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David Arnold I Loved You In Another Life Hot Key Books, 10th, £8.99, pb, 9781471414329 A teenage boy’s mother is diagnosed with cancer and a girl heading to the other side of the country loses her sister in this sweeping love story that transcends time and space.
Kylie Lee Baker The Scarlet Alchemist Hodder & Stoughton, 25th, £16.99, hb, 9781399723282 In this dark fantasy set in an alternate Tang dynasty China, a young alchemist gets caught up in the political games of the royal family.
Rebecca Barrow And Don’t Look Back Hot Key Books, 3rd, £8.99, pb, 9781471413674 Harlow and her mother Cora have lived their lives on the run but when Cora dies, Harlow discovers a trail of lies and buried secrets. This twisty thriller, which will be published by S&S simultaneously in the US, is Barrow’s first book to be released in the UK.
Alexandra Christo The Night Hunt Hot Key Books, 10th, £8.99, pb, 9781471413995 The author of TikTok hit To Kill a Kingdom has written a dark roman- tasy featuring Atia, an immortal who feeds on fear, and Silas the Herald, who carries messages for the dead. Together they must defeat a vampire, a banshee and one of the gods who destroyed both their lives.
Brian Conaghan Treacle Town Andersen Press, 5th, £8.99, pb, 9781839133619 A teenage boy is stuck in a world of brutal gang violence, sectarian vendettas and personal tragedy, but slam poetry offers him a glimmer of hope. A lead title for Andersen Press in October.
Sue H Cunningham Totally Deceased Scholastic, 12th, £8.99, pb, 9780702325854 Seventeen-year-old Jess is recovering from a heart transplant operation when she realises she is being haunted by the ghost of her donor, who wants help in finding her murderer.
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Katya de Becerra When Ghosts Call Us Home Macmillan, 12th, £8.99, pb, 9781035027552 When Sophia Galich was 12, she starred in her older sister Layla’s amateur horror movie “Vermillion”, which years later has amassed a large number of fanatical fans. When Layla goes missing, Sophia is pulled back into the world of “Vermillion” and must find out who or what is lurking in their old California house.
Natasha Devon Babushka UCLan, 5th, £8.99, pb, 9781915235633 In this prequel to Toxic, a young girl leaves the Welsh valleys and heads to art school in London. A coming-of-age novel about love and toxic Noughties culture.
called Clara embarks on a journey into the deadly forest to procure the Book of Fortunes, previ- ously taken away by the branches of the Forest Trimm, to reverse the curse on her village and save her mother.
Jacqueline Rayner Doctor Who:
Imaginary Friends Puffin, 26th, £9.99, hb, 9781405956949 This year Doctor Who will celebrate its 60th anniversary and Puffin is publishing six new books, each set in a different decade. In this first title, a boy needs help when a game called “Daleks” gets out of hand. Other writers who will contribute to the series include Nikita Gill and Dave Rudden.
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Pascale Lacelle Curious Tides S&S Children’s, 3rd, £14.99, hb, 9781398527331 Emory, a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, finds that her powers dramati- cally increase after her classmates are killed in some sea caves. While she is looking for answers, the same classmates start washing ashore—alive— only for them each to immediately die horrible, magical deaths.
Sarah Naughton You Better Watch Out Scholastic, 12th, £8.99, pb, 9780702329753 Sixteen-year-old Eleri is at first pleased when someone starts leaving her gifts in the run-up to Christmas, but when the presents take on a dark and dangerous nature she starts to wonder if there is any connection with the trauma of last Christmas, when a girl called Nina went missing.
Kathryn Purdie The Forest Grimm HarperCollins Magpie, 26th, £14.99, hb, 9780008588311 In this YA fairy-tale a girl
Julian Sedgwick, Chie Kutsuwada 100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Café Guppy Books, 12th, £10.99, pb, 9781913101886 A boy travels between worlds while looking for his family in this collection of ghost stories, which can be read individually or as a whole. Told in manga and prose.
Jion Sheibani The Silver Chain Hot Key Books, 12th, £8.99, pb, 9781471411526 Sheibani’s coming-of-age verse novel about family, mental health and the healing power of music is now being published in paperback.
Rosie Talbot, Andrew Davies (illus) Twelve Bones DNFO Scholastic, 12th, £8.99, pb, 9780702325335 Charlie and Sam must work out what is lurking in the shadows in the new spooky YA from the author of Sixteen Souls.
Victoria Williamson Feast of Ashes Neem Tree Press, 5th, £7.99, pb, 9781911107873 A young girl raised in an eco-bubble accidentally kills thousands of people when her careless mistake
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