This preview highlights titles to be published in March
03 Top sellers
Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Commercial Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie Trapeze, 5th, £8.99, 9781409180074
Début The Costa first novel-shortlisted story of a young black Londoner navi-
gating work, relationships and a difficult past, this is funny, insightful and moving. A super- lead for Trapeze, the publisher is promising “highly creative, impactful and responsive publicity and marketing campaigns”, and is working closely with S&S in the US “to deliver a truly cohesive and global publication”. TV rights have been optioned by Lionsgate after a 13-way auction. I spoke to Carty-Williams after her Costa nomination and her next novel sounds like it’s going to be just as good: she’s an author to watch.
Natural history
Jonathan Drori Around the World in 80 Trees Laurence King Publishing, 16th, £12.99, 9781786276063
This illustrated book, an ode to trees told through the stories of 80 from around the world, was originally published in hardback in May 2018 to great fanfare. The author ended up going on an international book tour and was endorsed by names from Judi Dench to The Woodland Trust. “One of the most quietly beautiful books of the year,” said the Mail, while the Sunday Times found it “beautiful to behold and to read”. It feels timely, and it is truly gorgeous to read and behold. I particularly loved learning about the more exotic trees but my beloved beech and elm are also in here: it’s a joy.
Jeffrey Archer Nothing Ventured Pan, 5th, £8.99, 9781509851300 This is the first in a new series from Archer, it follows the life of William Warwick, who joins the Met and becomes a fledgling detective in Scotland Yard’s arts and antiquities squad, investigating the theft of a priceless Rembrandt painting from the Fitzmolean Museum.
Europa Editions, 5th, £8.99, 9781787702226 A b-format edition of the bestselling Italian novel.
Rose Tremain Sacred Country Vintage, 5th, £8.99, 9781784705923 Vintage has a new jacket look for Rose Tremain, with a handful of titles reissued this month.
Literary
Kitty Aldridge The Wisdom of Bones Corsair, 5th, £8.99, 9781472154408 An English doctor is cursed by the mother of a dying boy in Natal in 1884. By the author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
Kate Atkinson Behind The Scenes At The Museum Black Swan, 5th, £8.99, 9780552996181 An introduction from the author for this 25th anniversary edition.
Margaret Atwood Cat’s Eye Virago, 5th, £9.99, 9780349013084 A new look for Atwood’s backlist.
Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Tash Aw We, The Survivors 4th Estate, 19th, £8.99, 9780008318543 Ah Hock, an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village, tells a journalist about the years which led to his murder of a migrant worker from Bangladesh. HC is rejacketing Aw’s backlist alongside this new release.
Sport
Mark Synnott The Impossible Climb Allen & Unwin, 5th, £9.99, 9781760632731
I am not a climber but since I read Joe Simpson’s The Beckoning Silence I have found myself drawn to these tales of unbelievable daring. This, an insider account of Alex Honnold’s unprecedented 3,000-foot vertical climb up El Capitan in Yosemite, without a rope, is astonishing. Synnott, a climber himself, brings the utterly ridiculous danger and difficulty of what Honnold is doing so much to life that it sent shivers down my earth-bound, non-climbing spine. “Free Solo”, the documentary of Honnold’s climb, won a Bafta and an Oscar.
Memoir Francesca Segal
Mother Ship Vintage, 5th, £8.99, 9781784709464
A memoir about motherhood and the NHS after the Costa first novel award-winning Segal’s twin girls were born 10 weeks prema- turely, “otherworldly in their strangeness, and oceanic in their beauty… half-beings in the half-light”. Vintage, which has a new look for the paperback, is comparing this to Paul Kalanithi and Christie Watson; the Guardian said Segal “writes with delicate eloquence, combining passion and comic under- statement so deftly that this feels the only way the book could have been written”.
David Baldacci One Good Deed Pan, 19th, £8.99, 9781529027501 Aloysius Archer is looking for a fresh start in 1949 in the southern town of Poca City, but becomes embroiled in a long- running feud between residents which leaves one of them dead, and Aloysius the chief suspect.
Clive Cussler The Celtic Empire Michael Joseph, 19th, £7.99, 9781405937153 Dirk Pitt is called when a rogue cargo freighter strikes an oil tanker in the Detroit River. This has sold over 17,000 copies in the UK in hardback, says Penguin.
Elena Ferrante My Brilliant Friend
Fatima Bhutto The Runaways Viking, 19th, £8.99, 9780241347010 Bhutto’s third novel, following three very differ- ent characters on their path to radicalisation, was called “an unflinching look at the key subjects of our time” by the FT.
Madeleine Bunting Island Song Granta Books, 5th, £8.99, 9781783784639
Début Forty years after Helen’s Guernsey
home was invaded by the Germans, her daughter
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