SEASON HIGHLIGHTS February


Andi Osho Asking for a Friend HQ, 3 February, pb, £8.99, 9780008245795


General fiction First novel from the


stand-up comedian, actress and filmmaker follows three single women who decide to ditch the dating apps and ask people out in real life. The catch? They can only ask out potential dates for each other.


Louise Hare This Lovely City HQ, 3 February, pb, £8.99, 9780008332600


Sagas, romance & historical


Set in an intimately evoked 1950s London, this follows


Lawrie Matthews, formerly a passenger on the “Empire Windrush” and now a postie by day and talented jazz musician by night. One morning, crossing Clapham Common, he makes a shocking discovery wrapped in a blanket… Now in paperback.


Femi Kayode Lightseekers Raven Books, 4 Feb, hb, £14.99, 9781526617590


Adventure, crime & horror


Launches a major new crime


series featuring investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo, who has returned to his native Nigeria after years in the US. When three students are murdered in a university town, and the killers caught on social media, the question at the trial is: “Why?”


Simon Stephenson Set My Heart To Five Fourth Estate, 4 February, pb, £8.99, 9780008354244


General fiction Set in 2054, when America


has a significant android population, this is narrated by Jared, a “bot” dentist in Michigan, who embarks on a quest to convince humans that all androids should be permitted to have feelings. It’s Jared’s voice that is the joy here. Now in paperback.


Caleb Azumah Nelson Open Water Viking, 4 February, hb, £12.99, 9780241448779


Sagas, romance & historical


“A beautiful and powerful novel about the true and


sometimes painful depths of love,” says Candice Carty- Williams of this début, told from a Black male perspective, about two young struggling artists who meet in a South London pub.


Adam Roberts Purgatory Mount Gollancz, 4 February, hb, £16.99, 9781473230941


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Elly Griffiths The Night Hawks Quercus Publishing, 4 February, hb, £20, 9781787477803


Adventure, crime & horror


Latest in the bestselling Dr Ruth


Galloway series finds the forensic archaeologist investigating the death of a local Norfolk boy, whose body was discovered by a group of


The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction


Science fiction & fantasy


SF thriller set in a near-future where a neurotoxin has interfered with the


memory function of many of the US population, leaving them reliant on their phones as makeshift memory prostheses.


Shahnaz Ahsan Hashim & Family John Murray, 4 February, pb, £8.99, 9781473665255


General fiction Beginning in 1960, this


début tells the epic story of two Bangladeshi cousins, Hashim and Rofikul, who leave their homeland to seek a new life in England. Ten years later, war breaks out in East Pakistan and the emergence of Bangladesh affects them in ways they could never have foreseen.


Mick Herron Slough House John Murray, 4 February, hb, £14.99, 9781529378641


Adventure, crime & horror


The seventh book in the much-admired


Slough House series, featuring a band of disgraced spies and their leader, Jackson Lamb. A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from Novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath.


Matt Haig


The Midnight Library Canongate, 4 February, pb, £8.99, 9781786892737


General fiction His latest bestseller,


now in paperback. Nina Seed, overwhelmed with regrets, has decided to end it all when she finds herself at the Midnight Library, a place between life and death where each book on the infinite shelves is a portal to a life she could be living, had she made different decisions. Part “Sliding Doors”, part philosophical quest; it’s terrific.


metal detectorists searching for buried treasure.


to a Small Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit and Record of a Space Born Few. Technological failure results in three long-haul “spacers” being stranded on the planet Gora and holing up at the Five-Hop One-Stop, run by an enterprising alien and her occasionally helpful child.


Michelle Gallen Big Girl, Small Town John Murray, 18 February, pb, £8.99, 9781529304220


General fiction Shortlisted for the Costa


Steven Hall Maxwell’s Demon Canongate, 4 February, hb, £16.99, 9781847672469


Adventure, crime & horror


Second “mind- twisting” novel from the author


of the acclaimed The Raw Shark Texts (2007) tells of Thomas Quinn, who thinks he may be being stalked by the hero of his now-disappeared mentor’s million-selling mystery novel.


Luan Goldie Homecoming HQ, 4 February, pb, £8.99, 9780008314668


General fiction Follow-up to Nightingale


Point, a Radio 2 Book Club pick, Goldie’s second novel is set between London and Kenya over two decades. In London, Kiama, who has grown up without a mother, is desperate to know more, and is sure that Kenya holds the answers to his questions. Now in paperback.


Samantha Shannon The Mask Falling Bloomsbury Publishing, 16 February, hb, £14.99, 9781408865569


Science fiction & fantasy


Fourth instalment of the Bone Season series follows Paige Mahoney through the


underworld of a dystopian Paris as she finds herself caught between those factions that seek Scion’s downfall and those who would kill to protect the Rephaim’s puppet empire.


Jeanine Cummins American Dirt Tinder Press, 18 February, pb, £8.99, 9781472261403


General fiction Now in paperback,


the tale of a mother and her eight-year-old son, forced to flee their home in Acapulco after the local drug cartel murders their family. Travelling north by any means, they join the thousands of migrants heading for the safety of the US border.


Becky Chambers The Galaxy, and the Ground Within Hodder & Stoughton, 18 February, hb, £16.99, 9781473647664


Science fiction & fantasy


Final instalment in the Wayfarers series follows The Long Way


Peter Swanson Every Vow You Break Faber & Faber, 18 March, hb, £12.99, 9780571358496


Adventure, crime & horror


Lily King Writers & Lovers Picador, 4 March, pb, £8.99, 9781529033137


General fiction A new author to me, although


this is King’s fifth novel, and I was completely beguiled. Casey, an aspiring novelist working as a waitress, has moved back to


Top-notch thriller. Abigail is marrying


former Silicon Valley millionaire Bruce Lamb after a whirlwind romance. There’s only one shadow hanging over her future happiness: an incident involving a handsome stranger at her bachelorette party… who then turns up at the island resort where she is honeymooning with her new husband.


First Novel Award. Set in a small border town in Northern Ireland in 2004, where Majella, whose Da disappeared during the Troubles, keeps herself to herself—until her grandmother dies. “Darkly hilarious,” found the Guardian. Now in paperback.


Clare Pooley The Authenticity Project Black Swan, 18 February, pb, £7.99, 9781784164690


General fiction Six strangers are drawn


together by one green notebook found in a Fulham café—and the desire to finally be honest about their lives. A charming and heartwarming début about the importance of friendship and reaching out to others. Now in paperback.


Andrew Hunter Murray The Last Day Arrow Books, 18 February, pb, £8.99, 9781787463615


General fiction High-concept thriller set in a


world that has stopped turning: one half suffers an endless frozen night; the other, burning sun. In isolationist Britain, scientist Ellen Hopper receives a letter from a dying man that contains a powerful and dangerous secret. Now in paperback.


March


Imbolo Mbue How Beautiful We Were Canongate, 11 March, hb, £14.99, 9781838851347


General fiction Latest from the author of


Behold the Dreamers is a story about the collision of the small African village of Kosawa with an American oil company whose reckless drive for profit wreaks environmental devastation. “A formidable storyteller,” says Jonathan Franzen.


Lee & Andrew Child The Sentinel Corgi, 18 March, pb, £8.99, 9780552177429


Adventure, crime & horror


Now in


paperback, the 25th in


the bestselling Jack Reacher series, and the first on which Lee Child has collaborated with his brother Andrew. It is set in a town shut down by a cyber attack.


Massachusetts, grieving the death of her mother. King is pin-sharp on relationships— particularly those between men and women—and on a young woman righting herself after being submerged by loss. Now in paperback.


Nikita Lalwani You People Penguin, 4 March, pb, £8.99, 9780241987070


General fiction Set in the world of a London


pizzeria partly staffed by illegal immigrants, this is the story of three very different characters, united by the choices they make, and the lies they tell to survive. “An exceptional novel about the Britain we live in, even if we choose not to see it”—Kamila Shamsie. Now in paperback.


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