General Fiction
Celia Dale, Camilla Grudova The Innocent Party Daunt Books, 23rd September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781917092784
An intensely human and surprising story, this is perhaps Dale’s darkest novel.
Trent Dalton Gravity Let Me Go The Borough Press, 10th September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780008810832
The story of a murder. The story of a marriage. The story of a lifetime. Astonishing new novel from the author of Boy Swallows Universe.
Edwidge Danticat Dey riverrun, 25th August, hb, eb, £20, 9781529452389
A woman’s sense of self and family are called into question when she gets caught in a random act of violence one sunny Florida day.
Zoltán Danyi, Owen Good (tr) The Carcass Remover Bullaun Press, 15th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781917653046
Prize-winning Hungarian novel that explores the damaged psyche of a Yugoslav Wars veteran. Visceral yet poetic, The Carcass Remover attempts to find a language to piece together a shattered world.
Marie Darrieussecq, Penny Hueston (tr) How to Make a Woman Fitzcarraldo Editions, 13th August, pb, £14.99, 9781804272695
Bold, sometimes brutal coming-of-age novel.
Zahirra Dayal The Whispering Jacarandas Fly on the Wall Press, 28th August, pb, £12.99, 9781915789624
Follows sisters in post-independence Zimbabwe as childhood violence divides them, forcing them to confront trauma, identity and sisterhood amid political upheaval.
Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Vintage Classics, 3rd September, hb, £18.99, 9781529982015
Deluxe gift edition of Defoe’s shipwreck classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Autumn/Winter 2026
Katy Derbyshire (ed) Berlin Babel V & Q Books, 3rd September, pb, eb, £13.99, 9783863914998
Presents 14 short stories of the city, translated from eight different languages. For all those who love Berlin and for anyone curious to discover it.
Alissa DeRogatis How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle Cosmo Reads, 4th August, pb, £9.99, 9781464282270
Honest romcom about a romance author with writer’s block who decides to force meet- cutes everywhere she goes in the hopes that they can spark something.
Patrick deWitt Dodge City Fourth Estate, 29th September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780008781347
Sweeping portrait of a country in flux and a family in disarray, Dodge City is a raucous exploration of family, belonging, love and war.
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and Other Tales Union Square, 13th August, pb, £10.99, 9781454964636 Freshly repackaged for the Union Square Signature Editions line.
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Illustrated Amber Books, 18th August, hb, £30, 9781838866587
Presented in a high- quality, Chinese-bound format. Beautiful edition of this much-loved festive classic.
Sareeta Domingo Possibility Renegade Books, 24th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781408748756
A best-in-class novel about changing your life, learning to love yourself and what it really means to be free.
Scot Douglas Out in Oxford The Book Guild, 28th September, pb, £9.99, 9781835745113
Sarah Dunant The Marchesa Ravenna Press, 7th October, Book, eb, £12.99, 9781068176630
Explores the Italian Renaissance through the character of Isabella d’Este, the first female art collector and patron.
Adrian Duncan A Thought Without Collision
Tuskar Rock, 13th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781805221975
Revelatory study of love and intellect from an award-winning Irish writer.
Ben Eastham The Floating World Fitzcarraldo Editions, 8th October, pb, £14.99, 9781804272619
A dystopia, a satire and a Bildungsroman steeped in ancient mythology and contemporary politics. Debut.
Ben Ehrenreich Hold Still City Lights Books, 26th November, pb, £11.99, 9780872869479
Profound and deeply personal, this genre- bending book is about finding one’s way back to life after the death of a parent.
Witty and insightful tale of midlife reinvention. Russell navigates online dating, tangled friendships and academic intrigue in search of love.
Louise Jensen Duffy Winifred Peters is Not Sorry for Her Loss Headline Accent, 8th October, pb, £10.99, 9781035427550
Witty, warm and uplifting story set in 1930s Australia about shaking off the dust and making a new start.
Sebastien Dulude, Pablo Strauss (tr) Asbestos Coach House Books, 19th November, pb, £13.99, 9781552455265
Stand By Me meets Knausgaard in a coming-of-age yarn, vividly written, set in a Quebec mining town in the 1980s.
Lars Elling, Don Bartlett (tr) The Princes of Pauper’s Pond Orenda Books, 10th September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781917764568
1912. Two young brothers are sent into the forest to fend for themselves but before summer is out a decision fractures their world. Bestselling Norwegian debut.
Annie Elliot
Mr and Mrs Charles Dickens EnvelopeBooks, 3rd September, hb, eb, £22.95, 9781915023742
Compelling tale about the life of Catherine Dickens, wife of Charles, that gets to the heart of an exceptionally complex marriage.
Mathias Enard, Charlotte Mandell (tr) Perfecting the Shot Fitzcarraldo Editions, 24th September, pb, £12.99, 9781804272633
Published in English for the first time, Enard’s début novel exposes how extreme violence corrodes the soul and leaves no part of life unscathed.
Dane Erbach Meat Bees Clash Books, 17th September, pb, £15.99, 9781968043056
Jaws with wasps. By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains two locals have already been eaten alive by the insects.
Lissa Evans
My Name Is Mackenzie Bly Doubleday, 27th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529962987
A modern-day Adrian Mole negotiates life while struggling with the innate difficulty of being a teenage boy.
Lucy Evans Stories for the 12 Days of Christmas British Library, 29th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780712369909
Celebratory anthology carefully curated from well-known and forgotten female writers who were at work during the 20th century.
Naomi Evans The Ninth Night Renegade Books, 28th January, hb, £20, 9781408749500
pb, eb, £16.99, 9781408749517 Explosive debut set over nine days.
Tochi Eze This Kind of Trouble Cornerstone, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804949689
Emotionally charged tale of forbidden love, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades earlier.
Jenni Fagan, Agnes Owens Bad Attitudes
Polygon, 3rd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781846977022
Wickedly dark tale of Scottish council housing and murder. Boasts a missing person, a lethally nosy neighbour, an extra- marital affair and more . . .
Nincemon Falle, Tina Kover (tr) These Blazing Suns Europa Editions, 24th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781787706590
Coming-of-age novel that has resonance. It questions the heritage of fathers, the ambition of sons, the divide between villages and the freedoms and loneliness of the cities.
Rebecca Fallon Family Drama The Borough Press, 14th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008738341
Exquisite, emotional first outing told across two timelines. The story focuses on a mother on TV trying to reconcile her different lives. Perfect for fans of Maggie O’Farrell and Celeste Ng.
J Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla Union Square, 27th August, pb, £8.99, 9781454967514
Queer, gothic pre- Dracula vampire tale, repackaged for Union Square’s Signature Editions.
Jiyar Jahan Fard, Chiya Parvizpur (tr) The Shadeless Border Common Notions, 1st October, pb, £13.99, 9781945335709
Over a single day a family faces grief and exile and history in a surreal tale set on contested borders.
Jonathan Farley Ghosts, Myths and Oddities of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The History Press, 20th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781837053100
The historical oddities, strange sighting and old folkore hiding within Kew’s glasshouses and ancient groves.
Sebastian Faulks Farewell to Eden Hutchinson Heinemann, 17th September, hb, eb, £22, 9781529153224
Epic work from master storyteller.
Cecil Fenn The Restorative Artist Lucent Dreaming, 17th September, pb, eb, £12, 9781916632240
Trapped inside his funeral home, plagued by visions of his recently deceased lover, embalmer Graham attempts to escape the pain of grief.
Brooke Fieldhouse More Stories About Buildings & People
Troubador, 28th August, hb, £18.99, 9781806345168
Fifteen short stories including the Warner Group prizewinning love story “The Gift” and nine previously unpublished pieces.
Ray Filar Choke Cipher Press, 15th October, pb, £11.99, 9781917008297
A dyke hooker revenge fantasy novella in which two sex workers fall in love and go on a murder spree.
PW Finch The Dark Army Canelo, 8th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804364475
Thurstan Wildblood, knight, believes he has made a Faustian bargain for prowess on the battlefield. Will returning a living saint to England save his soul?
Jordan Finkin, Anatole France Penguin Island Oxford University Press, 11th December, pb, £8.99, 9780198950806
Novel written in 1908 offers a thinly veiled lampoon of French history and human civilisation. This new translation offers a full introduction to its historical and literary context.
Ezzedine C Fishere, Jonathan Smolin (tr) Exit
Hoopoe, 17th November, pb, £14.99, 9781649035004
Highly original novel tells an alternative history in which the Arab Spring leads Egypt and the Middle East to the brink of nuclear war.
Suzanne Woods Fisher A Plain Confession Revell, 1st December, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780800745301
When hidden secrets surface in Stoney Ridge one act of grace will change everything.
F Scott Fitzgerald Winter Dreams and Other Stories Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 22nd October, hb, £14.99, 9781399645607
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