GENERAL FICTION


Elle Connel Down by the Water Wildfire, 8th July, hb, £16.99, 9781472272577 Page-turning thriller for fans of Ruth Ware’s In a Dark, Dark Wood and Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party.


Matt Cook Life on Other Planets Lendal Press, 6th May, pb, £12, 9781912436965 Hilarious and unsettling by turns, this début novel unravels the mysteries of a family irreparably divided by alienation, entitlement and loss.


Glenn Cooper Jaws of the Final Beast Aries, 3rd June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800246348 Medical thriller from Harvard-trained infectious diseases physician where two abducted girls are returned years later—at the exact age they were when they were taken.


Helen Cooper The Downstairs Neighbour Hodder & Stoughton, 4th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529330014 How well do you really know your neighbours?


Paige Cooper, Peter Onedera, Jacob Ross, Payam Nasser, Hassan Blasim et al The American Way Comma Press, 13th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781912697397 Covering US foreign policy from 1945 to the present day, an anthology of specially commissioned stories by authors from across the globe addressing America’s history of intervention.


Bernard Cornwell War Lord HarperCollins, 27th May, pb, £8.99, 9780008183981 The epic story of how England was made concludes in the magnificent finale to the Last Kingdom series.


Auguste Corteau The Book of Katerina Parthian, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912681266 Fiction in translation. In this acclaimed Greek novel Auguste Corteau imagines his mother’s inner life and observes the saga of her family’s ups and downs in Thessaloniki over three generations.


Elle Cosimano Finlay Donovan is Killing It Headline Review, 2nd February, pb, £9.99, 9781472282248 Struggling crime writer


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and single mum Finlay Donovan accidentally finds herself employed as a local hitwoman.


Margaret Jull Costa (ed, tr) The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories Penguin Classics, 6th May, hb, eb, £25, 9780241390474 Major new anthology curated by celebrated translator.


Isabel Costello Scent Muswell Press, 1st April, pb, £12.99, 9781916360204 Wonderfully compelling novel about desire, loneliness and the impact of time on relationships from the author of Paris Mon Amour.


Naima Coster What’s Mine and Yours Trapeze, 4th March, hb, £14.99, 9781398703322 Original multi- generational novel of family, identity and race in America for readers of Tayari Jones and Kiley Reid.


David Coventry Dance Prone Picador, 8th July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781509839452 At once a wide-ranging reimagining of an indie rock world and a psychological journey into the chaos of outsider art, youth and its various languages.


Edward Cox Wood Bee Queen Gollancz, 10th June, pb, £16.99, 9781473226869 In another world, a queen has been killed. And the only people who can stop her murderer are a thief with a magic sword and an ordinary librarian from England.


Josephine Cox A Daughter’s Return HarperCollins, 3rd March, hb, £14.99, 9780008128210 Compelling new family drama from one of the nation’s favourite storytellers.


Pauline Crame Song in the Key of Madeleine Book Guild, 28th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913913151 The story of how guilt erodes the relationship between a British woman in her early forties and an Indian migrant worker in his twenties.


Jonathan Crane We Need to Talk Lightning, 5th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785632389 Experimental but highly accessible literary début:


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a string of interconnected short stories set in the same Hampshire market town—archetypal Middle England—in the present day.


Lesley Crewe The Spoon Stealer Nimbus, 1st April, hb, £10.99, 9781771088817 From World War I England to Nova Scotia follow a spoon-stealing memoirist who inherits the family farm—and the family.


Marianne Cronin The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot Doubleday, 18th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780857527196 Unwraps the extraordinary gift of life even when it is about to be taken away and revels in our infinite capacity for friendship and love when we need it most.


Polly Crosby The Illustrated Child HQ, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008358440 Haunting and magical literary fiction début novel fabout a young woman’s search for the truth.


Sarah Crossan Here is the Beehive Bloomsbury, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526619525 What happens when you lose something the world never knew was yours? A shattering and compulsive novel about transgression and desire, secrecy and loss.


Kristen Crusoe The Wave RedDoor Press, 25th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913062507 A freak accident plunges Dr Clair Mercer’s well- ordered life into madness in this beautifully written début novel that explores the emotional complexity of family life.


Jeanine Cummins American Dirt Tinder Press, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472261403 Runaway international bestseller with more than a million copies sold worldwide, American Dirt is the unforgettable story of a mother and son’s attempt to cross the US-Mexico border.


Howard Cunnell The Painter’s Friend Picador, 24th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529030921 Thrilling and timely, this new novel from a lauded writer tackles questions of class, inequality, resistance and art.


Rye Curtis Kingdomtide 4th Estate, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008317737 The lives of two women— the elderly survivor of an aircraft crash and the park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her—intersect in a taut début novel.


Rachel Cusk Second Place Faber & Faber, 6th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780571366293 From the author of The Outline trilogy a fable of human destiny and decline enacted in a closed system of intimate, fractured relationships.


Selma Dabbagh (ed) We Wrote in Symbols Saqi, 11th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780863563973 Explosive and unique anthology brings together writing on lust and erotica by renowned Arab women authors. The featured stories and poems describe sexual awakenings, fantasies and experiences with candour.


Richard Dalgety If I Ever Get Out of This World Alive Matador, 28th April, pb, £9.99, 9781800462588 Collection of short stories and poetry explores themes of rock ’n’ roll and death during the Covid-19 pandemic.


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All Our Shimmering Skies Te Borough Press, 13th May, hb, £14.99, 9780008438371 Story about gifts that fall from the sky, curses we dig from the earth and the secrets we bury inside ourselves. From the author of Boy Swallows Universe.


Emily Danforth Plain Bad Heroines Te Borough Press, 4th February, hb, £14.99, 9780008346928 Powerful, utterly immersive and witty modern LGBTQI+ gothic that beautifully depicts the intensity of first love and its everlasting legacy.


Gill Darling Erringby Fairlight, 17th June, pb, £8.99, 9781912054350 Unfolding against the cultural landscape of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, a captivating coming-of- age novel with echoes of Great Expectations.


TR Darling Quiet Pine Trees Unbound, 4th February, hb, £12.99, 9781800180079


Jet fuel for your imagination: a collection of 500 time- travelling, mind-bending microfictions from the creator of @QuietPineTrees.


Jasmin Darznik The Bohemians Ballantine Books, 6th April, hb, £22.50, 9780593129425 Dazzling novel about one of America’s most celebrated photographers, Dorothea Lange, explores the wild years in San Francisco that awakened her career-defining grit, compassion and daring.


Carys Davies The Mission House Granta, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781783784318 From the prize-winning author of West a collision between old and new, east and west, in a former British hill station in contemporary south India.


Stevie Davies The Web of Belonging Parthian, 1st February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912681167 Jess has lived peaceably in Shrewsbury with her husband for many years. She is contented to be his wife, to look after his family. Then, suddenly, everything changes.


Caroline Day Hope Nicely’s Lessons for Life Bonnier Zaffre, 4th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781838772710 Heartwarming, coming- of-age novel about loneliness, friendship, acceptance and, above all, hope. Be charmed by 2021’s most unforgettable character in Zaffre’s most exciting spring début.


Nicole Deese All That Really Matters Bethany House, 18th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780764234965 Molly McKenzie’s bright personality, fashion sense and beauty advice have earned her an impressive social media following. But Silas Whittaker doesn’t find her as charming as her followers.


Gregoire Delacourt, Vineet Lal The Woman Who Didn’t Grow Old Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 18th February, pb, £8.99, 9781474612197 Thought-provoking novel about a woman who wouldn’t age.


KJ Dell’Antonia The Chicken Sisters Two Roads, 24th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529350647 Three generations, two chicken shacks, one recipe for disaster.


Virginie Despentes Vernon Subutex Three MacLehose Press, 24th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857059833 The final volume of Despentes’ searing trilogy of urban life in a time of turmoil and uncertainty.


Madeline Dewhurst Charity Lightning, 26th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785632303 Powerful début from Bath-longlisted author about race, class and the clash of generations as two Londoners from utterly different worlds find themselves under the same Islington roof.


Abigail Dean Girl A HarperFiction, 21st January hb, eb, ab, £14.99, 9780008389055 The debut novel that will define a decade: Beautifully written and incredibly powerful, Girl A is a story of redemption, of horror, and of love.


Lucy Diamond The Promise Macmillan, 18th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529027013 Pan, 10th June, pb, £8.99, 9781529027044 Moving story from Sunday Times bestselling author that will break your heart and put it back together.


Eloisa Diaz Repentance Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 4th February, hb, £14.99, 9781474613835


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