BOOKS
Elizabeth Kay Seven Lies Sphere, 29th, £7.99, 9780751578102
Moves from Sept
Début Jane and
Marnie have been best
friends since they were 11, but Jane never liked Marnie’s husband. Now he’s dead—could she have saved him by telling the truth? Sphere says this will be backed by one of its “biggest campaigns ever”.
Leah Konen One White Lie Michael Joseph, 15th, £7.99, 9781405944878 This psychological thriller asks, if one white lie to help a friend made all your problems disappear, would you do it?
Dean Koontz Devoted HarperFiction, 15th, £8.99, 9780008291327 A standalone from Koontz, in which an 11-year-old boy, who has never spoken a word, believes a monstrous evil is behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother.
Michael Ledwidge Stop at Nothing Headline, 1st, £8.99, 9781472265784 When a private jet crashes into the Caribbean sea, one of the dead passengers turns out to
Sport/biography Eddie Jones
My Life and Rugby Macmillan, 29th, £9.99, 9781509850730
One to Watch
The autobiography of the England Rugby head coach, who led them to the 2019 World Cup final. A Sunday Times bestseller; “eternally thoughtful
about his craft and sport... fascinating”, said the Mail. “The sections on the racism he suffered as a mixed-race child… are particularly moving,” said the Times. Pan says the hardback has sold 115,000 copies since last November.
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be the director of the FBI. Diving instructor Michael Gannon, who witnessed the crash, needs to unravel a terrifying conspiracy.
Angela Marsons First Blood Sphere, 29th, £7.99, 9780751579833
Moves from Sept
Detective Kim Stone, who has just started at Halesowen
police station, investigates the murder of a young man found beheaded and staked to the ground. A prequel to the series, which Sphere says has sold 3.5 million copies.
dad when he dies, and finds a half-sister with an enviable life in this psychological thriller.
Andy McNab Whatever It Takes Corgi, 15th, £7.99, 9780552174282 James Mercer, whose family was financially ruined, sets out to do one last job, but falls foul of the people who own the bulk of the world’s wealth. An “extensive” digital ad campaign is planned by Transworld.
Robin Morgan-Bentley The Wreckage Trapeze, 1st, £7.99, 9781409194194 Adam kills himself in front of Ben’s car. Ben tries to make amends by developing a friendship with Adam’s widow and son, but could he be going too far?
Graham Masterton The Last Drop Of Blood Head of Zeus, 1st, £8.99, 9781789544138 The final novel in the DS Katie Maguire series sees the death of a judge spark a gang war in Cork.
Julie Mayhew Impossible Causes Raven Books, 1st, £7.99, 9781408897010 Bloomsbury is pitching this story of four teenage girls and one dead body as “The Crucible” meets “The Craft”.
Hannah Mary McKinnon Sister Dear Hodder & Stoughton, 15th, £7.99, 9781529338959 Eleanor discovers her father isn’t her biological
Anders Roslund and Börge Hellstrom Three Hours riverrun, 15th, £8.99, 9781784295394 The third in the Ewert Grens and Piet Hoffmann series sees 73 refugees found dead, suffocated in a container at Varta harbour in Stockholm.
Russ Thomas Firewatching S&S Adult Fiction, 15th, £8.99, 9781471180958
Début First in a new series, in which
DS Adam Tyler of South Yorkshire’s Cold Case Review Unit investigate the discovery of a body bricked into the walls.
Daisy Waugh In the Crypt with
Anita Frank The Lost Ones HQ, 1st, £8.99, 9780008341237
Début In 1917 England, Stella goes to
stay with her sister in a country mansion after she loses her fiancé. Troubled
Biography
Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher Penguin, 1st, £16.99, 9780141986920
One to Watch
The third volume in Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher, covering the period from her third election victory in 1987 to her death. This was book of
the year all over the place—in the Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Telegraph, Irish Times and New Statesman—and 100,000 hardbacks have been sold of the trilogy, says Penguin. “One of the great biographical achievements of our times,” said the Sunday Times.
a Candlestick Piatkus, 15th, £8.99, 9780349422473 Longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Award, this twist on the country house murder mystery follows the death of Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall, and the discovery of the body of his younger wife, Emma, in the mausoleum.
Historical
Tracy Chevalier A Single Thread Te Borough Press, 29th, £8.99, 9780008153847 Violet, 38, moves to Winchester to start a new life after the Second World War takes everything from her. “Deeply pleasurable... the ending made me cry,” said the Times. Supported by news press, outdoor and social media advertis- ing, says HC.
Elizabeth Gifford The Lost Lights of St Kilda Corvus, 1st, £8.99, 9781786499059 In 1927, Fred falls in love with Chrissie, a woman from St Kilda. In 1940, captured behind enemy lines in France, he has only one thought: getting back to her. “A gorgeous, melancholy love story,” said the Times.
Eleni Kyriacou She Came to Stay Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, £8.99, 9781529337693
Début Dina Demetriou travels from
Cyprus to London in 1952, where she meets the mysterious and beautiful Bebba.
Jean Moran Summer Of The Three Pagodas Head of Zeus, 1st, £8.99, 9781788542593 Dr Rowena Rossiter is ready to plan a new life in Hong Kong after the war, but the powers that be want to send her to Seoul.
Lars Mytting The Bell In the Lake MacLehose Press, 1st, £8.99, 9780857059390
by strange noises at night, she begins to investigate its tragic history. “This is a brilliantly gothic adven- ture—and the perfect winter page-turner,” said the Sunday Mirror.
This first in a Norwegian historical trilogy opens in 1880, in a secluded village at the end of a valley where a new pastor arrives ready to do away with centuries-old tradi- tions, as well as a German architecture student with grand plans for the church. By the author of Norwegian Wood, the surprise bestseller, this has a beautiful cover and great reviews. “Lyrical, melancholy and with beautifully drawn charac- ters, this pitches old beliefs against new ways with a haunting delicacy that rings true,” said the Mail.
Joseph O’Connor Shadowplay Vintage, 22nd, £8.99, 9781784709150 O’Connor writes about Bram Stoker’s relation- ships with the actors Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, while working together at the Lyceum Theatre, and the creation of “Dracula”. Shortlisted for the Costa novel of the year, the Sunday Mirror said this was “an inge- nious novel... O’Connor’s work is hugely impressive and utterly haunting”.
Historical adventure
Angus Donald Blood’s Campaign Zaffre, 1st, £8.99,
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