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Aphra Behn Oroonoko Renard Press, 29th September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781913724115 Short, politically charged novella by the Restoration playwright and spy Aphra Behn. Arguably one of the founding texts of the novel form.
Olivia Beirne House Swap Headline Review, 4th November, pb, £9.99, 9781472284457 When estranged twin sisters switch homes for a week, they learn more about each other’s lives than they ever imagined.
Antonio di Benedetto, Esther Allen (tr), Juan José Saer The Silentiary NYRB Classics, 7th September, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781681375625 From the author of Zama another tale of expecta- tion, ambition and longing set in post-World War II South America.
Mara Benetti Livingston Unfound Book Guild, 28th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913913267 Guatemala, mid-’80s. Follows the journey of a woman who travels on her own, taking risks and facing dangers, choosing friends and lovers across cultural boundaries.
Claire-Louise Bennett Checkout 19 Jonathan Cape, 19th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787333543 Furious and original début novel about woman- hood, art and life from the award-winning author of Pond. For fans of Eimear McBride, Ali Smith and Deborah Levy.
Anthony Berkeley, Tony Medawar The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears Collins Crime Club, 30th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008470104 Republished for the first time in 95 years, a clas- sic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club with a twist that Agatha Christie couldn’t solve.
Bibi Berki The Watch Salt, 15th September, pb, £9.99, 9781784632373 One sweltering midsum- mer night two young women forge an unlikely
bond. One of them is full of hope and ambition, the other devoid of it.
Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Clairin, John Joline Ross In the Clouds Renard Press, 24th November, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781913724443 Light-hearted tale that follows a hot-air balloon through the skies above Paris. Featuring the origi- nal illustrations by Clairin.
Jane Bettany Untitled HarperCollins, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008494827 No information at time of going to press.
Maeve Binchy Minding Frankie Orion, 30th December, pb, £8.99, 9781398705746 Superb novel about unconventional families, relationships which aren’t quite what they seem, and the child at the heart of everyone’s lives.
Rachael Blok Into the Fire Head of Zeus, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838931728 Haunting new thriller from rising star of crime fiction.
Jo Bloom Ridley Road Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 5th August, pb, £8.99, 9781474623315 Beautifully written love story set in 1960s Soho amid the revival of fascism. “Vivid, cinematic and exciting”—Red.
Tracy Bloom The Weekend Before the Wedding HarperCollins, 11th November, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008434311 Hilarious new novel from the fabulously funny Bloom.
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British Library Women Writers Winifred Boggs, Simon Thomas 11: Sally on the Rocks British Library, 16th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780712353045 Entertaining novel full of acute and humorous observations of male and female attitudes to love and marriage.
Holly Bourne Pretending Hodder Paperbacks, 19th August, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781473668171 Honest and hilarious novel from bestselling author of How Do You Like Me Now?
Franck Bouysse Born of No Woman Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 21st October, hb, £14.99, 9781474616225 Dark and addictive gothic novel of the freeing power of words. A suspense- ful story of betrayal and desire.
Tori Bovalino The Devil Makes Three Titan Books, 14th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789098136 The devil seeks his due from two unsuspecting students in this YA horror novel for fans of The Library of the Unwritten and VE Schwab.
Jane Bowles, Naoise Dolan Two Serious Ladies Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 11th November, pb, £8.99, 9781474620406 “Readers who’ve not yet read Jane Bowles are almost to be envied, like people who’ve still to read Austen or Mansfield or Woolf”—Ali Smith.
Jane Bowles Plain Pleasures Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 11th November, pb, £8.99, 9781474620437 Collection of short fiction, ranging from North Africa to South America, explores Bowles’ fascina- tion with the hidden lives of apparently ordinary middle-aged women.
William Boyd Trio Penguin, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241295977 From the bestselling author comes a transport- ing new novel about the secret lives of a film crew in Brighton in 1968.
John Boyne The Echo Chamber Doubleday, 5th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857526212 From the author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies and powered with Boyne’s characteristic razor- sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter-skelter.
Cathy Bramley The Lemon Tree Cafe Corgi, 19th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780552172097 Reissue of the deliciously entertaining story of secrets, surprises and second chances.
Faye Brann Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy HarperCollins, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008479619 Winner of the 2020
Comedy Women in Print Prize.
Carys Bray When the Lights Go Out Windmill Books, 4th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786091093 Global temperatures are rising but the climate of the Abrams’ marriage is cooling. Emma is begin- ning to wonder whether relationships should come in five-year increments.
Hugh Breakey The Beautiful Fall Text Publishing, 30th September, pb, £10.99, 9781922330543 Every 179 days Robbie forgets everything. He knows this because last time he wrote himself a letter. But then, 12 days before his next forgetting, Julie invades his life.
Elizabeth Brooks The Whispering House Black Swan, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784163501 A dead sister, a dark and rambling house, the mystery of a lost paint- ing: the spellbinding new novel from Brooks. Fans of Rebecca will love it.
Dan Brotzel The Wolf in the Woods Sandstone Press, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913207625 This is one holiday warring couple Colleen and Andrew will never forget—if they survive it.
Jo Browning Wroe A Terrible Kindness Faber, 20th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571368297 Heartwrenching hope- restoring novel celebrates the power of community, love forged in pain, and the redemption that comes from deep kindness in the face of terrible loss.
Anna Bruno Ordinary Hazards Scribner UK, 19th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471184888 For fans of Celeste Ng comes a transfixing début novel about how life’s small decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences.
Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O’Connor The Master and Margarita Abrams, 30th September, pb, £11.99, 9781419756504 Acclaimed, bestselling translation of Bulgakov’s masterwork, an undis- puted classic of Russian and world literature.
Alwin Bully The Cocoa Dancer
and Other Stories Papillote Press, 31st October, pb, £7.99, 9781838041564 First collection of stories by one of the Caribbean’s most important cultural activists.
Joseph Burch Ollie & Ada Book Guild, 28th October, pb, £8.99, 9781913913519 Their paths cross in a bereavement support class. There’s an instant attraction but both are lost, broken souls who need to find the road to recovery.
Graeme Macrae Burnet Case Study Saraband, 7th October, hb, £14.99, 9781913393199 Young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity as a client.
Robert Olen Butler Late City No Exit Press, 27th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857304896 A 115-year-old man lays on his deathbed as the 2016 US election results arrive and revisits his life in this literary portrait of love, fatherhood and the American century.
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Te Margellos World Republic of Letters Mairtin O Cadhain, Louis de Paor 119: The Quick and the Dead Yale University Press, 26th October, hb, eb, £20, 9780300247213 Collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published 50 years after his death.
Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, Daniel Hahn The Night Seven Stories Press, 18th November, pb, £12.99, 9780995580756 Real and fictional char- acters, most of them writ- ers, exchange the role of
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