack Walker series.
Dirk Kurbjuweit Fear
Orion, January, £19.99, 9781409172055
Translated from the Ger- man, this is a thriller that Orion has planned a big PR campaign for; it aims to turn Fear into a major 2018 lead.
M B Shaw Murder at the Mill
Orion, November 2017, £19.99, 9781409171256
Tilly Bagshawe writing as M B Shaw, launch- ing a new series of “cosy” crime novels. Read by Penelope Rawlins, it looks like great fes- tive fun.
Alastair Campbell and Paul Fletcher Saturday Bloody Saturday
Orion, February, £19.99, 9781409174561
Listed as an authentic and traditional football novel set in the 1970s.
Elle Croft The Guilty Wife
Orion, December 2017, £19.99, 9781409175445
“The hot book” of the London Book Fair. Read by Victoria Fox.
Kathy Reichs A Conspiracy of Bones
Random House, July, £18.99, 9781786141354 (8 CDs)
An unabridged record- ing. No reader details are available as yet.
Harlan Coben Untitled 4
Random House Audiobooks, September, £20, 9781786141361 (8 CDs)
No title or reader, but a major film adapta- tion is due, starring Julia Roberts.
Fiction
Matthew Weiner Heather, the Totality
Canongate, November 2017, £11.99, 9781786890757
A début novel from the creator of the hit TV series “Mad Men”. Backed by major PR and an author tour.
Mick Kitson Sal
Canongate, March, £14.99, 9781786891907
Caused a big buzz at LBF. A major lead for Canongate.
P Z Reizin Happiness for Humans
Hachette, January, £19.99, 9781405536523
A super-lead début described as “joyful and witty”, this is a tale of a sad woman and a sympa- thetic piece of software called Aiden.
Jenny Colgan The Endless Beach
Hachette, January, £19.99, 9781405535458
Feel-good fiction that will warm up your spring, says Hachette.
Edward Rutherfurd China
Hodder & Stoughton, May, £24.99, 9781444787795
Epic: Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of China from the 1800s.
Graham Norton Untitled
Hodder & Stoughton, October, £25, 978147365569
Nothing known, but his first fictional foray was a bit hit in audio and print.
Lucy Diamond On a Beautiful Day
Macmillan, January, £21.99, 9781509887866 (???? CDs)
Anthony Trollope The Eustace Diamonds
Naxos, March, £80, 9781781981146 (26 CDs)
David Shaw Parker’s mature, precise tones glide over the Victorian- isms and long sentence structures of the text. It just takes a few minutes in his company to settle into his cadences.
Henry James The Golden Bowl
Naxos, June, £55, 9781781981320 (17 CDs)
One of the lesser-known Henry James novels, but the only Juliet Stevenson reading I could find for the year ahead.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Possessed
Naxos, January, £70, 9781781981009 (23 CDs)
The reader here is Con- stantine Gregory. He has great presence, flu- ency and modulation. An excellent reader.
Joe Hill Strange Weather
Orion, November 2017, £19.99, 9781409170303
A collection of Joe Hill’s novellas read by Den- nis Boutsikaris, Kate Mulgrew, Stephen Lang and Wil Wheaton.
Chloe Mayer The Boy Made of Snow
Orion, November 2017, £19.99, 9781409168270
Read by Joe Jameson, a début, set in 1944, in which a secret affair transforms lives.
Minette Walters The Last Hours
Whole Story, November 2017, £22.85, 9781510085817
A new direction for the crime writer: historical
Set in Manchester and featuring a group of friends meeting for lunch who witness something so shocking that it will affect all of their lives. To be read by Clare Wille.
Kate Mosse The Burning Chambers
Macmillan, May, £28.99, 9781509882571
The first in a new series, set in Carcassonne, southern France, in 1562.
fiction. This is set dur- ing the time of the Black Death, and read by Helen Keeley.
Dean Koontz The Whispering Room
Whole Story, December 2017, £23, 9781510089679, (14 CDs)
A resourceful heroine stands between the US and monstrous plans for its future. Read by Eliza- beth Rodgers.
Non-fiction
Neil MacGregor Living with the Gods
BBC, January, £26.50, 9781785296581 (6CDs)
Contains all 30 episodes of the radio series.
Eddie Braben Morecambe & Wise Complete Radio Series
BBC, June, £26.50, 9781785296710 (9 CDs)
A first release for this classic comedy series.
Deborah Frances-White The Guilty Feminist
Hachette, May, £19.99, 9781405538398
Author of the hit comedy podcast “The Guilty Fem- inist” shares her frank and funny embracing of feminism.
Ruth Davidson This Girl Can
Hodder & Stoughton, June, £25, 9781473659353
…Yes, that Ruth David- son. She has based her book on interviews with women who have inspired her; these are life lessons to share with all women.
Fabrice Midal C’est La Vie
Orion, December 2017, £12.99, 9781409176237
Another one of those French self-help titles. We’ve had fashion, diet and childcare, and now they are sharing the French Art of Letting Go. Lots of passion and shrugging, no doubt...
Nikita Gill Wild Embers
Orion, November 2017, £9.99, 981409175575
Poems from “Instagram sensation” Nikita Gill.
10th November 2017
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