GENERAL FICTION


General fiction


October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781916382596 As the pandemic fades, Edinburgh is a city of secrets. Peter Kelso and his mixed-race wife stumble across the most dangerous one of all.


Kader Abdolah My Father’s Notebook Canongate Canons, 4th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786898982 Father-son tale set amid the tumultuous history of 20th-century Iran, writ- ten by a masterful Iranian novelist in exile.


Gerry Adams, Timothy O’Grady Black Mountain and Other Stories Brandon, 2nd August, pb, £11.99, 9781847176301 One of Ireland’s best- known political figures with short stories of politics, family, love and friendship.


Sheila Adby Just a Bunch of Flowers Matador, 28th August, pb, £9.99, 9781800464469 Everyone loves a conspir- acy theory, especially Polly—for example: “Was it an accident or was Robert murdered?


Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jenny Minton Quigley The Best Short Stories 2021: The O Henry Prize Winners Random House, 14th September, pb, £12.99, 9780593311257 Prestigious annual story anthology now has a new title, and a new guest editor format.


Bisi Adjapon The Teller of Secrets HarperVia, 9th December, hb, £20, 9780063088948 Feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid political upheaval in post- colonial Ghana begins to question the hypocrisy of the patriarchal society.


Robert Aickman Go Back At Once And Other Stories, 11th January, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781913505202 Gloriously eccentric fantasy by the “most profound writer of what we call horror stories” (Peter Straub).


Omar El Akkad What Strange Paradise Picador, 19th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529069471 From the widely acclaimed author of American War comes a profoundly moving novel examining the global refu- gee crisis through a child’s lens. Perfect for fans of Exit West.


Aliya Ali-Afzal Would I Lie to You? Head of Zeus, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800245686 When Faiza’s husband loses his job, she must conceal the fact that she’s spent the family’s emer- gency savings trying to keep up with the Yummy Mummies of Wimbledon.


Selva Almada, Annie McDermott Brickmakers Charco Press, 1st November, pb, £9.99, 9781913867065 Compared to Carson McCullers and Flan- nery O’Connor, Almada is considered one of the most powerful voices of contemporary Argentin- ian and Latin American literature.


Lesley Affrossman American Goddess Sparsile Books, 10th


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David Ambrose West Glamorgan Folk Tales History Press, 1st November,


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Mona Arshi Somebody Loves You And Other Stories, 16th


Jeffrey Archer Sons of Fortune Pan, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529060072 Reissue of Archer’s power- ful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny.


Cecelia Ahern Freckles HarperCollins, 2nd September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008194925 Pre-order today. From million-copy-selling author.


pb, eb, £12, 9780750995023 Stories, legends, myths and historical happenings celebrate the people and landscape of Swansea, the Swansea Valley and the Gower Peninsula.


Martin Amis Inside Story Vintage, 5th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529113471 Magisterial, inventive and witty modern clas- sic—Amis’ autobiographi- cal novel and arguably his most important book to date.


Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan Tropic of Violence MacLehose Press, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857057716 Appanah returns with a powerful and beautiful novel about lost youth on a far-flung, forgotten island.


Nathacha Appanah, Geoffrey Strachan The Sky Above the Roof MacLehose Press, 20th January, pb, eb, £10, 9781529408577 Beautifully observed portrait of a fractured family and a poetic explo- ration of the ways we break apart and rebuild.


November, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781913505165 Major poet’s fiction début. A childhood not of screams but of silence and a sensuous edge-of- danger tone, à la Deborah Levy.


Jenny Ashmole Life for Lucy Book Guild, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913913625 Life is hard for an unmar- ried mother in the ’70s. Lucy lacks confidence, and hates her job and her home. She meets Joe but will her family approve?


Mateo Askaripour Black Buck John Murray, 6th January, Book, eb, £8.99, 9781529376746 Satirical début about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at a cult- like and successful startup where nothing is as it seems.


Shalom Auslander Mother for Dinner Picador, 16th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529052091 Outrageously tasty comedy about identity, tribalism and mothers, from the author of Hope: A Tragedy, “the funni- est novel of the decade” (Sunday Times).


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Of Art and Eros Matador, 28th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800464377 When a deceased artist leaves an estate of incal- culable worth, the heirs go to war. Who will heal the rifts? There’ll be advisors aplenty but can they bring peace?


Toni Cade Bambara The Salt Eaters Penguin Classics, 7th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780241521380 The tale of a woman transformed by a black healing community in 1970s America, publish- ing for the first time in Penguin Modern Classics.


Toni Cade Bambara Those Bones Are Not My Child Vintage Classics, 7th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781784877293 “A magnum opus. Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders”—Toni Morrison.


Ilona Bannister When I Ran Away Hodder & Stoughton, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529352696 Rich début journey- ing from working-class


Staten Island post-9/11 to moneyed London a decade later. A story of loss, motherhood and love found in the most impos- sible of places.


the acclaimed feminist fantasy We Rule the Night.


Neil Bartlett Address Book Inkandescent, 4th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912620128 The new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane leads us through decades of change to find hope in the strangest of places.


Muriel Barbery, Alison Anderson (tr) A Single Rose Gallic Books, 23rd Septem- ber, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781913547110 The temples and teahouses of Kyoto are the scene of a French- woman’s emotional awak- ening in the excellent fifth novel from bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.


Elspeth Barker, Maggie O’Farrell O Caledonia Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 14th October, pb, £8.99, 9781474620512 “Surreal, hilarious and dark story of a troubled adolescence deep in the wilds of Scotland”— Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020.


David M Barnett The Handover Trapeze, 5th August, pb, £8.99, 9781409185246 Romcom with a twist from the internationally best- selling author of Calling Major Tom.


Laura Barnett Gifts Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 11th November, hb, £12.99, 9781474624398 Circular tale of people struggling to find presents for their loved ones.


Kevin Barry That Old Country Music Canongate, 5th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786891433 Full of love, melancholy and magic, the new story collection from the Booker-longlisted author of Night Boat to Tangier.


Claire Eliza Bartlett The Winter Duke Titan Books, 12th October, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781789095388 Enchanting tale of intrigue by author of


Paul Bassett Davies Stone Heart Deep Lightning Books, 6th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785632655 Compelling thriller with a remarkable twist, as if Iain Banks had rewritten “The Wicker Man”. From the author of Dead Writers in Rehab.


Ruby Basu The Twelve Wishes of Christmas HQ, 9th December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008471378 Début Christmas romcom from new author. Could attract readers of Heidi Swain, Jo Thomas and Jaimie Admans.


Ines Bayard, Adriana Hunter This Little Family Fourth Estate, 19th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008332921 Dark and furiously compelling novel about women, power and control from a bright young star in French literature.


Sally Bayley No Boys Play Here William Collins, 20th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008318925 From an original voice a literary story of working- class childhood, absent or broken men and the power of literature to save and rebuild a world.


Simone de Beauvoir, Deborah Levy, Lauren Elkin (tr), Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir The Inseparables Vintage Classics, 2nd September, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781784877002 Recently rediscovered novel from the author of The Second Sex is the compulsive story of two close friends growing up and falling apart.


Chris Beckett Tomorrow Corvus, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786499370 Captivating and provoca- tive novel that explores the importance of story- telling as well as question- ing how human beings understand our place


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