General Fiction
Alice Hoffman The Witches of Cambridge
Scribner, 8th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781398565296
New book from the author of Practical Magic. Follows two women in 1950s Massachusetts as they become immersed in a mysterious group of witches known as the Lilith Society.
ETA Hoffmann, JT Bealby (tr), Thomas Carlyle (tr) The Sandman and Other Weird Tales Pushkin Press, 24th September, pb, £9.99, 9781805680666
Three uncanny tales from a master of macabre fantasy whose work inspired Kafka and Poe.
Josh Holton Fledgling Conduit Books, 17th September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781919184746
Tender and unforgettable, this is the portrait of a challenging father and his son juxtaposed with sometimes disturbing vignettes of the natural world.
Hilde Hoogenboom (ed), Anna A Berman (ed), Nora Seligman Favorov, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya The Brother Oxford University Press, 11th December, pb, £8.99, 9780198961635
Unflinching portrayal of brutal, provincial patriarchy.
Kate Horan The Inheritance HarperCollins ANZ, 24th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781038965875
What if everyone in your family was given a DNA test at Christmas? Would there be any surprise results? For two women the answers are shocking and dangerous.
Birdie Horne
Don’t Cross Mo Ellery William Morrow, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780063473089
Witty mystery following the indomitable hot mess Mo Ellery, whose job as a school crossing guard pulls her into an unhinged murder investigation.
Luke Houghton, Marco Girolamo Vida The Epic of Christ Oxford University Press, 10th August, pb, £9.99, 9780198948780
Vivid retelling of the life of Christ, drawing on the tradition of Latin epic poetry.
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Kim Hye-jin, Jamie Chang (tr) Employee No 9 Restless Books, 8th October, pb, £12.99, 9781632064271
With shades of Park Chan-wook’s film No Other Choice and Choi Jin-young’s Hunger, Employee No 9 runs a psychological gauntlet of money, power, responsibility and the daily struggle for survival.
Salma Ibrahim Salutation Road Pan, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035044368
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Richard House Dishonest Days Picador, 21st January, hb, eb, £22, 9781509836420
Ambitious novel spanning decades and continents from the Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Kills.
Ava Hunter Whiskey Burn Sourcebooks Casablanca, 20th October, pb, £9.99, 9781464298639
She ran to Montana to save her life. She never expected to lose her heart. First of the Weston Brothers series.
Damion Hunter Hadrian’s Eagles Canelo, 22nd October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781835982006
Emperor Hadrian is consolidating the empire’s borders. He commissions a wall to mark the frontier in Britannia. It is up to Felix Appius Julianus and the legions to build it.
Andrew Michael Hurley Saltwash John Murray, 22nd October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781399817554
Chilling new novel about guilt and redemption.
Katie Huttlestone A Healthy Appetite Dead Ink Books, 13th August, pb, £10.99, 9781917792264
Dark tale of morality vs mortality that asks what the reader would sacrifice for survival. A like for fans of Monika Kim and Sayaka Murata.
John Ironmonger The Angel of St Piran Fly on the Wall Press, 1st September, hb, £18.99, 9781915789556
Trophy hunters enter a remote African forest and primate researcher Angel Restorick uses her bond with chimpanzees to outwit. Gripping story of conservation, courage and resistance to exploitation.
Douglas Jackson Blood Enemy Canelo, 14th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804366219
The shattering conclusion to the Warsaw Quartet. As the Uprising of 1944 draws nigh double-agent Jan Kalisz must decide whether to fight for his country or his family.
Genevieve Jagger Fragile Animals Verve Books, 24th November, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780857307002
An erstwhile Catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire and is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past. Shortlisted for the 2025 Betty Trask Prize.
Erica James The Forever Home HQ, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008703554
Twenty-three-year-old south Londoner Sirad Ali’s life is changed forever when she finds herself transported to an alternative reality in present-day Mogadishu during her morning commute.
Brenda Iijima Shelter Is Necessary for Existence Seven Stories Press UK, 15th October, pb, £12.99, 9781911710394
Unsettling and charged, Shelter is Necessary for Existence is equal parts psychological thriller and social satire that explores the disquieting qualities of a privileged family’s mundane cultural assumptions.
A feelgood tale of new friendships, family drama and second chances from the Sunday Times bestselling author of An Ideal Husband.
Henry James The Princess Casamassima Oxford University Press, 10th October, pb, £9.99, 9780198946465
This 1886 gem is among the most important novels in James’s oeuvre. This edition includes the magisterial preface James later wrote for the New York edition.
Marlon James The Disappearers Hamish Hamilton, 17th September, hb, eb, £20, 9780241714409
Bold portrait of the hatred and shame faced by gay men in a society which refuses to accept them.
sensuality in all its complicated wonder.
T Geronimo Johnson The Occidental Book of the Dead Abacus, 28th September, hb, eb, £25, 9780349149196
Audacious and innovative literary crime masterpiece about a black police officer in Atlanta and the fatal shooting of a suspect.
Patricia Johns Through the Valley Bethany House, 15th September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780764244193
Miri Shrock is shocked to learn that she has inherited Tomas Yoder’s estate and so are his grandsons. But the truth behind the inheritance may change everything they thought they knew.
Anna Johnston The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife HarperFiction, 8th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008848682
Zany and heartfelt story about a case of mistaken identity that allows a lonely old man one last chance to be part of a family.
Diana Janney The Zen Violinist Cogito, 1st October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781919605357
People’s Book Prize runner-up’s thought- provoking story of a classical violinist struggling to hold on to her Zen nature after leaving Japan for London where tragedy occurs.
Elizabeth Jenkins, Monica Heisey Honey
Daunt Books, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781917092920
Honey has everything a woman is supposed to want: an adoring husband, great wealth, even greater beauty. She should be over the moon. But she is not. She is bored.
Karishma Jobanputra The Body of the Thing And Other Stories, 11th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781916751514
Moving from Manhattan to Italy, London to Maine, these fearless stories challenge the wellness industry as they explore eating disorders, queerness and motherhood, and celebrate female
Elizabeth Jolley, Alice Slater The Well Virago Press, 24th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780349021270
Prize-winning modern Australian classic, The Well is a Gothic masterpiece and a razor-sharp portrait of loneliness and obsession.
Cynan Jones Pulse Granta Books, 8th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781783788200
From the author of The Dig and Cove a collection of viscerally powerful short stories in which man is pitted against nature, against circumstance and against himself.
Samantha Josephs Carrying Fourth Estate, 28th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008789749
Inventive debut and a cult classic in the making.
Gabriel Josipovici A Man Carcanet Fiction, 28th January, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800175945
Josipovici’s latest is an exceptionally fast-paced story and also a new kind of extended poem. It is a clutch of mysteries, too. Its publication
marks the author’s 85th birthday.
Slin Jung (tr), Hae-Soo Park My Perfect Deserted Island
Wildfire, 14th January, pb, £14.99, 9781035443994
Tender tale about the rejuvenating power of island life. For fans of The Healing Season of Pottery and Hakuda Photo Studio. With 15 black and white illustrations.
Itamar Vieria Junior, Johnny Lorenz (tr) Saving the Fire Verso Books, 1st September, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781804298916
Much-anticipated sequel to the Booker-shortlisted international sensation Crooked Plow.
Sarah Kafatou (ed), Carole E Newlands (ed), Ovid Heroides Oxford University Press, 14th January, pb, £10.99, 9780198877141
Collection of fictional letters from famous women in classical mythology to their absent lovers.
Fatima Kara The Train House on Lobengula Street EnvelopeBooks, 3rd September, hb, eb, £23.95, 9781915023858
Eengaging novel about family and changing cultural values. Set within the Gujarati community of Zimbabwe in the 1950s and ’60s.
Mehdi M Kashani A Tehran So Quiet and Other Stories University of Alberta Press, 13th August, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781772128772
These 12 stories delve into familial tensions, interracial relationships, trauma, infidelity, misunderstandings and sexual dalliances.
Hisashi Kashiwai A Serving of Hope
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