GENERAL FICTION
General Fiction
When a brother and sister receive a letter from the father they haven’t seen in 20 years they must confront long-buried tensions in ways that will change them for ever.
Kia Abdullah Truth Be Told HQ, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008314767 New novel from author of Take It Back sees the return of Zara Kaleel and her most hard-hitting, controversial case to date: an allegation of on-campus male rape.
Sara Nisha Adams The Reading List HarperCollins, 22nd July, hb, £14.99, 9780008391324 A love letter to libraries and the power of storytelling, this book club read is framed by a handwritten reading list bringing together a widowed grandfather and a young woman.
Sean Adams The Heap William Morrow, 18th February, pb, £10.99, 9780062957757 The rise and fall of an enormous living complex, the bizarre society it housed, and the offbeat community of workers hired to sift through its remains.
Kaouther Adimi A Bookshop in Algiers Serpent’s Tail, 20th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788164696 On a quiet backstreet in Algiers is an unremarkable building with a remarkable history.
Renata Adler Speedboat Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 18th February, pb, £8.99, 9781474615860 A novel unlike anything that came before, changed all that came after it. A cult classic for readers of Maggie Nelson.
Brigitte Adès Exiles From Paradise Arcadia, 18th February, Book, eb, £9.99, 9781911350798 Thought-provoking story about discrimination, heritage and belonging delves deep into the great conflict between enlightened Islam and fanaticism.
Haleh Agar Out of Touch Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st April, pb, £8.99, 9781474612265
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Shahnaz Ahsan Hashim & Family John Murray, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473665255 Extraordinary début of family, migration and the desire for a homeland.
César Aira, Chris Andrews (tr), Patti Smith The Divorce And Other Stories, 1st June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913505042 A divorce leads a man to Buenos Aires where he witnesses a minor accident involving the owner of his gueshouse. So starts a true master yarn from Booker finalist Aira.
Molly Aitken The Island Child Canongate, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786898340 Rich, haunting and deeply moving novel about the power and the danger in a mother’s love from one of the most exciting new voices in Irish fiction.
Humeira Ajaz A Palmful of Sky Book Guild, 28th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913913168 Captures the complexities of Pakistani culture, painting its rich innocence as well as the powerful societal expectations for marriage, relationships and romance in a light- hearted but gripping tale.
Ayad Akhtar
Homeland Elegies Tinder Press, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472276896 An American son and his immigrant father search for belonging in post- Trump America and in their relationship with each other.
Layla AlAmmar Silence is a Sense Te Borough Press, 3rd March, hb, £14.99, 9780008346652 She is a refugee who has seen the failure in her homeland and has been traumatised into silence by her brutal journey from Syria to Britain.
Alice Albinia Cwen Profile, 3rd June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781788166607 From an award-winning author comes a major new novel about a mysterious death, a band of women and a remote island where anything is possible.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Jakuta Alikavazovic Night As It Falls Faber & Faber, 4th Febru- ary, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780571342266 Paul, a student who works as a night guard in a hotel to make ends meet, falls under the spell of Amelia, the young woman who rents room 313.
Nina Allan
The Good Neighbours riverrun, 18th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529405170 Masterful new novel by the author of The Dollmaker about a mysterious murder on a Scottish island and the nefarious influence of the fairy people known as “the good neighbours”.
Lisa Allen-Agostini The Bread the Devil Knead Myriad Editions, 22nd April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912408993 Engrossing novel with a
Aliya Ali-Afzal Would I Lie to You? Head of Zeus, 1st July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800245662 When Faiza’s husband loses his job she must conceal the fact that she’s spent the family’s emergency savings trying to keep up with the yummy mummies of Wimbledon.
Poppy Alexander The Littlest Library Orion, 18th March, pb, £8.99, 9781409196396 Charming story of one woman’s chance to change her life thanks to a little red phone box. For fans of Carole Matthews, Stephanie Butland and Ella Griffin.
Jokha Alharthi The Bitter Orange Tree Scribner, 13th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781471193897 The story of an Omani student, her grandmother and their shared emotional bond. Wealth, desire and female agency are explored in this new novel by the International Booker Prize-winning novelist.
strong feminist message at the heart of its page- turning plot. In first-person Creole, Allen-Agostini skilfully tackles the issue of gender violence and racism.
Katie Allen Everything Happens for a Reason Orenda, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193614 When Rachel’s baby is stillborn she becomes obsessed with the idea that saving a stranger’s life months earlier is to blame. Unforgettable, heartwrenching, warm and funny début.
Dima Alzayat Alligator and Other Stories Picador, 15th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529029918 Début short-story collection from an exciting talent to watch.
Rosanna Amaka The Book of Echoes Black Swan, 25th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784164836 Sweeping and uplifting story about how a boy from Brixton and a girl from Lagos reinvent their lives in modern-day London.
Elizabeth Ames The Other’s Gold ONE, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911590347 Addictive and devastating début novel about the many ups and downs of lifelong friendship.
Tahmima Anam The Startup Wife Canongate, 3rd June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781838852481 Quirky, intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom, from the award-winning author of A Golden Age.
SERIES
Flame Tree Collectable Classics Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Flame Tree, 6th July, hb, £10.99, 9781839642272 Classic collection includes some of Andersen’s most famous stories such as The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and The Red Shoes.
Joseph Andras Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us Verso, 23rd February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788738712 Lyrical and radical, a début novel that created a sensation in France where it won the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the country’s most prestigious literary awards.
Jean-Baptiste Andrea A Hundred Million Years and a Day Gallic, 4th March, pb, £8.99, 9781910477878 Hearing tales of a huge fossil locked deep inside an Alpine glacier, Professor Stan finds a childhood dream reignited. Whatever it takes, he is determined to find the buried treasure.
Alexandra Andrews Who is Maud Dixon? Tinder Press, 4th March, hb, £16.99, 9781472274670 From the rural woodlands of New York to the beaches of Morocco comes a wild, kooky, exhilarating novel of suspense, part Patricia Highsmith, part “Tangerine”.
Zeeba Ansari The Hut Matador, 28th February, pb, £9.99, 9781800462458 If you met Arun in the Willow when he first came to Kandra and told him one day he’d tell the story of his life he probably wouldn’t believe you.
Charlie Jane Anders Victories Greater Than Death Titan, 13th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789094725 YA science fiction from the multiple award-winning author of All the Birds in the Sky and The City in the Middle of the Night.
Jessica Anthony Enter the Aardvark Black Swan, 11th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784165185 A budding politician’s career is put in jeopardy when he receives a large stuffed aardvark in the post. Brilliant and funny, a biting satire about politics, love and taxidermy.
Ali Araghi The Immortals of Tehran Melville House, 15th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781612199078 Multi-generational début tells the story of a centuries-old curse carrying one family to the
brink of the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Leaf Arbuthnot Looking for Eliza Trapeze, 18th March, pb, £8.99, 9781409185819 A widow grieving the loss of her husband puts up adverts to ’Rent a Granny’ in an attempt to reconnect with people and then she meets Eliza.
SERIES
William Warwick Jeffrey Archer
2: Hidden in Plain Sight Pan, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509851348 3: Turn a Blind Eye Macmillan, 1st April, hb, eb, £20, 9781509851362 From number one bestseller and author of the Clifton Chronicles two extraordinary novels featuring William Warwick.
Viola Ardone The Children’s Train HarperVia, 4th February, pb, £10.99, 9780062940513 Heartbreaking story of love, family and survival based on a little-known- initiative in postwar Italy when poor children from the south were taken to live with families in the north.
Oana Aristide Under the Blue Profile, 11th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781788165839 Lead début novel for Profile: a literary thriller about a pandemic, the rise of AI, and how—or why—we might save the human race.
Graeme Armstrong The Young Team Picador, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529017366 Inspired by real events, this is a story about gangs, growing up in Scotland and the struggles young people face in choosing a future in Britain today.
Sarah Armstrong The Starlings of Bucharest Sandstone Press, 22nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913207007 Ted moves to London with hopes to train as a journalist but slides into debt. Things improve when he’s invited to Moscow film festival. But others are watching and listening. A Moscow Wolves story.
Robbie Arnott The Rain Heron Atlantic, 3rd June, hb, eb, £8.99, 9781838951283 Playful and casually
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