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Cult classic of under- ground British fiction tells the story of young black men coming of age among the raves and jungle music of London in the 1990s.


Lynsay Sands Mile High With a Vampire Gollancz, 30th September, pb, £8.99, 9781473230569 An immortal and her mortal pilot are on the run from hungry vampires and discover they’re life mates along the way.


Sathnam Sanghera Marriage Material Windmill Books, 13th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780099558675 Epic tale of family, love and politics spanning the 20th century told with humour, tenderness and insight by one of Britain’s most promising young writers.


Evelina Santangelo From Another World Granta Books, 7th October, pb, £12.99, 9781783786664 A masterwork of Gothic fiction, and a deeply affecting evocation of the experience of those who seek asylum, by one of Italy’s most important writers.


Yishai Sarid


The Memory Monster Serpent’s Tail, 13th Janu- ary, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788169110 Controversial master- piece grapples with how generations born after the Holocaust can preserve the memory of horror without it becoming a commodity.


Sanjena Sathian Gold Diggers Simon & Schuster, 19th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781398509016 Dazzling coming-of- age story that speaks to anyone who ever wondered quite how they belong and whoever dreamed of being the very best they could be.


Malcolm Saville Jane’s Country Year Handheld Press, 18th January, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912766543 Saville’s classic 1946 novel about 11-year old Jane’s discovery of nature and country life during a year spent convalescing on her uncle’s farm.


Simon Scarrow Blackout Headline, 19th August, pb, £8.99, 9781472258564 Scarrow’s sparkling thriller set in Berlin 1939,


Judith Schalansky, Jackie Smith An Inventory of Losses MacLehose Press, 27th January, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529400786 International Booker Prize longlistee. A cabi- net of curiosities explores notions of loss and disappearance.


Ana Schnabl, David Limon (tr) The Masterpiece Istros Books, 15th October, pb, £9.99, 9781912545896 Political thriller set in 1980s Yugoslavia where masks start to slip and truth and lies become interchangeable.


Indyana Schneider 28 Questions Scribner, 20th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781398501096 Queer “When Harry Met Sally” for millennials, the story of two students who fall hard in love.


Carmen Schober After She Falls Bethany House, 14th December, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780764239298 When Adri Rivera sets out to follow her dream of becoming a professional mixed martial artist it means facing all those she left behind.


where terrible crimes are committed under the cover of the nightly black- out. “Taut and chilling”— Anthony Horowitz.


Ursula Scavenius, Jennifer Russell The Dolls Lolli Editions, 21st Octo- ber, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781999992842 Stories from a world both fantastically strange and gruellingly familiar where isolation, ruin, prejudice and disinformation soar in an irresistible fugue of families yearning to connect.


Victoria Schade Someone to Love Welbeck, 11th November, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787394773 Where can you turn when the world turns against you? When Elizabeth Barnes’ life fell apart she never imagined that she’d be rescued by a new friend on four paws.


Timothy Schaffert The Perfume Thief Doubleday, 3rd August, hb, £22.50, 9780385545747 pb, £13.99, 9780385548151 A Gentleman in Moscow meets “Moulin Rouge” in this stylish, sexy page- turner about a queer American expat and thief.


Sarah Schofield Safely Gathered in Comma Press, 4th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912697335 Exciting début collection from Lancashire-based short story writer.


VE Schwab The Invisible Life of Addie Larue Titan Books, 25th January, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781785658198 For fans of The Time Trav- eler’s Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a genre- defying tour de force.


Lee Scott Swan Songs Repeater, 14th December, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781913462574 Experimental and humor- ous satire about a hip-hop visionary from the north- west of England who takes factory work while trying to make the great- est rap album of all time.


Nikola Scott The Orchard Girls Headline Review, 2nd September, pb, £8.99, 9781472260796 From wartorn Somerset to modern-day London, Scott’s powerful novel about family secrets span- ning a generation is ripe for fans of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore.


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lifelong relationship with the forest and the myster- ies it contains told through fragmented stories.


Elif Shafak The Island of Missing Trees Viking, 5th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241434994 Unforgettable novel about two star-crossed lovers in war-torn Cyprus.


Andrew Sharp The Chef, the Bird and the Blessing Matador, 28th August, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781800463929 Mozzy is a cook in a strug- gling safari business in sub-Saharan Africa who dreams of escaping to become head chef in an upmarket restaurant in London.


Georges Simenon, Howard Curtis (tr) The Strangers in the House Penguin Classics, 4th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241487099 New translation of a twist- ing detective novel from the celebrated author.


Nalini Singh Archangel’s Light Gollancz, 28th October, pb, £8.99, 9781473231467 Return to the hauntingly beautiful world of archan- gels in captivating Guild Hunter series.


Aleksandr Skorobogatov Russian Gothic Old Street Publishing, 11th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781910400906 First English translation of a modern classic. “A great Russian novel about a husband tortured by jeal- ousy. Skorobogatov has carved a place for himself in the grand Russian tradi- tion”—Le Figaro.


Wendy Shearer Caribbean Folk Tales Te History Press, 1st September, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780750994897 Caribbean folk tales set alongside local reminis- cences of 1950s migration from the Caribbean to Britain.


Paolo Scott, Daniel Hahn Phenotypes And Other Stories, 4th January, pb, eb, £10, 9781913505189 Smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in our hearts and institutions alike.


Victoria Scott Patience Head of Zeus, 5th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800240889 The story of Patience, a severely disabled young woman, and her family’s decision to enter her into a pioneering but risky gene therapy trial.


Paul Scraton In the Pines Influx Press, 7th October, pb, £8.99, 9781910312858 Scraton’s story of an unnamed narrator’s


Joan Silber Secrets of Happiness Allen & Unwin, 5th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781911630081 Tightly plotted, brilliantly executed account of two families whose lives inter- sect in unexpected ways.


Abi Silver


The Midas Game Lightning Books, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785632426


In their fifth outing, Judith Burton and Constance Lamb defend a young gamer and YouTube celebrity accused of murdering a psychiatrist.


Georges Simenon, Ros Schwartz (tr) Death Threats and Other Stories Penguin Classics, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241487075 New selection featur- ing the celebrated liter- ary detective Inspector Maigret.


Christine Smallwood The Life of the Mind Europa Editions, 14th October, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781787703452 Novel about endings: of youth, of professional aspiration, of possibility, of the illusion that our minds can ever free us from the tyranny of our bodies.


Jane Smiley The Strays of Paris Picador, 14th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529052992 A small boy and a race- horse in Paris set upon a curious partnership in this beguiling tale that explores the true mean- ing of friendship, love and freedom.


Karin Smirnoff, Anna Paterson (tr) My Brother Pushkin Press, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782276708 Paperback edition of Swedish publishing phenomenon: a novel about uncovering family secrets, abuse, trauma and resilience.


Ken Smith More Tales From My Welsh Village Y Lolfa, 24th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781784618261 Humorous novel based on the outrageous antics of characters from the South Wales valleys in the 1960s and ’70s.


Michael Farris Smith Nick No Exit Press, 24th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857304537


Critically acclaimed prequel to The Great Gatsby now in paperback. An exhilarating reimagin- ing of Nick Carraway’s life before Gatsby. September also marks 125th anniver- sary of F Scott Fitzger- ald’s birth.


Nikki Smith Look What You Made Me Do Orion, 16th September, pb, £8.99, 9781409193043 Emotionally and psycho- logically impactful, this is the gripping new thriller from Smith about a perfect family with a lot to hide.


William Gardner Smith, Adam Shatz The Stone Face NYRB Classics, 17th August, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781681375168 First published in 1963, the tale of a young African- American man who takes refuge from American racism in France only to find himself complicit in another kind of racism.


Anthony Veasna So Afterparties Grove Press, 19th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781611856514 Début story collection about Cambodian-Ameri- can life—immersive, comic and unsparing—by an indisputable talent.


Wole Soyinka Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth Bloomsbury Circus, 28th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781526638243 Africa’s first Nobel laure- ate in Literature returns to the novel after almost 50 years.


Minerva Spencer Infamous Kensington Publish- ing, 28th September, pb, £12.99, 9781496732873 For fans of Bridgerton. Spencer weaves a tale of a disgraced girl and a geeky ugly duckling turned handsome lord.


Matthew Sperling Viral riverrun, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529401974 Second novel from the Wellcome-Prize longlisted author of Astroturf.


Rae Spoon, Gem Hall Green Glass Ghosts Arsenal Pulp Press, 21st October, pb, £15.99, 9781551528380 From non-binary writer and musician Rae Spoon a rollicking yet introspec- tive young adult adven- ture about screwing up,


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