This preview highlights titles to be published in October
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Hodder Faith, 3rd, £10.99, 9781473671423 A daily devotional based on McLaren’s We Make the Road by Walking.
Caroline Millington Kindfulness Head of Zeus, 3rd, £7.99, 9781789545852 How to treat yourself with kindfulness: blending mindfulness with being kind to yourself.
an illustrated look at the technologies which will transform our future.
Poetry
Carol Ann Duffy Armistice Faber & Faber, 3rd, £8.99, 9780571347087 The former poet laure- ate chooses 100 poems to commemorate the Armistice of 1918, and peace and truce more generally.
Kathryn Minshew & Alexandra Cavoulacos The New Rules of Work Orion Spring, 17th, £9.99, 9781409167099 A career guide for the modern workplace.
Steven Novella with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella & Evan Bernstein The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe Hodder Paperbacks, 10th, £9.99, 9781473696426 A guide to skeptical thinking in an age of misinformation; a tie-in to the authors’ popular “The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe” podcast.
Carol Ann Duffy Sincerity Picador, 31st, £9.99, 9781509893454 Duffy’s final collection as poet laureate was called “magnificent, grounded, heartfelt, dedicated to the notion that poetry can give us the music of life itself” by the Scotsman.
Transworld Ireland, 17th, £8.99, 9781848272606 The autobiography of the celebrated Irish ladies’ Gaelic football player.
Reissues
Martin Amis Yellow Dog Vintage, 3rd, £9.99, 9780099267591 A “bold” new series style is being introduced for Amis’ backlist to mark his 70th birthday.
Gordon Burn Happy Like Murderers Faber & Faber, 3rd, £10.99, 9780571353651 Republished to coincide with the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize, with a new introduc- tion from Ben Myers.
John Connolly Every Dead Thing Hodder Paperbacks, 3rd, £8.99, 9781529342581 A 20th anniversary edition of the first Charlie Parker.
T S Eliot Collected Poems 1909–1962 Faber & Faber, 17th, £15.99, 9780571336593 A newly reset and revised edition of Eliot’s poems.
Lachlan Mackinnon Doves Faber & Faber, 17th, £10.99, 9780571333325 A new collection from the Forward-shortlisted poet.
Katrina Onstad The Weekend Effect Piatkus, 17th, £9.99, 9780349411200 How to return to the important ritual of the weekend for increased happiness.
Eugene Peterson Every Step an Arrival Hodder Faith, 17th, £9.99, 9781529319323 A 90-day devotional moving through the pages of the Bible.
Kelly & Jack Weinersmith Soonish Penguin Press, 3rd, £9.99, 9781846149009 A scientist and the creator of the popular web comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal take
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Charlotte Mew Selected Poetry and Prose Faber & Faber, 3rd, £14.99, 9780571316182 The best of Mew’s poetry and prose, for the 150th anniversary of her birth.
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Rachel Cusk Saving Agnes Faber & Faber, 3rd, £8.99, 9780571350902 Faber is reissuing a host of Rachel Cusk’s novels in a new look this October.
William Melvin Kelley A Drop of Patience riverrun, 3rd, £8.99, 9781787478077 First published in 1965, this follows the story of a a blind African-American boy with a prodigious musical talent, as he is handed to a brutal state home. “A moving, painful and stinging experience,” said the New York Times Book Review.
Barbara Kingsolver Homeland Faber & Faber, 17th, £3.50, 9780571355983 Part of the third and final set of the Faber 90th Stories editions, a slew of which are out this month.
Brian Flynn The Billiard-Room Mystery Dean Street Press, 7th, £9.99, 9781913054359 Dean Street is publish- ing the first 10 novels by another golden age mystery discovery, Brian Flynn. The novels were all published between 1927 and 1931, and the publisher says they are some of the rarest golden age novels out there, as many have never been reprinted since.
Michael Parkinson George Best: A Memoir Hodder Paperbacks, 17th, £8.99, 9781473675704 The journalist and presenter’s biography of the footballing legend.
Cora Staunton Game Changer
Georgette Heyer Footsteps in the Dark Arrow, 31st, £8.99, 9780099493693 A new package for Heyer’s detective novel.
Gayl Jones Corregidora Virago, 3rd, £9.99, 9780349012148 The “lost classic” praised by writers including Toni Morrison, James Baldwin
Milan Kundera The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Faber & Faber, 3rd, £9.99, 9780571357734 A 40th anniversary edition of Kundera’s novel.
Lynda La Plante She’s Out S&S Adult Fiction, 31st, £7.99, 9781471179013 Soon to become a film itself, this is a reissue of the sequel to Widows, which was recently adapted by Steve McQueen.
J S Le Fanu The Tiled House HarperFiction, 3rd, £8.99, 9780008283117 The best of Le Fanu’s ghost stories are repub- lished after 30 years.
Ursula K Le Guin The Dispossessed Gollancz, 3rd, £9.99, 9781473228412
Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Vintage Classics, 3rd, £10.99, 9781784875411 One of a set of beautiful new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list, following on from Vintage’s Russian Classics and European Classics series.
Sherwin B Nuland How We Die Vintage, 31st, £10.99, 9780099476412 The look at what happens to us when we die is reis- sued for its 25th anniver- sary, with a foreword from Paul Kalanithi, author of When Breath Becomes Air.
Joseph O’Connor Star of the Sea Vintage, 3rd, £9.99, 9781529112634 A new series look for O’Connor to coincide with the publication of his new novel, Shadowplay.
A J Pearce Dear Mrs Bird Picador, 17th, £8.99, 9781509853922
Debut A new festive cover and addi-
tional content—including Pearce’s great-grand- mother’s own wartime Christmas pudding recipe—for Pearce’s charming tale of Emmeline Lake, who dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent.
H F M Pescott The Man on a Donkey Head of Zeus, 3rd, £12.99, 9781789545111 An introduction from John Cooper for this
and Maya Angelou is reissued alongside Jones’ The Healing and Eva’s Man this month.
Susanna Jones The Earthquake Bird Pan, 17th, £8.99, 9781529026269 Reissue of the story of a young expat living in Tokyo, who becomes a suspect in a murder inves- tigation. Accompanies the film starring Alicia Vikander.
A new introduction from Roddy Doyle for the science-fiction classic from the late Le Guin.
Vonda N McIntyre The Exile Waiting Handheld Classics, 21st, £12.99, 9781912766093 The first novel by the Hugo and Nebula award- winning science-fiction novelist, who died earlier this year, approving the cover a few weeks before she passed away.
reissue of the historical novel set when Northern England rose to oppose the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Nicholas Searle The Good Liar Penguin, 3rd, £8.99, 9780241987001 A film tie-in reissue in advance of the November release of the movie starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen.
Jock Serong Quota Text Publishing, 31st, £8.99, 9781925355055 Reissue of the début novel from the Staunch Prize-winner, looking into a murder in small-town Australia.
Gerald Seymour Vagabond Hodder Paperbacks, 3rd, £9.99, 9781444758610 Hodder is launching a new jacket style for Gerald Seymour this month.
Ambalavaner Sivanandan Communities of Resistance Verso, 8th, £16.99, 9781788732567 A new preface from Gary Younge for this new edition of the collection of writing on black struggles for socialism.
Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Bloomsbury Publishing, 17th, £8.99, 9781526612649 New introduction for this reissue of the true crime classic.
Junichiro Tanizaki Quicksand Vintage Classics, 3rd, £8.99, 9780099485612 A new package, with an introduction by Kristen Roupenian, for this classic Japanese psychological thriller.
Frederick Taylor The Berlin Wall Bloomsbury Publishing, 31st, £12.99, 9781526614278 A new postscript is added to this history of the Berlin Wall to mark 30 years since its fall.
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