Shades of Grey digs into the rules a society imposes on itself. “One of the quirkiest dystopias ever imagined,” said the Guardian.
Olivia Ford
Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame Michael Joseph, 27th, £8.99, 9781405956444
Unexpected television fame threatens a long-hidden secret.
Xochitl Gonzalez Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Bloomsbury Publishing, 13th, £8.99, 9781526676290
The death of a rising star in the New York art world casts a long shadow. A Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick.
Holly Gramazio The Husbands Vintage, 27th, £9.99, 9781529920352
Lauren’s attic is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.
Rosie Hewlett Medea Penguin, 13th, £9.99, 9781804992432
Retelling of an epic story from Greek myth.
Ruth Hogan The Phoenix Ballroom Corvus, 13th, £9.99, 9781805460732
Recently widowed, Venetia buys a dilapidated ballroom which becomes a refuge for a touching cast of damaged and lonely people.
Olivia Isaac-Henry Sorrow Spring HarperFiction, 27th, £9.99, 9780008656409
An uncanny folk suspense tale about a sisterhood of women who worship the protective powers of the local spring.
Lorraine Kelly The Island Swimmer Orion Fiction, 13th, £9.99, 9781398714465
When her father falls ill, Evie returns to her childhood home of Orkney. A group of
cold-water swimmers led by her old friend Freya help Evie face the mistakes of her past.
Rachel Khong ( 3) Real Americans Penguin, 20th, £9.99, 9781804945360
From 1960s Communist China to near-future Silicon Valley, three members of a Chinese- American family who fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution strive to live the American Dream.
Armistead Maupin Mona of the Manor Penguin, 6th, £9.99, 9781804991923
Tenth instalment in the queer literary fiction soap opera follows Anna Madrigal’s daughter, Mona, as she settles at the Cotswolds manor house she has inherited from her gay mail-order husband.
Beth Morrey ( 2) Lucky Day HarperFiction, 13th, £9.99, 9780008555306
Clover is on a one-woman mission to do exactly as she pleases, uncovering buried truths along the way.
Jen Mouat The Bookshop of New Beginnings HQ, 27th, £9.99, 9780008737245 Having long dreamed of it, two best friends take on a bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland’s book town, but have to heal their friendship if they are to make it a success.
Niamh Mulvey The Amendments Picador, 6th, £9.99, 9781529079876
The lives of three generations of women and the impact of the
repeal of Ireland’s Eighth Amendment.
Kate Murray-Browne One Girl Began Phoenix, 6th, £9.99, 9781399613675
The stories of three women, separated over a century but connected by the same London building.
Sheila O’Flanagan The Honeymoon Affair Headline Review, 13th, £9.99, 9781035402885
Two strong women, one complicated man, a Caribbean honeymoon which is not a honeymoon and the secrets and dreams that draw them together.
Bobby Palmer Small Hours Headline Review, 13th, £9.99, 9781035402687
In the early hours, a fox sees a family thrown together for the first time in years. “A beautiful examination of love and loss,” said Heat.
Tom Shakespeare The Ha-Ha Farrago, 27th, £9.99, 9781788425148
A Wodehousian country house farce sees a diverse cast of characters gather for Fred Twistleton’s 40th birthday.
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Kate Spencer One Last Summer Pan, 27th, £9.99, 9781529065336 An annual holiday turns into a second chance at love.
Danielle Steel Resurrection Pan, 27th, £8.99, 9781529085846 A broken-hearted blogger and influencer flees to Paris when a virus forces her to take refuge at the home of an eccentric retired actress along with a handsome and enigmatic lodger.
Ericka Waller Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
Penguin, 27th, £9.99, 9781804993125
Three neighbours on a Brighton street are brought together by a life-changing event.
Aimée Walsh Exile John Murray, 13th, £9.99, 9781399815871
A young woman’s life enters free fall after a fateful night out in Belfast, and
she finds herself adrift after moving to Liverpool.
Anoushka Warden I’m Actually Amazing Trapeze, 6th, £9.99, 9781398714113
A frank and comic take on contemporary sex and relationships,
tracking the desires of a mid-30s woman as she tries to get her mojo back after leaving her husband and starting an affair. Published in hardback as I‘m F*cking Amazing.
Hillary Yablon Sylvia’s Second Act Orion Fiction, 13th, £9.99, 9781398710948
Sixty-three-year- old Sylvia and her widowed
70-year-old best friend Evie reinvent themselves in New York.
Crime & thriller
Jack Anderson The Grief Doctor Raven Books, 13th, £8.99, 9781526667519
Thriller about a widower’s encounter with a radical doctor
asking how far you might go to cure grief.
MC Beaton, RW Green Agatha Raisin: Killing Time Constable, 13th, £9.99, 9781408718544
A friend of Agatha’s is murdered during a raid on his antiques shop in the 35th book in the series.
Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch (trans) The White Circle
MacLehose Press, 27th, £10.99, 9781529409253
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Final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations.
Steve Cavanagh Witness 8 Headline, 27th, £9.99, 9781035408221
Mystery featuring con man-turned trial lawyer Eddie Flynn who is defending an innocent man when the witness needs more attention.
Julia Chapman Date with Destiny Pan, 27th, £9.99, 9781035044801 A charismatic celebrity needs help in the 10th and final instalment in the Dales Detective series.
Lee Child, Andrew Child In Too Deep Penguin, 27th, £9.99, 9781804993675
Reacher is taken captive in the 29th book in the series.
Ann Cleeves The Dark Wives Pan, 13th, £9.99, 9781529077780 A body is found outside an isolated care home for troubled teens in the 11th Vera Stanhope mystery.
Caz Frear Five Bad Deeds Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction, 27th, £9.99, 9781398524941
Ellen incurs the wrath of an anonymous enemy and only her friends and family seem to know why.
Jo Jakeman One Bad Apple Constable, 6th, £9.99, 9781408718414
Murder mystery set at an exclusive boys school in Cornwall. “Packed with explosive twists,” said Woman’s Own.
Lisa Jewell Breaking the Dark Penguin, 27th, £9.99, 9781804947906
Jessica Jones, a failed superhero turned
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