General Fiction


injustice and find a way towards forgiveness.


Madeline Cash Lost Lambs Doubleday, 21st January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804996133


The spectacular falling apart, and eventual coming together, of the dysfunctional Flynn family.


Madeline Cash Earth Angel Doubleday, 17th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781837320776


In this reissue of her debut collection, Cash skewers our late stage-capitalist reality onto a strange, but ultimately life-affirming, collage of stories.


Dahlia de la Cerda, Julia Sanches (tr), Heather Cleary (tr) Medea Sang Me a Corrido


Scribe, 13th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781917189637


A fierce reimagining of Medea set in northern Mexico, where a gothic spirit watches over women facing cartel violence, femicide and loss in a brutal world shaped by injustice.


Augustine Cerf Compensation Fig Tree, 28th January, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780241801109


Daring, provocative and darkly funny debut in which a toxic couple ask their cleaner to serve as a surrogate and carry their dead son’s baby.


Glori Chao The Mortal Enemy Murder Club Park Row Books, 10th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781335001900


The Ex-Girlfriend Murder Club is pulled into yet another murder investigation and the only way to solve it is to team up with the podcaster who almost put them all in prison.


Agatha Christie, Stephen Millership Agatha Christie Calendar 2027 HarperFiction, 13th August, calendar, £10.99, 9780010000000


Hercule Poirot is celebrated in the official calendar of his creator. Art inspired by the books.


Fausta Cialente, Julia Nelsen (tr) A Very Cold Winter


Scribner, 5th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781398564039


A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in postwar Milan by one of Italy’s most significant women writers.


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A reflection on the author’s French/ Algerian heritage and the legacy of colonialism, with particular reference to relics and ossuary remains.


Emma Cline Switzy Chatto & Windus, 17th September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781784746643


Tice Cin Safe Spaces Granta Books, 10th September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781803514161


Astonishing kaleidoscope of a novel about heartbreak, imagination, electronic music and grief. From the author of Keeping the House.


Clare Clark Adder Stone Wilton Square Books, 5th November, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781806770519


An uprooted Welsh family clash over land, belonging and identity. Driven by love and anger, they must decide what – and whom – they can bear to lose.


Susanna Clarke The Bishop of Durham Attempts to Surrender the City Bloomsbury Circus, 22nd October, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781037203909


From the top-selling author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting illustrated short story with medieval magic and haunting charm.


Lynda Clark Strange Talk Fairlight Books, 5th November, pb, £9.99, 9781914148842


Amie has an unusual gift: she can communicate with household appliances. Avoiding human company, she lives with an eccentric “family” of talking objects. But one voice has abruptly gone quiet.


Philippe Claudel, John Cullen (tr) Brodeck’s Report MacLehose Press, 22nd October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781529453218


Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. A murder investigation in postwar France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. Now a MacLehose Crime Classic.


Xavier Le Clerc, Helen Stevenson (tr) Alas Poor Zohra


Small Axes, 29th October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781913109585


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The finest book yet from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest: an ageing man with an unreliable mind plans the final days before he flies to Switzerland.


Ernest Cline, Scott Peterson, Meredith Laxton (illus) Ready Player One


Del Rey, 6th October, hb, eb, £25, 9781529971927 Graphic novel version.


Marina Closs, Thomas Bunstead (tr) The Depopulation Bellevue Literary Press, 17th September, pb, £12.99, 9781954276604


Seventeenth-century Jesuit mission in Brazil faces spiritual upheaval as messianic Overa appears and slavers approach. Captures modernity’s clash with magic and belief.


Jonathan Coe Lessons in Harmony Viking, 12th November, hb, eb, £20, 9780241796665


Heartfelt new novel about a decades-long friendship between two composers – one English and one French – from one of the greatest British writers today.


Richard Coles A Carol and a Killing Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 22nd October, hb, £14.99, 9781399637107


As the festive season descends upon Champton one chorister’s Christmas might be his last. Delightfully devious Canon Clement instalment.


Colette, Rachel Careau (tr) The Pure and the Impure


WW Norton, 21st August, hb, eb, £22, 9781324075233


Journey through the sexual underworld of Belle Époque Paris in the first new English translation of Colette’s masterpiece in nearly 60 years.


Susan Coll Word Salad Harper Muse, 19th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781400346684


Eleanor Conlon, Martin Vaux The Three Ravens The History Press, 17th September, hb, eb, £19.99, 9781837052929


Fresh collection of 20 original ghost stories from the authors of The Three Ravens Folk Tales and the creators of the hit podcast.


Nathan Connolly (ed) Beasts of England Dead Ink Books, 17th September, hb, £18.99, 9781917792868


Folk horror anthology features 10 terrifying mythical creatures that lurk between England’s borders. Presented by some of the country’s leading authors, these yarns come in an illustrated hardback with sprayed edges.


Joe Conroy In Out Cipher Press, 1st October, pb, £12.99, 9781917008273


Raw and propulsive story by a wildly talented new writer gives us a new kind of antihero – an unhinged “twink” grappling with existence in 2016 Britain.


F X Contreras The Fine Young Men of Mexico EnvelopeBooks, 3rd September, hb, eb, £22.95, 9781915023841


Old school friends get together after 25 years for a weekend of excess: Dark satire on the state of modern Mexico.


Jeannine A Cook It’s Me They Follow Amistad, 19th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063430969


Allegorical love story set in a world where a bookshop owner becomes a reluctant matchmaker.


Jude Cook Time Being Salt, 7th September, pb, £10.99, 9781784633875


Matilda loves logic and order but now her structured world is falling apart – in a bookstore. Comedy of manners.


After a philosophy professor is found dead, her colleague finds herself exploring guilt and the puzzle of being alive. Profound investigation of freedom and time.


Anne Corlett Witchwater Manilla Press, 14th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781785307782


Powerful story of women accused of witchcraft set in an alternative England shaped around its waterways.


Patrick Cottrell Afternoon Hours of a Hermit And Other Stories, 22nd September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781916751477


A Bernhardian investigation into memory, identity and writing unfolds when Korean adoptee Dan Moran receives a letter addressed to his former self and a photo of his deceased brother.


Steve Couch Imogen Imagine The Book Guild, 28th September, pb, £9.99, 9781835745168


Immy never asked to be famous, least of all as the villain in her ex’s chart-topping hit. But when she fights back the truth behind their breakup begins to surface.


James Courage, Peter Parker A Way of Love Lurid Editions, 24th September, pb, £12.99, 9781068690648


Brave and compelling novel of love and loss is a gay classic set in the shadows of late 1950s London.


Amanda Cox Things We Cannot Keep Revell, 29th September, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780800746629


Tess has built a new life in Alabama, repairing timepieces and avoiding her past, until a mysterious package bearing her old name and an anonymous note appears.


Dan Coxon (ed) Unhallowed Gifts Dead Ink Books, 1st October, hb, £19.99, 9781917792387


Twelve spine- tingling short stories of cursed curios that bring misfortune, madness and death upon their owners. Packaged as a naked hardback with sprayed edges.


Matt Coyne The Trouble with Sister Francis


Wildfire, 27th August, hb, £20, 9781035425068


Hilarious work from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Frank and Red.


Sally Cranswick Women Out of Water Catalyst Collective, 6th August, pb, £14.99, 9781967673568


Contains 10 stories set in South Africa that depict women facing crisis through widowhood, war, poverty and danger. Cranswick focuses on their inherited resilience and survival as she renders courage, grief and resolve with precision.


Jacqueline Crooks Sky City Jonathan Cape, 6th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781787336063


Spellbinding portrait of London in the 1990s. Friendship and loneliness, healing and redemption, and three lives brought together by chance. Crooks is the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Fire Rush.


Mircea Crtrescu, Sean Cotter (tr) Theodoros Deep Vellum, 10th December, hb, £27.99, 9781646054459


Narrated in the second person, seven archangels relay the frequently terrifying tale of Theodoros, servant, runaway, pirate, emperor and lovesick romantic.


Rachel Cusk Life of M Faber & Faber, 27th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780571399802


From the critically acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, this is an irresistible novel of fame, power, beauty and truth and a blazing renovation of the form.


Anjet Daanje, David McKay (tr) The Song of Stork and Dromedary


Scribe, 8th October, hb, eb, £25, 9781915590800


Inspired by Emily Brontë, this is an inventive literary mystery that follows a reclusive author across centuries, weaving love, loss, myth and memory into an extraordinary meditation on time and storytelling.


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