General Fiction


Six shimmering winter tales gather Scott Fitzgerald’s most charming, witty and alive short fiction.


Peter Flamm, Simon Pare (tr), Rachel Seiffert A Shadow of Myself Pushkin Press Classics, 8th October, pb, £10.99, 9781805332282


A rediscovered classic the Telegraph calls essential. A story about split identity in the wake of trauma in the First World War.


Angela Flournoy The Turner House Verve Books, 15th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780857309587


Full of complex family relationships and insightful social commentary, Flournoy’s acclaimed debut follows the 13 Turner siblings as they decide the beloved family home’s fate as their mother’s health declines.


Dominique Fortier, Rhonda Mullins (tr) One Part Ocean Coach House Books, 19th November, pb, £13.99, 9781552455272


Inspired by surviving letters, Dominique Fortier imagines Melville and Hawthorne’s passionate bond while writing Moby-Dick, braided with Lizzie Melville’s voice and a present-day, half-imagined companion.


Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (tr) Vaim Hotel Fitzcarraldo Editions, 22nd October, pb, £12.99, 9781804272671


The second instalment in the Vaim trilogy is a discomfiting and propulsive mystery and a new departure from the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.


Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Fourth Estate, 24th September, hb, eb, £25, 9780008821296


At once a moving family drama and a dissection of American society in an age of greed and globalism, The Corrections emerges as a truly great American novel.


Nick Freeman Giving the Darkness Life Seren, 30th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781911752165


Gothic short stories by Welsh writers including Caradoc Evans, Elizabeth Walter, Arthur Machen, Priya Sharma, Mark Blayney and Lucie McKnight Hardy.


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Susan Furber What Other Years Have Done Valley Press, 10th September, pb, £12.99, 9781915606860


Returning to 1960s New York, Lillie Carrigan confronts old wounds. Set against the rise of Women’s Liberation, this piercing novel explores memory, betrayal, and the dangerous persistence of love.


Jostein Gaarder Sophie’s World Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6th August, pb, £10.99, 9781399640404


On the 30th anniversary of Sophie’s World – the bestselling sensation of the ’90s – a striking new paperback edition with a fresh look.


Anthony Gardner All God’s Creatures Lightning, 6th August, pb, £9.99, 9781785634697


An ingenious, fast-moving satire about oligarchs, art fraudsters and cats and dogs at the communion rail, with a touch of AI. Captures the barking- mad spirit of our age.


Bonnie Garmus Peck & Peck Manilla Press, 13th October, hb, eb, £22, 9781786588814


The bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry returns with an irresistible novel about a young man whose life unravels after joining the world’s secretive, dysfunctional poetry journal Peck & Peck.


Gauz’, Frank Wynne (tr) The Doors MacLehose Press, 8th October, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781529449174


A powerful new novel from the Interntional Booker-shortlisted author of Standing Heavy.


Amanda Geard The Glass Key Headline Review, 19th November, pb, £9.99, 9781035413607


Bestselling author of The Midnight House returns with a spectacular story of love and loss, separation and sacrifice, and a long- held wartime secret.


Sharif Gemie Songs From the Midnight Streets Palewell Press – Migrations, 1st September, pb, £12, 9781911587996


When the personal and the political collide. Edmund and Nafah are a couple in 1950s London. Edmund is a Welsh bookshop-owner, Nafah a Palestinian refugee.


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Malcolm Gluck The Add Man The Glassfull Press, 3rd September, pb, £9.99, 9781066684427


Malcolm Gluck Random Oxidation The Glassfull Press, 3rd September, pb, £9.99, 9781066684403


When everything has a price, what happens when nothing has value? A tense, elegant novel about trust, illusion, and the price of certainty.


Malcolm Gluck Vineyob The Glassfull Press, 3rd September, pb, £9.99, 9781066684465


A life, like a great wine, is only understood in the tasting. Rich, reflective, and quietly ambitious, Vineyob is a meditation on time, memory, and the elusive art of understanding a life as it is being lived.


Miguel Gomes, Adrian Nathan West (tr), Natalia Suvorova (illus) Portrait of a Gentleman Thousand Horsemen Press, 3rd August, pb, £13.99, 9781068209758


A unique voice from Venezuelan literature, Miguel Gomes, finally makes his début in English with a brilliant political satire.


Susie Gordon Monster in the Ash Claret Press, 1st October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781910461921


Michael SA Graziano The Love Song of Monkey Leapfrog Press, 20th August, pb, £10.99, 9781971225036


Meditation on the lasting power of love, cast in the metaphor of a journey to the depths of the ocean floor.


Alyson Greaves Secrets of Dorley Hall Wilton Square Books, 5th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781806770847


In this second Dorley novel a man investigates the disappearance of young, male students who later reappear as women.


Christopher Green Takoyaki Tales Wilton Square Books, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781806770670


Can their marriage survive the Suez Crisis?


Pia Ghosh-Roy And I Am the Arrow The Indigo Press, 20th August, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781917378215


Three generations of women and the ghost of a man cut in two on a train track in one compulsive saga.


Megan Giddings Lakewood Amistad, 19th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063569027


Debut that delves into medical experimentation on African Americans. Now available in a pocket- sized Nomad edition.


Mel Giedroyc The Comeback Headline Review, 27th August, hb, £20, 9781472256263


Warm-hearted and witty, this is about life surprising you.


Nicola Gill The Replacement Bedford Square, 5th November, pb, £9.99, 9781835012901


An author whose life is failing on every front find it getting even worse when she’s forced to spend a week with the woman her husband left her for...


He sold the world its desires until he discovered what lies beyond them. Both a social history and a metaphysical inquiry, this novel explores how we construct meaning and what happens when that meaning collapses.


A gripping family drama set in post-WWII London, following a group of East-End Jewish veterans as they confront the rising tide of fascism threatening their community.


Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows Vintage Classics, 3rd September, hb, £18.99, 9781529982060


Deluxe gift edition of an evergreen classic with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.


Malcolm Gluck What’s Wrong With George? The Glassfull Press, 3rd September, pb, £9.99, 9781066684441 If you can’t trust your senses, what’s left to believe? Darkly ironic and psychologically acute, this is a novel about perception, identity, and the fragile boundary between expertise and delusion.


Madeleine Gray Chosen Family Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 28th January, pb, £10.99, 9781399636971


From the author of break- out, word-of-mouth success Green Dot comes a moving and funny new story about two friends and the chosen family they build around them.


Shelley Shepard Gray The Unexpected Caller Revell, 18th August, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780800747268


Everyone expects Leanna Mast to marry again but that’s the last thing on her mind until handsome Evan Keim comes a-calling.


Set in Japan, Takoyaki Tales is a sharp and quietly unsettling collection of short stories that explores the absurdities of everyday life.


Stevie Greene Some Like It Spiced HQ Digital, 19th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008808907


Cosy, smalltown romcom sequel to The Perfect Matcha.


John Green Hollywood, Ending Penguin, 22nd September, hb, eb, £22, 9780141346052


Green returns to fiction with a behind-the- scenes love story that confronts the private cost of a public life.


Phoebe Greenwood Vulture Europa Editions, 27th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781787706514


Heart-wrenching satire of the war news industry and its moral blind spots.


Bree Grenwich, Parker Lennox The Ascended Penguin, 24th September, hb, eb, £20, 9780241826935


When twins Thais and Thatcher are thrust into the deadly Trials of Ascension they have to navigate brutal competitions and forbidden desires.


Marzia Grillo, Julia Pelosi-Thorpe (tr), Lourdes Contreras (tr) The Sun’s Point of View A Public Space, 10th December, pb, £14.99, 9798998556333


Across 13 experimental stories Grillo blends autofiction and instability to capture intimate moments across Rome.


Nick Groom (ed) Vampire Tales Oxford University Press, 9th October, hb, £16.99, 9780198814658


Explores the extraordinary rich variety of vampire tales in the 19th century.


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Alison McCullough (tr) The Ferryman and His Wife


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