Peter V Brett
The Hidden Queen HarperVoyager, 27th, £9.99, 9780008309879
Darin and Olive must confront the demon king and his new hatchling queen in the second book in the Nightfall Saga.
Christopher Buehlman The Daughters’ War Gollancz, 13th, £9.99, 9781399608756
Giant war corvids may hold the key to the war against the goblins. Standalone prequel to The Blacktongue Thief.
Olivia Rose Darling Fear the Flames Zaffre, 13th, £9.99, 9781804187982
An exiled princess goes to extreme lengths to rescue her dragons. First in a series.
Ian Green Extremophile Head of Zeus, 6th, £9.99, 9781804545867
Punk biohackers in a near-future London are hired by eco-terrorists to rob, murder, and save the world.
Raven Kennedy Goldfinch Michael Joseph, 20th, £9.99, 9781405966641
Finale to the Plated Prisoner series, the dark fantasy romance BookTok hit.
Sophie Kim
The God and the Gumiho Hodderscape, 20th, £9.99, 9781399716994
A fallen trickster god teams up with a coffee-slinging, shapeshifting fox to track down a demon in this Korean contemporary romantic fantasy.
Mark Lawrence The Book That Broke The World
HarperVoyager, 13th, £9.99, 9780008456801
Evar has been forced to flee the library and Livira is in peril in a ghost world. Second book in The Library trilogy.
Hannu Rajaniemi Darkome Gollancz, 13th, £9.99, 9781473203334
Bio-tech threatens the future of humanity.
Brandon Sanderson The Sunlit Man Gollancz, 13th, £9.99, 9781399613484
Nomad lands on a world caught up in a struggle between a tyrant and rebels avoiding serfdom, and the impending threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt stone.
A Stormlight Archive Companion Novel.
Manda Scott Any Human Power September, 6th, £9.99, 9781914613692
When a family find themselves at the centre of a global uprising, the future of humanity is in the balance.
Meg Shaffer The Lost Story Arcadia, 13th, £9.99, 9781529436358
Missing persons investigator Jeremy and artist Rafe must reckon with and revisit a magical realm they first visited in childhood to help find Emilie’s long lost sister.
Cari Thomas The Hedge Witch HarperVoyager, 27th, £9.99, 9780008749248
Rowan must get to the bottom of mysterious goings on in the Welsh countryside when visiting her aunt Winnie the hedge witch. Novella in the Threadneedle series.
Non-fiction
Art, design & fashion
Bianca Bosker Get the Picture Allen & Unwin, 6th, £10.99, 9781911630487
Immersive study of the world of art and the people who live for it: gallerists, collectors, curators and artists themselves.
Afua Hirsch ( 5) Decolonising My Body: A Forgotten History of Beauty
Vintage, 6th, £10.99, 9781529954197
After getting her first tattoo at 40 years old, Hirsch begins a personal investigation of how individual and collective notions of what is beautiful are constructed or stripped away from us.
Helen Molesworth Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
Penguin, 20th, £10.99, 9781529177466
Molesworth, gemmologist and senior jewellery curator at the V&A, traces the journey of gems, telling the remarkable stories of 10 gems to explore the history of humanity.
Jackie Wullschläger Monet: The Restless Vision
Penguin, 20th, £16.99, 9780141980621
Based on never-before translated letters and unpublished sources, the first account of Monet’s turbulent private life and its influence on his expressive and sensuous style of painting. Winner of the 2024 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography.
Biography and memoir
Diane Abbott A Woman Like Me Penguin, 13th, £10.99, 9780241993668
Memoir of a groundbreaking life, from a 1960s north London childhood as the daughter of working-class Jamaican parents, to studying at Cambridge, becoming the first elected Black female MP in the UK and decades later becoming Mother of the House in the current Parliament.
Ruth Allen Weathering Ebury, 20th, £10.99, 9781529902648
Outdoor psychotherapist and geologist Allen shows how geology, through deep time and ancient landscapes, can offer us a way of thinking about our grief, change and boundaries.
Carol Atherton Reading Lessons: An English Teacher’s Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us
Penguin, 6th, £10.99, 9780241629505
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Following three decades teaching English to secondary school students, Lincolnshire-based Atherton revisits some of the texts from the school syllabus to examine the impact of studying them, classroom experiences and what reading them again today means. A powerful, transporting and immensely readable
work of advocacy for education in the arts.
Harriet Baker Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
Penguin, 27th, £10.99, 9780141998596
A group portrait of three women writers in the early 20th century whose lives flourished in country life. “An outstanding piece of literary scholarship,” said the Financial Times. Winner of the Biographer’s Club Prize for a first biography.
Sue Cleaver A Work In Progress Bloomsbury Publishing, 13th, £9.99, 9781526681300
Experiences and life lessons from Cleaver, best known as Eileen Grimshaw on Coronation Street.
Catherine Coldstream Cloistered Vintage, 6th, £10.99, 9781529931518
A former nun’s story of how religion can heal and harm, reflecting on periods spent in a Yorkshire monastery.
James T Costa Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace
Princeton University Press, 4th, £18.99, 9780691233802
Biography of the Victorian naturalist, traveller, humanitarian, and co-discoverer of natural selection, noting his outspoken support for women’s rights and labour reform.
Noel Fitzpatrick
Dogs and Their Humans: Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet’s Surgery
Gallery, 13th, £9.99, 9781398539464
Comic and poignant stories when Fitzpatrick has been called to help dogs.
Henry Louis Gates Jr The Black Box: Writing the Race
Penguin, 20th, £10.99, 9781802064636
One of the foremost scholars of American literature tells the story of Black self-definition in America through those writers who have led the way.
Xiaolu Guo My Battle of Hastings: Chronicle of a Year by the Sea
Vintage, 20th, £10.99, 9781529918670
In the depths of winter, Xiaolu Guo moves to a tiny flat on the Hastings
seafront and attempts to connect with the local environment but finds herself preoccupied by the violence between Normans and Saxons.
Liz Jensen Your Wild and Precious Life: On Grief, Hope and Rebellion
Canongate Books, 13th, £10.99, 9781837260225
When Jensen’s young son, a zoologist, conservationist and ecological activist, died unexpectedly, her grief turned her to reorient her life, find other kinds of meaning and rediscover the enchantment of the living world. “Raw and urgent,” said the Guardian.
Dylan Jones These Foolish Things Constable, 20th, £10.99, 9781408719862
Fresh from High Wycombe to 1970s London, Jones’ memoir explores a career defined by style, music, politics, fashion and two decades at the helm of GQ.
James Kaplan 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool
Canongate Books, 13th, £12.99, 9781837260379
Group biography of Davis, Coltrane and Evans and their paths in life following their 1959 recording of Kind of Blue.
Genevieve Kingston Did I Ever Tell You? Quercus, 13th, £9.99, 9781529424140
When Kingston was 11, her mother died, leaving behind a chest of letters and gifts to see Kingston to the age of 30. This is a story of love, loss and guidance through what a mother left behind for her daughter.
Lynda La Plante Getting Away with Murder: My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen
Zaffre, 13th, £9.99, 9781804183892
Memoir of a storytelling life from the successful actor, screenwriter and crime novelist La Plante.
Alexander Larman Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
W&N, 27th, £12.99, 9781399615495
The role monarchy played in a tumultuous era in the aftermath of the Second World War, culminating in the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953. Based on unpublished
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