General Fiction
broadcaster. Perfect for anyone who has ever dreamt of a fresh start in the countryside.
Rue Baldry Nice Things Fly on the Wall Press, 2nd December, pb, £11.99, 9781915789532
Stories set in northern England that explore identity, sexuality and connection as characters face class divisions, family secrets, discrimination and desire.
Solvej Balle,
Sophia Hersi Smith (tr), Jennifer Russell (tr) On the Calculation of Volume V Faber & Faber, 5th November, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571397099
Word-of-mouth sensation accelerates as Tara marks over a decade on the 18th of November.
Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches (tr) Three Wild Bodies And Other Stories, 27th October, pb, £18.99, 9781916751835
Powerhouse novels (Permafrost, Boulder and Mammoth) from Catalan superstar tell wild, delirious tales of queer women blazing new trails through sexuality, motherhood and friendship.
Honore de Balzac, Jeanine Herman (tr) A Woman of Thirty New York Review of Books, 20th October, pb, eb, £15.99, 9798896230502
A hot-blooded, sinuously plotted novel by a 19th-century master of melodrama. The story of a stifled woman reckoning with the costs of following her heart.
Joan Barfoot Gaining Ground Faber & Faber, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571399888
Radical portrait of a woman who leaves her family to live her own way. Unearthed after almost 50 years, this tale calls to anybody who has ever longed to escape.
Angela Barker The Dog Park Murders Harlequin, 24th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781335001733
Cosy, seasonal romance- mystery in which a grumpy cafe owner teams up with a sunshiny pet groomer to solve a murder that s shocked a small town.
Autumn/Winter 2026 Hannes Barnard
Nebulous: The Last Hurrah Catalyst Books, 24th September, pb, £14.99, 9781960803443
When your best friend is moving a continent away the last hurrah has to be epic.
Julian Barnes Departure(s) Vintage, 21st January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529959147
New from Booker Prize winner, a tale about looking back, facing the future, and coming to the end of life.
Series Lindsay Barrett
Song for Mumu Peepal Tree Press, 17th September, pb, £12.99, 9781845236144
On an unnamed Caribbean island, this is an allegorical novel of desire, love and loss. A Caribbean classic of passion and poetic force that refuses to be forgotten.
James Matthew Barrie Peter Pan Vintage Classics, 3rd September, hb, £18.99, 9781529982077
Deluxe gift edition of the magical classic of the boy who never grew up. Foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Sebastian Barry The Newer World Faber & Faber, 10th September, hb, eb, £20, 9780571378449
Immersive novel about what it is to survive and what might be lost along the way. Set in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Michael Bartlett The Last Train Ride of Mrs Braddle (Deceased) Crumps Barn Studio, 17th September, pb, £12.99, 9781915067845
Martin wonders whether agreeing to his mother’s last request was the best decision he has ever made. One man’s funny, touching and unpredictable journey through life, love and reconnection.
Rowan Beaird Tenderness Manilla Press, 6th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781786587770
Months after leaving Synanon, Shay marries wealthy Andrew on his family’s island. Amid rumours, ex-lovers, secrets and escalating dangers she realises that she may not have escaped her past.
Mathieu Belezi, Lara Vergnaud (tr) Attacking Earth and Sun
Small Axes, 29th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781913109523
Follows a group of settlers and soldiers throughout the hellish madness that was the colonisation of Algeria by France during the 19th century.
AD Bell
The Bookbinder’s Secret HQ, 8th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008755904
Captivating historical fiction for 2026. Filled with mystery, romance and thrilling secrets, a great cosy-up read.
Natasha Bell Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have to Renard Press, 1st September, pb, eb, £10, 9781804471982
A metafictional tour-de- force, a finely crafted literary autofiction about identity, sexuality and the work that goes into writing a novel.
Ludwig Bemelmans How to Travel Incognito Pushkin Press, 22nd October, pb, £12.99, 9781805680260
Bemelmans’ absurdly funny romp through France as he masquerades as a down-on-his-luck German prince.
Rachid Benzine The Man Who Read Books Canongate Books, 5th November, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781837265992
A chance encounter on the streets of Gaza tells a magnificent modern tale on the humanising power of books.
Claire Berest, Stephanie Smee (tr) Frida Mountain Leopard Press, 24th September, pb, £12.99, 9781035426805
Striking fictional imagining of the life of one of the world’s most enigmatic artists.
AK Blakemore Doom Painting Granta Books, 24th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781803512730
The 16 days of the Peasants’ Revolt and its charismatic leader Wat Tyler brought to life in this dazzlingly inventive novel by the author of The Manningtree Witches.
Olivie Blake Dreamland Tor, 13th August, hb, eb, £22, 9781035039623
Intimate, contemporary gothic novel about family secrets, unsolved murders and ill-fated love.
Chris Bohjalian The Amateur Hutchinson Heinemann, 20th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529996555
Mesmerising and darkly funny novel from New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Midwives.
Joe Bond Hope House Fig Tree, 12th November, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780241811535
Demon Copperhead meets Les Choristes in this coming-of-age story in chorus, told through the intersecting lives of a group of troubled boys in a home for delinquent young men.
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz Berlin Shuffle Pushkin Press Classics, 14th January, pb, £10.99, 9781782279167
Prophetic, blackly comic lost classic about down- and-outs in a fractured Berlin by the author of the bestselling rediscovery The Passenger.
John Berger A Painter of Our Time Verso Books, 3rd November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804298756
Hemley Boum, Alison Anderson (tr) The Fisherman’s Dream Europa Editions, 5th November, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781787706699
Sweeping novel tracing the fate of a family
Berger’s first novel – a meditation on art, exile and politics – reissued on the 100th anniversary of the author’s birth.
divided by migration and memory with each generation carrying the weight of a world violently reshaped by globalisation and displacement.
Christophe Bourdin, Jeffrey Zuckerman (tr) The Thread Pushkin Press Classics, 5th November, pb, £12.99, 9781805680390
Hauntingly powerful lost classic of Aids literature, translated into English for the first time.
Randy Boyagoda Lords of Serendipity Abacus, 5th November, hb, eb, £20, 9780349148960
Thousands of miles apart, two talented girls have the same dream: a university education. But is it worth it?
William Boyd Cold Sunset Viking, 3rd September, hb, eb, £20, 9780241761090
Third novel starring accidental spy Gabriel Dax takes readers deep into a shadowy world where loyalty blurs, motives darken and every step could be fatal.
Fern Brady
High Energy Unpleasant Brazen, 10th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781840918670
Brady’s debut novel explores bodily autonomy, medical misogyny and the repercussions of what happens when your internal world is suffocated. From the author of Strong Female Character.
Michelle Brafman Draw Near to Me Turner, 20th August, pb, £13.99, 9798887981352
A woman’s coma forces a fractured family towards kinship, confronting shared damage and finding healing by drawing closer to those who caused the deepest wounds.
Cathy Bramley Not Just for Christmas Orion, 8th October, pb, £9.99, 9781398713994
Delightfully festive new novel from Sunday Times bestseller.
Michelle Brandon Tradwife Avon a, 27th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063470538
Inspired by the #tradwifetok phenomenon, this is a novel in which trad wives find themselves embroiled in scandal when one of their husbands goes missing.
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow
When It Gets Cold in the South University Press of Kentucky, 19th January, hb, £23.95, 9781967165063
Set in the imagined town of Honey, Mississippi and stretching across centuries, Brownlow’s stories move through generations of shared history.
Sara Brunsvold The Sisterhood of Unlikely Friends
Revell, 17th November, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780800746131
Jess Becker is fiercely independent. When she reluctantly shares pizza with her neighbour she unknowingly opens her door to community.
Daisy Buchanan All Grown Up Cornerstone, 14th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804956960
Heartfelt and funny, this is a novel of family life in all its chaos and glory. Inspired by Little Women.
Heather Burnside My Mother’s Lies Pellerin, 26th January, digital, eb, £2.99, 9781807470647
Psychological gripper about buried secrets, family betrayal and the lies we tell to protect the people we love.
A S Byatt Cold Chatto & Windus, 8th October, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781784746858
From the Booker prizewinning author of Possession a beautifully packaged hardback novella that relates a tale of elemental passion and hope.
Elaine Canning (ed) The Rhys Davies Short Story Competition Anthology Parthian Books, 22nd October, pb, eb, £10, 9781913830854
Selected and with a foreword by Tyler Keevil: 12 contemporary stories by Welsh writers.
Melody Carlson We Wish You a Messy Christmas
Revell, 13th October, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780800747671
This Christmas the perfect gift might just be learning to let go and love the chaos.
CJ Carroll Ripples Arkbound, 15th August, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781911740070
Dual-perspective novel about a boy’s final weeks and his sister’s fight to process grief, confront
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