SECTION SPONSOR Moonflower Books
Final volume of Varenne’s epic historical trilogy.
Various The Decameron Project Scribner UK, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781398502185 Vibrant collection of short stories commissioned by the New York Times Maga- zine as the pandemic started sweeping the world. Authors include Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange and Colm Toibin.
Claire Vaye Watkins I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness riverrun, 20th January, hb, £16.99, 9781529418354; pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529418361 The furious, hilarious, soul-rending story of one woman’s reckoning with marriage, work, sex and motherhood.
Clio Velentza The Piano Room Fairlight Books, 30th September, hb, £14.99, 9781912054893 Gothic retelling of the myth of Faust, set in Hungary during the 1970s and ’90s.
Salley Vickers The Gardener Viking, 4th November, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780241482797 Beautifully observed tale of sisterhood, secrets, belonging and new begin- nings by the author of The Librarian.
Manuel Vilas, Andrea Rosenberg (tr) Ordesa Canongate, 5th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781786897343 Bestselling Spanish phenomenon: a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory.
Debbi Voisey Only About Love Fairlight Books, 5th August, pb, £7.99, 9781914148002 In snapshots through time, Only About Love takes a sweeping loop around one man’s life as he navi- gates courtship, marriage, fatherhood and illness.
Lada Vukic Special Needs Istros Books, 6th September, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912545919 Affirms that which is authentically human within all of us, following the life of a young boy with difficulties who elects to speak only to those who truly see him.
Alice Walker, Tayari Jones Meridian Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 16th September, pb, £8.99, 9781474622370 Heartfelt story about one woman’s personal revolu- tion as she joins the Civil Rights movement. With a new introduction from Tayari Jones.
S Kirk Walsh The Zookeeper of Belfast Hodder Paperbacks, 9th December, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529345544 Great World War II novel for fans of Natasha Lester and Mandy Robotham. Based on a true story.
Enter a near-future Britain where bad taste is illegal.
Bryan Washington Memorial Atlantic Books, 7th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838950101 Stellar début novel of two young men falling in and out of love from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020.
Rebecca Watson Little Scratch Faber, 13th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571356591 Virtuosic début by one of the most talented young authors to have emerged in recent British fiction.
Lee Wei-Jinn The Mermaid’s Tale Scribner, 11th November, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781398507609 audiofile, £14.40, 9781398507630 The Vegetarian meets Eleanor Oliphant in a story set in the world of Taiwan- ese ballroom dancing. A beautiful affirmation of life and freedom.
Louise Welsh (ed) Ghost Anthos, 9th December, pb, eb, £15, 9781800249677 Special edition of an anthology of the 100 best ghost stories ever written.
June Wentland Foolish Heroines Valley Press, 16th September, pb, £9.99, 9781912436637 Forget dull domesticity. This is a suburb where dense jungle leaves creep through the patio door when you’re putting the kettle on.
GENERAL FICTION
Fairlight Books, 5th August, pb, £7.99, 9781912054039 Heartwarming story of self-discovery, the power of family ties, and the strength needed to face what life throws your way.
Edmund White A Saint From Texas Bloomsbury, 12th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526600479 From legendary writer, a bold, sweeping new novel.
Anna Whitehouse Underbelly Orion, 5th August, hb, £14.99, 9781398702462 Fresh and utterly compul- sive women’s fiction début from Mother Pukka and Papa Pukka, writing as Anna Whitehouse.
John Edgar Wideman Look for Me and I’ll Be Gone Canongate, 4th November, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781838855161 Forty years after Wide- man’s first book of stories comes this collection that is vital reading for anyone interested in the state of America today.
Ally Wilkes All the White Spaces Titan Books, 25th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789097832 Vivid ghost story explor- ing themes of identity, gender and selfhood set against the backdrop of the golden age of polar exploration. Good for fans of Northern Lights.
Edward Wilson Portrait of the Spy As a Young Man Arcadia Books, 14th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781914352003 Now in his 90s, former SOE officer William Catesby recounts an incredible life of spying and the trauma of war, but also lost love, yearning and hope for the future.
Elisa Victoria, Charlotte Whittle Oldladyvoice And Other Stories, 5th October, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781913505103 Nine-year old Marina may swear like a sailor and think like a novelist but even the most exceptional child can get lost on the road to adulthood.
Delphine de Vigan, George Miller Gratitude Bloomsbury, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526618825 Unforgettable explo- ration of ageing, trauma, dementia and estrangement.
James Ward Wadhurst Ghost Stories Cool Millennium, 18th November, hb, £19.99, 9781913851248 Seven fictional ghost stories set in the real- life village of Wadhurst. Unsettling in the tradi- tional sense (think MR James or Arthur Machen).
Tom Ward
The Lion and the Unicorn Unbound Digital, 2nd September, pb, £9.99, 9781789651539
Kevin Wilson Tunneling to the Center of the Earth Text Publishing, 28th October, pb, £8.99, 9781911231370 Début collection of stories announcing the arrival of a major storytelling talent.
Adrian Nathan West My Father’s Diet And Other Stories, 1st February, pb, £10, 9781913505226 A son helps his father stave off despair by competing in a bodybuild- ing competition. An elegy for outmoded concep- tions of manhood, and a reckoning with a culture incapable of introspection.
Loree Westron Missing Words
Hilma Wolitzer Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket Bloomsbury, 11th Novem- ber, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526638717 Uncannily relevant, deli- ciously clear-eyed stories of award-winning “Ameri- can literary treasure”.
Suzanne Woods Fisher A Season on the Wind Revell, 16th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780800739508
After a long absence, Ben Zook returns to his child- hood home but discovers that even if you try to forget the past, the past remembers you.
Laura Elizabeth Woollett The Newcomer Scribe UK, 11th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913348380 Taut novelisation of an infamous murder from the author of Beautiful Revo- lutionary that will appeal to readers of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and true-crime podcast listeners.
murder of a teenage girl, this literary crime novel offers insights into gender, class and privilege and marks the English-language début for award-winning Korean author.
Heather Young The Distant Dead Custom House, 16th September, pb, £10.99, 9780062690821 A young boy finds himself caught in the centre of a murder mystery in a new thriller from the author of The Lost Girls.
Charles Yu Interior Chinatown Europa Editions, 5th August, pb, £8.99, 9781787703445 Winner of the National Book Award 2020. “By turns hilarious and heart- breaking... a bright, bold, gut punch of a novel”— Roxane Gay, head judge.
Sammy Wright Fit And Other Stories, 21st October, pb, eb, £10, 9781913505127 Cutting but compassion- ate début charts a young girl’s rise from life in a squalid rural foster home to a dazzling career in the big city.
Takis Wurger Stella Grove Press, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781611854480 From the internationally bestselling author of The Club comes a novel of love and betrayal set in Berlin in 1942.
Evie Wyld The Bass Rock Vintage, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784705497 “A modern gothic triumph”—Max Porter.
Hanya Yanagihara To Paradise Picador, 11th January, hb, eb, £20, 9781529077476 From the author of A Little Life a novel of lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia.
Susie Yang White Ivy Wildfire, 19th August, pb, £8.99, 9781472281814 Bestselling début about a young woman’s dark obsession with privilege at any cost.
Kwon Yeo-sun, Janet Hong Lemon Apollo, 7th October, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781800241473 Focusing on the unsolved
Yevgeny Zamyatin, Bela Shayevich, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K Le Guin (tr), George Orwell (tr) We Canongate Canons, 7th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838852368 Brilliant new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood.
Carlos Zanón, Gonzalo Torné, Francesc Serés, Llucia Ramis, Jordi Punti, Marta Orriols et al The Book of Barcelona Comma Press, 7th October, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781910974056 In this new addition to Comma’s Reading the City series, 10 stories by 10 prominent authors are translated from both Catalan and Spanish into English for the first time.
Hasfa Zayyan We Are All Birds of Uganda Merky Books, 27th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529118667 Moving between two continents over a century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is a multi-layered, resonant novel of genera- tional love, loss and what it means to find home.
Alex Zucker (tr), Bianca Bellová The Lake Parthian Books, 1st December, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913640521 Dystopian page-turner about the coming of age of a young hero, which won the 2017 EU Prize for Literature.
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