General Fiction
Serpent’s Tail, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781806490684
Muscular novel of love, loss and a life well-lived for fans of healing Scandi fiction in the vein of Fredrik Backman and Per Petterson.
quest to achieve her dream of stardom.
Jane Hamilton The Phoebe Variations Zibby Books, 20th October, pb, £12.99, 9798991140270
A probing story about the reverberations of adoption, toxic friendship and what it means to be a mother.
Hika Harada, Alison Watts (tr) How to Use 3,000 Yen
Scribner, 10th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781398525993
Robin Jones Gunn Shortbread in the Highlands
Revell, 4th August, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780800744847
Cousins travel to Scotland to claim their gran’s inheritance but uncover family secrets that present a life-changing future.
Priya Guns Hustle, Baby Atlantic Books, 3rd September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781805460220
Emerging talent with a wickedly comic tale of scammers, schemes and betrayal as a Tamil family tries to get rich quick.
Mark Gyves The Boy No Exit Press, 24th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781835015810
Aboy is drawn into Cork’s criminal underbelly in a devastating story of family, violence and the legacy of grief.
Mark Haber Ada Coffee House Press, 27th August, pb, £12.99, 9781566897594
Raucous comedy of power and desire. Petty tyrant Gerard Desacroux IV pursues Ada through civil unrest, war and absurd obstacles.
Sebastian Haffner Parting Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 17th September, pb, £10.99, 9781399638944
Novella that unfolds over one spring day in Paris in 1932. A young German man says goodbye to his lover amid rising tensions as war approaches.
Meredith Hambrock She’s a Lamb! Verve Books, 28th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780857307088
A cutting satire about one woman’s delusional
Autumn/Winter 2026
A thought-provoking novel about three generations of women in an ordinary modern Japanese family. Harada portrays both their struggle and strength through life’s stages.
Chad Harbach The Brightness Fourth Estate, 5th November, hb, eb, £22, 9780008536862
Follows the electric, chaotic, everything- can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend.
Alix E Harrow The Slantwise Histories Tor, 22nd October, hb, eb, £22, 9781035051816
Collection featuring “The Six Deaths of the Saint” and “A Witch’s Guide to Escape,” stories that fuse classic tales with career- defining fantasy fiction.
Alix E Harrow The Everlasting Tor, 29th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529061192
Trapped in time loops ending in tragedy, The Everlasting’s protagonists have only one chance to escape.
Emmy Hart The Best Ex of My Life HarperNorth, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008824204
She’s done with swiping right on Mr Wrong.
Nadia Hashimi City of Widows William Morrow, 10th September, hb, eb, £20, 9780063423541
Occasionally terrifying yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power.
Alice Hatcher The Wonder That Was Ours Dzanc Books, 24th December, pb, £12.99, 9781938603914
Wynston Cleave, a taxi driver on a small Caribbean island, spent years in prison after being wrongfully
convicted of the death of a wealthy white tourist.
Julie Haworth The Village Vet Detective Pellerin, 15th September, digital, eb, £2.99, 9781807470777
Daisy Turner returns to Devon to take over her father’s practice but when a local dog breeder is found dead she puts her veterinary skills into use as a detective.
Kazumasa Hayami, Haydn Trowell (tr) How Can My Manager be So Stupid? MacLehose Press, 3rd September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529446364
Japanese booksellers loved this candid and funny story about what it is really like to work with books.
RL Heber Faculty of Liars Point Blank, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781836431770
Chilling tale of dark academia where those in power hold all the cards and their secrets must stay buried whatever the cost.
Will Heinrich, Natalia Suvorova (illus) From Darkness to Darkness Thousand Horsemen Press, 3rd August, pb, £12.99, 9781068209741
A delicate portrait of New York- based art critic Jonah Blank. Intimate relationships, bitter family arguments, uncomfortable studio visits, marital harmony and struggle.
Helle Helle, Martin Aitkin (tr) Hafni Says
Akoya, 3rd September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781836750277
Helle expands her universe with a new work about the irrepressible Hafni.
Maggie Helwig Girls Fall Down Coach House Books, 26th November, pb, £13.99, 9781552455326
A 2008 novel of love and fear. Subway panic grips Toronto, paranoia spreads and a photographer facing loss navigates small gestures amid terror.
Carst Henn The Story Baker Hanover Square Press, 19th November, hb, eb, £20, 9781335000996
From the bestselling author of The Door-to- Door Bookstore comes a delicious morsel of a
has-been ballerina who takes up a temporary job in a bakery.
Veronica Henry A Wedding at the Beach Hut
Orion, 13th August, pb, £9.99, 9781398729353
Lush blockbuster summer read taking readers back to the world of the Beach Hut series.
Hermann Hesse, Pico Iyer, Hilda Rosner (tr) Siddhartha Pushkin Press Classics, 5th November, hb, £12.99, 9781782697060
Inspirational classic from Nobel-Prize winner, this is a beautiful tale of self- discovery and the search for spiritual wisdom.
Talia Hibbert Untouchable Sourcebooks Casablanca, 13th October, pb, £9.99, 9781464298523
Second in a contemporary romance series about a complicated yet close-knit small town. From the author of Get a Life, Chloe Brown.
Elin Hilderbrand, Shelby Cunningham The Thoroughbreds
Quercus, 15th September, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781529445275
Mother-daughter pair eturn with The Thoroughbreds. What has more high-stakes drama, tension and intrigue than senior year at a New England boarding school?
Matt Hill Wrecks Dead Ink Books, 6th August, pb, £10.99, 9781917792295
Noirish, near-future thriller about obsession, connection and penance, where human and machine bleed into one. For fans of JG Ballard and Joel Lane.
MK Hill Flicker Pellerin, 27th October, digital, eb, £2.99, 9781807470807
When a holographic companion takes the form of a vanished girl former detective Harry Abbott is drawn into a decades-old mystery in a dangerous city.
Victoria Hislop The Wine-dark Sea Headline Review, 24th September, hb, £22, 9781472263988
Multimillion-selling author is back in Greece with a novel that explores the ripple effect of the Greek civil war on a generation of displaced children.
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‘Blakemore is a
formidable talent. Few can evoke the past in such an urgent, deft way - and with Doom
Painting she surely joins the first rank of historical fiction writers alongside Mantel and Tremain’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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