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brutal novel about war and ecological precarity, about the endurance of legends and the dark magic to be found in our natural world.
DJ Arthur The Fall Out Book Guild, 28th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913551766 Two women, their marriages and the looming EU referendum centred around a story of ambiguous motives.
Mainspring Arts (ed) In Other Words Unbound, 24th June, pb, £9.99, 9781800180338 Remarkable anthology of short stories by eight autistic writers with forewords by David Mitchell and Joanne Limburg.
Anuk Arudpragasam A Passage North Granta, 1st July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781783786947 From a prize-winning Sri Lankan author a story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality.
Alice Ash Paradise Block Profile, 4th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788165549 Irresistibly strange début short story collection set in a crumbling tower block.
Trisha Ashley The Garden of Forgotten Wishes Black Swan, 13th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784160944 Marnie needs a fresh start and time to heal. Can a summer spent gardening help her recapture the forgotten dreams she let get away?
Jenn Ashworth Ghosted Sceptre, 10th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529336764 Deeply affecting and unconventional love story shot through with anger, black humour and grief.
Lucy Atkins Magpie Lane Quercus, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784293833 Roaming through Oxford’s secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of family and what it is to be denied one.
Jami Attenberg All This Could Be Yours Profile, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788163262 Unforgettable novel of family secrets from New
York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins now in paperback.
Marie Aubert, Rosie Hedger (tr) Grown Ups Pushkin Press, 3rd June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781782276531 Compact, funny and devastating novel about sibling rivalry and modern motherhood by one of Norway’s rising stars.
Camille Aubray The Godmothers William Morrow, 22nd July, hb, £20, 9780062983695 Four women who marry into an Italian family in Greenwich Village must take charge of the family business when the husbands are forced to fight during the war.
Shalom Auslander Mother for Dinner Picador, 4th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529052053 Outrageously tasty comedy about identity, tribalism and mothers from the author of Hope: A Tragedy.
Emily Austin Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Atlantic, 1st July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781838953737 Like a working-class “Frances Ha”, this angsty, mordant, gorgeously relatable novel will appeal to readers of Exciting Times and The New Me.
Anna Bailey Tall Bones Doubleday, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780857527387 Like The Girls rewritten by Gillian Flynn with all the atmosphere of “Twin Peaks”, Tall Bones marks the début of an explosive new talent.
Yvonne Bailey-Smith The Day I Fell Off My Island Myriad Editions, 10th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781912408955 Coming-of-age novel that will speak to reluctant immigrants the world over—those who, as children, had to deal with the upheavals and transitions associated with moving to a new country.
Elizabeth Baines, Neil Bartlett,
Julia Bell, Ollie Charles, DJ Connell, Justin David, Kit de Waal et al Mainstream Inkandescent, 1st July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912620081 Anthology of short stories by emerging and established writers bringing queer
storytellers, working- class wordsmiths and authors of colour in from the margins to occupy centrestage.
Andrea Bajani, Elizabeth Harris If You Kept a Record of Sins Archipelago, 4th March, pb, £15.99, 9781939810960 Award-winning novel from a top name in Italian literature.
Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches (tr) Permafrost And Other Stories, 6th April, pb, eb, £10, 9781911508748 Ottessa Moshfegh meets Virginie Despentes: A number one Catalan bestseller and wickedly funny novel of family relationships and one woman’s search for freedom.
Russell Banks Foregone No Exit Press, 25th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780857304599 First novel in a decade from two-time Pulitzer finalist. Famed filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of 60,000 Vietnam War draft dodgers, agrees to a final interview to bare his secrets.
Pat Barker The Women of Troy Hamish Hamilton, 3rd June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9780241427231 Sequel to critically acclaimed bestseller The Silence of the Girls.
Hazel Barkworth Heatstroke Headline Review, 25th May, pb, £8.99, 9781472265623 Darkly gripping and thought-provoking novel explores power, consent and womanhood, set over an intoxicating summer that changes everything.
David M Barnett The Handover Trapeze, 29th April, pb, £14.99, 9781398702615 Romcom with a twist from internationally bestselling author. For fans of The Flatshare, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Something to Live For.
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Flame Tree Collectable Classics JM Barrie, Judith John Peter Pan Flame Tree, 16th February, hb, £8.99, 9781839642180 New edition in the Flame Tree Classics range with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded
edges. Includes Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens.
Erin Bartels All That We Carried Revell, 16th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780800738365 Estranged sisters Olivia and Melanie must rely on each other—and an enigmatic stranger— to escape from the remote wilderness of the Porcupine Mountains.
Lana Bastašic Catch the Rabbit Picador, 27th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529039603 A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship. Two women on a road trip head towards a lost brother and a collision with the lies they’ve told themselves.
Amanda Bateman Tying the Knot Matador, 28th April, pb, £9.99, 9781800462298 The Arnolds feel they deserve a break from the drama. Janie Arnold certainly thinks so and makes the life-altering decision to help her cousin. But at what cost?
Ines Bayard, Adriana Hunter This Little Family 4th Estate, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008332921 The next Lullaby: a dark and thought-provoking novel about a young woman who poisons her baby, her husband and herself.
Susan Beale Misplaced Persons John Murray, 4th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473630376 Rocked by her husband’s affair a woman decides to welcome a refugee to live with her family. But how will the addition affect them?
Rachel Beanland Florence Adler Swims Forever Simon & Schuster, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781398501331 audiofile, £14.40, 9781398502130 Breathtaking meditation on the lengths we go to in order to keep our families together and an uplifting portrayal of how the human spirit can endure and even thrive after tragedy.
Chris Beckett Tomorrow Corvus, 1st July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781786499356 Captivating and provocative novel that explores the importance of storytelling as well as
questioning how human beings understand our place within society, time and even space.
Anna Beecher Here Comes the Miracle Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 18th February, hb, £14.99, 9781474610629 Tear-jerking literary début about a life cut short by cancer and a love cut short by fear and social pressure.
Louise Beech This is How We Are Human Orenda, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913193713 When the mother of an autistic young man hires a call girl to make him happy, three lives intertwine in unexpected and moving ways. A devastatingly beautiful, thought-provoking novel.
Ali Benjamin The Smash-up riverrun, 23rd February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529409314 A family is upended when their small-town life becomes the latest battlefield in the culture wars in this of-the- moment novel for readers of Meg Wolitzer and Fleishman is in Trouble.
Alan Bennett The Uncommon Reader Profile, 25th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781788168069 Bestselling classic reissued for the Queen’s 95th birthday.
Ilaria Bernardini The Portrait Allen & Unwin, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911630449
Ambiguous, electrifying story of a lover, a wife and the man they have in common.
Flynn Berry Northern Spy Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 4th March, hb, £14.99, 9781474607117 Acclaimed author of Under the Harrow and A Double Life returns with her most thrilling novel to date: the story of two sisters who become entangled with the IRA.
Laura Besley 100nehundred Arachne Press, 27th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913665272 In her second collection of short fiction, Besley explores a kaleidoscope of emotions through 100 stories of exactly 100 words.
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