27th June 2025 Literary
Rumaan Alam ( ) Entitlement
Bloomsbury Publishing, 11th, £9.99, 9781526674234
Alam follows Leave the World Behind with an exploration of money and race in this tale of an old white billionaire and a young Black woman meeting across divides.
Susan Barker Old Soul Penguin, 25th, £9.99, 9781405963657
Two grieving strangers recall encounters with a dark-haired woman in the days before tragic losses, but can she be stopped? A “super-sophisticated horror, as indebted to to Gothic gore”, said the Times.
Alan Bennett Killing Time , 11th, £8.99, 9780571394821
Celebrating his 91st birthday this year, a new story from the writer of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. An anarchic dark comedy set in Hill Topp House, a superior council home for the elderly. A community of raucous characters are ruled over by Mrs McBryde, who is keen to state that “in the event of any correspondence please note it’s Hill Topp with two p’s”. Termed by the Spectator as “a geriatric Lord of the Flies.”
Sergio De La Pava Every Arc Bends its Radian
Scribner, 11th, £9.99, 9781398542198
An existential detective novel about a poet, philosopher and private New York City for Colombia after personal tragedy.
Virginie Despentes, Frank Wynne (trans) Dear Dickhead
MacLehose Press, 25th, £9.99, 9781529430820
When middle-aged author Oscar uses Instagram to insult Rebecca, a famous actress in her 50s, it argument that spirals common ground amid their hostility and Covid-19 lockdowns.
George Harrison Season Lightning, 4th, £9.99, 9781785634437
Thirty-eight chapters tell the story of a season of 38 football games,
as two men in adjacent seats of a football stadium gradually develop a friendship.
László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (trans) Herscht 07769
Tuskar Rock Press, 4th, £12.99, 9781800815063
adopted by a neo-Nazi fears the end of the world in the new novel from the International Booker Prize winner Krasznahorkai.
Sonoko Machida, Bruno Navasky (trans) The Convenience Store by the Sea Orion, 4th, £9.99, 9781398728417 A 24/7 coastal convenience store has whatever you might need. Interweaves stories of the employees and store customers. “A delightful tale of community and connection,” said My Weekly.
Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (trans) The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Vintage, 9th, £9.99, 9781529926941
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his imaginary city where her true self lives.
Fíona Scarlett May All Your Skies Be Blue
, 11th, £9.99, 9780571390922
In the summer of 1991, Shauna, daughter of the new salon owner, and friendship. When feelings and responsibilities deepen will they continue
Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Jesse Kirkwood (trans) The Blanket Cats
MacLehose Press, 4th, £9.99, 9781529435245
A unique pet shop in Tokyo provides temporary companion cats to solve problems and change lives, but they must sleep in their familiar blankets and be returned in three days.
Sandi Toksvig Friends of Dorothy Virago, 11th, £9.99, 9780349018997
Married young couple Amber and Stevie buy the perfect home in Grimaldi Square, but surprises begin when the previous owner, wise-cracking octogenarian Dorothy, will not leave.
Literary short stories
Ben Shattuck The History of Sound Swift Press, 11th, £9.99, 9781800754829
Debut collection of 12 short stories charting love and loss across generations. The title story is being adapted starring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, which I can on set in Wordsworth’s former home, Dove Cottage in Grasmere.
Lynne Tillman Thrilled to Death Peninsula Press, 25th, £12.99, 9781913512699
New career-spanning selection of stories about sex, death, memory and anxiety.
Commercial
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, (trans) Before We Forget Kindness
Picador, 4th, £10.99, 9781035046287
back in time for emotional encounters via a special Gets Cold series.
Lucy Rose The Lamb W&N, 25th, £9.99, 9781399619752 In a remote, pebble-dashed house in the fells, a mother and daughter
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live, entrapping and eating those who have wandered
from the path. Not for the faint-hearted, a dark and visceral Gothic coming-of-age tale about mother-daughter relationships, desire and animality.
Danielle Steel Trial by Fire Pan, 11th, £8.99, 9781529085686 CEO to volunteer at a pet rescue centre and into the life of a handsome lawyer.
Crime & thriller
Ben Aaronovitch The Masquerades of Spring Orion, 4th, £9.99, 9781473224414 Augustus Berrycloth- Young is an Englishman abroad when his latest adventure takes in the jazz clubs of Harlem. A novella in the Rivers of London series.
Jussi Adler-Olsen, Caroline Waight (trans) Locked In
Quercus, 25th, £9.99, 9781529434583
The past catches up with Carl Mørck when he in a police car headed for Copenhagen’s Department Q novel. Recently adapted for Dept. Q, starring Matthew Goode, Leah Byrne and Jamie Sives.
MC Beaton, RW Green Hamish Macbeth: Death of a Smuggler
Constable, 4th, £9.99, 9781408718599
A woman is murdered in Lochdubh in the 37th book in the series. Edited by Krystyna Green.
Sweet Fury Penguin, 11th, £9.99, 9781804993101
Hollywood golden girl Lila Crayne starts therapy to prepare
but as secrets are revealed, obsession and revenge ensue.
Christopher Bollen HAVOC
Borough Press, 25th,
Octogenarian American Maggie Burkhardt is resident at the Royal Karnak Hotel in Luxor, Egypt, spying on and manipulating fellow guests, but meets her match in unassuming eight-year-old Otto and his well-meaning mother.
Alan Bradley What Time the Sexton’s Spade Doth Rust
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Orion, 4th, £9.99, 9781398721388 de Luce investigates the murder of a former public hangman. Eleventh book in the series.
Chris Chibnall ( 2) Death at the White Hart Michael Joseph, 25th, £9.99, 9781405959513
When the landlord of a country pub in Dorset is murdered, former CID
detective Nicola Bridge unravels dark secrets. Broadchurch creator and former Doctor Who showrunner. ITV have commissioned a TV series based on the book.
Mason Coile William Baskerville, 25th, £8.99, 9781399812764
Reclusive engineer Henry creates an AI robot called William but domestic upsets lead Henry to try to destroy him.
Andreina Cordani Murder at the
Christmas Emporium , 11th, £9.99, 9781804187487
Christmas shoppers are trapped in a bespoke gift shop by someone who knows their secrets.
Martin Davies
Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident Allison & Busby, 18th, £9.99, 9780749032111
When a princess disappears, Sherlock Holmes’ housekeeper Mrs Hudson is called upon to investigate. Seventh book in the series.
Cory Doctorow Picks and Shovels Head of Zeus – an AdAstra Book, 11th, £9.99, 9781804547854
Marty Hench investigates a start-up in the early days of the tech industry in San to Red Team Blues and the third book in the series.
Alice Feeney Beautiful Ugly Pan, 11th, £9.99, 9781035053827
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