GENERAL FICTION


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Michael A Stackpole Gears of War: Ephyra Rising Titan Books, 28th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789095807 Set in the years following Gears of War 3, reveal- ing what occurred in the aftermath of the Locust War.


Danielle Steel Invisible Macmillan, 6th January, hb, eb, £20, 9781529021813 New from a favourite storyteller.


America’s only Jewish prison, where a new celebrity inmate is about to shatter the peace. Page-turning satire from the author of Moving Day.


Pablo Strauss (tr), Matthieu Simard The Country Will Bring Us No Peace Influx Press, 12th August, pb, £7.99, 9781910312834 Strange and poignant novella exploring grief and its aftermath.


Betsy St Amant Tacos for Two Revell, 23rd November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800738907 Rory Perez can’t cook but she’s inherited a taco food truck. Desperate, she enters a competition against the man she’s been flirting with anony- mously online.


Domenico Starnone, Jhumpa Lahiri Trust Europa Editions (UK), 14th October, pb, £12.99, 9781787703186 Sharp, breathtaking exploration of love and relationships.


Danielle Steel Neighbours Pan, 9th December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529021424 A community comes together in a time of crisis in this powerful novel.


Danielle Steel Complications Macmillan, 19th August, hb, eb, £20, 9781529021639 Thought-provoking contemporary drama showing that while life throws us difficult chal- lenges, often the solutions bring unexpected gifts.


Danielle Steel The Butler Macmillan, 30th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781529021691 Extraordinary tale of family, difficult decisions and destiny.


Danielle Steel Flying Angels Macmillan, 25th November, hb, eb, £20, 9781529021752 Inspirational yarn of women in wartime.


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Lori Ann Stephens Blue Running Moonflower Publishing, 2nd December, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838237486 In the new Republic of Texas, guns are compul- sory and nothing is forgiven. Blue Running is a taut coming-of-age thriller for fans of Station Eleven and “Thelma and Louise”.


Peter Stevenson Trolls, Jumbies and Elves History Press, 1st August, pb, eb, £12, 9780750995627 Folk stories from different cultures about the Little People that inhabit hidden lands.


Robert Louis Stevenson, NC Wyeth Treasure Island and Kidnapped Abbeville Press, 14th September, hb, £35.99, 9780789214089 Stevenson’s classic adven- ture stories with Wyeth’s iconic illustrations avail- able in a collectable two- volume set.


Tess Stimson Stolen Avon, 5th August, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008386054 Twisting and emotional thriller that demands to be read in one sitting. For fans of Lisa Jewell and Jackie Kabler.


Emily Stone Always, in December Headline Review, 14th October, pb, £8.99, 9781472279606 Heartbreaking début love story about a couple whose chance encoun- ter at a London postbox changes their lives in the most unexpected and beautiful of ways.


Jonathan Stone The Prison Minyan Lightning Books, 6th January, pb, £8.99, 9781785632754 Welcome to Otisville,


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Defne Suman, Betsy Goeksel The Silence of


Sara Stridsberg, Deborah Bragan-Turner The Antarctica of Love MacLehose Press, 30th September, hb, £14.99, 9781529402377; pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529415889 Story of a young woman’s brief life, her shocking murder and a world that moves on without her.


Elizabeth Strout Oh William! Viking, 21st October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241508176 Exquisite novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of My Name is Lucy Barton.


Chris Stuck Give My Love to the Savages Amistad Press, 5th August, hb, £20, 9780063029972 Provocative, raw début collection of stories in the vein of Junot Diaz’s Drown.


Olivia Sudjic Asylum Road Bloomsbury, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526617408 Knife-sharp second novel by critically acclaimed author.


Tim Sullivan The Dentist Head of Zeus, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781801107716 Bristol detective DS George Cross investigates the suspicious death of a homeless man and discov- ers a link to a cold case murder from years before.


Scheherazade Apollo, 19th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800246959 Set in the ancient city of Smyrna, this powerful novel follows the inter- twining fates of four fami- lies as their city is ripped apart by the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.


Jesse Sutanto Dial A for Aunties HQ, 16th September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008445881 Laugh-out-loud romantic comedy début novel of 2021 for fans of Crazy Rich Asians.


Italo Svevo, Frederika Randall (tr) A Very Old Man NYRB Classics, 7th December, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781681375939 Newly translated collec- tion of fiction by the influ- ential Italian Modernist includes five chapters of his landmark work Zeno’s Conscience.


Karen Swan


Midnight in the Snow Pan, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529006148 No Christmas would be complete without a wonderfully romantic story from Swan, author of Christmas in the Snow and Together by Christmas.


Emily Gray Tedrowe The Talented Miss Farwell Custom House, 14th October, pb, £9.99, 9780062897718 Electrifying page-turner of greed and obsession, survival and self-invention that is a piercing charac- ter study of one unforget- table female con-artist.


David Thewlis Shooting Martha Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 5th August, hb, £14.99, 9781474621533 Fabulous and ultimately devastating novel set between a London film set and a villa in the south of France. A mix of “Vertigo” and Jonathan Coe.


Julie Thomas The Keeper of Secrets William Morrow, 19th August, pb, £9.99, 9780062240309 A priceless violin across generations—from World War II to Stalinist Russia to the gilded international concert halls of today— reveals the loss, love and secrets of the families who owned it.


Julie Thomas Rachel’s Legacy HarperCollins, 2nd September, pb, £9.99, 9781460758489 From the author of The Keeper of Secrets.


Julie Thomas Levi’s War HarperCollins, 2nd September, pb, £9.99, 9781460759622 Story of courage and bravery from a Jew behind enemy lines during the Second World War.


SERIES


British Library Women Writers Simon Thomas, Theodora Benson 10: Which Way? British Library, 16th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780712353984 Claudia Heseltine returns to a single moment three times in a series of paral- lel narratives. Inventive novel, first published in 1931, contemplates the consequences of a single decision.


Kim Thúy, Sheila Fischman (tr) Em Seven Stories Press, 16th September, pb, £9.99, 9781838415907 Novel of the emotional intricacies of trauma and exile from the author of internationally bestselling Ru follows two orphans of the Vietnam War linked by birth and destiny.


Hans-Olav Thyvold, Marie Ostby


Good Dogs Don’t Make It to the South Pole HarperCollins, 20th January, pb, £10.99, 9780062981660 Touching tale of ageing and death told through the eyes of a very sarcas- tic but loveable mutt.


Alan Titchmarsh The Gift Hodder & Stoughton, 16th September, hb, eb, £20, 9781473659063 New novel from popular TV and radio gardener.


Messianic leader Jacob Frank in Enlightenment Europe.


Amor Towles The Lincoln Highway Hutchinson, 5th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781786332523 Bursting with life, charm and unforgettable char- acters, The Lincoln High- way is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from a master storyteller.


Rose Tremain Lily Chatto & Windus, 11th November, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781784744564 From fêted novelist a grip- ping Victorian melodrama about an orphan girl and a vengeful murder.


Kikuko Tsumura There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job Bloomsbury, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526622259 Compelling and darkly funny tale of one woman’s search for meaning in the modern workplace.


Ludmila Ulitskaya Just the Plague Granta Books, 2nd September, pb, £9.99, 9781783788057 An intense and dramatic reimagining of a plague outbreak in 1930s Moscow invites parallels with our pandemic-stricken times.


Lisa Unger Last Girl Ghosted HarperCollins, 14th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781848458666 Latest gripping suspense novel from bestselling thriller writer.


Ann VanderMeer (ed), Jeff VanderMeer (ed) The Time Traveller’s Almanac Anthos, 9th December, pb, eb, £15, 9781800249707 Special edition of the ultimate treasury of time travel stories, from the beginning of time to its very end.


Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (tr) The Books of Jacob Fitzcarraldo Editions, 15th November, pb, £25, 9781910695593 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Tokarczuk follows the comet-like rise and fall of the mysterious


Hilde Vandermeeren, Laura Watkinson (tr) The Scorpion’s Head Pushkin Press, 7th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782277484 New in the Walter Pres- ents Library: a furiously paced psychological thriller about a woman who awakes from a coma to find she has been accused of attempting to murder her son.


Antonin Varenne The Canvas of the World MacLehose Press, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529403862


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