Titles in this preview are published in May
10-year collaboration between a scholar of Islam and a poet and literary scholar.
M John Harrison Nova Swing Gateway, 14th, £10.99, 9781399640367
SF Masterworks edition of Harrison’s sci-fi and crime noir tale of Vic, a travel agent booking illegal tours of a physics-defying geography.
John Irving
The Cider House Rules Penguin (Transworld), 28th, £12.99, 9781837320622
One of two titles on Irving’s backlist reissued with a new cover this month, published alongside A Prayer for Owen Meany.
Denis Johnson Jesus’ Son Granta Books, 7th, £9.99, 9781803513522
Bold new cover for Johnson’s linked stories. Matches the latest edition of Train Dreams, recently adapted as a Netflix film directed by Clint Bentley and starring Joel Edgerton.
Wassily Kandinsky Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Walther & Franz König, 28th, £14.95, 9783753305448
Illustrated reissue of the artistic theories of Russian painter Kandinsky.
Jill Lepore These Truths: A History of the United States
WW Norton, 12th, £18.99, 9781324130765
Semiquincentennial edition of Lepore’s one-volume history of the United States of America.
Joan London The Golden Age Europa Editions, 27th, £10.99, 9781787706194
New look for an acclaimed novel set in a home for children hit by a polio epidemic in 1950s Australia. Reissued a decade after first publication.
Ian MacDonald Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties
4th Estate, 21st, £12.99, 9780008812836
Details of the 241 songs written and recorded by The Beatles, updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series.
John Mayall, Joel McIver Blues From Laurel Canyon: My Life as a Bluesman
Omnibus Press, 7th, £12.99, 9781917274142
Six decades of a career in British blues, updated to include coverage of Mayall’s life and work until his death in July 2024. Foreword by Mick Fleetwood.
Czeslaw Milosz, Louis Iribane (trans) The Issa Valley
Penguin Modern Classics, 14th, £10.99, 9780241773925
Fresh look for the 1955 coming-of-age novel by the Polish Nobel laureate.
Richard Morgan Thirteen Gateway, 14th, £12.99, 9781399640374
Genetically engineered alpha males prove a problem for Earth. Previously published as Black Man and now reissued in the SF Masterworks series.
Kate Morton The Secret Keeper Pan, 21st, £9.99, 9781035093748 New illustrated cover for Morton’s tale of an actress haunted by her past.
Abir Mukherjee A Rising Man Vintage, 7th, £9.99, 9781529977387
Tenth anniversary edition of the first book in the Wyndham and Banerjee series set in early 20th-century India.
Herta Müller, Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm (trans) The Appointment
Granta Books, 7th, £9.99, 9781803513485
One of two reissues of backlist novels by Nobel laureate Müller published in the same month as new book The Village on the Edge of the World. Michael Hofmann’s translation of The Land of Green Plums also gets a bright new cover.
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (trans) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Vintage Classics, 7th, £10.99, 9781529982367
One of four new red- spine Vintage classic reissues alongside After Dark, Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka on the Shore.
Alex North You Can Run Penguin, 7th, £9.99, 9781405966108
DI Will Turner leads an investigation to track the Red River Killer. Previously published by Orion under North’s real name Steve Mosby.
Bryan Lee O’Malley Scott Pilgrim Box Set 4th Estate, 7th, £40, 9780008806026
All six volumes of O’Malley’s original graphic novels, detailing the Toronto life and loves of 20-something slacker and bass player Scott, which inspired Edgar Wright’s cult film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Netflix series Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.
Agnes Owens, Kirstin Innes (intro) A Working Mother
Polygon, 7th, £8.99, 9781846977015
One of four new editions celebrating novelist Agnes Owens in her centenary year, each introduced by a contemporary Scottish writer. Also reissued are Gentlemen of the West, introduced by Dani Garavelli, Like Birds in the Wilderness, introduced by Kirsty Logan, and For the Love of Willie, introduced by Heather Parry.
Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely (trans) Snow
Faber, 7th, £10.99, 9780571218318
One of two titles from the Nobel laureate given a bright modern cover look as Faber continues to reissue his backlist. Published alongside Nights of Plague.
Allan and Barbara Pease Why Men Don’t Listen and Women Can’t Read Maps
Orion Ignite, 7th, £12.99, 9781399636643
Modern cover look for the classic psychology study, 28 years after first publication.
David Remnick King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Picador, 14th, £10.99, 9781035091379
The Pulitzer Prize- winning New Yorker editor’s portrait of Muhammad Ali joins the Picador collection.
Adam Rutherford ( 14) A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived
W&N, 21st, £12.99, 9781399638982
Tenth anniversary edition of Rutherford’s acclaimed account of what our genes tell us about human history and everyone who has ever lived. Updated with new material.
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Charles Ignatius Sancho, Nicole N Aljoe, Markman Ellis and Oliver Ayers (ed) Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African
Oxford World’s Classics, 14th, £9.99, 9780192869609
Spanning 161 letters, a portrait of Black family life in 18th-century London, including new insights into Sancho and recently discovered autograph letters by Sancho and his children Elizabeth and William. Recently the subject of Paterson Joseph’s acclaimed historical novel The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho (Dialogue).
Brian J Showers (ed) Beasts with Five Fingers: Strange Tales of Disembodied Hands
Tales of the Weird, 21st, £10.99, 9780712369350
A new volume in the British Library weird tales series, gathering classic tales of haunted, ghostly, possessed and otherwise eerie hands.
Rabindranath Tagore, Sumit Chakrabarti (ed) Selected Short Stories
Oxford World’s Classics, 14th, £10.99, 9780192865816
New English translations of 20 short stories by Nobel laureate Tagore.
Henry Van Dyke Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes Faber, 7th, £9.99, 9780571391776 The Faber editions series of rediscovered radical fiction adds this reissue of a 1965 tragicomedy about a queer Black teenager coming of age in rural Michigan. Introduced by Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk.
Rowland White Vulcan 607 Penguin (Transworld), 21st, £10.99, 9781837320394
White’s first book, an account of the attack that opened the Falklands War, reissued 20 years after first publication.
Clifford Witting Villainous Saltpetre Galileo, 14th, £10.99, 9781917543255
Reissue of Witting’s 1962 mystery about the death of a playwright found washed up near his Cornish castle.
Aaron Worth (ed) Shadows Over Cymru: Uncanny Stories of the Welsh Weird
Gilded Nightmares, 26th, £16.99, HB, 9780712369503
A selection of strange Anglophone Welsh fiction, featuring folkloric retellings, classic weird fiction and chilling writing, including stories by Arthur Machen, Dylan Thomas, Christianna Brand, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen and Margiad Evans.
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