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starring Matt Smith and Lindsay Duncan.
Mary Chamberlain Fenwomen Virago, 11th, £10.99, 9780349020419
edition of Virago’s ” portraying the lives of the women of the village of Isleham, Cambridgeshire and an oral history of their generational memories. New introduction by Alexandra Harris and an updated afterword from Chamberlain expanding on the previous edition Editions in 2011.
Emma Chapman First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time
Bloomsbury Sigma, 11th, £11.99, 9781399427432
The science of space and the history of the universe. Updated to include the latest developments from radio interferometry to gravitational waves and the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope.
Colette, Frances Egan (trans), Helen Southworth (ed) The Vagabond
Oxford World’s Classics, 11th, £6.99, 9780198881582
A new translation of writer and dancer Colette’s novel of the stage.
Martin Edwards (ed) As If by Magic: And Other Miraculous and Locked-Room Mysteries
British Library Crime Classics, 10th, £10.99, 9780712355636
Cerebral classic crime stories featuring puzzling locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes. Includes stories by John Dickson Carr, Julian Symons and Margery Allingham, as well as newly rediscovered writers from the British Library’s archives.
Robert Glück
Jack the Modernist NYRB Classics, 16th, £15.99, 9781681379715
Previously out of print, a new edition of Glück’s postmodern novel of a Rob Halpern.
Kim Gordon Girl in a Band , 25th, £12.99, 9780571398362
Tenth anniversary edition of Gordon’s memoir, updated and expanded with a new by Rachel Kushner.
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Tim Winton Dirt Music Picador, 4th, £10.99, 9781035063819
Picador Collection edition of Winton’s Booker-shortlisted novel.
Virginia Woolf, Edward Mendelson (ed) Mrs Dalloway
NYRB Classics, 30th, £15.99, 9781681379982
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New centenary edition accounting for all of Woolf’s own revisions to the book for the
Mark Greene Fruitfulness on the Frontline: Making Where You Are IVP, 18th, £11.99, 9781789745634 Revised 10th anniversary edition of Greene’s guide to serving God wherever you are, addressing changes in the workplace.
Deborah Harkness A Discovery of Witches Headline, 25th, £9.99, 9780755374045
the All Souls series are being reissued following the May paperback The Black Bird Oracle, and in anticipation of the sixth instalment The Falcon and The Rose
MacDonald Harris The Carp Castle Galileo Publishing, 25th, £10.99, 9781915530998
New edition of Harris’ posthumously published novel, set in a 1920s with “airships, mysticism and erotic love”.
Juliet Hebden Pel Is Provoked , 18th, £9.99, 9781788425292
The twenty-second Inspector Pel mystery receives a modern cover.
James Herbert The Fog , 25th, £10.99, 9781035058907
edition of Herbert’s horror classic.
Violet Hunt, Melissa Edmundson (ed)
The Tiger-Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy Tales of the Weird, 18th, £10.99, 9780712355780
New edition of Violet Hunt’s eeriest work, including short stories from Hunt’s 1911 collection Tales of the Uneasy and 1923
volume More Tales of the Uneasy.
Margaret Kennedy Lucy Carmichael Michael Joseph, 11th, £14.99, 9781405982825
After a woman is abandoned on her wedding day, a new job in a rural Lincolnshire start. One of four launch titles in Michael Joseph’s 90th anniversary Mermaid Lucy Mangan.
Fonda Lee Jade City Orbit, 9th, £9.99, 9780356510514 reissued this month with new cover art. Published alongside Jade War and Jade Legacy.
Helen McCloy
Through A Glass, Darkly Michael Joseph, 11th, £14.99, 9781405984171
Supernatural crime classic, McCloy’s 1950 novel is the eighth outing for series sleuth Dr Basil Willing. One of four launch titles in Michael Joseph’s 90th anniversary Mermaid Gillian McAllister.
Tony Medawar (ed) Spirits from the Shadows: Lost Tales from Masters of the Macabre British Library Gilded Nightmare, 18th, £16.99, HB, 9780712355681
New gift anthology of haunted tales and nightmares from “rare periodicals and obscure tomes”.
Mihaela Moscaliuc, Michael Waters (ed) Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems
Everyman Pocket Poets, 25th, £12, 9781841598352
Poems from past to and orchards, including Emily Dickinson’s
Has, William Carlos Williams’ chilled plums in This Is Just to Say and and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Vladimir Nabokov Ada, or Ardor Everyman Adult Classics, 11th, £16.99, HB, 9781841594361
Joins four other Nabokov titles on the hardback contemporary classics list. Introduced by Brian Boyd.
Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red
, 25th, £9.99, 9780571268832
New edition of Pamuk’s International Dublin Literary Award- winning novel.
Michelle Paver ( 12) Dark Matter Orion, 4th, £9.99, 9781398724112 publication, a new edition for Paver’s haunting Arctic ghost story.
Oliver Sacks
An Anthropologist on Mars Picador, 4th, £10.99, 9781035068357
One of three Sacks backlist titles joining the Picador Collection, alongside Everything in Its Place and Musicophilia.
James Salter A Sport and a Pastime Picador, 4th, £10.99, 9781035063734
Picador Collection edition
Seneca Letters from a Stoic Penguin, 25th, £9.99, 9780140442106
New edition of Seneca’s letters following the recent boom in interest in stoicism. New introduction and notes from Liz Gloyn.
Kamila Shamsie Kartography
Bloomsbury Publishing, 25th, £9.99, 9781526680013
Shamsie’s John Llewellyn Rhys Prize-shortlisted novel is one of three backlist titles given a refreshed colourful cover look, alongside Salt and and In the City by the Sea.
Edward St Aubyn At Last Picador, 4th, £10.99, 9781035063826
Picador Collection Patrick Melrose novel.
Gertrude Stein Blood on the Dining- Room Floor
Renard Press, 25th, £7.99, 9781804471708
Eye-catching cover for this reissue of a 1933 murder mystery from queer Modernist icon Stein.
Jon Spurling History of Arsenal at Highbury Stadium
Seven Dials, 4th, £14.99, 9781399625913
Players spanning generations, including Ted Drake, Bob Wilson, Anders Limpar and Patrick Vieira, contribute to Spurling’s biography of Arsenal years. Updated 20th-anniversary edition.
Mort Walker The Lexicon of Comicana New York Review Comics, 9th, £27, 9781681379562
edition of a classic handbook for drawing and reading cartoons. Introduced by acclaimed cartoonist Chris Ware.
Fay Weldon Down Among the Women Michael Joseph, 11th, £14.99, 9781405982641
Two decades in the lives of in each other. One of four launch titles in Michael Joseph’s 90th-anniversary Mermaid Collection. Jenny Colgan.
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