XXth Monthname 2025
in the Peak District during the Industrial Revolution.
Lola Jaye The Manual for Good Wives Pan, 18th, £9.99, 9781529064643 Set between Victorian and contemporary London, a dual narrative historical novel exploring Black British history, love, generational trauma and second chances.
Anne O’Brien The Queen and the Countess Orion, 11th, £9.99, 9781398711266 England, 1450s. As the Wars of the Roses rage, Queen Margaret considers working with rival Anne, Countess protect the crown.
Minette Walters The Players Allen & Unwin, 4th, £9.99, 9781805463184
Harrier and her enigmatic son attempt to save rebels from the gallows.
Historical crime & thriller
Jim Eldridge Murder at Whitechapel Road Station
Allison & Busby, 18th, £9.99, 9780749031565
April, 1941. A woman’s body is discovered in the former Whitechapel Road Underground station, repurposed as an air-raid shelter. The fourth book in the series.
Leonora Nattrass The Bells of Westminster Viper, 25th, £9.99, 9781800817036
Westminster Abbey, 1774. Ghost sightings, a murdered antiquary and the missing body of Edmund I present a mystery for the Dean’s daughter Susan.
Simon Scarrow A Death in Berlin Headline, 11th, £9.99, 9781472287311
Berlin, 1940. Hitler’s rule makes criminals more brazen than ever and, when innocent victims between warring gangs, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke struggles with his superiors to track those responsible.
Horror
Elisa Lodato Ghost Story Manilla Press, 25th, £9.99, 9781786583406
Seren retreats to an isolated Scottish island to write, only to be plagued by unsettling events.
Carly Reagon Hear Him Calling Sphere, 18th, £9.99, 9781408726488
When Kyle and his wife inherit an old house in a Welsh mountain village, something has waited decades to be let in.
Jacquie Walters Dearest , 25th, £10.99, 9781804188606
visited by her estranged mother and feels her
reality slipping. Saga
Anna Jacobs Lavender Lane Allison & Busby, 18th, £9.99, 9780749030193
Australian Nina faces surprises in the Wiltshire countryside when she works on reopening properties that were once a convalescent home for the armed forces.
SFF
Carissa Broadbent Six Scorched Roses Tor Bramble, 11th, £8.99, 9781035051786
Lilith strikes a bargain with a vampire to save her village in this Beauty and the Beast-inspired tale from the world of the Crowns of Nyaxia series.
MR Carey Once Was Willem Orbit, 30th, £9.99, 9780356519463
A medieval fantasy- horror sees Once Was Willem rise from the dead to defeat a great evil facing a village.
CJ Cooke ( 4) The Book of Witching HarperCollins, 25th, £9.99, 9780008656256
A centuries-old mystery and accusations of witchcraft link women targeted on an idyllic Orkney beach.
Rachel Greenlaw The Woodsmoke Women’s Book of Spells
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HQ, 25th, £10, 9780008708535 Cosy fantasy where a curse intervenes in a small- town witchy love story.
Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson The Principle of Moments Gollancz, 25th, £10.99, 9781399633598
Centuries-spanning space opera. Longlisted for the 2024 TikTok Book Awards.
Sophie Jordan A Fire in the Sky HQ, 11th, £10, 9780008712389 The son of a great dragon slayer is tricked into marrying a servant with adult romantasy duology.
Sung-il Kim, Anton Hur (trans) Blood of the Old Kings
Orbit, 2nd, £9.99, 9780356525099
Three heroes stand against an empire powered by necromancy.
TJ Klune
Somewhere Beyond the Sea Tor, 25th, £10.99, 9781035009398
When Arthur is forced to make a public statement about his dark past he under his care. Sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea.
Freya Marske ( 5) Swordcrossed Tor, 25th, £9.99, 9781035039302 Historical fantasy and queer romance as part- time con-artist Luca is blackmailed into giving sword lessons to wool merchant Matti ahead of his arranged marriage.
Ed McDonald Witch Queen of Redwinter
4
Gollancz, 25th, £10.99, 9781473233720
Raine and her
companions are stuck in a magical wasteland while the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance. Concluding book in the Redwinter Chronicles trilogy.
Alan Moore The Great When Bloomsbury Publishing, 11th, £9.99, 9781526643247
In post-Second World War east London, Dennis, a young man employed by a second-hand bookseller, crossed from a magical version of London, which exists beyond time and space. A densely visual fantasy new Long London series.
Chloe C Peñaranda The Night Is Defying , 11th, £10.99, 9781035415373
The second book in the dark romantasy Nytefall trilogy, inspired by the Greek myth of Astraea.
Helen Phillips Hum Atlantic Books, 4th, £9.99, 9781805461746
In a city populated by intelligent robots called “Hums”, May and her family are threatened when the rare oasis of the Botanical Garden is not all it appears to be. “Ingenious and unsettling,” said the Observer.
Gail Simone Red Sonja: Consumed Orbit, 9th, £9.99, 9780356520629
When rumours of unknown horrors emerge from her homeland, Red
Sonja, She-Devil and barbarian of Hyrkania, must revisit her past.
Rebecca Thorne Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea Tor, 4th, £9.99, 9781035031016 Cosy fantasy featuring a sapphic romance between an elite bodyguard and a mage who follow their dream of opening a bookstore against a backdrop of a murderous queen, dragons and assassination attempts.
Various Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View
Penguin, 25th, £10.99, 9781804944462
re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a supporting character, including Emperor Palpatine, Wicket the Ewok and the Sarlacc.
Kiersten White Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel
Penguin, 25th, £9.99, 9781804947715
Gothic fantasy where Lucy Westenra escapes the thrall of Dracula as a vampire and embarks on her own search for self- discovery and true love.
Samantha Sotto Yambao Water Moon Penguin, 4th, £9.99, 9781804993323
Hana inherits a pawn shop in Tokyo where you can sell your regrets, but her father’s disappearance pairs her in a search with a charming stranger.
Non-fiction
Art, design & fashion
Pepe Karmel Abstract Art: A Global History
Thames and Hudson, 4th, £40, 9780500298381
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