BOOKS


with selling her beloved home—when her first love suddenly re-appears.


Nora Roberts Of Blood and Bone Piatkus, 8th, £8.99, 9780349415000 This sequel to Year One is set 13 years after a catastrophic pandemic killed billions, awakening strange powers in some survivors.


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9781509877690 Winona Farmington feels life is passing her by in Michigan, and decides to visit the English village where her favourite TV show, “Beauchamp Hall”, is set.


Literary


Leïla Slimani Adèle Faber & Faber, 3rd, £8.99, 9780571331963 The Lullaby author tells of a journalist with a seem- ingly perfect life, who is consumed by the need for sex.


Shirley Barrett The Bus on Thursday Fleet, 3rd, £8.99, 9780708898802 This is the unsettling, dark and very funny story of Eleanor, who moves to a remote Australian town to work as a primary school teacher, only to find that things are very weird just below the surface. I loved it.


Wilbur Smith King of Kings Zaffre, 17th, £8.99, 9781785768477 The sequel to The Triumph of the Sun sees Penron and Amber trying to make their way back to each other in 19th-century Cairo.


Danielle Steel Beauchamp Hall Pan, 3rd, £7.99,


Crime & thriller


Oyinkan Braithwaite My Sister, the Serial Killer Atlantic Books, 3rd, £8.99, 9781786495983


One to Watch


This story of a girl who has to keep on clearing up her murderous little sister’s messes was called a “bombshell” by the New York Times, and was short-


listed for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. The lime- green of the cover Atlantic has come up with makes this stand out among its fellow thrillers; the darkly funny storyline is one of the freshest thrillers I’ve read for some time. “A stiletto slipped between the ribs and through the left ventricle of the heart,” said the FT. A film is in production; I expect this to be big.


Joyce Carol Oates Hazards of Time Travel 4th Estate, 3rd, £8.99, 9780008295486 An idealistic girl in a dystopian future is punished by being sent back to the Wisconsin of 80 years earlier. “A dystopian narrative in which the indomitable Oates seems to be flexing new muscles... unrelent- ingly disturbing,” said the Observer.


Roddy Doyle Two for the Road Vintage, 17th, £8.99, 9781529112269 Charting 2014 to 2019, this is the follow-up to Two Pints and Two More


Edgardo Franzosini The Animal Gazer Head of Zeus, 3rd, £8.99, 9781788549431 A re-creation of the life of Rembrandt Bugatti, brother of the builder of luxury sports cars, who made beautiful bronzes of wild animals and killed himself when firing squads of soldiers massacred the animals in Paris and Antwerp zoos in 1914.


Pints, which Vintage says have shipped over 50,000 copies between them. Last in the series.


and his wife from the war, but cannot leave the past behind, “a masterly meditation on trauma, on beauty, on the idea of home and the limits of love”.


the autumn, and comes with an “unmissable” campaign.


Joan Silber Improvement Allen & Unwin, 3rd, £8.99, 9781911630074 Winner of the 2018 PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction, this tells of a young single mother visit- ing her boyfriend in prison, and her eccentric aunt.


Javier Marías Berta Isla Penguin, 10th, £8.99, 9780241983553 This Spanish bestseller tells of Berta and Tomás, who meet when they are young in Madrid. But when Tomás goes to study at Oxford, he catches the eye of the secret service. “A twisty, thought-provok- ing tale that puts notions of truth and morality under pitiless scrutiny,” said the Guardian.


Literary short stories


Daniel Mallory Ortberg The Merry Spinster Corsair, 3rd, £8.99, 9781472154125 Stories with a feminist spin, based on classic folk and fairy tales.


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William Wall Suzy Suzy Head of Zeus, 3rd, £8.99, 9781788545518 Teenager Suzy, who lives in a dysfunctional household, is drawn into the centre of a mystery surrounding a murder.


Lucy Coleman Snowflakes Over Holly Cove Head of Zeus, 3rd, £7.99, 9781789548761 Disillusioned lifestyle magazine journalist Tia Armstrong heads to Holly Cove to write an article and mend her broken heart.


Anne Griffin When All is Said Sceptre, 17th, £8.99, 9781473683020


Debut In a small Irish town, 84-year-


old Maurice Hannigan is finally ready to tell his story, raising five toasts to the five people who have meant the most to him.


Georgina Harding Land of the Living Bloomsbury Publishing, 31st, £8.99, 9781408896228 The Guardian called this story of a man who returns home to Norfolk


Diane Setterfield Once Upon a River Black Swan, 3rd, £8.99, 9781784163631 Gorgeous cover for this mystery in which a man enters an inn bearing the drowned corpse of a child, who takes a breath and returns to life hours later. The Thirteenth Tale author’s new novel is Doubleday’s literary paperback focus for


John Wray Godsend Canongate, 17th, £8.99, 9781782119654 One of the Guardian’s books of 2018 picks, and described as “mesmeris- ing” by the New York Times, this story of a young girl leaving her home for radical Islam is inspired by the true story of “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh.


Natural history/memoir Horatio Clare


The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal Elliott & Tompson, 3rd, £9.99, 9781783964628


One to Watch


The memoirist’s exploration of the season of winter, a Book of the Month in hardback for Caroline Sanderson and described by the Spectator as an


“enthralling book of beauty and pain, tenderness and imaginative absorption”. The cover is a work of art, the prose moves from evocative nature writ- ing—“as November stubs out the glow of autumn and the days tighten into shorter hours”—to an exploration of winter depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder. Perfectly timed.


Minnie Darke Star-Crossed Corgi, 3rd, £7.99, 9780552175975 When journalist Justine bumps into her teenage crush, she discovers he uses her magazine’s astrology column to guide him in life. Sold in 20 territories.


Leah Fleming The Olive Garden Choir


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