General Fiction
more than their pasts say they should be.
Benny B Peterson The Maidenheads Text, 27th August, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781923058866
Debut novel about the tenacity of first love, the life-changing power of music and the difficult work of becoming yourself.
Intan Paramaditha, Stephen Epstein (tr), Tiffany Tsao (tr) Night of a Thousand Hells Europa Editions, 8th October, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781787706637
Three sisters, each with a clearly defined role. When the youngest commits a devastating act the survivors are forced to confront their family history’s buried truths.
Ann Patchett Whistler Bloomsbury, 6th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781037206177
About family, memory and connection, from the author of Tom Lake and The Dutch House.
Colette Paul A Complete Success Batis Books, 12th October, pb, £13.99, 9781918073058
Set in Glasgow, this new collection of short stories follows an assortment of young and young-at-heart people negotiating the pitfalls of grown-up life.
Bob Pegg Folk Horror Folk Tales The History Press, 3rd September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781837050956
Traditional tales that reflect a universal appetite for the strange, the sinister and, occasionally, the downright gruesome.
Robert G Penner Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell McNally Jackson Books, 22nd October, hb, £21.99, 9781968671129
Victorian Britain colonises Hell itself, subduing demons and damning souls to plantations. It is unstoppable until a series of murders sparks panic and war in a biting colonial satire.
Princess Joy L Perry This Here is Love WW Norton, 9th October, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781324130512
Three people, two enslaved and one indentured, live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be
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Tracie Peterson Devoted to Love Bethany House, 15th December, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780764244308
Leah Garrison and Dr Erik Sjolander clash over Leah’s charity for unwed mothers and their hearts are tested as America edges towards war.
Laurie Petrou The Rayburn Affair Verve Books, 27th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780857309440
Art, ambition and desire collide when a struggling academic becomes entangled in the marriage and creative life of her literary idol. Petrou is the author of the Bookstagram favourite Stargazer.
Larissa Pham Discipline Serpent’s Tail, 21st January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805226710
Provocative debut about creativity and sex, coercion and control. Shades of Rachel Cusk and Katie Kitamura.
Ceri John Phillips Carmarthenshire Folk Tales The History Press, 5th November, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781837052707
Compiled by a professional storyteller.
Deesha Philyaw The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman
Doubleday, 28th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529935912
Secret Lives of Church Ladies author presents a rollercoaster novel about one woman’s search for acceptance.
Deesha Philyaw The Secret Lives of Church Ladies Pushkin Press, 10th September, pb, £10.99, 9781805337997
Stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going Black women. Soon to be an HBO Max TV series.
Jodi Picoult Hollow Bones Michael Joseph, 24th September, hb, £22, 9780241676080
Picoult, who has sold 60 million books, is back
with a tale of a woman who is always on the edge of disaster.
Edgar Allan Poe Collected Tales of Poe Union Square, 27th August, hb, £20, 9781454965824
Comprehensive wallow in the mysteries, dread, poetry and horror stories of the American master, now in a gift clothbound format.
Marguerite Poland A Sin of Omission EnvelopeBooks, 3rd September, hb, eb, £23.95, 9781915023865
Set in late 19th-century South Africa. A searing examination of religious hypocrisy and the iniquities of colonialism.
Dawn Powell Turn, Magic Wheel Pushkin Press Classics, 3rd December, pb, £10.99, 9781782697169
Next in Pushkin’s series of Powell reissues, this is a tartly funny, cautionary tale about turning others’ lives into art.
Tim Pratt The Jewel and the Comet Angry Robot, 18th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781836730224
Quirky space opera featuring charming characters and sarcastic spaceships. Perfect for fans of Seven Devils.
Jordan Prosser Blue Giant Dead Ink Books, 24th September, pb, £10.99, 9781917792356
Whip-smart writing about one woman’s quest to colonise Mars. Blue Giant is an unruly eulogy for millennial optimism.
Annie Proulx New and Selected Stories Fourth Estate, 19th November, hb, eb, £20, 9780008831325
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize delves into the lives of characters marked by loneliness, violence, desperation and the wrong kinds of love.
Marcel Proust Brian Nelson, Adam Watt, Elisabeth Ladenson, Andrew Rothwell, The Captive Oxford University Press, 11th December, pb, £10.99, 9780192869319
The fifth volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time focuses principally on the protagonist’s relationship with Albertine in Paris.
Thomas Pynchon Shadow Ticket Vintage, 15th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529972030
A private eye is catapulted into a riotous and continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape.
Anthony Quinn The Millionaire Waltz Abacus, 6th August, hb, eb, £22, 9780349148533
A brilliant evocation of the 1920s, with a dark crime plot at its heart.
Kate Quinn
The Astral Library HarperFiction, 28th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008806248
How to live inside a book. Fantastical adventure from New York Times bestselling author.
Jonathan Raban Waxwings Picador, 8th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781035091539
Moving, exquisitely written and hugely entertaining, Waxwings captures the landscape and life of contemporary America.
Chitra Ramaswamy, Agnes Owens Jen’s Party
Polygon, 3rd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781846977039
Soon-to-be 15-year-old Jen immediately regrets agreeing to her Aunt Belle’s plan for a birthday party which involves, among other notions, flirting with the town’s entire male population.
Schneider K Rancy Beyond the Baths of Stars Amistad, 14th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063443501
Dazzling literary debut reimagines The Odyssey and asks what power do we have to control our own fate when our destiny feels predetermined and the systems of the world are broken?
Anna Rasche
The Cursed Diamond Park Row Books, 14th January, hb, eb, £20, 9780778305613
Dual-timeline spellbinder follows two women a century apart connected by a cursed gemstone.
Inez Ray Buzzard Bindery Books, 5th November, pb, £14.99, 9781967967261
Set in 2086, Buzzard follows midwife Mae Bastet, imprisoned for providing abortion care, as she uncovers corporate crimes threatening her family, her principles and the futures of imprisoned girls.
Bora Lee Reed Song for Another Home
Serpent’s Tail, 6th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781805227137
Expansive story of family separated by the Korean War. For fans of Pachinko and Homegoing.
Erin Miller Reid But for Fortune University Press of Kentucky, 15th September, hb, £25.50, 9781985904781
Two women 50 years apart voice their own silenced realities. What unfolds is an intergenerational exploration of mental illness, discrimination and the insidious nature of family secrets.
Taylor Jenkins Reid Daisy Jones and the Six Hutchinson Heinemann, 6th October, hb, eb, £30, 9781529998337
Deluxe hardcover edition of a book that has sold more than two million copies and inspired an Emmy- nominated TV series.
Laura Restrepo Song of Ancient Lovers HarperVia, 14th January, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063356160
Award-winning Colombian author weaves contemporary themes and ancient myth through this story of star-crossed lovers in a world on the brink of collapse.
Bryony Rheam The Colonel Comes by Parthian Books, 6th August, pb, eb, £10, 9781917140805
Sixteen short stories shine a spotlight on life in Zimbabwe over the last 20 years. Written with a deft, compassionate touch and flashes of humour.
Ingvild Rishoi Winter Stories Grove Press, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804710982
Three contemporary tales about personal resilience in the face of adversity. From the author of Brightly Shining.
Giovanna Rivero, Isabel Adey (tr) 98 Seconds Without a Shadow Charco Press, 26th January, pb, £11.99, 9781917260428
Unsettling coming-of- age novel about faith, rebellion and the solitude of adolescence.
Eloise Rodger Death’s a Bitch Faber & Faber, 28th January, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780571400164
Seduce the Grim Reaper’s son, then break his heart. Debut novel from a bold new talent is a genre-defying story
of family, sickness, siblinghood and first love.
Phoenicia Rogerson Isolde HQ, 19th November, hb, eb, £20, 9780008778323
Epic love story from the author of Aphrodite. A feminist retelling of Tristan and Isolde that brims with magic, wit and Arthurian legend.
Eric Rohmer, Andre Aciman, Aaron Kerner Elisabeth McNally Editions, 20th August, pb, £13.99, 9781968671006
Witty banter, lust, ennui and an undercurrent of violence percolate beneath a seemingly paradisiacal summer on the eve of the Second World War.
Hernan Ronsino, Mallory Craig-Kuhn (tr) Hudson Charco Press, 3rd November, pb, £11.99, 9781917260268
While on tour pianist Juan Sebastián Lebonté learns of his father’s death. Returning to Buenos Aires, he is faced with a crumbling marriage, buried family secrets and a surprising inheritance.
James Roseman When on High Verve Books, 26th November, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780857309181
Timely and poignant story of masculinity, addiction and grief told from the perspectives of two Jewish American brothers coming of age.
Lauren Rothery Television Ecco, 19th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780063443334
Glamour in the form of a jaded movie star and the two conflicted women in his orbit.
Nicholas Royle Best British Short Stories 2026
Salt, 12th October, pb, £10.99, 9781784633783
Curates the finest short stories published by British writers globally over the past year and invites readers to explore the best of contemporary British short fiction.
Mary Ruefle Golden Crumbs Fitzcarraldo Editions, 8th October, pb, £14.99, 9781804272824
The first UK publication of a cult author.
Reshma Ruia
Something Black in the Lentil Soup Renard Press, 16th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804472019
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