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disappearance and he is drawn back into the field.
Stacy Willingham Forget Me Not Hemlock Press, 21st, £9.99, 9780008595722
A New York City journalist quits her job and heads home to South Carolina to find out what happened to her long-missing sister, but once there finds others with mysterious pasts.
Historical
Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Frank Wynne (trans) Watching Over Her
Atlantic Books, 7th, £10.99, 9781805462750
As he lies dying in an Italian monastery, a sculptor reveals his life story spanning the 20th century. Winner of the Prix Goncourt.
Neil Blackmore Objects of Desire Penguin, 14th, £9.99, 9781804947821
A fêted American novelist, contemporary of James Baldwin and Gore Vidal, has gained success on the back of theft, but when he falls on hard times is left wondering how far to go to make good on another book deal.
Bernard Cornwell Sharpe’s Storm HarperFiction, 7th, £9.99, 9780008496852
In 1813, Major Richard Sharpe is tasked with keeping alive Rear-Admiral Sir Joel Chase, who carries sealed orders and a thirst for combat. The 19th book in the series.
JC Harvey The Wanton Road Allen & Unwin, 7th, £11.99, 9781838953515
In 1639, widowed, grieving war hero Jack Fiskardo arrives in London on the brink of civil war. Fourth book in the series.
Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin (trans) The Director
Riverrun, 12th, £10.99, 9781529435153
Novel inspired by film director GW Pabst, who left Europe for Hollywood to resist the Nazis before returning home with his wife and son to make films for the German Reich. “A compelling narrative… that combines darkness and humour,” said the Financial Times.
Mairi Kidd Poor Creatures Black & White Publishing, 7th, £9.99, 9781785309304
Dundee, 1812. An ailing young Mary Shelley is haunted by monsters. Inspired by true events.
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Lars Mytting, Deborah Dawkin (trans) The Night of the Scourge
MacLehose, 7th, £12.99, 9781529435870
In Norway in the years before and during the Second World War, folklore and myth collide with the realities of Nazi occupation. The concluding part of the Sister Bells Trilogy.
Kaarina Parker Fulvia Manilla Press, 28th, £9.99, 9781786587190
Retelling of Fulvia’s tale, as the daughter of a wealthy Roman family marries a young aristocrat and is drawn into a world of debauchery. First in a series.
Tony Robinson The House of Wolf Sphere, 21st, £10.99, 9781408731550
King Aethelwolf’s power is fading, but who can be trusted to defend
the land from Norland invaders? Anglo-Saxon tale on the making of England from actor and Time Team host Robinson.
Natasha Solomons Cleopatra Manilla Press, 14th, £9.99, 9781786583543
Retelling of the story of Egyptian princess, Cleopatra.
Maggie Stiefvater ( 5) The Listeners Headline Review, 7th, £10.99, 9781035406210
In 1942, a hotel in the Appalachian Mountains sees its polished veneer crack as it plays host to foreign diplomats.
Glenda Young Celebrations at the Toffee Factory
Headline, 28th, £8.99, 9781035402625
The First World War has ended but Jack’s toffee factory struggles after years of sugar rationing and three women who work there have decisions to make. Conclusion to the Toffee Factory trilogy.
Historical adventure
Emma Cowing The Show Woman Hodder Paperbacks, 7th, £10.99, 9781399737432
Scotland, 1910. Four women take charge of a circus and must forge their own path in a world of violence and secrets.
Ken Follett Circle of Days Quercus, 21st, £10.99, 9781529442380
A flint miner and a young priestess with visions imagine uniting divided tribes with the building of Stonehenge.
David Gilman Rage of Swords Aries, 7th, £10.99, 9781035911745 Master of War Sir Thomas Blackstone travels into enemy lands to seek gold and alliances for King Edward’s war with France.
Roy Jacobsen; Don Bartlett and Don Shaw (trans) The Unworthy
MacLehose, 21st, £10.99, 9781529436129
In Nazi-occupied Oslo, working class teenage boys are caught up in more than petty crime.
Phoenicia Rogerson Aphrodite HQ, 7th, £9.99, 9780008589936 Retelling of the Greek Myth where Aphrodite sets her sights on taking on the mightiest Olympian of all.
Wilbur Smith, Mark Chadbourn House of Two Pharaohs Zaffre, 7th, £9.99, 9781838776398 When the mark of Anubis appears Taita and Piay must battle a criminal mastermind turned warlord at odds with the God-Pharaoh Rameses. Tenth book in the series.
Historical
crime & thriller Mike Hollow
The Bloomsbury Murder Allison & Busby, 21st, £9.99, 9780749032104
In January 1941, Inspector John Jago investigates the murder of a woman in Bloomsbury who has opened her home to victims of the Blitz and displaced people.
John Lawton Smoke and Embers Grove Press UK, 7th, £9.99, 9781804710920
In 1950, Chief Inspector Troy learns that his sergeant has been conducting an affair with the mistress of a London racketeer, leading him into a world of duplicity and reinvention in the wake of the Second World War. Ninth outing for Inspector Troy.
Catherine Merridale Moscow Underground Fontana, 7th, £10.99, 9780008761578
In 1930s Moscow, a body is discovered in a new subway and Investigator Anton
Belkin is dragged into a world of political and personal rivalries.
SW Perry Cairo Gambit Corvus, 7th, £9.99, 9781805460664
In 1938 Cairo, amateur archaeologist Archie Nevenden has gone missing, and his daughter seeks him out with the help of a man who claims to work for the British Council.
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Shepherd-Robinson The Art of a Lie Pan, 7th, £9.99, 9781529053746 In 18th-century London, Hannah Cole’s confectionery shop, the Punchbowl and Pineapple, is on the brink of ruin until a windfall left by her dead husband promises safety but leads to a new world of danger.
Horror
Jessie Elland The Ladie Upstairs Baskerville , 21st, £10.99, 9781399817783
Ann leaves the scullery behind to become a lady’s maid but finds
terrors await. SFF
Joe Abercrombie The Devils Gollancz, 7th, £10.99, 9781399603584
Brother Diaz must bind monsters to a higher cause to defend against a coming apocalypse. First book in a series.
LJ Andrews The Ever King Penguin, 14th, £10.99, 9781405985116
Erik’s enemy’s daughter becomes a pawn in a vicious game of revenge. First book in the Ever Seas romantasy series.
Sylvie Cathrall A Letter from the Lonesome Shore
Orbit, 26th, £10.99, 9780356521121
A cosmic threat draws near in the second book in underwater academia romantasy series, the Sunken Archive.
Wesley Chu The Art of Legend Daphne Press, 26th, £10.99, 9781837840564
A band of unlikely allies help a lost hero in the conclusion to the War Arts Saga trilogy.
Kate Dylan Before We Collide Hodderscape, 7th, £10.99, 9781399728829
An enemies-to-lovers romance where two floundering seers must decipher a vision to save the world.
ST Gibson Ascension Angry Robot Books, 5th, £9.99, 9781836730361
The High Priest, his witch wife and psychic ex-boyfriend must band together to save the Boston Society from ruin in the second book in dark urban fantasy series, the Summoner’s Circle.
Lamar Giles Star Wars: Sanctuary Penguin, 7th, £10.99, 9781804953211
The Bad Batch, clone troopers who have gone on the run, gamble on a mission to help rebuild Pabu.
Rachel Gillig The Knight and the Moth
Orbit, 19th, £10.99, 9780356522982
A prophetess is forced on an impossible quest with a heretical and handsome knight. First book in the
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