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Neil Gaiman American Gods Headline, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780755322817 The definitive American road novel.
Neil Gaiman Stardust Headline, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780755322824 The bestselling fairy tale for adults from a master.
Neil Gaiman The Ocean At the End of the Lane Headline, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472200341 Bestselling modern classic and National Book Awards Book of the Year.
Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell Art Matters Headline, 10th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781472260109 A creative call to arms from the mind of Gaiman combines his extraordinary words with striking illustrations by Riddell.
Allison Galbraith Lanarkshire Folk Tales Te History Press, 1st February, pb, eb, £12, 9780750978880 The first collection of folk tales from Lanarkshire, Scotland’s largest county.
Michelle Gallen Big Girl, Small Town John Murray, 18th Febru- ary, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529304220 “Milkman meets ‘Derry Girls’. A cracking read”— Sinead Moriarty.
Gabriela Garcia Of Women and Salt Picador, 15th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529031515 Epic in sweep and significance, this is a story of shared heritage, populated by magnetic, fascinating, flawed women whose voices demand to be heard.
Charles Garland Painted Angel Book Guild, 28th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781913551797 A young American sculptor seeks perfection in everything but the English girl who loves him is a wheelchair user.
Eileen Garvin The Music of Bees Headline Review, 4th May, hb, £18.99, 9781472277817 Redemptive story about the families we choose for ourselves.
Mike Gayle All the Lonely People Hodders, 4th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781473687417 Heartwarming yarn about
Sara Gethin Emmet and Me Honno Welsh Women’s Press, 20th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912905331 From the author of Not the Booker-shortlisted Not Thomas. In 1960s Ireland misfit Claire forms a forbidden friendship with Emmet, a local orphanage lad, which changes both their lives forever.
Yan Ge, Jeremy Tiang (tr) Strange Beasts of China Melville House, 15th July, hb, eb, £20, 9781612199092 Winner of an English PEN award, Strange Beasts of China is a disquieting bestiary that blurs the line between human and beast by an exciting voice in contemporary Chinese literature.
Fiona Gibson The Dog Share Avon, 3rd March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008385996 The next gloriously uplifting book from the number one bestselling author of The Mum Who Got Her Life Back.
Megan Giddings Lakewood Amistad Press, 15th April, pb, £10.99, 9780062913203 Startling début about class and race evokes a terrifying world of medical
the power of community and human connection.
Mike Gayle The Museum of Ordinary People Hodder & Stoughton, 8th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529344752 By the author of The Man I Think I Know, Half A World Away and All The Lonely People.
Edna Gee The Vertical Jungle Dixi, 25th March, pb, £12.99, 9781913680121 Amid a chaos of greenwashing politicians, Instagram celebrities and determined but confused freedom warriors one finds the everyday conflicts of our turbulent times that we know by heart.
experimentation. Electric literature that is part The Handmaid’s Tale and part The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Mel Giedroyc The Best Things Headline Review, 1st April, hb, £12.99, 9781472256218 Funny and tender tale about a family on the brink from one of our best-loved entertainers.
Elizabeth Gill The Pit Girl Quercus, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787474680 An emotional read about love in the face of hardship from a bestselling author. For fans of Dilly Court, Maggie Hope and Nadine Dorries.
Ruth Gilligan The Butchers Atlantic, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786499462 The first novel truly to capture the story of Ireland during the BSE crisis, shown through the small, deeply intimate stories of four people caught up in its churn.
Katie Ginger The Secrets of Meadowbank Farmhouse HQ Digital, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008422745 Heartwarming new novel from author of the Swallowtail Bay series and Snowflakes at Mistletoe Cottage.
Natalia Ginzburg, Beryl Stockman Family and Borghesia NYRB Classics, 2nd March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781681375083 Two novellas about friendship, romance and family by one of the finest Italian writers of the 20th century.
Jean Giono, Paul Eprile (tr) The Open Road NYRB Classics, 25th May, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781681375106 A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in apicaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees.
Paolo Giordano, Anne Milano Appel Heaven and Earth Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 24th June, pb, £8.99, 9781474612166 Big love story that spans 20 years and half the globe from Puglia to a frozen cave in Iceland.
Anne Glenconner Murder on Mustique Hodder, 24th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529336382
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Witty and entertaining, Murder on Mustique draws on Glenconner’s wealth of knowledge about the island and love of storytelling to create a gripping murder mystery.
Joanna Glen All My Mothers Te Borough Press, 27th May, hb, £12.99, 9780008410582 In her quest to find her birth mother Eva Martinez-Green realises that family can be discovered in the most unexpected of places.
Nicole Glover The Conductors Del Rey, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529102079 Meet Hetty Rhodes, a former conductor on the Underground Railroad who now uses her magic to solve crimes in her community in a post-Civil War world.
AJ Gnuse Girl in the Walls 4th Estate, 18th March, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008381028 4th Estate’s lead début novel of 2021. “A uniquely gothic tale about grief, belonging and hiding in plain sight”— Jess Kidd, author of Things in Jars.
Donald Goines White Man’s Justice, Black Man’s Grief Kensington, 23rd February, pb, £12.99, 9781496733276 Goines, the godfather of urban lit, knows life on the streets is a one-way ticket to life behind bars where suffering is the one and only daily bread.
Luan Goldie Homecoming HQ, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008314668 Moving between London and Kenya and spanning almost two decades, Homecoming is a profound and moving story of love, family and friendship by the author of Nightingale Point.
Saskia Goldschmidt Shocked Earth Saraband, 1st April, pb, £9.99, 9781912235681 Earth-shattering novel about family friction and the clash of ideas and generations by a multi- translated author.
Agnes Gomillion The Seed of Cain Titan, 15th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789091182 Return to the startlingly original dystopian world of the Record Keeper in this sequel and join Arika Cobane as she continues her fight for freedom.
Maria Goodin The End is Where We Begin Legend Press, 16th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789559453 Absorbing novel about mistakes, consequences and redemption. Tormented by flashbacks, a single father has to face up to the traumas of his past.
heartbreak, true love and the battle for a nation’s soul.
Shilpi Somaya Gowda The Shape of Family Custom House, 15th April, pb, £9.99, 9780062933232 Poignant and memorable novel about a family’s growing apart and coming back together in the wake of tragedy.
Caroline Grace-Cassidy The Unforseen Love Story of Lexie Byrne (aged 39½) Black & White Publishing, 27th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781785303357 Funny, entertaining and delivered with a delightful lightness of touch.
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Genevieve Gornichec The Witch’s Heart Titan, 4th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789097061 When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in a fierce, subversive début novel that reimagines Norse myth.
Victoria Gosling Before the Ruins Serpent’s Tail, 6th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781788163798 One long, hot summer Andy and her friends begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.
Mel Gough A Leap of Faith Red Dog Press, 12th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913331757 South Africa and London, 1953. Forbidden love between two men working at a mission camp leads to a heartbreaking tale of passion, betrayal and hope. Poignant, political and deeply moving.
James Gould-Bourn Keeping Mum Trapeze, 4th February, pb, £7.99, 9781409191261 Laugh-out-loud and emotionally charged book about a man trying to reconnect with his son after they both lose the woman they loved.
George Goulding (tr), Henning Mankell (tr) The Rock Blaster MacLehose Press, 9th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857059475 An early gem from the creator of the Kurt Wallander series charts the life of a principled man through tragedy,
Flame Tree Collectable Classics Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows Flame Tree, 6th July, hb, £8.99, 9781839642289 Grahame’s treasured Wind in the Willows, with its idyllic setting and the message of friendship, now part of the Flame Tree Collectable Classics.
Alasdair Gray Unlikely Stories, Mostly Canongate Canons, 18th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838852733 First short story collection from the irreplaceable Gray, sublimely decorated throughout.
Alasdair Gray The Fall of Kelvin Walker Canongate Canons, 18th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838853853 From the genius of Scottish letters, a satire on religion, the media and London.
Alasdair Gray McGrotty and Ludmilla Canongate Canons, 18th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838853877 Fantastical comedy by Gray.
Abbie Greaves The Ends of the Earth Century, 29th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529123968 Cleverly structured and beautifully written, this novel celebrates love, hope and the importance of finding the right words.
Anne Griffin Listening Still Sceptre, 29th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781473683129 New by bestselling author of When All is Said.
Paul Griffiths The Tomb Guardians
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