General Fiction


Suffused with humour, Something Black is an irreverent portrayal of three parallel cultures – British, Indian and British Indian – and an entertaining tale of an innocent abroad.


Salman Rushdie The Eleventh Hour Vintage, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529968842


New short stories transport readers around the world, from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities. Rushdie’s first new fiction since Victory City.


Emily Ruskovich Nightjar Chatto & Windus, 6th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781784745592


First collection from a new-generation American short story writer: exquisite, atmospheric rural tales with an uncanny edge.


Donal Ryan


Where Are the Kings Doubleday, 13th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857529589


Unforgettable. A lyrical and intensely moving novel about a young boy growing up in the wake of a tragedy. From the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction.


Patrick Ryan Buckeye Bloomsbury, 1st September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526689276


Emotionally affecting yarn about two families whose lives are forever shaped by a fleeting moment of indiscretion.


George Saunders Vigil Bloomsbury, 21st January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526624345


Triumphant new work from the Booker Prize- winning author follows an oil company CEO in his final hours as he is ferried from this world into the next.


Aysegul Savas Long Distance Scribner, 13th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398547759


Author of The Anthropologists’ acute first collection explores the distances we keep and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity.


Abbas Sayar, Batu Bekmen (ed), Can Koçak (tr), Natalia Suvorova (illus) Wild Horse Thousand Horsemen Press, 29th October, pb, £10.99, 9781068209765


Set in the countryside of Anatolia, Wild Horse tells


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the story of a horse left alone in the wilderness.


Dominique Scali, Jessica Moore (tr) Sailors Can’t Swim Talon Books, 15th October, pb, £17.99, 9781772017014


Alternative, 18th century maritime bildungsroman exposing privilege, citizenship and the arbitrariness of merit.


Alexis Schaitkin Two Lives Abacus, 28th January, hb, eb, £20, 9780349149233


Restrained writing about two people brought together as Kindertransport children only to be abruptly separated by tragedy.


Lisa Schneidau Tree Folk The History Press, 5th November, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781837051304


Folk tales, traditional songs, lore and inspiration from the trees of Britain and Ireland.


EM Scott


A Quiet Killing No Exit Press, 3rd December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781835016053


Third book in the the series featuring retired detective inspector Thomas Maitland, still haunted by death wherever he goes.


Michael J Seidlinger Brokeula Clash Books, 20th August, pb, £12.99, 9781968043094


Impoverished vampire’s last-ditch effort to escape the blood- sucking monster of capitalism through an ill-conceived marketing scheme.


Park Seolyeon A Magical Girl Rehired HarperVia, 8th December, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780063475960


Charming and chaotic follow-up to A Magical Girl Retires.


Park Seolyeon A Magical Girl Rehired HarperVia, 8th December, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780063575240 Signed edition. Fan-favourite fights crime and the forces of evil.


Beatriz Serrano, Mara Faye Lethem (tr) Discontent


Vintage, 20th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529952230


Sexy Spanish bestseller played for laughs. A young woman’s office persona threatens to crack when she is forced to attend her company’s annual retreat.


The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction


Samipasazade Sezai, Iclal Vanwesenbeeck, Burcu Karahan The Adventures of a Slave Girl Edinburgh University Press, 30th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781399558556


First English translation of this powerful portrayal of child slavery in the Ottoman Empire. With supporting critical apparatus for students of Slavery Studies, Ottoman Literature and History.


Toni Shiloh Matchmaking Christmas Bethany House, 13th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780764246869


Regina and Theo are reluctantly reunited by their scheming daughters and must decide if they are brave enough for a second chance at the love that got away.


Parini Shroff Some People Atlantic Books, 6th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805465348


A man on the brink of divorce is forced to care for his injured mother-in-law. Powerful stuff from the author of The Bandit Queens.


Gary Shteyngart Vera, or Faith Atlantic Books, 6th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838958831


Poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny – the tale of a family struggling to stay together in a country that is rapidly coming apart.


Jared Shurin (ed) The Elements of Dark Academia Vintage Classics, 27th August, hb, eb, £25, 9781529966619


Definitive anthology of the genre for both fans and newcomers.


Adam Simcox Time Jump Renegade Books, 3rd September, hb, £22, 9781408750506


pb, eb, £15.99, 9781408750513 High-concept, standalone, time- travelling thriller that casts back to the 1990s.


Nina Simon My Sister Is Going to Kill Me William Morrow, 10th September, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780063478022


Family-centred whodunnit about two sisters who work together to find a killer as they raft down the rapids of the Grand Canyon.


Shumona Sinha,


Subhashree Beeman (tr) The Russian Testament


Irene Solà Dams Granta Books, 5th November, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781803511412


HopeRoad, 17th September, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781913109578


Tania is a young Bengali woman living in Calcutta in 1980. Hated by her mother and peers, she seeks solace in Russian books.


Douglas Skelton A Thief’s Revenge Canelo, 5th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781835980026


Jonas Flynt, rogue, has tracked down the man responsible for his son’s death.


Gillian Slovo Inheritance Peepal Tree Press, 8th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781845236151


Set between London and South Africa. Grieving crime novelist inherits documents unravelling family silence and political compromise.


Alex Smith Until Death DK Audio Canelo, 3rd December, audiofile, £14, 9780241844342


In the heat of a Norfolk summer, the Extreme Crime Task Force is facing its biggest case yet: organising DS Kate Savage and PC Aaron Duke’s wedding.


Alexander McCall Smith The Big Cats Dance Party Abacus, 3rd September, hb, eb, £20, 9780349147734


Book 27 in the perennially popular No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series.


Ali Smith Glyph Penguin, 28th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781405959476


It sounds like Gliff? Well, it’s something else altogether.


Elissa Soave Common Ground HQ, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008673321


Captivating literary novel of community and connection for 2026.


A novel about the power of storytelling to make sense of a world that is bursting with life. By the author of When I Sing, Mountains Dance.


Marivi Soliven Taxi Dancer Red Hen Press, 12th November, pb, £14.99, 9781636285153


Historical thriller set in Californian taxi dance halls in the 1930s. A forbidden interracial romance and murder trial expose racism, desire and survival within the Filipino American experience.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Marian Schwartz (tr) March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 4 University of Notre Dame Press, 1st October, pb, eb, £21.99, 9780268208806


The participants of the Russian Revolution try to make sense of their new reality. For the first time in English the conclusion of this four-volume saga.


Rebecca Spargo Such a Nice Boy Hera Books, 8th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780241820735


DK Audio Canelo, 8th October, audiofile, £14, 9780241850886


When a mother discovers that her teenage son has been involved in online bullying she is forced to choose between her principles and him. Thought-provoking and timely.


Domenico Starnone, Oonagh Stransky (tr) The Old Man by the Sea Europa Editions, 13th August, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781787706521


A slim, virtuoso novel about age and imagination by one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers.


Series


Danielle Steel Macmillan, hb, eb, £22 Few writers can claim to have sold a billion copies of their books. Steel is in a stratosphere of her own. The True Meaning of Love 13th August, 9781529086263 Looks at the ways in which war affects a generation of women. Ruthless 8th October, 9781035056323 Wealth, power, attraction and the pursuit of truth. Celebration 19th November, 9781035056361 Finding love when it is least expected. 24 Hours 14th January, 9781035056408 San Francisco-set suspenser.


The High Notes Pan, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781037407505


A star is born. The Colour of Hope 27th August, 9781529086089 How love can lift people up, even if that means letting them go. The Devil’s Daughter 22nd October, 9781529086126 Two sisters: one a beautiful sociopath, the other, an academic. Felicia’s Favourites 3rd December, 9781529086164 Family secrets and one mother’s extraordinary legacy.


Jon Kalman Stefansson, Philip Roughton (tr) My Yellow Submarine MacLehose Press, 4th January, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781529439380


Life-affirming novel about coming of age by one of the great Icelandic writers of our times.


Neal Stephenson D: Heavy Water The Borough Press, 22nd October, hb, eb, £22, 9780008311759


Set on the eve of the Second World War II, the second installment in the Bomb Light series.


Stig Sterbakken, Sen Kinsella (tr) Self-control Dalkey Archive Press, 20th August, pb, £13.99, 9781628976533


Second volume in Saeterbakken’s S trilogy. Self-control follows Andreas Feldt, whose impulsive lie about divorce fractures identity, isolating him in a repressed world teetering on the brink.


Nell Stevens The Good Time Scribner Editions, 13th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781398533417


Debut short story collection from the author of The Original, introducing readers to characters on the edge of self-knowledge. Unveils their inner worlds with empathy and humour.


Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Harper, 1st September, hb, eb, £35, 9780063452084 Deluxe, full-colour edition and an adventurous new instalment in the MinaLima Classics line from the design studio behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film franchise.


Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Vintage Classics, 3rd September, hb, £18.99, 9781529982046


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