Darry is a practised darts hustler but after crossing a local gangster, can one last hustle see her leave it behind? Another Woods’ thriller about a serial killer at work along the Manchester canal is due in June.
Historical
A Rae Dunlap The Resurrectionist HarperNorth, 28th August, £9.99, PB, 9780008711566
A young medical student is lured into the underworld of body snatching in
1820s Edinburgh. Debut novel from a Disney trailer editor.
Emma Hornby A Northern Lass Penguin, 6th November, £8.99, PB, 9781804993552
In 1880s Lancashire Perdita Barratt is rescued from poverty by widowed cart driver Silas, but an estranged granddaughter threatens their safety.
Naomi Kelsey The Darkening Globe HarperNorth, 9th April, £9.99, PB, 9780008534837
Northern Writers’ Award winner Kelsey’s Gothic ghost story set in the home of an Elizabethan explorer.
Elle Machray Havisham HarperNorth, 15th January, £16.99, HB, 9780008560393
Great expectations for this queer feminist reimagining, telling Dickens’ Miss Havisham’s side of the story.
manor. Debut novel from Apostolides.
Nathan Ballingrud The Atlas of Hell New Ruins, 14th July, £10.99, PB, 9781068349706
A collection of stories, including one new novella. Features The Visible Filth about a rare book dealer forced to track down an infernal atlas dragged from hell, adapted for film by Babak Anvari as Wounds, starring Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson.
David Barnett Scratch Moss Canelo, 5th March, £9.99, PB, 9781835983195
A small community in North Yorkshire is haunted by an evil presence as it deals with the devastation of Thatcher’s privatisation of the coal- mining industry.
India-Rose Bower We Call Them Witches Michael Joseph, 15th January, £16.99, HB, 9780241755563
In a post-apocalyptic Britain, in the misty Yorkshire countryside, eldritch creatures have devoured most people. Sara and her family survive, armed with their knowledge of folklore and pagan rituals, but when a young woman, Parsley, arrives in their garden, can she be trusted?
Saga
Donna Douglas A Nurse’s Secret Penguin, 28th August, £8.99, PB, 9781804943748
Secrets of a birth in the Second World War haunt York-based Douglas’ saga.
Michael Stewart Black Wood Women HQ, 23rd October, £9.99, PB, 9780008596118
In Yorkshire, in the aftermath of the English Civil War, Irish Catholic Caragh’s parents are murdered and she takes refuge with a coven of wild women living alone in the forest.
Horror
Zoë Apostolides The Homecoming Salt, 7th July, £10.99, PB, 9781784633394
Ellen, a young ghostwriter is sent to record the memoirs of an
elderly woman living in a remote Northumberland
Eliza Morton Betsy’s War Pan, 17th July, £8.99, PB, 9781035015245
New love looks likely at the outset of the Second World War. Third book in the Liverpool Orphans trilogy.
Michelle Rawlins Joy for the Steel Girls HQ, 6th November, £8.99, PB, 9780008598563
The Steel Girls are putting the Sheffield Blitz behind them in the sixth book in the Second World War- set series.
Val Wood Children of the Tide Penguin, 14th August, £8.99, PB, 9781804994719
Third saga in the Hungry Tide sequence from Beverley- based Wood.
SFF
RJ Barker Mortedant’s Peril Tor, 14th May, £22, HB, 9781035064274
Leeds-based fantasy writer’s tale of a cleric skilled at ‘reading’ the last thoughts of the dead, who is drawn to investigate when his apprentice is murdered.
Art
Alison Friend Dog only Knows: The Dog Portraits of Alison Friend
Artisan, 23rd October, £25, HB, 9781648294785
A collection of 125 unconventional anthropomorphic dog portraits from globally exhibited Lake District- based painter Friend.
Julia Rose Lewis, Wilfred Franklin Overly Verbal Ape: Studies in the Work of SJ Fowler
KFS, 1st July, £9, PB, 9781916590168
Rebecca Ferrier The Salt Bind John Murray, 22nd January, £20, HB, 9781408748688
Historical fantasy debut from a Northumbria University
PhD student.
Andrew Hall Green Laughing Northodox Press, 11th September, £10.99, PB, 9781915179692
Lost in space, trapped in an ageing delivery ship and knocked off course, Poppy and Teela contend with each other to figure out a way to stay alive and sane.
Lindsey Kelk The Witch and the Wolf Magpie, 26th February, £18.99, 9780008609870
Second book in Doncaster-born Kelk’s the Bell Witches Gothic fantasy series. First book in the series arrives in paperback on 3rd July.
CK McDonnell Ring the Bells Bantam, 9th October, £18.99, HB, 9780857505392
Festive fifth book in Manchester-based McDonnell’s The Stranger Times series featuring “demonically possessed Santas, bloodthirsty books and the ghost of a legendary nightclub”.
Rhian Parry Red Dragon Song HarperNorth, 21st May, £18.99, HB, 9780008772390
A Mabinogion-inspired romantasy adventure with a dragon at its heart from Wattpad award winner Parry.
LK Steven Silvercloak Del Rey, 24th July, £18.99, HB, 9781529940978
First book in The Silvercloak Saga from Berwick-upon- Tweed’s Steven.
An interdisciplinary response to SJ Fowler’s poetry collection The Great Apes.
David Miller Lives & Dies KFS, 2nd November, £TBC, PB, 9781916590182
New work from multi- disciplinary artist Miller.
Biography & memoir
Jason Allen-Paisant The Possibility of Tenderness
Penguin, 22nd January, £10.99, PB, 9781804944950
Leeds-based, Jamaican- born poet Allen-Paisant’s memoir of nature, family and Black identity. He is currently professor of critical theory and creative writing at Manchester University.
Rick Astley Never Macmillan, 6th October, £10.99, PB, 9781035049394
A memoir from the proud son of Newton-le- Willows, Astley’s strong universal appeal was confirmed to me when I spent much of last year in the bookshop next to a life-size cardboard cutout of the singer, a firm way to gauge public opinion of any author.
Jo Bell Boater: A Life on England’s Waterways
HarperNorth, 26th March, £9.99, PB, 9780008716325
Hailing from Sheffield, former UK Canal Laureate Bell documents her voyages along the tranquil waterways of England.
Bobby Bolton Truck It!: The Drive Around the World That Saved My Life
Macmillan, 24th July, £20, HB, 9781035074471
Bolton and his trusted dog Red’s truck journey from Wigan to Australia, finding love along the way despite dangerous encounters with all
manner of human and natural peril.
Penny Bradshaw An A-Z of Beatrix Potter Bloomsbury Academic, 22nd January, £16.99, PB, 9781350453340
X is for Xarifa, a teenager’s pet mouse, M is for Mycology and P is for Peter Rabbit in this collection of short essays using key words and phrases to take a kaleidoscopic look at the multi-faceted Lake District legend Beatrix Potter.
Nooruddean Choudry Assalam Alaikum, Our Kid: Or How to Be Muslim and Manc
HarperNorth, 21st May, £16.99, HB, 9780008774028
Choudry follows up William Hill longlisted Inshallah United with this memoir on coming of age as a Pakistani Mancunian.
Rob Cowen The North Road Penguin, 7th May, £10.99, PB, 9781804941393
A genre-crossing memoir of geography and history charting nature-writer Cowen’s journey by foot along the A1, the Great North Road, from its beginning to its end.
Ed Davey Why I Care: And Why Care Matters
HarperNorth, 7th May, £9.99, PB, 9780008757946
Liberal Democrat leader Davey’s personal story of life as a carer, highlighting the often invisible and undersupported labour of carers up and down the country.
Nick Dawson Face to Face: Finding Justice for My Murdered Twin Brother
Icon Books, 3rd July, £16.99, HB, 9781837732425
Nick’s account of meeting his twin brother Simon’s murderers and becoming an advocate for restorative justice. Nick grew up in rural Cumbria.
Adam Farrer Broken Biscuits: And Other Male Failures
HarperNorth, 29th January, £9.99, PB, 9780008710729
NorthBound Book Award winner Farrer’s second collection of candid personal essays recounts his struggles to live up to masculine expectations. Topics include his calamitous first serious relationship, a teenage obsession with Prince that sees everyone questioning his sexuality, the repercussions of his adult circumcision and
his fears for how he would survive the apocalypse.
Katarina
Johnson-Thompson Unbroken Pan, 28th August, £12.99, PB, 9781035055197
Memoir from two-time world heptathlon champion and four- times British Olympian Johnson-Thompson, and her battles with body image, racism and mental strength.
Peggy the Pug Doggy Positivity Life Lessons from Britain’s Ugliest Dog
HarperNorth, 9th October, £12.99, HB, 9780008774905
Peggy the hairless Pug’s journey from winning the title of the UK’s Ugliest Dog to being cast as Dogpool in Deadpool & Wolverine.
James Rebanks The Place of Tides Penguin, 3rd July, £10.99, PB, 9780141991924
Acclaimed Cumbrian writer Rebanks’ third book is an account of a season spent with an elderly woman on a remote Norwegian island, caring for wild Eider ducks.
David Scott Caroline Aherne: Rebel in Disguise
Manchester UP, 1st May, £16.99, HB, 9781526191922
BBC Radio Manchester presenter Scott explores the comedic artistry and iconic characters of Aherne from Mrs Merton to the The Royle Family.
Catherine Simpson Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Autistic Daughter and Me
Saraband, 21st August, £12.99, PB, 9781916812512
Born on a Lancashire dairy farm, Simpson’s new memoir tells the story of her experiences of motherhood with her first child Nina.
David Wright, V Beatson (ed) Out of Silence: A Poet’s Life in Letters
Carcanet Lives and Letters, 27th November, £25, PB, 9781800175075
The personal letters of a major deaf poet, editor, anthologist, translator and critic, edited by his stepdaughter Beatson. Wright moved to
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