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Historical crime & thriller
Jim Eldridge Murder at the Louvre Allison & Busby , 23rd, £9.99, 9780749029081 When Professor Flamand is found dead in the Louvre, Abigail Wilson is wrongfully arrested for murder. Tenth book in the Museum Mysteries series.
Mike Hollow The Covent Garden Murder Allison & Busby , 23rd, £9.99, 9780749030322 A stabbed man is found dying in a Drury Lane theatre during the Blitz, but might he also be a killer? Eighth book in the Blitz Detective series.
J G Kelly The White Lie Hodder Paperbacks, 14th, £9.99, 9781529357875 In 1969, a bequest from Captain Scott’s polar expedition unearths a mystery.
Christine Mangan The Continental Affair Bedford Square Publishers, 23rd, £9.99, 9781915798077 Two strangers travelling by train across Europe in the 1960s are attempting to escape their pasts.
Owen Matthews White Fox Penguin, 23rd, £9.99, 9780552178365 Cold War thriller where two competing KGB operatives race to secure the truth behind the assassination of President
John F Kennedy. Third book in the Black Sun trilogy.
Horror
Kiersten White Mister Magic Penguin, 9th, £9.99, 9781804941508 Dark supernatural thriller where former child stars reunite 30 years after tragedy ended their show to discover the secret of its enigmatic host.
Saga
republic. Sequel to Dark Age and sixth book of the Red Rising Saga.
A Y Chao
Shanghai Immortal Hodderscape, 2nd, £9.99, 9781399717458 Lady Jing, a half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit, puts a mortal in peril in Jazz Age Shanghai.
Ann Leckie Translation State Orbit, 9th, £9.99, 9780356517933 A missing translator sets three lives on a collision course. Standalone tale set in the Imperial Radch universe.
Margaret Dickinson A Mother’s Sorrow Pan, 9th, £8.99, 9781035024599 Family saga set in First World War Sheffield.
Science fiction and fantasy
Carissa Broadbent The Serpent and the Wings of Night Tor, 16th, £9.99, 9781035040957 Oraya risks an alliance with a mysterious rival to succeed in a tournament held by the goddess of death. First book in the Crowns of Nyaxia romantasy series.
Pierce Brown Light Bringer Hodderscape, 7th, £9.99, 9781473646827 Darrow’s long journey home to defend the
Sport /biography and memoir
John Preston and Elton John Watford Forever Penguin, 9th, £10.99, 9780241996911
George R R Martin (ed) Pairing Up HarperVoyager, 9th, £9.99, 9780008410698 Science fiction and fantasy icons contribute new stories to the ongoing shared Wild Cards universe.
Christopher Paolini Fractal Noise Tor, 23rd, £10.99, 9781035001132 A mysterious circular pit appears on an uninhabited planet. Set in the world of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars.
Evelyn Skye The Hundred Loves of Juliet Headline, 7th, £9.99, 9781035400362 Romeo and Juliet’s tragic love affair spans lifetimes in this romantasy. “Gorgeous time-travel romance”, said Heat.
K A Tucker
A Queen of Thieves and Chaos
Dawn Butler A Purposeful Life
One to Watch
A remarkable sporting story beginning in 1970s Britain from Costa Biography Award winner and Baillie Gifford shortlistee Preston. As Elton John reports, it was a struggle to pitch Watford to a prospective manager at the outset: “Hertfordshire
was not a footballing hotbed and the club itself had very little pedigree to speak of.” But, through his ownership, Watford Football Club made a transfor- mational journey to the top of the first division under iconic manager Graham Taylor. Great details and lively interweaving of interview material make this as much a portrait of national life and social history as a sporting biography.
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Paul Murray The Bee Sting Penguin, 2nd, £9.99, 9780241984406
Adrian Edmondson Berserker!
Tracy Wolff & Nina Croft Star Bringer Piatkus, 16th, £9.99, 9780349439976 The sun is dying and the only hope lies with seven strangers with deadly secrets trapped together on a spaceship.
Non-fiction
Art, design and fashion
Mark Ellison How to Build Impossible Things: Lessons in Life and Carpentry Penguin, 30th, £10.99, 9781529157307 Veteran carpenter Ellison’s meditation on work and creativity.
Biography and memoir
Jay Baruch Tornado of Life: A Doctor’s Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER Te MIT Press, 7th, £23.00, 9780262548427 American emergency room doctor’s reflections on being a professional listener to stories.
Laura Beatty Looking for Theophrastus Atlantic Books, 2nd, £12.99, 9781838954383 A search for Aristotle’s friend and Chaucer’s inspiration, the forgotten philosopher and botanist Theophrastus.
Chips Channon, Simon Heffer (ed) Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2) Penguin, 16th, £15.99, 9781529160215 Second volume of diaries covering gossip, scandal, society and British politics during the Second World War. “One of the 20th century’s greatest diarists”, said the Telegraph.
Billy Connolly Rambling Man: My Life on the Road Two Roads, 23rd, £10.99, 9781399802611 From Route 66 to the Arctic, stories from a globe-trotting comedy career.
Claire Dederer Monsters Sceptre, 23rd, £10.99, 9781399715072 How should we respond to good art made by bad people, when artists’ behaviour disrupts our ability to understand their work on its own terms?
Penguin, 16th, £10.99, 9781804945018 Third book in the Fate and Flame series.
Penguin, 2nd, £10.99, 9781804992470 One of Britain’s first Black MPs, Labour MP for Brent for over 17 years, shares the things that have shaped her world view and inspired her to make positive change.
Pan, 23rd, £10.99, 9781035014316 Stories from the life of anarchic comedian and stage and screen icon Edmondson.
Lauren Fleshman Good for a Girl Virago, 16th, £10.99, 9780349014401 Memoir and manifesto on a love of running as a girl, battling injuries and self- doubt, and supporting female athletes. Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
Christina Ford In Search of Mr Darcy Icon Books, 9th, £9.99, 9781837730032 A dating memoir spanning four decades, on the search for love, friendship and the elusive Mr Darcy.
Miranda France The Writing School Corsair, 9th, £9.99, 9781472157355 A memoir on writing, writers and the drive to put lives into words, told by way of a fictionalised account of the author’s time teaching a residential writing course deep in the British countryside.
Ed Gamble Glutton Penguin, 23rd, £10.99, 9781529177510 Comedian’s life story
One to Watch
A funny, multi-generational Irish family saga about contemporary crises and finding the possible causes hidden in the past. Murray’s latest novel gained huge word-of- mouth love among bookshop customers and strong reviews across
the board, with the Observer echoing many by saying “it can’t be overstated how purely pleasurable The Bee Sting is to read”. An enviable list of prize recognition has gathered too, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the inaugural Nero Fiction Award and is shortlisted for the for the Writers’ Prize, winner to be announced at LBF.
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