SAGAS, ROMANCE & HISTORICAL
from the pen of bestselling author.
Tracie Peterson Waiting on Love Bethany House, 16th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780764232404 Elise Wright watches over her father as cook on his Great Lakes schooner. But the behaviour of a sailor unsettles her and the first mate.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips When Stars Collide William Morrow, 5th August, hb, £20, 9780062973085 Avon Books, 20th January, pb, £6.99, 9780062973092 Phillips returns to her popular Chicago Stars series with a romance between a Chicago Stars quarterback and one of the world’s greatest opera singers.
Nicola Pryce The Cornish Captive Corvus, 4th November, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781838954598 Sixth novel in a series set in 18th-century Cornwall. Could appeal to fans of Bridgerton.
Diana Quincy The Viscount Made Me Do It Avon Books, 19th August, pb, £6.99, 9780062986818 Hanna Zaydan has fought to become London’s finest bonesetter but her darkly appealing new patient threatens to destroy everything she’s worked so hard for.
Cherry Radford The Spanish House Aria, 1st November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781801103886 One bizarre to-do list to earn her inheritance. One Spanish summer. One huge family secret.
EV Radwinter Loves Lost and Found Matador, 28th August, pb, £9.99, 9781800464841 An old flame reappears and Chloe must decide whether she will succumb to the euphoric, giddy happiness of a rekindled romance or close her heart to protect herself.
Rebecca Raisin Escape to Honeysuckle Hall HarperCollins, 5th August, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008456986 Run away to the coun- tryside with the latest romantic comedy from the creator of Rosie’s Travel- ling Tea Shop.
Rebecca Raisin Untitled HarperCollins, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008471415
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New festive romcom from the bestselling author.
Michelle Rawlins Christmas Hope for the Steel Girls HQ, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008427337 As the Steel Girls face their first Christmas with the country at war, times are tougher than ever for Nancy, Betty and Patty.
Katherine Reay The London House Harper Muse, 20th January, pb, £8.99, 9780785290209 One call could bring ruin to her family name. The letters tell a different story but history won’t let its secrets go so easily.
Tracy Rees The Rose Garden Pan, 2nd September, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529046373 Spellbinding historical fiction from the best- selling author of Amy Snow spans the luxury and poverty of Victorian England.
Nancy Revell Shipyard Girls Under the Mistletoe Arrow Books, 28th October, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787464292 Eleventh outing in the Shipyard Girls series and as the promise of victory draws closer, Christmas 1944 will surely be one to remember.
Anthony Riches Vengeance: Empire Xii Hodder & Stoughton, 11th November, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781473628885 Marcus Aquila returns to Rome for his final reck- oning with the Emperor Commodus.
Lucinda Riley The Missing Sister Pan, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509840199 Seventh instalment in Riley’s multimillion-selling epic series The Seven Sisters.
Vanessa Riley Island Queen William Morrow, 5th August, hb, £20, 9780063002845 Incredible true-life- story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of colour who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in colonial West Indies.
Lilly Robbins Untitled Orion, 9th December, hb, £20.99, 9781409192039 No information at time of going to press.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Annie Robertson Christmas At Lobster Bay Welbeck, 28th October, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787396227 With three months to expand the guesthouse before Christmas, Emma’s dreams soon begin to fall apart. Will her relationship with Aidan survive?
James Robertson News of the Dead Hamish Hamilton, 5th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780241401996 Broad-ranging novel from critically acclaimed author draws centuries of change in the atmospheric Scot- tish highlands.
Mandy Robotham The Girl Behind the Wall Avon, 2nd September, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008364533 Set against the backdrop of a Berlin divided by the Wall, two sisters try to find their way back to one another in a fragmented world.
Farrah Rochon The Dating Playbook Headline Eternal, 17th August, pb, £9.99, 9781472273826 “If you love Helen Hoang, Abby Jimenez and Talia Hibbert, you’ll love Farrah Rochon, whose books are always witty, hot, and engaging”—BuzzFeed.
Diana Rosie Pippo and Clara Pan, 6th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781447293071 A story about love and loss and how so much of our lives hinges on chance.
Ralf Rothmann, Shaun Whiteside (tr) The God of That Summer Picador, 20th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529009835 Devastating novel of World War II and its final months from the award- winning author of To Die in Spring.
Doina Rusti The Book of Perilous Dishes Neem Tree Press, 20th October, hb, £24.99, 9781911107439 Magical adventure set in Bucharest in 1798, a year full of intrigue and political machinations. An enslaved chef is sought by everyone.
Jennifer Ryan Lost and Found Family William Morrow Paper- backs, 5th August, pb, £10.99, 9780063003514 When her mother-in-law threatens Sara with legal action to see the boys, their mother strikes a bargain.
Jennifer Ryan True Love Cowboy Avon Books, 16th September, pb, £7.99, 9780063020801 Jon Crawford has returned to Montana to take over his father’s ranch in Big Sky Country, He doesn’t have time to fall in love, but he doesn’t count on stubborn but beautiful Trinity McGrath.
Gabriella Saab The Last Checkmate William Morrow, 28th October, pb, £9.99, 9780063141933 Saab has created a heart- pounding, emotional story of a resistance fighter who must return to Auschwitz to find justice for her fami- ly’s deaths.
Kate Saunders The Mystery of the Sorrowful Maiden Bloomsbury, 19th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781408866924 The delightful new Laetitia Rodd cosy mystery.
Simon Scarrow The Honour of Rome Headline, 11th November, hb, £20, 9781472258496 Tension is simmering in Britannia and danger lies round every corner for Rome’s soldiers. Riveting 20th novel in Scarrow’s Eagles of the Empire series.
Caroline Scott The Visitors Simon & Schuster, 25th November, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781398508170 From the highly acclaimed author of The Photogra- pher of the Lost, a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, comes a tale of a war widow, five former soldiers and a life-changing summer.
Regina Scott A View Most Glorious Revell, 16th November, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800736415 In 1893 Washington head- strong Coraline must rely on a rough mountain guide to get her to the top of Mt. Rainier to win a wager and save her step- father’s bank.
Lizzie Shane To All the Dogs I’ve Loved Before Headline Eternal, 30th November, pb, £9.99, 9781472278692 First love gets a second chance when a mischie- vous Australian shepherd finds a way to keep fetch- ing a woman’s high school sweetheart in this charm- ing small-town romance. A Pine Hollow yarn.
Jack Sheffield School Days
Bantam Press, 9th Septem- ber, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781787632981 The year is 1976 and Jack Teacher never wants to leave his job. A classic tale, ready to transport readers back to a simpler time.
Lynne Shelby Love on Location Headline Accent, 19th August, pb, £9.99, 9781472289315 Greek sunshine, movie magic and summer madness combine in this romantic comedy for fans of Sue Moorcroft and Miranda Dickinson from “a wonderful fresh new talent” (Katie Fforde).
Sara Sheridan The Fair Botanists Hodder & Stoughton, 5th August, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529336207 Bewitching and immersive story for fans of Jessie Burton, Sarah Perry and The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock.
Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood Mary Swann World Editions, 5th August, pb, £11.99, 9781912987221 The story of four individu- als who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a Canadian poet whose unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband murders her.
Joanna Shupe The Lady Gets Lucky Avon, 25th November, pb, £6.99, 9780063045057 Shupe continues her Fifth Avenue Rebels series with a scandalous romance about a good girl desper- ate to defy convention and the rebel desperate to corrupt her.
Janet Skeslien Charles The Paris Library Two Roads, 20th Janu- ary, Book, eb, £7.99, 9781529335460 Based on the true wartime story of heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris, this is an unforget- table novel of romance, friendship, family and heroism found in the quietest of places.
Leila Slimani The Country of Others Faber & Faber, 5th August, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571361618 First volume of a new tril- ogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016.
Olivia Spooner A Way Back to Happy Aria, 11th November, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800249486
Sometimes the only way to start over is to first fall apart. Uplifting and romantic novel from début author.
Dana Stabenow Disappearance of a Scribe Head of Zeus, 18th January, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800249776 Second in the trilogy of Ancient Egyptian crime novels that began with 2018’s Death of an Eye.
Danielle Steel All That Glitters Pan, 28th October, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509878291 Page-turning novel about love, loss and betrayal, by the world’s favourite storyteller.
Danielle Steel The Affair Pan, 20th January, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529021486 Explores love in all its forms.
Erin Sterling The Ex Hex William Morrow Paper- backs, 28th October, pb, £9.99, 9780063027473 Bestselling YA author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches and hexes gone wrong.
Julian Stockwin Thunderer Hodder & Stoughton, 7th October, hb, eb, £20, 9781473698840 Perfect for fans of Patrick O’Brian, Bernard Corn- well and swashbuckling adventure during the great Age of Sail. The 24th novel in the Thomas Kydd series.
Susan Stokes-Chapman Pandora Harvill Secker, 27th January, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787302884 A pure pleasure of a novel set in Georgian London, where the discovery of a mysterious Ancient Greek vase sets in motion conspiracies, revelations and romance.
Matteo Strukul, Richard McKenna Medici—Legacy Head of Zeus, 5th August, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781786692177 Third instalment in the Masters of Florence series charting the rise of the House of Medici.
Maggie Sullivan A Day Trip for Coronation Street HarperCollins, 14th October, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008394004
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