General Fiction
peeks behind the curtain of their expatriate life in 1940s Morocco.
General Fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dream Count
Fourth Estate, 27th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008685775
Megan Abbott The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026 Mariner Books, 3rd December, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780063422339
A collection of the year’s best, selected by Edgar-winning author and screenwriter Abbott and series editor Steph Cha.
Randa Abdel-Fattah Discipline Oneworld, 15th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781836433637
Internationally renowned human rights activist produces a captivating literary novel chronicling grief, privilege and the complicity of silence.
George Abraham (ed), Noor Hindi (ed) Heaven Looks Like Us Haymarket Books, 18th August, hb, £52, 9798888904244
A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land; to anti-colonial and anti- imperialist struggles; to an unforgotten history; and to a future where a free Palestine thrives.
Trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world. Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency.
Cecelia Ahern Love Unlocked HarperFiction, 27th August, hb, eb, £20, 9780008608149
How do you fall in love when you do not believe it exists? Feelgood love story from multimillion- selling author of PS, I Love You and Paper Heart.
Ahmed Alaidy, Humphrey Davies (tr) Being Abbas El Abd
Hoopoe, 1st September, pb, £14.99, 9781649035677
A cult classic in modern Arab literature, filled with black humour and satire, reissued in a new edition.
Naomi Alderman The Strangers Fig Tree, 17th September, hb, eb, £20, 9780241777664
From the Women’s Prize-winning author of The Power a wildly audacious, deeply moving novel that follows a writer wrestling with grief even as a new species is discovered.
Kim van Alkemade The Upstate Dispatch William Morrow, 17th December, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063438033
A writer from Manhattan widowed early in the pandemic channels her grief into reviving an abandoned bookstore with a secret sapphic history.
Elizabeth Acevedo Anger Is Only a Shadow Hot Key Books, 15th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471409448
Powerful journey of identity, loyalty and freedom as Lil struggles with probation, family pressures and her brother’s crisis.
Barbara Adair In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot Catalyst Collective, 6th August, pb, £13.99, 9781967673520
Meticulously researched, fictionalised account of American writers Paul and Jane Bowles
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Navessa Allen The Lunatics Quercus, 4th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529452778
Author of Lights Out presents a gripping paranormal romance for fans of Ali Hazelwood’s Bride.
Mohammed Husayn Alnaas Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table HarperVia, 19th November, hb, eb, £20, 9780063323858
A sensitive young man from a long line of bakers tries to live up to his father’s expectations in Libya in the first years of the century.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Dur e Aziz Amna A Splintering Duckworth, 10th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780715655917
BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. Set against a backdrop of political violence and natural disaster, the narrative traces the class struggle of a woman trapped between province and metropolis, motherhood and ambition.
Hans Christian Andersen, Eleanor Vere Boyle (illus) Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
Arcturus, 1st November, hb, £19.99, 9781398850811
Handsome volume contains many of Andersen’s best- loved tales.
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Vintage Classics, 3rd September, hb, £18.99, 9781529982091
Deluxe gift edition of the best, darkest and most delightful fairy tales. Foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Dzena Andersone Ice, Flower, Herborium Fly on the Wall Press, 20th October, pb, £12.99, 9781915789686
In a snowy Latvian town, policeman Vincent investigates a corpse and a missing teacher, uncovering buried secrets and a tragic connection a troubled girl.
Sarah Anderson Fallow Jonathan Cape, 21st January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781787336643
Meet Natalie. She hates work but it turns out that she is great at labour.
Daphne Palasi Andreades Lucid Dreams Fourth Estate, 5th November, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008478100
Surreal and intimate novel about a disillusioned artist who, plagued by mysterious visions, must navigate a series of personal and existential crises that upend life.
Sussie Anie In Meadowlight Orion Books, 6th August, hb, £18.99, 9781474621748
Meditative words on home and belonging. Has appeal for readers of Natasha Brown and Caleb Azumah Nelson.
Fernando Aramburu, Will Vanderhyden (tr) The Child Europa Editions, 22nd October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781787706675
From the author of Homeland, a novel that blends a real-life event with an intimate portrayal of its aftermath as a family is shaken by tragedy.
Jeffrey Archer Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
Pan, 27th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781037409349
Four men stop at nothing to get back what was stolen from them in this tale of fraud, revenge and determination first published 50 years ago.
Abrea Armstrong Ferry Tales Red Hen Press, 5th November, pb, £13.99, 9781636285030
Debut novel follows Black millennial woman on transatlantic journey reclaiming African heritage. Blends travel, romance, humour and ancestral memory as the protagonist confronts diaspora, identity and corporate America.
Jeffrey P Armstrong Asphalt Surfer Flare Books, 27th August, pb, £14.99, 9781963511468
In 1968 Florida surfer Jack Walsh hitchhikes to Venice Beach seeking the perfect wave. On the way he encounters dangerous strangers and countercultural America and his youthful innocence is transformed into hard- earned adulthood.
Series
The Civil War Chronicles Michael Arnold Pellerin, 15th September, digital, eb, £2.99, 97818074704
Acclaimed series of historical thrillers follow the adventures of battle-scarred hero Captain Stryker in the
English Civil
Wars.Series 4: Assassin’s Reign 18
5: Warlord’s Gold 49
6: Marston Moor 70
Series Michael Arnold
The River Warriors Canelo, 3rd September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781835980385
Second in the epic lyrical historical adventure series following the heroic, yet doomed, Celtic defence of Britannia against the invading Roman legions. Now in paperback.
Takuya Asakura Every Bookshop Needs a Cat
HarperFiction, 27th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008810337
Feelgood and full of bookish charm.
David Ascherl The Rind and the Leaf Lucent Dreaming, 22nd October, pb, eb, £12, 9781916632288
Plagued with anxieties about a cancer diagnosis, a reclusive writer attempts to author a book on death but constant distractions and diatribes prevent him from ever getting past the introduction.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Margaret Jull Costa (tr), Robin Patterson (tr) Memorial De Ayres Liveright, 18th September, hb, eb, £22, 9781324096795
In the final novel by one of the greatest writers in the Americas an ageing diplomat bears witness to the shifting cultural tides of 19th-century Brazil.
Miguel Angel Asturias, David Lee (tr) Weekend in Guatemala Verso Books, 27th October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781836742586
Masterful, polyphonic portrait of a nation in turmoil from a Nobel Laureate in Literature.
Kate Atkinson Our Noble Selves Doubleday, 10th September, hb, eb, £22, 9781529937824
Set during the 1951 Festival of Britain, this captivating novel from one of Britain’s best-loved storytellers explores the past and how it shines a light on our present.
Dean Atta Big Man Cipher Press, 3rd September, pb, £12.99, 9781917008259
Tender and daring novel about queer love, trauma and ageing, and the adult debut of a YA author.
Emeline Atwood A Real Animal Scribe, 13th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781917189323
Epic tracks Lucy across a decade of love, grief and self-discovery as she reckons with trauma, family and intimacy while searching for connection in nature’s unsettling beauty.
Holly Atwood
F##k it, it’s Christmas Pan, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781037405402
Laurie is exhausted by the effort of creating the perfect Christmas. This story follows her as she navigates her personal and familial descent into festive madness.
Ashley Audrain The Things You’ll Never Know Michael Joseph, 14th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780241681787
The explosive new novel from Ashley Audrain, author of Sunday Times bestseller The Push and The Whispers.
Mona Awad We Love You, Bunny Scribner, 8th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398535183
Well-anticipated follow-up to the viral sensation Bunny. A brilliantly written, funny, dark and delirious novel set in the Bunny-verse.
Ibtisam Azem, Sinan Antoon (tr) The Sleep Thief And Other Stories, 25th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781916751538
International Booker Prize-longlisted Palestinian author’s dreamlike first novel rails against the commodification of suffering and dreams of a Palestinian identity that will transcend sorrow.
Trezza Azzopardi The Hiding Place Picador, 8th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035091515
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000, this is an extraordinary and heartbreaking novel set in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay.
Claire Baker Family Matters The Book Guild, 28th August, pb, £9.99, 9781835744819
A one-night stand leaves Clodagh facing an impossible choice between career and motherhood. Caught between her Catholic upbringing and an unexpected love, she must decide what she truly wants.
Kevin Baldeosingh Lall’s Last Day Peepal Tree Press, 14th January, pb, £10.99, 9781845236182
A novel of 24 hours in the life of George Lall. Stark and unflinching, the story traces his reckoning with the weight of an unlived life and a tragic mistake.
Clare Balding Pastures New HarperFiction, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008607050
Bestselling debut novel from a popular
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