General Fiction
Mantle, 1st October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781035060764
Wonderfully warming, A Serving of Hope features more uplifting tales from The Kamogawa Food Detectives.
Anna Kavan I Am Lazarus Pushkin Press Classics, 24th September, pb, £10.99, 9781805332589
Fifteen short stories about war and mental illness, from the hallucinatory yet crystalline pen of Kavan.
Series
Before the Coffee Gets Cold Toshikazu Kawaguchi Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Picador, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781037416095
The first book in the series that swept bookshops globally and sold in the millions, republished in a festive Christmas jacket. Before We Say Goodbye
6th August, hb, eb, £15.99, 9781037405990
All the characters are back for a fourth time.
Genki Kawamura, Inc The Horse and I Bonnier Books, 12th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781806170876
From the author of If Cats Disappeared from the World comes a taut psychological mystery that follows an overlooked woman working quietly in a coastal shipyard office.
Louise Kennedy Stations Bloomsbury Circus, 24th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781526664327
From number one bestselling, Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of Trespasses a devastating tale of love, friendship and life-shaping choices.
Wendy Kenyon Caitlin’s Not Sorry Troubador, 28th August, pb, £10.99, 9781806345472
Poignant but amusing, this is a tale of modern family life that will be of interest to anyone facing the menopause while trying to manage a family.
Jacob Kerr The Wolf of Whindale Serpent’s Tail, 1st October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800811539
Gothic chiller of magic, cults and werewolves. Likely to appeal to fans of Paul Kingsnorth, Andrew Michael Hurley and Alan Garner.
Autumn/Winter 2026
debut from a rare, new international voice.
Barbara Kingsolver Partita Faber & Faber, 6th October, hb, eb, £20, 9780571404711
Tale of thwarted ambitions, accumulated pain, newfound hope, unexpected love and endless resilience from the global bestseller and twice over Women’s Prize winner.
Laleh Khadivi Female Life on Planet Earth Oneworld, 24th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781836432821
Extraordinary celebration of womanhood. A mother’s death, the secrets we keep from those closest to us and the women who anchor us.
Mairi Kidd
The Second Best Whore in Town Black and White, 1st October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781785309700
Short story collection inspired by Scotland’s forgotten women. Weaves diverse lives through shared resilience and determination to survive–and thrive–within a male-dominated world.
Lena Kiefer Love and Lies Scarlett Press, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398566545
In a city where love and lies are two sides of the same coin Helena and Jessiah must decide how much they are willing to risk for the truth and for each other.
Chiren Kina Please Form Pairs Hamlyn, 27th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781846017537
Squid Game meets Mean Girls in this hit survival drama about keeping up and staying (barely) alive in a girl- eat-girl Tokyo. Some 100,000 copies sold.
Ella King Dear Darling HarperFiction, 28th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008476649
He is going to prove he loved her. She is going to prove he ruined her. Story of desire and retribution.
Lin King (tr), Lee Chia-Ying A Perfect Day to Put Your Head in the Oven
Doubleday, 28th January, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529972207
A young woman revisits her youth to discover all was not as it seemed in this genre-defying
Yasushi Kitagawa The Lucky Ride HarperOne, 19th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063569850
The ride of a lifetime set out in a heartwarming Japanese bestseller, a story about recognising opportunities, embracing happiness and discovering what true fulfillment looks like.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (tr) The School of Night
Vintage, 6th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529967494
Night and blood were unchanged, night and blood had been with us always. Utterly gripping new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Death in the Family.
Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (tr) Arendal
Harvill, 5th November, hb, eb, £25, 9781787305540
Impossible love and impossible life.
Gaspard Koenig Lowly Creatures HarperVia, 27th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063416826
Two friends from contrasting economic backgrounds are drawn together and eventually divided by their shared passion for earthworms and their mission to save the environment.
Giddens Ko, Shanna Tan (tr) Cafe. Waiting. Love.
Wildfire, 27th August, pb, £14.99, 9781035434237
Bestselling translator teams up with renowned Taiwanese author and filmmaker to bring
John Kinsella The Fountain of Youth Dalkey Archive Press, 13th August, pb, £13.99, 9781628976519
Starting in 300 BC and ending with a theatre company in a small Western Australian town preparing a show, The Fountain of Youth is Kinsella’s riotous third Lucida novel.
readers a modern classic about coming of age and finding love.
Dorothy Koomson The Quiet Girls Headline Review, 27th August, pb, £9.99, 9781035427086
The explosive new Kez Lanyon thriller about the lengths people will go to to protect their own.
Ahmed Koroma Freetown Echoes Anthem Press, 8th September, hb, eb, £13.99, 9781839999840
Autofiction that captures a decade of life along the Odokoko stream in Freetown, Sierra Leone, through vivid memories and interwoven tales of childhood, folklore, ritual and community.
Chris Kraus The Four Spent the Day Together
Scribe, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781917189675
Haunting literary true-crime novel in which a woman’s obsession with a teenage murder case opens up class, family history and the pressures shaping American lives.
Morgana Kretzmann The Red Earth HarperVia, 10th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780063437982
No land is sacred in this cinematic thriller which captures a Brazilian community in crisis and the three women caught in the crossfire as an environmental tragedy unfolds in real time.
Rebecca F Kuang Taipei Story The Borough Press, 8th September, hb, eb, £22, 9780008702557
Profoundly moving coming-of-age story that explores first love, second language and final goodbyes.
Eka Kurniawan, Labodalih Sembiring (tr), Benedict Anderson Man Tiger
Verso Books, 25th August, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781836742548
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Norah Labiner Morocco Melville House, 24th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781685892852
In this intricate tale a woman untangles her enduring bond with an heiress who she is still trying to understand.
Julia Langbein Dear Monica Lewinsky Atlantic Books, 3rd September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805467274
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‘A bright and beautiful book, exploring and expressing love and loss, with a tender and powerful voice.... Tice Cin is a unique and exceptional artist, Safe Spaces a courageous and phenomenal poetic work’ Salena Godden
‘Being able to capture so much raw emotion through incredible writing like this is a gift. This book conveys magical and visceral energy, that everyone should have the luxury of experiencing. Powerful shit’ Lola Young
978 1 80351 416 1 Hardback £14.99 September 2026
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