GENERAL FICTION
Head of Zeus, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838931247 Preston and Child return with the next book in a series featuring archae- ologist Nora Kelly and FBI agent Corrie Swanson.
Christine Pride, Jo Piazza We Are Not Like Them HQ, 14th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008334567 Riley is a successful black television journalist and Jen is a working-class white woman married to a Philadelphia police offi- cer who’s involved in the shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Hazel Prior Untitled Black Swan, 11th November, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784166243 Delightful new novel from R&J selected author of Away With the Penguins. Those who like an uplift- ing read will like this.
Francine Prose The Vixen Harper, 5th August, hb, £20, 9780063012141 Story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.
When Deshawn hears of his uncle’s death he’s hit by flashbacks of growing up queer and black in the ’80s South.
Alexander Pushkin, Robert Chandler (tr), Boris Dralyuk (tr) Peter the Great’s African NYRB Classics, 11th Janu- ary, Pamphlet, eb, £13.99, 9781681375991 Newly translated, unfin- ished works about power, class conflict and artistic inspiration by Russia’s greatest poet, this is Pushkin’s first attempt at representing the man he saw as the most impor- tant tsar.
Mary Jo Putney, Sabrina Jeffries A Yuletide Kiss Kensington Publish- ing, 28th September, pb, £12.99, 9781496731296 The reigning queens of Regency romance deck the halls with this delightful Christmas collection.
Huma Qureshi Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love Sceptre, 11th November, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529368673 Irresistible collection of stories about the silences within our most intimate relationships explores the secret inner lives of South Asian fami- lies and all that goes unsaid.
Nita Prose The Maid HarperCollins, 20th January, hb, £12.99, 9780008435721 Hotly anticipated début with film rights snapped up by Universal and Flor- ence Pugh set to star as the title character.
Marcel Proust, William C Carter Sodom and Gomorrah: In Search of Lost Time, Volume 4 Yale University Press, 10th August, hb, eb, £65, 9780300186208 Authoritative new edition of the fourth volume in Proust’s epic masterwork.
Brontez Purnell Since I Laid My Burden Down Cipher Press, 12th August, pb, £9.99, 9781838390006
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Alice Randall Black Bottom Saints Amistad Press, 19th August, pb, £10.99, 9780062970862 Controversial New York Times bestselling novelist effortlessly blends real- ity and fiction to create a tour-de-force tribute to Detroit’s booming black World War II community.
Natasha Randall Love Orange riverrun, 16th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529404609 Disturbing portrait of a modern American family.
Dani Redd The Arctic Curry Club Avon, 9th December, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008469115 Tender tale about family, community and finding where you truly belong. Guaranteed to warm the heart despite the icy setting.
Heather Redmond A Christmas Carol Murder Kensington Publish- ing, 28th September, pb, £12.99, 9781496720498 In the third instalment of Redmond’s historical mystery series that
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cleverly reimagines Charles Dickens’s life, the author and his fiancée must solve the murder of an old miser.
Gemma Reeves Victoria Park Allen & Unwin, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911630784 A Stylist Best New Fiction for 2021 pick. Playful and lyrical novel about otherness, change and the gap between generations in a London community.
Dolores Reyes, Julia Sanches Eartheater HarperCollins, 14th October, pb, £9.99, 9780062987754 A young woman known only as Eartheater has visions of the murdered and disappeared.
Alastair Reynolds Inhibitor Phase Gollancz, 26th August, hb, £20, 9780575090712 If life is to survive then the Inhibitors will have to be faced at last.
Dan Rhodes Sour Grapes Lightning Books, 14th September, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781785632921 Rhodes’ first novel in seven years is a scabrous and score-settling satire on the publishing industry with a strangely familiar protagonist. Limited- edition hardback.
Michele Roberts Cut Out Sandstone Press, 12th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781913207472 In rich, sensuous prose, Roberts interweaves a man’s search for the truth about his mother with his godmother’s memories of the time she spent work- ing for Matisse.
CR Robertson The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace Mcgill Hodder & Stoughton, 20th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529367645 Spectacular, voice-driven mystery from Sunday Times bestselling author.
Justin Robertson The Tangle White Rabbit, 4th November, hb, £16.99, 9781474622820 Supernatural novel of collapse and metamor- phosis from the occulted dimensions of the natural world.
SD Robertson The Daughter’s Choice Avon, 30th September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008374792 Emotional family drama about the secrets we keep from those closest to us. Jodi Picoult and Susan Lewis fans will like.
Helen Rolfe Christmas At the Village Sewing Shop Orion, 11th November, pb, £7.99, 9781398706187 Warm-hearted festive women’s fiction full of kindness and community as three sisters come together to mend their family quilt and their family bond.
Sally Rooney Beautiful World, Where Are You Faber, 7th September, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780571365425 New from the internation- ally bestselling author of Normal People.
Pam Rhodes Christmas At Hope Hall Lion Fiction, 24th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782642893 Series of charming stories full of heartwarming characters.
ML Rio If We Were Villains Titan Books, 5th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781789098877 “Much like Donna Tartt’s A Secret History, ML Rio’s sparkling début is a richly layered story of love, friendship and obses- sion”—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, author.
Ketty Rouf, Tina Kover No Touching Europa Editions (UK), 12th August, pb, £12.99, 9781787703162 Moving story of liberation that shatters tired preju- dices about womanhood, sex and society.
Josephine Rowe A Loving, Faithful Animal Profile Books, 2nd Decem- ber, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788169608 Vivid, panoramic novel about the everyday wounds inflicted on battlefields both far away and at the heart of the family life.
through a series of forays into the past as they go through the motions of applying to adopt a child.
Anuradha Roy The Earthspinner Mountain Leopard Press, 9th September, hb, £16.99 Moving between India and England and reflecting the many ways in which the East encounters the West. An intricate, wrenching novel about the changed ways of loving and living in the modern world.
Nicholas Royle Best British Short Stories 2021 Salt, 15th October, pb, £9.99, 9781784632311 Invites readers to judge a book by its cover—or, more accurately, by its title.
Alyson Rudd Eleven Lines to Somewhere HQ, 25th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008278359 Make your connection.
Alison Rumfitt Tell Me I’m Worthless Cipher Press, 28th October, pb, £9.99, 9781838390020 Unflinching haunted house novel takes readers from the literary gothic up through Brighton’s queer scene and out into the heart of the modern-day trans experience in the UK.
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The BBC National Short Story Award 2021 Comma Press, 13th September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781912697496 Award that has enriched the careers of writers and the wider literary land- scape since its launch 16 years ago.
Marie Rutkoski Real Easy Tinder Press, 18th January, hb, £18.99, 9781472277480 For fans of Tana French, this literary crime novel set in a 1990s Illinois strip club asks what it means to be a woman in a danger- ous world.
John D Rutter Approval Contraband, 6th August, pb, £9.99, 9781913393120 Approval follows would- be parents David and Cici
Samuel Rutter (tr), Sònia Hernández Prosopagnosia Scribe UK, 13th January, pb, £9.99, 9781912854776 Sly and playful novel by one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists about the many faces we all have. Praised as “conceptually fascinat- ing” by Kirkus.
Jessica Ryn The Imperfect Art of Caring HQ, 25th November, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008364663 Quirky and hopeful commercial book club fiction guaranteed to put a smile on the face and leave a tear in the eye. Themes of caring, commu- nity and friendship.
Ghalya FT Al Said, Raphael Cohen The Madness of Despair Banipal Books, 9th September, pb, £11.99, 9781913043124 Powerful narrative from an Arab novelist reveals how psychological suffer- ing and cultural displace- ment can upset the most ordinary of aspirations for life and love.
Antoine de Saint- Exupéry, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (illus), TVF Cuffe The Little Prince and Letter to a Hostage Penguin Classics, 7th October, hb, £14.99, 9780241508664 Classic tale beloved by children and adults alike in a beautiful clothbound edition.
Saba Sams Send Nudes Bloomsbury, 20th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526621771 Sams’ extraordinary début collection traverses girlhood and woman- hood in all their glorious complications.
Roger Sanders Ted’s Cafe Beachy Books, 17th September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781999728359 David Tanner, ex-journalist baby boomer, and mates dissect the news at Ted’s Cafe. Can David find love and happiness in retire- ment and make sense of an uncertain post-Brexit future with coronavirus?
Sukhdev Sandhu, James Kirk, Two Fingas Junglist Repeater, 10th August, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913462505
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