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Readers of Harriet Evans, Dianne Setterfield and Stacey Halls will like.
Joyce Carol Oates Breathe Fourth Estate, 5th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008490881 An exploration of haunt- ing, a horror story about the raw madness of grief, and an intense, heart- wrenching love story that grapples with the philosophical questions most fundamental to our existence.
Conor O’Callaghan We Are Not in the World Black Swan Ireland, 27th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784165024 Exquisite portrait of an extramarital affair, grief and shame from a criti- cally acclaimed author who counts John Banville and Kamila Shamsie among his fans.
Silvina Ocampo, Helen Oyeyemi, Daniel Balderston The Impostor and Other Stories Profile Books, 2nd December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781788168793 Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a surre- alist master of the form.
Alice O’Keeffe Skylark Coronet, 18th November, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781529303407 Their ideals brought them together but how closely should you follow your heart?
Ben Okri, Diana Ejaita Every Leaf a Hallelujah Apollo, 14th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781800241626 Environmental fairy tale made for our times and written to be read by both adults and children. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Famished Road.
Sofi Oksanen Dog Park Atlantic Books, 4th November, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781838951429 From an internationally acclaimed writer and author of Purge comes a ferociously plotted novel of intrigue, betrayal and murder in the global fertil- ity market.
Suyi Davies Okungbowa Minecraft: The Trials Del Rey, 7th December, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529150285 The next exciting Mine- craft novel from Del Rey and Mojang Studios.
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Women Writers Edith Olivier, Simon Thomas 13: The Love Child British Library, 14th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780712353649 Upon the death of her mother, Agatha Boden- ham—solitary and socially awkward by nature— starts to dream about her imaginary childhood friend.
Ondjaki, Stephen Henighan Transparent City Europa Editions (UK), 7th October, pb, £12.99, 9781787703209 “A blend of stylised surre- alism and harrowing realism”—LitHub.
Vanessa Onwuemezi Dark Neighbourhood Fitzcarraldo Editions, 6th October, pb, £10.99, 9781913097707 In her brilliantly inventive début collection, Onwue- mezi takes readers on a surreal and haunting jour- ney through a landscape on the edge of time.
Baroness Orczy The Scarlet Pimpernel Flame Tree Collectable Clas- sics, 14th September, hb, £9.99, 9781839647659 Gift edition of Collectable Classics features deluxe covers, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. Unabridged text accompanied by a glossary.
Adam O’Riordan The Falling Thread Bloomsbury Circus, 11th November, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781408856536 Masterful début novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed O’Riordan.
Bella Osborne The Library Aria, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781801100489 Two different generations and two unusual people thrown together to save their local library.
Huw Osborne (ed), Mihangel Morgan (ed), Kirsti Bohata (ed) Queer Square Mile Parthian Books, 4th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781913640248 Groundbreaking volume makes visible a long and diverse tradition of queer writing from Wales.
Lynne O’Sullivan Gloria in Extremis Matador, 28th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800464537 Just dumped by her long- term partner, 50-year old Gloria hits an all-time low and sets out to drown
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herself off the Kent coast. Moving on is easier said than done.
Compelling, rich and evocative, Home is Anna’s journey to discovering that it isn’t where you settle down that matters but the people you have around you when you do.
Neel Patel Tell Me How to Be Trapeze, 20th January, hb, £14.99, 9781398705241 Darkly funny and stereo- type-upending novel about an Indian-American family confronting the secrets that lie between them.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor The Dragonfly Sea September Publishing, 2nd September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781912836475 Epic, escapist and profound second novel from the award-winning author of Dust—a magi- cal, sea-saturated, coming-of-age novel that transports readers from Kenya to China and Turkey.
Helen Oyeyemi Peaces Faber & Faber, 4th Novem- ber, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571366576 The story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated.
Lauren Oyler Fake Accounts Fourth Estate, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008366568 Wry, provocative and very funny début about iden- tity, authenticity and self in the age of the internet.
Ruth Ozeki The Book of Form and Emptiness Canongate, 23rd Septem- ber, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781838855239 Brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up and our relationship with things. By the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being.
Helen Paris Lost Property Black Swan, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784165482 Poignant and funny first outing from an exciting new voice in fiction. For fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Something to Live For.
Penny Parkes Home Simon & Schuster, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471180187
James Patterson Horsewoman Century, 30th December, hb, eb, £20, 9781529135534 When the buzzer sounds 21-year-old Becky McCabe takes one last look around. She sure isn’t here to finish second. How could anyone go faster than this? No one can.
Nicky Pellegrino To Italy, With Love Orion, 28th September, pb, £14.99, 9781398701014 Sweeping love story set in Italy from an international bestseller.
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Wrexford and Sloane Andrea Penrose 4: Murder At Queen’s Landing Kensington Publishing, 31st August, pb, £12.99, 9781496722850 The many strands of a dark mystery entangle Lady Charlotte Sloane and the Earl of Wrexford in a dangerous net of secrets and lies. 5: Murder At the Royal Botanic Gardens Kensington Publish- ing, 28th September, hb, £21, 9781496732507 Upcoming marriage of Earl of Wrexford and Lady Charlotte Sloane prom- ises to be a highlight of the season—if they can survive.
Otto Penzler (ed) The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries Anthos, 9th December, pb, eb, £15, 9781800249721 Special edition of the 100 best yuletide whodunnits.
Torrey Peters Detransition, Baby Serpent’s Tail, 13th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788167222 Uniquely trans take on love, motherhood and those exes who you just can’t quit.
Kate Reed Petty True Story riverrun, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787478473
Genre-defying novel about rape, memory and the nature of truth from an exciting new voice in contemporary US fiction.
Gervase Phinn A Class Act Hodder Paperbacks, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473650718 Third in a delightful new series set in a Yorkshire Dales village follows on from Phinn’s acclaimed Dales and Little Village School series.
Jodi Picoult The Book of Two Ways Hodder Paperbacks, 19th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473692435 Bestseller explores life, death and misssed opportunities.
Jodi Picoult Wish You Were Here Hodder & Stoughton, 21st September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473692503 An unexpected love story for our times.
Casey Plett A Dream of a Woman Arsenal Pulp Press, 21st October, pb, £13.99, 9781551528564 Centring transgender women seeking stable adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses.
Kirby Porter Frances Creighton: Found and Lost EnvelopeBooks, 21st October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838172077 Unable to cope with his girlfriend’s death in England, Michael Roberts finds himself falling back on memories of his first love in Belfast, and agonies he had thought were safely buried.
Alexandra Potter Confessions of a Forty- something F**k Up Pan, 9th December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529022803 Hilarious, poignant, utterly relatable—a must-read for anyone whose life isn’t working out quite how they’d planned.
Karen Powell The River Within Europa Editions, 11th November, pb, £8.99, 9781787703131 Poignant novel about infatuation, class and obligation.
Richard Powers Bewilderment William Heinemann, 21st September, hb, eb, £20, 9781785152634 Magnificent new novel by Powers and his first since the Booker Prize- shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize- winning The Overstory.
Marguerite Poland A Sin of Omission EnvelopeBooks, 7th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781838172039 Young Stephen Mzamane is trained to be an Angli- can preacher in 1880s southern Africa but finds challenges beyond those of his flock: unresolved relationships, the church’s condescension, and “that woman”.
Max Porter The Death of Francis Bacon Faber, 6th January, pb, eb, £5.99, 9780571370702 A great painter lies on his deathbed. Porter trans- lates into seven extraordi- nary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist’s mind.
Katie Powner A Flicker of Light Bethany House, 16th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780764238314 Grandma June has long been keeping a secret— but if she doesn’t tell the truth the lives of three generations will never be the same.
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Bloodless Head of Zeus, 19th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781801104166 Agent Pendergast faces his most unexpected chal- lenge yet when bloodless bodies begin to appear in Savannah, Georgia.
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