27th February 2026
Stonewater Kingdom Gothic romantasy series.
Elise Kova Arcana Academy Hodderscape, 19th, £10.99, 9781399728904
Fantasy romance where Clara Graysword, a magical tarot card wielder, finds herself in a fake engagement with the headmaster of a mysterious academy. First book in a series.
Shauna Lawless Daughter of the Otherworld
Ad Astra, 7th, £10.99, 9781035911301
Isolde, born to an Irish king and an immortal, reappears after more than a century missing. Fourth book in the Gael Song series, set in an alternate magical medieval Ireland.
SA MacLean Voidwalker Gollancz, 28th, £10.99, 9781399616621
A cross-dimensional smuggler and a carnivorous immortal are thrown in each other’s path. First in romantasy series, Beasts of the Void.
Leigh Radford One Yellow Eye Tor Nightfire, 7th, £9.99, 9781035048298
A scientist tries to find a cure for the last victim of a zombie apocalypse, her husband. “Snort- inducingly funny,” said the Times.
Ava Reid Fable for the End of the World
Penguin, 21st, £9.99, 9781804953792
When a corporation controls all aspects of society, two people are set on a course to kill each other but might be falling in love.
Alastair Reynolds Halcyon Years Gollancz, 14th, £10.99, 9781399611787
Yuri Gagarin is a unique private investigator aboard a generational spaceship, who is hired to examine a death among elites but exposes a host of hidden secrets. A “hugely entertaining film noir pastiche”, said SFX.
Katee Robert Rebel in the Deep Penguin, 14th, £9.99, 9781804947494
Nox and Siobhan must rescue their ex, Bastian, to save the rebellion. Conclusion to the Crimson Sails trilogy.
Morgan Ryan A Resistance of Witches
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Penguin (Transworld), 7th, £9.99, 9781804994764
With the Second World War raging, the Royal Academy of Witches offer
its help.
Robert Shearman Doctor Who: Jubilee BBC Books, 14th, £12.99, 9781785949586
A century ago the Doctor destroyed a Dalek invasion force, now there is one real Dalek left, kept prisoner in the Tower of London. Reinterpretation of the Big Finish audio play that became the basis for the Christopher Eccleston-era Doctor Who episode Dalek.
Julie Soto Rose in Chains Magpie, 7th, £9.99, 9780008711719
In the horrors of a new world, magic and hope emerge from an unlikely source. First book in a fantasy romance trilogy.
M Stevenson Behooved Hodderscape, 21st, £10.99, 9781399738521
A slow-burn romantasy about a duty-bound noblewoman with a chronic illness and a prince who would rather be in a library than on a throne.
Andrea Stewart The War Beyond Orbit, 26th, £10.99, 9780356520742
Two sisters face each other on the battlefield as the war between the gods ignites. Book two of the Hollow Covenant series.
Rebecca Thorne Alchemy and a Cup of Tea Tor, 28th, £9.99, 9781035031511 The bookshop is under threat in the conclusion to the Tomes & Tea cosy fantasy, sapphic romance series.
Catelyn Wilson All The Wicked Penguin, 14th, £9.99, 9781405963527
Mysteries are hidden at the elite Eidolon University. Dark academia fantasy sequel to All the Devils.
Non-fiction
Art, design & architecture
Marcus du Sautoy Blueprints: How Mathematics Shapes Creativity
4th Estate, 7th, £10.99, 9780008685034
From the earliest stone circles to Mozart’s obsession with
numbers and the radical architecture of Zaha Hadid, how mathematics complements art and often underpins it, proving fundamental to human creativity and the natural world.
Camille Paglia Sexual Personae Scribe, 21st, £16.99, 9781917189552
Originally published in America in 1990, a first UK edition of Paglia’s theory of Western art and literature and the primacy of sex and violence within it.
Biography & memoir
Cally Beaton Namaste Motherf*ckers: A Modern Manifesto for Keeping Cool When You’re a Hot Mess
Headline Home, 21st, £12.99, 9781035420544
Part-memoir and part- manifesto debunking myths, sharing experiences from comedian Beaton’s life and lessons learned from celebrities who have appeared on her podcast of the same name.
Joel Budd
Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class
Picador, 14th, £9.99, 9781035015160
Journalist Budd traces the diverse jobs, families, struggles and hopes of the white working class from Teesside to the Isle of Wight, from the Valleys of South Wales to the fields of Lincolnshire.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love and Liberty S&S, 7th, £12.99, 9781398542730 The former Secretary of State and presidential nominee’s views on life and love, politics, liberty, democracy, the threats we face and our possible future.
Holly Dawson ( 6) All of Us Atoms Canongate Books, 7th, £10.99, 9781837260966
Faced with the prospect of losing her memory at 40, a writer revisits moments that changed her. “Life writing at its best,” said the TLS.
Geoff Dyer Homework Canongate Books, 21st, £10.99, 9781837262014
Reflections on childhood and coming of age in an era of complex social transformation, in a world of opportunity
but shaped by shortages and memories of the Second World War. “Might be the highlight of the writer’s illustrious four-decade career,” said the Financial Times.
Ben Elton What Have I Done? Pan, 21st, £10.99, 9781035059966
Memoir from the comedian, who rose to fame in the alternative comedy scene of the 1980s and wrote for iconic sitcoms from The Young Ones to Blackadder and more recently Upstart Crow.
Sebastian Faulks Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress
Penguin, 28th, £11.99, 9781804952825
Novelist Faulks’ snapshots of a life in progress from a post- war rural childhood, to Fleet Street, book tours and on to the world of entertainment.
Freddie Flintoff Coming Home Blink Publishing, 21st, £10.99, 9781785127496
The public and private moments that made Flintoff, from cricket to entertainment, and how he returned to cricket after a car crash turned his life upside down.
Ivo Graham Yardsticks For Failure: Adventures in Friendship and Fluster
Headline, 7th, £14.99, 9781035411313
Memoir of a frantic two years in the life of comedian and Taskmaster contestant Graham.
Keeley Hazell Everyone’s Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist
Constable, 14th, £10.99, 9781408719190
Essays on fame, glamour and infamy from Page 3 model turned actor and writer Hazell.
Amanda Hess Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
Abacus, 7th, £10.99, 9780349145525
Memoir about having a baby with a rare genetic condition, diagnosed in utero, and navigating the ways new technologies are changing pregnancy, selling ideas of eugenics, surveillance and ableism.
Tony Jones The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors
Rowman & Littlefield, 28th, £13.99, 9798216452317
Pastor and theologian Jones’ discovery of solace in the outdoors, paddling a canoe, hunting with his dog, butchering deer and his re-discovery of God.
Mary Ann Kenny The Episode: A True Story of Loss, Madness and Healing
Penguin, 7th, £11.99, 9781405973243
A memoir of grief, trauma, psychosis, hospitalisation, and a journey back to health and happiness.
Andrew Lownie Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
William Collins, 21st, £10.99, 9780008775490
Joint biography of the former Duke and Duchess of York, documenting their links with Jeffrey Epstein.
Joseph Luzzi Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography
Princeton University Press, 26th, £15.99, 9780691284347
The life and legacies of Dante’s epic poem, demonstrating its influence on John Milton, Mary Shelley, James Joyce, Primo Levi, Antonio Gramsci and more.
Tuppence Middleton Scorpions: A Memoir Rider, 21st, £12.99, 9781846048036
Actress Middleton’s account of living with obsessive thoughts and
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