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a safer, duller one with the man she loves, as the Great Smog falls over London in 1952. “Utterly transporting: read and lose yourself completely,” said Stylist.
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Constable, 31st, £8.99, 9781472128577 The fifth John Grey histori- cal mystery is set in 1668, as Grey, now a Justice of the Peace, explores a murder which is being pinned on a reputed witch he believes is innocent.
Saga
Winternight trilogy sees Vasilisa, a girl with extraordinary gifts, fleeing from a Moscow in flames. “Unmissable,” said the Sunday Express.
Dale Bailey In the Night Wood HarperVoyager, 3rd, £8.99, 9780008329198
Philip Kerr Metropolis Quercus, 3rd, £8.99, 9781787473225 The 14th and final outing for the late Kerr’s Berlin detective Bernie Gunther was called a “fitting swan- song for this intelligent and always thought- provoking series” by the Spectator.
Niklas Natt och Dag The Wolf and the Watchman John Murray, 3rd, £8.99, 9781473682146 The Sunday Times called this historical thriller about a body found in the Stockholm swamp in 1793 “the latest Scandi sensation”.
Anne Perry A Christmas Revelation Headline, 17th, £7.99, 9781472257383 The 16th in the Victorian festive crime series sees Worm trying to find a beautiful woman he saw being dragged away by two men.
Craig Russell The Devil Aspect Constable, 31st, £7.99, 9781472128331 In 1935, young psychiatrist Dr Viktor Kosárek tries to unlock the secrets of six homicidal inmates of a remote asylum in Czechoslovakia, while a killer butchers victims across Prague.
W C Ryan
House of Ghosts Zaffre, 3rd, £7.99, 9781785767111 A murder mystery set in a haunted house on an island off the Devon coast in 1917, where Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, who were lost in the conflict.
L C Tyler The Bleak Midwinter 36 26th July 2019
A gothic thriller in which a man fascinated by a strange Victorian fairy story, and haunted by the death of his child, moves into the former home of the author.
Katie Flynn A Christmas Gift Arrow, 17th, £7.99, 9781787463011 In 1939 Liverpool, a teen- ager finds herself alone after fleeing her cruel stepfather.
Annie Murray Mother and Child Pan, 17th, £6.99, 9781509895403 Two horrific accidents haunt a family over two generations, in Birmingham and India.
Kristen Britain The Dream Gatherer Gollancz, 3rd, £8.99, 9781473226456 Two new short stories and a novella set in the world of the Green Rider series.
Piatkus, 1st, £9.99, 9780349423166 Dr Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team are on a rescue mission in the Indonesian jungle in this, the latest in the series.
Joseph Fink Alice Isn’t Dead HarperVoyager, 17th, £8.99, 9780008323745 The creator of the “Welcome to Nightvale” podcast tells of a woman mourning the loss of her wife, who starts seeing her appearing at the scene of every tragedy in the country.
John Gwynne A Time of Blood Pan, 3rd, £8.99, 9781509812974 The second in the Of Blood and Bone fantasy series sees the demons’ high priestess, Fritha, determined to hunt down Drem and his friends.
Leo Carew The Spider Wildfire, 31st, £8.99, 9781472247049 The second in the Under the Northern Sky series, which was described as “Game of Thrones rewrit- ten by John le Carré” by the Guardian.
Glenda Young The Tuppeny Child Headline, 3rd, £6.99, 9781472256621 Sadie Linthorpe is search- ing the pit village of Ryhope for her daughter, who was taken from her and sold a year ago.
Science fiction & fantasy
John Ajvide Lindqvist I Always Find You Riverrun, 31st, £8.99, 9781787474529 More horror from the author of Let the Right One In, this time follow- ing a young man in a Stockholm apartment. He finds his neighbours are drawn to a strange pull in the basement—the price of entry is just a little blood...
Katherine Arden The Winter of the Witch Del Rey, 3rd, £8.99, 9781785039737 This conclusion to the
Dhonielle Clayton The Everlasting Rose Gollancz, 17th, £7.99, 9781473224001 This sequel to The Belles, set in a world where beauty is a commodity, and where Camellia and her sisters have fled.
Peter Higgins Dragon Heart Gollancz, 3rd, £9.99, 9781473212176 Gollancz is calling this “post-apocalyptic fantasy”: a family struggle to keep their daughter alive in a dying land, but then a dragon heart starts to beat in her chest.
Ann Leckie The Raven Tower Orbit, 3rd, £8.99, 9780356507026 This is the first fantasy novel from the excellent SF author Ann Leckie. It is set in the kingdom of Iraden, for centuries protected by a god named the Raven, who has stopped speaking to them in their hour of need.
Kass Morgan Supernova Hodder Paperbacks, 1st, £7.99, 9781473663428 The second in the Light Years science fiction series, in which the galaxy is on the brink of war.
Steven Erikson Rejoice Gollancz, 3rd, £9.99, 9781473223820
Debut A story of first contact, in which
an alien AI has been sent to a new Solar System as representative of three advanced species. By the Malazan Book of the Fallen author.
Christine Feehan Toxic Game
Frank Owen North Corvus, 3rd, £7.99, 9781782399025 The second in a post- apocalyptic series sees the US devastated by civil war, the South ravaged by disease, and the North terrified of reprisals from a dictator.
Anne Rice Blood Communion
Alaa Alkaleel with Diana Darke The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo Headline, 3rd, £9.99, 9781472260581 The memoir of a Syrian ambulance driver, who built a cat sanctuary in Aleppo.
Darren Baker Henry III
Arrow, 3rd, £8.99, 9781784758813 The latest in Rice’s Vampire Chronicles sees Prince Lestat attempting to instil an ideology of peace among the vampire community.
Tess Sharpe Captain Marvel: Liberation Run Titan Books, 29th, £7.99, 9781789091670 A prose novel about Captain Marvel, which opens as she stops a spacecraft from crashing.
Dacre Stoker & J D Barker Dracul Black Swan, 17th, £8.99, 9781784164423 This prequel to Dracula is written by Bram Stoker’s great-grandnephew and authorised by the Stoker Estate.
Adrian Tchaikovsky Cage of Souls Head of Zeus, 3rd, £8.99, 9781788547383 The Arthur C Clarke award-winner’s story of a dying Earth, where fewer than 100,000 people live in the last of all cities, Shadrapur.
Non-fiction
Biography & memoirs
Aeham Ahmad The Pianist of Yarmouk Michael Joseph, 3rd, £9.99, 9780241347522 The Syrian author writes of the destruction of his city, Damascus, and how he pushed his piano into the street to play for his fellow Syrians. Michael Joseph is comparing this to The Bookseller of Kabul and The Kite Runner.
Te History Press, 1st, £14.99, 9780750992435 A biography of Henry III which reassesses his repu- tation as weak and inept, showing he was a more than capable ruler.
Marina Benjamin Insomnia
Scribe, 10th, £7.99, 9781911344933 Great reviews for this memoir about sleepless- ness, looking at it not as a disorder but as an existential experience. Good cover, too.
Robert S Blackham J R R Tolkien: Inspiring Lives Te History Press, 1st, £9.99, 9780750992275 A miscellany exploring the life of J R R Tolkien, part of The History Press’ Inspiring Lives series.
Alexander Blackman Marine A Mirror Books, 31st, £8.99, 9781912624508 An account from the man known as “Marine A”, who was at the centre of the controversial killing of a wounded Taliban fighter in 2011. National and regional ad campaign, via the Mirror Group.
Nancy Campbell The Library of Ice Scribner, 31st, £9.99, 9781471169342 The poet and writer sets out from the world’s northernmost museum, at Upernavik in Greenland, to explore the world and the impact of ice.
Sue Corbett The Times Great Women’s Lives: A Celebration in Obituaries Te History Press, 1st, £18.99, 9780750992558 A foreword from Lucy Worsley for this collec- tion of obituaries of 125 women who made a difference.
Bernard Cribbins Bernard Who? Constable, 10th, £9.99, 9781472130150 The actor and national treasure’s autobiog- raphy, called “a fitting
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