BOOKS
Cherry-Garrard’s estate investigates if Captain Scott’s 1913 diary was all it seemed.
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Anita Frank The Good Liars HQ, 24th, £9.99, 9780008455262 The disappearance of a boy from Darkacre Hall is overshadowed by the outbreak of the First World War, but when Detective Verity reinvestigates six years later, the Hall becomes a battlefield.
John Matthews, John Howe (illus) The Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table HarperFiction, 24th, £9.99, 9780008445836 The epic tale reimagined by Arthurian expert Matthews and illustrated by internationally acclaimed Tolkien artist, John Howe. Foreword by Neil Gaiman.
Historical crime & thriller
Ray Celestin Palace of Shadows Pan, 24th, £9.99, 9781035019113 In 1899, the North Yorkshire coast sees unexplained deaths and a grand house is thought to be driving people mad “Moves exhilaratingly into Gothic territory,” said the Financial Times.
Lindsey Davis Death on the Tiber Hodder Paperbacks, 10th, £9.99, 9781399719629 In first-century Rome, the body of a lone female traveller is dragged from a river and an old adversary of Flavia Alba is a suspect. The 14th Flavia Alba mystery.
Literary short stories Various, Clive Hicks-Jenkins (illus)
These Our Monsters and Other Stories, September Publishing, 3rd, £11.99, 9781910907801
detained at Nulltec, a shadowy technological research facility, to probe and “nullify” his escaping imagination.
Saga
enemy. First book in the Talmont trilogy.
K C Harper Shadowed Moonlight Hodderscape, 15th, £9.99, 9781399726689 A feisty witch and her ex-werewolf lover create tension in this first book in an urban romantasy trilogy.
Alis Hawkins The Skeleton Army Canelo Crime, 3rd, £9.99, 9781800328594 In Victorian Oxford, a Salvation Army soldier is brutally killed and the Army’s shadowy enemy, the Skeleton Army, are suspects. Aspiring journalist Non Vaughan and Jesus College fellow Basil Rice investigate. Second mystery in the series.
Horror
Elaine Everest A Christmas Wish at Woolworths Pan, 10th, £8.99, 9781035020683 In December 1953, Erith’s Woolworths is looking for a miracle, facing staff shortages and possible closure.
Elizabeth Gill
A Home of Her Own Quercus Fiction, 24th, £8.99, 9781529435917 An unexpected inheritance could be a blessing or a curse. Second book in the Durham City series.
Science fiction & fantasy
Kate Golden A Promise of Peridot Arcadia, 8th, £9.99, 9781529434095 Second book of the enemies-to-lovers romantasy series the Sacred Stones.
Garth Marenghi Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat Coronet, 31st, £9.99, 9781399721929 Horror novelist Nick Steen returns only to be
David Hair The Burning Land Arcadia, 24th, £12.99, 9781529422870 The Empire of Talmont’s Vestal order might be its own worst
Freya Marske A Power Unbound Tor, 3rd, £9.99, 9781529081008 Final instalment of Marske’s queer historical fantasy trilogy, the Last Binding.
Alix E Harrow Starling House Tor, 3rd, £9.99, 9781529061147 Opal’s new workplace is a distinctly Gothic house, under the brood- ing Arthur. A Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick. Paperback includes a bonus short story set beyond the house’s gates.
Kate Heartfield The Valkyrie HarperVoyager, 10th, £9.99, 9780008567774 Retelling of the tale of Brynhild, the valkyrie from Norse mythology.
Rebecca Netley The Black Feathers Michael Joseph, 3rd, £9.99, 9781405950268 Gothic historical thriller set on the Yorkshire moors in the early- 19th century.
Second book in the epic fantasy sequel to the Dwarves series.
supernatural romance series the Lost Bride trilogy.
Christopher Ruocchio Disquiet Gods Head of Zeus, 10th, £10.99, 9781803287621 Sixth book in the Sun Eater series.
John Scalzi Starter Villain Tor, 31st, £9.99, 9781509835416 Inheriting his late uncle’s business, Charlie discovers that business is being a super villain. “Talking spy cats and unionised dolphins—what’s not to like?” said the New Scientist.
A M Strickland Court of the
Tim Powers My Brother’s Keeper Head of Zeus, 10th, £9.99, 9781035903894 Werewolves prove a problem for the Brontë sisters. Shortlisted for Fantasy Novel of the Year in the 2024 Locus Awards. “Gruesome, gripping stuff,” said the Daily Mail.
Markus Heitz The Return of the Dwarves Arcadia, 10th, £12.99, 9781529424898
One to Watch
SARAH HALL
A collection of eight eerie stories inspired by English Heritage properties. Contributions come from Sarah Hall on Castlerigg Stone Circle, Graeme Macrae Burnet on Whitby Abbey, Sarah Moss on Berwick Castle, Fiona Mozley on Carlisle
Castle, Edward Carey on Bury St Edmunds Abbey, Adam Thorpe on Tintagel, Paul Kingsnorth on Stonehenge and Alison MacLeod on Down House. They “have created marvellous and menacing new monsters”, said the Daily Mail.
Biography & memoir Y-Dang Troeung
Landbridge: Life in Fragments Penguin, 10th, £10.99, 9781802063295
Nora Roberts Inheritance Piatkus, 22nd, £9.99, 9780349437507 First book in Roberts’
Undying Seasons Hodderscape, 29th, £9.99, 9781399717755 Romantasy where Fin must survive a notorious vampire school and battle a threat to humans and vampires alike.
Melinda Taub The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch Arcadia, 10th, £9.99, 9781529426281 Aftermath of the events in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as seen from the perspective of young witch Lydia Bennet.
One to Watch
Named after the Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand where she was born, Y-Dang Troeung’s posthumous frag- mentary memoir tells the fractured story of a refugee family, their trauma and their experiences in their new host
country of Canada. Processing the grief that comes from knowing a quarter of Cambodia’s population died during the genocide and the mixture of racism and generosity experienced growing up in her new homeland in the 1980s, the book is an explicit attempt to reclaim every aspect of her story, having often been a “poster child” for other people’s narratives.
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