Andy McGrillen Atlas of Unidentified Flying Objects
Ivy Press, 11th September, £20, HB, 9781836006022
The Newcastle-based host of That UFO Podcast showcases significant sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).
Daniel Stables Fiesta: A Journey Through Festivity
Icon Books, 14th August, £20, HB, 9781837732517
Manchester-based Stables examines how we celebrate, commemorate and express our culture, taking in festivals across the world.
True crime
Emma Kenny Killer Cults Sphere, 4th September, £22, HB, 9781408731949
Manchester true crime writer Kenny explores what makes ordinary people join cults.
Ramya Nagesh Any One of Us: The Law and What Happens When We Break It by Accident
HarperNorth, 21st May, £16.99, HB, 9780008714178
A top barrister examines cases where “ordinary people have committed extraordinarily evil acts through no fault of their own”.
Walking
Morag Rose The Feminist Art of Walking
Pluto Press, 20th October, £16.99, PB, 9780745350998
Jenn Ashworth The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North
Sceptre, 17th July, £20, HB, 9781399725057
Guided by Alfred Wainwright’s writing and daily letters from her friend Clive, Ashworth sets out to walk the coast-to-coast. However, a life-altering diagnosis begins to change her sense of the terrain and herself.
Paddy Dillon Walking the Great Glen Way
Cicerone, 31st July, £17.95, PB, 9781786311276
One of three walking guides revised by Ulverston-based Dillon for Cicerone this summer, alongside Walking the Wales Coast Path and Trekking the GR5 Trail - Through the French Alps.
How women claim their place in public space through walking, tracing local histories and personal stories from Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, Stockport, Ashton-under-Lyne and Glossop.
Raynor Winn On Winter Hill Michael Joseph, 23rd October, £22, HB, 9780241484586
Bestseller Winn ventures on the Coast to Coast path, though this time without husband Moth; a reflection on health, life and freedom.
Children’s non-fiction
David Atherton, Jess Rose (illus) My First Halloween Cook Book: Spooky Recipes for Young Cooks
Walker Books, 11th September, £14.99, HB, 9781529524819 Whitby-born Great British
Mick Jackson, Baljinder Kaur (illus) The Sleeper Train
Walker Books, 3rd July, £12.99, HB, 9781529516494
Great Harwood-born Jackson’s latest picture book tells the story of a little girl struggling to sleep on a sleeper train. Maybe travelling through her memory to all the different places she has slept will help her drift off?
Tom Palmer, Carolina Rabei (illus) War Dog
Scholastic, 11th September, £7.99, PB, 9780702325946
First picture book for acclaimed Leeds- born children’s author Palmer, based on the true story of Second World War canine hero Judy the dog, the only animal to have been made a prisoner of war and who was awarded the Dickin Medal for her services.
Christopher Goddard The Yorkshire Coast Gritstone Publishing, 1st August, £14.99, PB, 9781913625146
A hand-drawn cartographic guide to walking the 200-mile Yorkshire Coast Path from Teesside to Humberside.
Ange Harker Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West
Cicerone, 30th September, £17.95, PB, 9781786310279
Guide to the 367-mile trail along the Cumbria, Lancashire and Merseyside coast. Harker is part of Natural England’s Coastal Access delivery team in the north west, which devised the route.
Mark Richards, Graham O’Dwyer (photo) Great Mountain Days in the Lake District
Cicerone, 15th June, £19.95, PB, 9781786312679
More than 50 years after Alfred Wainwright encouraged Richards to write his first book, a revised and updated edition of Richards’ guide to 50 days out in the Lake District, each illustrated by O’Dwyer’s photographs and the author’s own charming pictorial route diagrams.
Bake Off winner Atherton again pairs with Yorkshire born and raised Rose for this fun, seasonal cookbook promising “spooky bakes, tasty treats and frightfully good showstoppers”.
Jodie Ounsley Strong Girls MCB, 2nd April, £9.99, PB, 9781035064076
Dewsbury-born Rugby player, and trailblazing deaf athlete and television presenter Ounsley, also known as Fury from BBC’s Gladiators, follows up debut Keep Smashing It with this practical guide to developing a strong mindset and becoming an advocate for others.
Children’s picture book
Katie Clapham, Nadia Shireen (illus) The Tour at School: Because You’re the New Kid!
Walker Books, 3rd July, £12.99, HB, 9781529505740
A fun and pacy picture book on the important job that is showing a new kid around school, aka giving them “The Tour”. Shireen’s illustrations ramp up the chaotic energy. First picture book from bookseller-writer Clapham from St Annes on Sea’s Storytellers Inc.
Kate Pankhurst Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World
Bloomsbury, 29th January, £7.99, PB, 9781526692030
All four books in Leeds-based writer and illustrator Pankhurst’s Fantastically Great Women series receive 10th anniversary editions in 2026.
Catherine Rayner Otto The Top Dog MCB, 10th July, £7.99, PB, 9781035022052
A new tale from Harrogate-born CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal winner Rayner, of Otto, a kind-hearted sausage dog, who finds things soon become crowded when he offers to share his comfy basket.
Children’s
David Almond, Lizzy Stewart (illus) Puppet
Walker Books, 3rd July, £7.99, PB, 9781529523706
Paperback release of this tale of a puppet coming to life and helping an old puppet master see the world anew, from award-winning Northumberland-based novelist Almond.
Sophie Anderson The House with Chicken Legs Runs Away
Usborne, 9th April, £7.99, PB, 9781803704364
Marinka returns in this highly anticipated sequel to Cumbria-based Anderson’s Blue Peter BookAward shortlisted fairy tale debut The House with Chicken Legs, which was adapted for the stage by Les Enfants Terribles. Original cover artist Melissa Castrillón and interior illustrator Elisa Paganelli also return.
Sophie Anderson, Melissa Castrillón (illus) The Snow Girl
Usborne, 6th November, £7.99, PB, 9781836042532
Paperback release for this seasonal tale of Tasha, who builds a snow girl with her grandpa, and wishes for her to be real.
Lisette Auton The Starlight Rebel Puffin, 3rd July, £8.99, PB, 9780241732731
In 3897 nobody remembers there are stars beyond the flashing lights and buzzing noises and a young girl must challenge the status quo.
Philip Caveney Flipped Fox and Ink Books, 1st November, £7.99, PB, 9781916747739
A new novel from Caveney, who also writes as Danny Weston. Flip realises he is trapped inside the pages of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and must work with faces old and new to escape.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Steven Lenton (illus) The Blockbusters
MCB, 5th March, £7.99, PB, 9781035033881
Students from Year 6 stray onto the set of a Hollywood blockbuster. Latest novel by the current UK Children’s Laureate.
art by Alice Cao. Jobling’s Wereworld series has recently been adapted for Netflix as Wolf King.
Ross MacKenzie The Uninvited Andersen Press, 31st July, £7.99, PB, 9781839133176
A Lake District-inspired setting sees faerie folk flee their world and come to ours, running from the nightmare of war, only to be locked away.
Tom Palmer, Robin Boyden (illus) The Fear
Barrington Stoke, 11th September, £7.99, PB, 9780008695705
Kian must face his fears of footballing failure to support a friend.
Kerri Cunningham Baxter’s View Fox and Ink Books, 6th November, £7.99, PB, 9781916747715
Rory learns to see the world from his little brother Baxter’s point of view. Cunningham, aka Murphy’s Sketches, is a writer and artist from Preston in Lancashire with a column in Lancashire Life.
Tracy Curran The Yeti’s Sneeze Fox and Ink Books, 2nd October, £7.99, PB, 9781916747807
Yo-yo yeti goes missing after a sneeze-induced avalanche. Second book in the Unicorns in Uniform chapter book series.
Christopher Edge Fear Files: Hide and Seek Walker Books, 25th September, £7.99, PB, 9781529527377
First book in a middle- grade horror series from Manchester-raised Edge, telling stories of strange, unexplained experiences.
Serena Holly,
Shahab Shamshirsaz (illus)
The Other Father Christmas Fox and Ink Books, 6th November, £7.99, PB, 9781916747722
When Santa announces his retirement, Mikey nominates his grandfather to take over the reins.
Curtis Jobling Wyrdwood Fox and Ink Books, 2nd October, £8.99, PB, 9781916747692
In Merryweather-by-the- Sea, phantoms haunt the woods, and a woman called Fay seems to have bewitched Kiki’s family. Warrington artist, author and animation creator Jobling’s new book features beautiful cover
JP Rose Paddock Grove: A Pony to Own
Walker Books, 3rd July, £7.99, PB, 9781529522846
George must learn how to work with Bear, a scruffy cob with tangles in his mane. Manchester-born Rose follows Birdie with this first in a new pony-filled boarding school series.
YA
Frank Cadaver Uncle Zeedie (Blood Texts)
Fox and Ink Books, 4th September, £7.99, PB, 9781916747753
George and Lacey wonder whether they should be concerned about the ghosts of dead children while visiting rich Uncle Zeedie at his isolated house in the woods.
Yvette Fielding The Vampire of Whitby Andersen Press, 25th September, £8.99, PB, 9781839135590
Ghost hunters Eve and Tom investigate when a young archaeologist’s disappearance during a dig at Whitby Abbey leads to eerie happenings.
Cliff McNish Lily’s Monster Fox and Ink Books, 6th November, £8.99, PB, 9781916747708
Grieving Holly and her family face peril when they encounter Lily in an isolated house during half-term holiday.
Poppy T Perry Dead Real Fox and Ink Books, 3rd July, £9.99, PB, 9781916747432
Nora is scared to confess her love for her best friend Ruby and the entire town has turned into flesh- eating zombies.
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