GENERAL FICTION


Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 5th August, pb, £9.99, 9781474603423 “A work of genius” (Guardian) and winner of the 1970 Lost Man Booker prize in 2010.


JG Farrell The Singapore Grip Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 5th August, pb, £10.99, 9781474613941 Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind “Atonement” and “Dangerous Liaisons”, Christopher Hampton.


JG Farrell The Hill Station Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 5th August, pb, £9.99, 9781474613958 “One of the most outstand- ing novelists of his generation”—Spectator.


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The Siege of Krishnapur Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 5th August, pb, £9.99, 9781474613965 “A masterpiece”—New Statesman.


Sebastian Faulks Snow Country Hutchinson, 2nd September, hb, eb, £20, 9781786330185 Sweeping across Europe as it recovers from one war and hides its face from the coming of another, Snow Country is a landmark novel of exqui- site yearnings, dreams and hope.


Juliette Fay Catch Us When We Fall William Morrow Paper- backs, 14th October, pb, £9.99, 9780063079960 If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyes and the dramatic books of Jodi Picoult, you won’t want to miss this newest book from Fay.


Alice Feeney Rock Paper Scissors HQ, 19th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008370985 Phenomenal new thriller from the author of Sometimes I Lie. Ten years of marriage and 10 years of secrets come together for an anniversary they’ll never forget.


Virginia Feito Mrs March Fourth Estate, 5th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008421717 Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny début novel full of suspense and paranoia.


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The Dignity of Silence Book Guild, 28th Novem- ber, pb, eb, £9.95, 9781913913670 Prague, 1942 – Jews are being rounded up. We step into a world of choicelessness where things go wrong even as everybody wants every- thing to go right.


Monica Felton To All the Living Imperial War Museums, 9th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912423422 Felton’s 1945 novel provides a fascinating insight into the challenges, triumphs and tragedies of a diverse cast of char- acters working in a muni- tions factory during the Second World War.


Jack Fennell It Rose Up Tramp Press, 18th November, pb, £12, 9781916291409 Fifteen darkly funny stories illuminate a side of Irish literary history that is often overlooked.


Jerome Ferrari In His Own Image Europa Editions, 6th January, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781787703476 A tribute to war photogra- pher Antonia, her life cut short in a tragic accident, and a heartfelt explora- tion of the ambiguous relationship between photographic image, real- ity and death.


Joshua Ferris A Calling for Charlie Barnes Viking, 16th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780241202869 From the Booker-short- listed author comes a poignant novel about fathers, sons and the embers of the American dream.


Kit Fielding Thursday Nights At the Bluebell Inn Coronet, 18th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529378580 Six women of different ages and backgrounds meet at the pub and form an unlikely darts team but it is their hidden stories of love and loss that really binds them.


Sasha Filipenko, Brian James Baer, Ellen Vayner Red Crosses Europa Editions (UK), 5th August, pb, £12.99, 9781787703148 Heartwrenching story exploring memory and Russian history, from Stalin’s Terror to the pres- ent day.


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Alex Finlay The Last Justice Aries, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800246386 Chaos erupts at the US Supreme Court when an assassin guns down the justices in this legal thriller.


Helen Fisher Space Hopper Simon & Schuster, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471188695 Beautifully nostalgic and incredibly moving, Space Hopper is an uplifting début about mothers and daughters, time and faith, and deciding when and how to let go of the past.


Richard Flanagan The Living Sea of Waking Dreams Vintage, 13th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529114058 Visceral new novel from Booker prizewinner: a wild and urgent story about family, love and hope set against global catastro- phe and climate crisis.


Joanne Fluke Christmas Cupcake Murder Kensington Publish- ing, 28th September, pb, £7.99, 9781496729132 As December turns Lake Eden, Minnesota, into the North Pole, the heat is on in Hannah Swensen’s kitchen to honour two Christmas promises.


Lauren Foley Polluted Sex Influx Press, 20th January, pb, £7.99, 9781910312919 Sequence of dramatic short stories, fearless in its depiction of women’s bodies and sexuality and an unflinching and intensely sexually charged window into Irish girl and womanhood.


Jon Fosse, Damion Searls A New Name: Septology VI-VIIi Fitzcarraldo Editions, 8th September, pb, £12.99, 9781913097721 Written in melodious and hypnotic “slow prose”, A New Name: Septology VI-VII is a transcendent exploration of the human condition and a radically other reading experience.


Richard Francis Laura Laura Europa Editions, 13th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787703537 An elderly academic is accosted by a homeless woman. She tells him her name is Laura. So begins a nightmarish journey for Gerald, who is forced to confront his own past.


Leah Franqui Mother Land William Morrow Paper- backs, 19th August, pb, £10.99, 9780062938855 Insightful, witty, and deeply felt novel set in Mumbai about an Ameri- can woman, her Indian mother-in-law and life’s unexpected twists and turns.


Jonathan Franzen Crossroads Fourth Estate, 5th October, hb, eb, £20, 9780008308896 Foundation book of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and social crosscurrents of the past 50 years.


Jackie Fraser The Bookshop of Second Chances Simon & Schuster, 2nd September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781398500549 Set in a charming little Scottish town, The Book- shop of Second Chances is an uplifting story of fresh starts and new begin- nings by a hugely talented début author.


Valerie Fraser Luesse Under the Bayou Moon Revell, 14th September, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800737511 A young, restless Alabama teacher accepts a position at a tiny school where a lonely Cajun fisherman, a tight-knit community, and a legendary white alliga- tor will change her life forever.


Alexander Freed Star Wars: Victory’s Price Del Rey, 28th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529101409 The aces of the New Republic have one final chance to defeat the darkness of Shadow Wing in this thrilling conclusion to the Star Wars: Alpha- bet Squadron trilogy.


John Freeman Freeman’s Change Grove Press, 14th October, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781611854343 Featuring thrilling new work from Lauren Groff, Ocean Vuong, Sayaka Murata and more, the latest instalment of acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the hope and pain of the ever- changing present.


Sara Freeman Tides Granta Books, 6th January, hb, £12.99, 9781783787586 A short, propulsive, moody novel about a woman who walks out of her life and washes up in an out-of- season seaside town, from


a powerful new Canadian- British voice.


Mariella Frostrup (ed), Erotic Review (ed) Desire Anthos, 9th December, pb, eb, £15, 9781800249653 Special edition of litera- ture’s 100 sexiest stories.


Julian Fuks, Daniel Hahn Occupation Charco Press, 17th August, pb, £9.99, 9781916277878 Alternating between refu- gees occupying a building, a father’s sickness, and a wife’s pregnancy, Occupa- tion examines the fragility of life and the brutality of not belonging.


Claire Fuller Unsettled Ground Fig Tree, 27th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241457467 What if the life you’ve always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it back?


Amaia Gabantxo (tr), Miren Agur Meabe Burning Bones Parthian Books, 1st October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913640538 Collection of short stories, a companion piece to Meabe’s A Glass Eye that complement the theme of that novel about absence as an engine for creation.


Mary Gaitskill This is Pleasure Profile Books, 11th November, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781788165044 Provocative, nuanced novella about power, consent and friendship and a masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate.


Mary Gaitskill The Mare Profile Books, 11th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781788168670 Profound and important novel about how love and family are shaped by place, race and class.


Mary Gaitskill Don’t Cry Profile Books, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788168687 Collection of searching short stories by acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and This is Pleasure.


Frank Gardner Outbreak Bantam, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857503183 Explosive new thriller featuring MI6 operative Luke Carlton on his most terrifying mission yet. A pulse-racing read that


confronts the all-too-real horrors of 21st century bio-terrorism.


Sally Gardner The Snow Song HQ, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008217419 With an isolated and dramatic setting this tale brings a period alive and showcases the author’s exceptional talent of combining historical fiction with a touch of magic realism.


Alan Garner Treacle Walker Fourth Estate, 30th September, hb, eb, £10, 9780008477790 Fusion of myth and folk- lore and an exploration of the fluidity of time that brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.


Reda Gaudiamo About Us Te Emma Press, 12th August, pb, £12, 9781912915132 Originally written for teen- age magazines, these stories subvert the stan- dard offerings for young adult readers in Indonesia, rejecting romance and sentimentality.


Ciara Geraghty Make Yourself At Home HarperCollins, 2nd September, pb, £8.99, 9780008320737 Set on the wild Irish coast, with an unforgettable cast of characters, this deeply emotional novel is full of Geraghty’s trademark heart.


Molly Giles Wife With Knife TSB Can of Worms, 21st October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781911673187 Winner of the 2020 Leap- frog Global Fiction Prize and past winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. “The reader experiences an immediate immersion into the story and characters’ lives”—Cris Mazza.


Nikita Gill Fierce Fairytales & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul Trapeze, 16th September, pb, £8.99, 9781409181712 Beautifully illustrated feminist fairy tales for young and old.


Sarah Gilmartin Dinner Party ONE, 16th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781911590569 Exhilarating and heart- rending novel about family and all the ways we try—and fail—to escape them.


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