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When the man who murdered her sister is released from prison, Birdie picks up a gun, and leaves for London with one purpose: to find him and make him pay. “Luminously unsettling,” said the Observer.
Maria Turtschaninoff, Annie Prime (trans) Tangled Roots
Pushkin Press, 7th, £10.99, 9781805330158
Four centuries of tangled stories from those who have lived on and passed through a single Finnish farm, stretching from the 17th century to our modern world.
Linn Ullmann, Martin Aitken (trans) Girl, 1983
Penguin, 7th, £9.99, 9780241999264
A grown woman seeks to comprehend the young girl she was, recalling an episode with a fashion photographer in Paris on a winter’s night in 1983, and looks for ways to disclose a long-guarded secret.
Ocean Vuong The Emperor of Gladness Vintage, 28th, £9.99, 9781529945850
A teenager about to jump off a bridge is stopped when he hears someone shout across the river, convincing him to take another path. Poet Vuong’s second novel. “Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental,” said the Guardian.
Kathy Wang The Satisfaction Café Abacus, 7th, £10.99, 9780349147277
The story of Joan Liang who left Taiwan for California, married twice, inhabited many lives and yet finds herself asking what we are living for and if we are ever satisfied.
Literary short stories
Karen E Bender The Words of Dr L and Other Stories
Counterpoint, 26th, £16.99, 9781640097681
Bender’s third collection shares stories steeped in American life, exploring a variety of dystopias, and themes of freedom, self-definition, youth, ageing, control and power.
J Michelle Coghlan (ed) New York: A Literary Anthology
Macmillan Collector’s Library, 7th, £10.99, 9781035067664
Writings from authors inspired by New York City, ranging from
Charles Dickens to Audre Lorde, Walt Whitman to Langston Hughes.
Pai Hsien-yung, Patia Yasin (trans) Taipei People
Vintage Classics, 7th, £18.99, HB, 9781529951509
Fourteen short stories published 50 years ago, exploring the experiences of those who fled to Taiwan following the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War.
Graham Swift Twelve Post-War Tales Scribner, 7th, £9.99, 9781398535510
New collection of short stories from Booker Prize winner Swift. “Skilful, generous and humane,” said the Guardian.
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Michiko Aoyama, Takami Nieda (trans) The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park
Penguin (Transworld), 21st, £10.99, 9781804996560
Aoyama follows What You Are Looking for Is in the Library with a story of the magical effect of a stubby hippo in a children’s playground.
Bolu Babalola Sweet Heat Headline Review, 7th, £10.99, 9781472286475
A university love is rekindled in the run-up to a wedding.
Tessa Bickers The Night Bus Quercus, 19th, £10.99, 9781529452181
A broken-down bus and a shared walk through the quiet early-morning London streets throw together two lost souls.
Joanna Bolouri Anything for Love Quercus, 21st, £9.99, 9781529439038
Sophie starts saying yes to everything in the hopes of finding love.
Fern Britton A Cornish Legacy HarperFiction, 7th, £9.99, 9780008468354
When Cordelia inherits an old manor house on the Cornish coast, it could be what she needs to reconcile with herself and awaken what she thought was lost.
Jenny Colgan Meet Me at the Seaside Cottages
Hodder Paperbacks, 21st, £9.99, 9781399734264
A 30-year-old daughter returns home to her mother and neither are thrilled but rescue dogs, pub quizzes and surprise
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Kit Conway Cat Fight Penguin (Transworld), 7th, £9.99, 9781804995464
Over one summer, big cat sightings on an exclusive suburban estate
expose cracks at the heart of the neighbourhood.
Amy Ewing Worth a Shot Eriu, 28th, £9.99, 9781804187098 An advert for a summer gig at a cosy cottage on a picturesque Irish island tempts artist Cordelia to rediscover herself and find a new community 1,000 miles from home.
Emma Forrest Father Figure W&N, 28th, £10.99, 9781474620604
Coming-of-age tale of a scholarship girl at an exclusive private school, thrust into the orbit of a friend’s father.
Emma Gannon ( 3) Table for One HarperFiction, 7th, £9.99, 9780008382773
With her life transformed and filled with loneliness, Willow rekindles her relationship… with herself.
Ciara Geraghty Late Learner HarperFiction, 4th, £9.99, 9780008496531
When Ronda’s comfortable little world starts to crumble she must become the fearless self of her daydreams.
Emily Henry Great Big Beautiful Life Penguin, 7th, £9.99, 9781405974738
A famously reclusive heiress pits two writers against each other to tell
the story of a scandalous family, but with their own narrative also bubbling away will it be a mystery, tragedy or love ballad?
Ruth Jones By Your Side Penguin (Transworld), 21st, £9.99, 9781804994405
Looking forward to retirement, a final case at the council’s Unclaimed Heirs Unit sends Linda to a remote Scottish island in search of a Welshman’s surviving family but in the process, she discovers as much about herself. “Filled with compassion,” said the Observer.
Christina Li The Manor of Dreams Renegade, 7th, £10.99, 9781408748916
The death of the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar triggers an inheritance battle and a haunting.
Sarah MacLean These Summer Storms Piatkus, 7th, £10.99, 9780349444802
When her wealthy father dies, Alice returns to their family’s private island, but the terms of the inheritance force her to spend a week with her dysfunctional family as secrets, truths and possible futures transform them.
Jill Mansell
Just One Look at You Headline Review, 7th, £9.99, 9781035410057
Fen and her grandmother Disa’s holiday in Venice brings love, secrets and complications.
Andrew Meehan Best Friends Muswell Press, 7th, £8.99, 9781068389375
A chance encounter leads June and Ray,
70-somethings who live in Dublin, to friendship, joy and love.
Vicki Notaro Long Story Penguin, 28th, £9.99, 9781405973458
A podcast host and a movie star see their friendship tested when a rockstar’s memoir is published, revealing secrets from their past.
Gráinne O’Hare Thirst Trap Picador, 7th, £9.99, 9781035046218
In a crumbling Belfast houseshare, three women live for the weekend and
their wild friendship but cannot face up to the grief of a tragic accident and the absence of their fourth. Received the Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North.
Danielle Steel For Richer for Poorer Pan, 21st, £9.99, 9781529086003 A woman faces losing everything she has worked for and must rebuild her world.
Sam Tallent
Running the Light White Rabbit, 14th, £10.99, 9781399632874
A comedian who has forgotten how to laugh is left travelling from gig to gig, searching for a reason to keep living.
Crime & thriller
Richard Armitage The Cut Faber, 21st, £9.99, 9780571393527
Details of a murder from 30 years ago resurface when a village is chosen as the location for a feature film by a Hollywood producer.
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