This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Memoir
Elton John Me Pan, 13th, £9.99, 9781509853342
Elton John’s bestselling and highly praised memoir—“The rock star’s gloriously entertaining and candid memoir is a gift to the reader,” said the Sunday Times. “Racy, pacy and crammed with scurrilous anecdotes—what more could you ask from the rocket man,” said the Guardian. The hardback sold 260,000-plus copies, says Pan, and there’s a bonus chapter for the paperback. I found this a sheer joy from start to finish—it’s hilarious and fascinating, and deeply gossipy.
Literary Tayari Jones
Silver Sparrow Oneworld, 22nd, £8.99, 9781786078629 After Tayari Jones won the Women’s Prize last year for An American Marriage, her third novel, Silver Sparrow, is published for the first time in the UK. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by the Sunday Times, the FT and the Guardian, it tells of a bigamist with two daughters growing up in two different families. The girls meet and form a friendship, but only one of them knows the truth about their father. “A love story... Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy,” said Oprah Magazine.
Historical
Sally Magnusson The Ninth Child Two Roads, 1st, £8.99, 9781473696624
The author of the gorgeous The Sealwoman’s Gift latest is set in the Scotland Highlands in the 19th-century, where Isabel Aird has had a succession of miscarriages, and where the land of faery has been disturbed by her husband’s efforts to build a waterworks bringing clean water to diseased Glasgow 30 miles away. I adored this: it’s pure escapism, and the cover is also a stunner. “It’s wonderful and I daren’t stop. One never messes with the faeries,” said the Times.
Top sellers
forced to take a road trip when their grandfather dies, if they are to receive their inheritance. But someone is following them…
Orion, 15th, £7.99, 9781409179245 Freya has raised her husband’s daughter as her own for years, in their happy blended family, but now her birth mother has come back into their lives.
Cecelia Ahern Postscript HarperFiction, 1st, £8.99, 9780008194901
Moves from June
A national advertising campaign and social media
advertising are planned for Ahern’s sequel to PS I Love You, already a top three bestseller in hardback and trade paperback.
David Baldacci Walk the Wire Pan, 15th, £8.99, 9781509874545 FBI consultant Amos Decker investigates a murder in North Dakota.
Samantha Downing He Started It Michael Joseph, 1st, £7.99, 9781405943680 The author of My Lovely Wife follows three siblings
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Katie Flynn Under the Mistletoe Arrow, 15th, £7.99, 9781787463035 In 1940 Liverpool, Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby leave behind the orphanage and start new lives.
Peter James Find Them Dead Pan, 29th, £8.99, 9781529004328 The 16th Detective Superintendent Roy Grace novel follows a tip-off about a county lines drugs mastermind operating out of Brighton.
Cathy Kelly The Family Gift
Sophie Kinsella Christmas Shopaholic Black Swan, 1st, £8.99, 9781784164874 Kinsella’s first Christmas novel, the bestselling Christmas hardback last year, sees Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) hosting Christmas. Transworld is promis- ing an “unmissable” nationwide advertising and publicity campaign, festive partnership with a leading cosmetics brand and extensive sampler distribution in the run-up to Christmas.
Rosamund Lupton Three Hours Viking, 1st, £8.99, 9780241374511 A school is under siege in rural Somerset in this novel told from the perspectives of those at the heart of it.
Heather Morris Cilka’s Journey Zaffre, 1st, £8.99, 9781785769054 The sequel to the best- selling The Tattooist of Auschwitz, this sees Morris continue the story of Cilka. Over two million copies of The Tattooist... have sold worldwide, says Bonnier.
Simon Sebag Montefiore Voices of History W&N, 1st, £9.99, 9781474620239 A collection of history’s greatest speeches, from Michelle Obama to Cleopatra.
James Patterson 19th Christmas Arrow, 1st, £8.99, 9781787461833 Sergeant Lindsay Boxer receives a tip-off that the biggest heist ever to hit San Francisco is being planned for Christmas Day.
James Patterson Lost Arrow, 29th, £7.99, 9781787461932 In this standalone from Patterson, Detective Tom Moon and his team face
off against an interna- tional crime ring looking to seize control over Miami.
and he and his wife are no longer able to run their Spanish vineyard, their three adult children have to step in.
Literary
Danielle Steel Spy Pan, 1st, £7.99, 9781509877898 Alexandra Wickham is living a dangerous double life as a spy during the Second World War.
C L Taylor Strangers Avon, 1st, £7.99, 9780008221058 This Sunday Times top 10 bestseller follows three strangers, who have to stick together when their lives collide, or one of them will die.
Joanna Trollope Mum & Dad Pan, 1st, £8.99, 9781529003406 When Gus suffers a stroke
Ta-Nahisi Coates The Water Dancer Hamish Hamilton, 8th, £8.99, 9780241982518 The début novel from the author of We Were Eight Years in Power, an New York Times number one bestseller, this follows a plantation slave born with a special power. “One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life... I was enthralled, I was devastated,” said Oprah Winfrey.
Mary Costello The River Capture Canongate, 1st, £8.99, 9781786898043 Luke leaves Dublin for
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