BOOKS


Agatha Christie, Sophie Hannah (introduction) Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime W&N, 1st, £9.99, 9781474619448 A new introduction from Sophie Hannah for this biography of Agatha Christie.


Andrew Conway How Scotland Works: A Guide for Citizens Luath Press, 15th, £12.99, 9781913025694 An updated edition of the layman’s guide to all aspects of Scottish society.


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follows David Tompkins, who thinks it is a splendid idea to open a tea garden at his Kentish cottage, despite his wife’s misgivings.


mysteries of writing poetry is reissued. The Hutchinson hardback has sold 65,000 copies to date, says Cornerstone.


Daniel Gray Homage to Caledonia Luath Press, 15th, £9.99, 9781913025366 An updated edition of the examination of Scotland’s role in the Spanish civil War.


Katie Fforde The Rose Revived Arrow, 29th, £8.99, 9780099446668 Reissue of Fforde’s story of May, Sally and Harriet, who decide to set up their own cleaning company.


John Grisham A Time To Kill Arrow, 1st, £9.99, 9780099537038 Reissue of Grisham’s now- classic first novel.


Max Hastings The Korean War Pan, 1st, £12.99, 9781529037937 Reissue of the narrative history of the Korean War.


Jacques Derrida The Politics of Friendship Verso, 13th, £9.99, 9781788738590 Verso is continuing to mark its 50th anniversary with the reissue of works of classic philosophy from its Radical Thinkers range, which it says has sold 250,000 copies to date. Works by Judith Butler, Jacqueline Rose and Raymond Williams are also reissued this month.


Des Dillon


Me and Ma Gal Luath Press, 15th, £6.99, 9781910021972 A new edition of the 1995 début novel, voted one of the 100 All Time Best Scottish Books by The List/Scottish Book Trust.


Martin Edwards (ed) A Surprise for Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries British Library Publish- ing, 10th, £9.99, 9780712353373 Another selection of Christmas crime stories, by authors including Agatha Christie, Julian Symons and John Dickson Carr, selected by Martin Edwards.


Mary Essex Tea is So Intoxicating British Library Publishing, 8th, £9.99, 9780712353625


Moves from Sept


Part of the British Library’s collection of forgotten works


by early to mid-century women writers, this


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investigation of the vilifi- cation of Britain’s working class, which Verso says has sold over 180,000 copies.


Tanya Kirk (ed) Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season British Library Publishing, 8th, £8.99, 9780712353236 A second collection of dark Christmas stories, from authors including Algernon Blackwood, Rosemary Timperley, Sheridan Le Fanu and Elinor Glyn.


Phil Klay Redeployment Canongate Canons, 29th, £9.99, 9781786899064 The veteran of the US Marine Corp’s story collec- tion, which goes to the frontlines in Iraq, is a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Award winner.


Rudolph Fisher The Conjure-Man Dies Collins Crime Club, 1st, £8.99, 9780008216474 The first known mystery novel written by an African-American, origi- nally published in 1932. This follows Perry Dart, one of Harlem’s 10 black police detectives, after the body of N’Gana Frimbo, an African conjure-man, is discovered in his consulta- tion room.


Geoffrey Fletcher The London Nobody Knows Te History Press, 1st, £9.99, 9780750995979 First published in 1962 and turned into a docu- mentary film in 1967, this is a guide to the “tawdry, extravagant and eccen- tric” bits of London.


Brian Flynn


The Padded Door Dean Street Press, 5th, £10.99, 9781913527396 Dean Street is reissuing the first 10 novels by golden age mystery author Brian Flynn this month. The novels were all published between 1927 and 1931 and, in most cases, have never been reprinted since then.


Stephen Fry The Ode Less Travelled Arrow, 1st, £8.99, 9780099509349 Fry’s witty guide to the


Alexandre Kojève The Notion of Authority Verso, 20th, £12.99, 9781788739610 Reissue of the analysis of authority written in Nazi- Occupied France.


Georgette Heyer Duplicate Death Arrow, 22nd, £8.99, 9780099493754 Reissue of the classic crime story from the always-wonderful Heyer.


Patricia Highsmith Deep Water Sphere, 29th, £9.99, 9780751581874 Film tie-in edition to go alongside the forthcoming adaptation of Highsmith’s psychological thriller.


Fred Hoyle, John Elliott The Andromeda Anthology Gateway, 1st, £9.99, 9781473230118 The Andromeda duol- ogy is published in one volume.


Machin James British Weird. Selected Short Fiction, 1893-1937 Handheld Classics, 27th, £12.99, 9781912766215 A collection of nine classic weird stories from British authors, including Arthur Machen, E Nesbit, John Buchan and Algernon Blackwood.


Owen Jones Chavs Verso, 13th, £9.99, 9781839760921 A new edition of Jones’


Nella Larsen Passing Picador, 15th, £9.99, 9781529047974


A film tie-in edition of the classic novel about female racial identity, to go alongside the adaptation starring Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga and Alexander Skarsgård.


Ursula K Le Guin Worlds of Exile and Illusion Gateway, 15th, £9.99, 9781473230989 The first three novels set in Le Guin’s Hainish universe, together in one volume.


William Lindsay Gresham Nightmare Alley Raven Books, 15th, £8.99, 9781526628497 This classic of American noir is soon to be a film, directed by Guillermo del Toro.


Stuart MacBride Dying Light HarperFiction, 15th, £8.99, 9780007419456 Reissue of the second in the bestselling Logan McRae series.


Edward Marston The Wolves of Savernake Allison & Busby, 22nd, £8.99, 9780749025441


Georges Simenon The Krull House Penguin Classics, 1st, £8.99, 9780241453414 This standalone novel from Simenon is being reissued in Penguin’s distinctive author brand- ing this year following the success of the Penguin Maigret.


Dorothy Evelyn Smith


Marston’s Domesday series, set during the time of William the Conqueror, is back in print after being unavailable for 20 years, with The Ravens of Blackwater and The Dragons of Archenfield also reissued this month.


Melissa Edmundson Women’s Weird 2. More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Handheld Classics, 27th, £12.99, 9781912766444 A second collection of classic weird short fiction by women, including writing from Katherine Mansfield, Stella Gibbons and L M Montgomery.


O, The Brave Music British Library Publishing, 22nd, £9.99, 9780712353380 Part of the British Library’s collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, this sees the female narrator look back on her childhood in pre-First World War. a coming-of-age novel.


Zadie Smith On Beauty Hamish Hamilton, 1st, £7.99, 9780141026664 Reissue of Smith’s Orange Prize-winning novel, loosely based on Howards End.


David Nicholls Us Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, £8.99, 9781529328165 A tie-in edition of Nicholls’ novel to go alongside the BBC One adaptation star- ring Tom Hollander.


Will Pearson The Book of Unexplained Mysteries


W&N, 15th, £8.99, 9781474609517 Reissue of the guide to wonders and puzzles from around the world.


Nikesh Shukla The Good Immigrant Dialogue Books, 15th, £9.99, 9780349700380 Reissue of the bestselling exploration of why immi- grants come to the UK, and why they stay.


Bruce Thomas Bruce Lee Pan, 1st, £8.99, 9781529053432 A new introduction and final chapter for the Bruce Lee biography.


Evelyn Waugh Brideshead Revisited Penguin Classics, 1st, £8.99, 9780241472736 A collectible edition for the Penguin English Library series to mark the classic novel’s 75th anniversary.


Jeanette Winterson The Daylight Gate Windmill Books, 15th, £8.99, 9781786091321 A new look for Winterson’s novel based on the Pendle witch trials of 1612, aiming it at the gifting market.


Richard Wright Black Boy Vintage Classics, 1st, £9.99, 9781784876135


Début The reissue of Wright’s memoir


about growing up as a young black boy in the American South of the 1920s and 1930s is part of a revival of his work from Vintage, with three other titles to come: Native Son, The Outsider, and Uncle Tom’s Children. Native Son, called “the most important and celebrated novel of Negro life to have appeared in America” by James Baldwin, is also out this month.


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