General Fiction
Emily St John Mandel Last Night in Montreal Picador, 20th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781035097968
The writer’s debut novel is a literary thriller about life on the run.
Divya Maniar After Care Verve Books, 22nd October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780857309600
A timely and piercing debut novel exposes the toxicities of reality TV and influencer culture, reckless consumerism and the attention economy.
Thomas Mann, Iain Galbraith, Ritchie Robertson Mario and the
Magician and Other Late Stories Oxford University Press, 11th December, pb, £9.99, 9780198852223
Five stories in which Mann depicts life under the Weimar Republic, including the activities of a power-ctazed hyonotist symbolising Italian fascism.
David Mark Anatomy of a Heretic Pellerin, 24th November, digital, eb, £2.99, 9781807470258
Two assassins, one prize and a deadly voyage into the unknown. Thrilling historical adventure of murder and mayhem on the high seas.
Barbi Markovic, Jen Calleja (tr) Minihorror Faber & Faber, 22nd October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780571393183
Surreal story collection about the agents of fear in our society. Markovic is the most original and imaginative of a new generation of European writers.
Carole Martinez, Adriana Hunter (tr) Dream Your Animal Dreams Europa Editions, 22nd October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781787706651
Children all over the world cry out in their sleep in a phenomenon that ripples into waking life. This is a haunting, visionary novel of survival and transformation.
Madelin Martin A Time of Witches Hanover Square Press, 8th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781335002679
Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence
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across centuries or be silenced forever.
Meg Mason Sophie, Standing There Bloomsbury, 27th August, hb, eb, £20, 9781526664006
Sharp reflection on obsession and loneliness from the author of 2020’s Sorrow and Bliss.
Harry Mathews, Francesco Clemente (illus) Singular Pleasures Dalkey Archive Press, 17th September, pb, £13.99, 9781628976472
Book of vignettes about a practice both universal and universally taboo: masturbation.
Harry Mathews Tlooth Dalkey Archive Press, 31st December, pb, £14.99, 9781628976755
Opening on a baseball game in a Siberian prison camp, this novel is absurdist from the start. Rife with arcane puzzles, digressions and stories that became hallmarks of Mathews’ work.
Nyla Matuk
Leila and Khaled House of Anansi Press ,Canada, 24th September, pb, £16.99, 9781487013974
A holiday romance between two Palestinians – one raised in exile, the other rooted in the land – searching for home in each other.
Imbolo Mbue Every Story is a Love Story Canongate Books, 14th January, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781837266654
Sweeping saga about the nature of mercy and the astonishing ways that love can bloom among ruins.
Emily McBride, Kimberly Glyder Queen Mab
One, 27th August, hb, £18.99, 9781805338062
A new mother begins to suspect her daughter has been stolen and replaced by an otherworldly imposter. Eerie debut.
Alexander McCall Smith The Prime of Bertie Pollock
Polygon, 6th August, hb, £17.99, 9781846977442
The 19th instalment of the world’s longest- running serial novel, 44 Scotland Street. Bertie learns that to find out where we are going we sometimes need to find out where we came from.
Elizabeth McCracken Seven Stories About Tammy Biblioasis, 5th November, pb, £10.99, 9781771967594
Morris Harkin brings girlfriend Tammy home. Across seven vignettes, her unsettling presence exposes a witty, tender portrait of a complex, unhappy family. Concise yet novel-deep.
Jennette McCurdy Half His Age Fourth Estate, 28th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008617738
Sunday Times bestselling debut about sex, class, desire and power from the three-million-copy- selling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died.
Rhonda McKnight Writer in Residence Thomas Nelson, 19th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781400354399
This story hits a women’s fiction sweet spot in its combination of literary themed books and a multigenerational tale of heritage, culture and community.
Kevin McManus The Light at Evening The Book Social, 10th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781918291780
Ciarán is looking after his elderly mother and
his wife Joan, who is undergoing cancer treatment. He reflects on his fading ambitions and fractured sense of self.
Eoin McNamee The Comets riverrun, 1st October, hb, eb, £20, 9781529449952
Alexander McCall Smith The Isle of Good Karma Polygon, 1st October, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781846977619
Standalone novel. Mary Macdonald is a teacher whose busy Hebridean life leaves little room for flights of fancy. But when a windfall comes her way she decides it is time for a change.
Richly textured collection of stories set in Ireland and Northern Ireland explores working-class lives teetering on the borderlands between violence and love.
Edward McWhinney On Board the Dog Star A Public Space, 12th November, pb, £14.99, 9798998556319
Alone overlooking a harbour, an introspective man recalls a small Irish town and the unwritten novel of his life in Edward McWhinney’s debut.
Herman Melville Moby-dick Vintage Classics, 3rd September, hb, £18.99, 9781529981995
Smart deluxe gift edition of the great American epic. Foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.
Gabrielle Meyer When the Day Comes Bethany House, 27th October, hb, eb, £24.99, 9780764246852
Deluxe limited edition of features patterned page edges and exclusive content. Meyer’s first Timeless book follows time-crosser Libby in 1774 and 1914.
Nicole Mickey The Glass Grenade Troubador, 28th August, pb, £9.99, 9781806345007
An intimate portrayal of severe depression from inside the mind of its narrator.
Kirsten Miller The Women of Wild Hill HQ, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008614799
Empowering multi- generational feminist novel full of magic and witches in 2026.
Mindy Misener Good Guys Melville House, 15th October, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781685892654
In a small New England town in 2008 two estranged sisters become embroiled in a war crime involving a local hero.
Yukio Mishima,
Michael Gallagher (tr) Spring Snow Vintage Classics, 6th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529988437
The first novel in Mishima’s masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology.
Akira Mizubayashi Fractured Soul HarperVia, 14th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063093676
Awarded the Prix des libraires by France’s booksellers, this is a universal story about music and restoring one’s faith in oneself and others in the aftermath of tremendous loss.
LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea Union Square, 27th August, hb, £20, 9781454965978
Collected gift edition of the first two volumes of Montgomery’s “Anne” books.
LM Montgomery Anne of Green Gables Vintage Classics, 3rd September, hb, £18.99, 9781529982053
Sweet and charming classic bound as a gift book. Foiled covers, marbled endpapers and finished with a silk ribbon.
Sarah Monzon Bookmarked for Love Bethany House, 1st September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780764243769
Desperate to save the children’s programmes at her library, Martha Aldridge strikes a deal with her now wealthy childhood crush.
Donna Moore
Knit One, Heist One No Exit Press, 27th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835014653
At Janus Lodge Sylvia and her foul-mouthed friends face eviction by a shady developer. To save their home they launch a secret knitwear empire with a scandalous twist.
Georgia Moorhouse Imaginary Forces Manilla Press, 21st January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781786586827
Luminous portrait of love in its many forms – yearning, obsession, addiction – and just how messy and destructive it can be.
Keletso Mopai We Belong to the Trees Seven Stories Press UK, 12th November, pb, £12.99, 9781911710400
Multi-layered debut is a dive into the world of post-apartheid South Africa, where a devastating act of violence in a small town shocks the community.
Sarah Moss The Winter Guest Picador, 1st October, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781037412172
Deliciously labyrinthine tale of two unlikely hotel guests.
Tom Muir Orkney Folk Tales The History Press, 1st October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781837053452
Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created.
Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (tr) Norwegian Wood Vintage Classics, 6th August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529988420
Enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan. His top-selling title around the world.
23 Sarah Morgan
The Best Christmas Ever HQ, 22nd October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008744632
Morgan’s new feelgood yarn, full of friendship, love and hope.
Laura Moriarty Sunlight Finds You Text, 27th August, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781923058996
Richly layered love story about extending forgiveness and refusing to settle for a life that is less than full.
Liane Moriarty Big Little Truths Michael Joseph, 27th August, hb, eb, £22, 9780241700907
Penguin, 27th August, audiofile, £16, 9781405978101
Follow-up to the number one bestseller Big Little Lies, the inspiration behind the HBO sensation starring Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman.
Garry Thomas Morse Celluloid City At Bay Press, 29th October, pb, £9.99, 9781997933113
Tom flees to the palatial home of a former opera diva, only to fall in with activist malcontents who drag him into one of his own plotlines.
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