13th December 2024
arsenic poisoning of John Waterhouse, so who did it? British Library reissue of a classic crime mystery, originally serialised in John O’London’s Weekly as a prize competition.
Wesley Brown Tragic Magic Daunt Books, 13th, £9.99, 9781917092005
A Black 20-something, ex-college radical and conscientious objector to the Vietnam War is released from jail onto the streets of New York City and tries to orient himself amongst the sounds of the city and memories of how he arrived here. Originally published in 1978 and edited by Toni Morrison during her time at Random House.
Wally Caruana Aboriginal Art Thames and Hudson Ltd, 6th, £18.99, 9780500204658
Fourth edition showing how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art has continually developed to reflect artists who have emerged in the last decade.
Agatha Christie Dumb Witness HarperFiction, 27th, £14.99, HB, 9780008737979
Special hardback gift edition of Poirot’s canine mystery featuring Bob the dog. Also reissued in hardback is Cat Among the Pigeons.
Georgina Clarke Death and the Harlot VERVE Books, 6th, £10.99, 9780857308979
The first two titles in the 18th-century-set Lizzie Hardwicke mystery series are reissued in a new series look ahead of the new third novel in the series being published in April. Published alongside second instalment is The Corpse Played Dead.
Daphne Du Maurier The King’s General Virago, 13th, £9.99, 9780349019260
A handful of du Maurier’s novels are reissued in bright modern covers for a new generation of readers. Republished alongside Rebecca, Jamaica Inn and My Cousin Rachel.
Katherine Dunning The Spring Begins Women Writers, 27th, £9.99, 9780712355971
Addition to the popular British Library Women Writers series. Dunning’s 1934 novel is set over the course of one summer, detailing the awakening of three women employed in
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households by the sea. “A poetic yet truthful tale, full of quiet power and persistent pictures,” said the Daily Herald.
Caroline Elkins ( 10) Britain’s Gulag Vintage, 6th, £16.99, 9781529946185
Twentieth-anniversary edition of Caroline Elkins’ Pulitzer Prize-winning exposé of the end of British rule in Kenya, and the start of the Mau Mau uprising, now with a new introduction.
William Fiennes The Snow Geese Picador, 6th, £10.99, 9781035065233
Hawthornden Prize winner, tracing the spring flight of snow geese from Texas to the Arctic tundra joins the Picador Collection.
F Scott Fitzgerald, Sarah Churchwell (ed) The Great Gatsby
Oxford World’s Classics, 13th, £6.99, 9780198864400
A centenary reissue of Fitzgerald’s classic, edited by acclaimed American literature scholar Churchwell.
Mick Herron Down Cemetery Road Baskerville, 13th, £9.99, 9781399815703
Reissues of the four Zoë Boehm thrillers to tie in with forthcoming Apple TV+ series, adapted by Morwenna Banks and starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson.
Jack Hilton Caliban Shrieks Vintage Classics, 6th, £9.99, 9781784878764
First published in 1935, this rediscovered experimental classic of working class lives in poverty is reissued in a red spine edition.
Ben Horowitz What You Do is Who You Are
William Collins, 13th, £10.99, 9780008740696
Venture capitalist tackles organisational practice and offers practical advice on building resilient work culture.
Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go Faber, 13th, £9.99, 9780571390878
Twentieth-anniversary edition with a new introduction from the Nobel laureate.
Patrick McCabe The Butcher Boy Picador, 6th, £10.99, 9781035065226
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize three
decades ago, McCabe’s novel of troubled boys and dysfunctional families is reissued in the Picador Collection.
Stephanie McCarter (ed) Women in Power: Classical Myths and Stories, from the Amazons to Cleopatra
Penguin Classics, 10th, £14.99, 9780143136361
From Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni to Dido, Queen of Carthage, historic tales of women who challenge male power by exercising it themselves.
Tom Michell The Penguin Lessons Penguin, 20th, £10.99, 9781405921800
Memoir reissued ahead of a film adaptation directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce and Vivian El Jaber.
Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies
4th Estate, 13th, £12.99, 9780007250929
Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the cellular biology of cancer.
VS Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas Picador, 6th, £12.99, 9781035038602
Nobel Prize winner Naipaul’s novel joins the Picador Collection.
Michael Ondaatje The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Vintage Classics, 6th, £10.99, 9781529945683
A new red spine classic edition of Ondaatje’s verse novel.
George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London
Vintage Classics, 6th, £8.99, 9781784878993
Features a new introduction by Kerry Hudson. One of four Orwell titles reissued in the red spine collection for the first time, alongside Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and 1984.
Anthony Powell To Keep The Ball Rolling Penguin, 20th, £10.99, 9781804948040
Abridged memoirs of Powell, first published across four volumes between 1976 and 1982, marking the 120th anniversary of Powell’s birth. Features a new introduction from Louisa Young.
Marcel Proust, Charlotte Mandell (trans) In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
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Oxford World’s Classics, 13th, £10.99, 9780192845672
New translation of the second volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Shannon Pufahl On Swift Horses 4th Estate, 13th, £9.99, 9780008749590
Pufahl’s debut reissued to tie in with the forthcoming film adaptation starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jacob Elordi and Will Poulter.
Denise Riley Say Something Back and Time Lived, Without Its Flow
Picador, 6th, £10.99, 9781035061105
Two books on loss and grief from poet Riley are reissued together.
Peter Robinson In A Dry Season Pan, 27th, £9.99, 9781035058433 New cover look for the 10th Inspector Banks novel.
Sunjeev Sahota The Year of the Runaways Picador, 6th, £10.99, 9781035061761
Booker-shortlisted novel depicting migrant workers lives in Sheffield joins the Picador Collection. Sahota’s debut, Ours are the Streets is also reissued in the Picador Collection this month.
Caroline Sanderson Jane Austen: The Life of a Literary Titan
The History Press, 27th, £9.99, 9781803999227
Anniversary edition of The Bookseller’s associate editor Sanderson’s concise and accessible biography of Jane Austen’s life, marking 250 years since Austen’s birth.
Colm Tóibín Love in a Dark Time Picador, 27th, £10.99, 9781035055005
New covers for a handful of Tóibín’s backlist. Love in a Dark Time, The Sign of the Cross, Bad Blood and Homage to Barcelona all join the Picador Collection.
JRR Tolkien The Letters of JRR Tolkien HarperFiction, 13th, £12.99, 9780008628802
Revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive collection of Tolkien’s correspondence spanning his adult life.
JRR Tolkien, Verlyn Flieger (ed), Pauline Baynes (illus) Smith of Wootton Major
HarperVoyager, 27th, £8.99, 9780008737672
New look for major pieces of Tolkien’s short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after the publication of The Lord of the Rings.
Ben Okri (ed) African Stories Pocket Classics, 6th, £15, hb, 9781841596372
Hardback anthology in the Everyman Library Pocket Classics series gathering classic stories from Africa past and present. Features a foreword by Ben Okri.
Edith Wharton The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton
Gilded Nightmares, 18th, £14.99, HB, 9780712355872
Beautiful collectible hardback edition in the British Library’s Gilded Nightmares series, gathering Wharton’s rarely anthologised tales. Features a new introductory essay discussing Wharton’s influence on the ghost story genre.
Oscar Wilde, Kate Hext (ed) The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oxford World’s Classics, 13th, £8.99, 9780192848024
Annotated edition of Wilde’s major plays set in the context of his life, career and late-Victorian culture.
Virginia Woolf Orlando Penguin Classics, 24th, £14.99, 9780143138211
A flapped, deckled edge edition of Woolf’s time-travelling gender- shifting classic featuring a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl.
Aaron Worth (ed) Spores of Doom: Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird
Tales of the Weird, 20th, £9.99, 9780712355629
A selection of classic British and American writers’ weird stories of mycological possession and pulp fiction.
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