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Henningham Family Press, 30th April, pb, £12.99, 9781916218611 Two conversations oscillate either side of a canvas: Bernhard Strigel’s grave guards.
Hervé Guibert To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life Serpent’s Tail, 1st July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781788168397 Cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of dying from Aids and the surreal fight against death itself.
Sally Cabot Gunning Painting the Light William Morrow, 8th July, hb, £20, 9780062916242 From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered story of love, loss and reinvention.
Yaa Gyasi Transcendent Kingdom Viking, 4th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241433379 From the bestselling author of Homegoing comes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America.
Daniel Hahn (tr), Rodrigo Blanco Calderon The Night Seven Stories Press, 13th May, pb, £12.99, 9780995580756 For readers who love Bolaño a new voice of Latin American fiction and winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Prize.
Francesca Haig The Cookbook of Common Prayer Allen & Unwin, 3rd June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781911630906 Heartrending tale of a family in turmoil after the death of a child is kept secret from one of his siblings.
Matt Haig
The Midnight Library Canongate, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786892737 Touching and funny new work by the author of How to Stop Time and Reasons to Stay Alive.
Georgie Hall Woman of a Certain Rage Head of Zeus, 8th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800240025 Eliza is very angry and very hot. A novel about love, life and a second shot at freedom for rebellious women of a certain age.
Andy Hamilton Longhand Unbound, 22nd July, pb, £9.99, 9781800180598
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This novel by comedy legend Andy Hamilton (“Outnumbered”, “Not the Nine O’Clock News”) is a publishing first, reproducing 300 pages of handwritten manuscript.
Duncan Hamilton Injury Time riverrun, 8th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529408430 First novel by three-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
Hugo Hamilton The Pages 4th Estate, 8th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008451660 About the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another. From the award-winning author of The Speckled People.
Alison Hammer Little Pieces of Me William Morrow, 13th May, pb, £10.99, 9780062934871 A young woman discovers during a simple DNA test that her father may not be the man she always thought he was.
Peter Hanington A Cursed Place Two Roads, 13th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529305210 Reporter William Carver comes up against Big Tech’s manipulation and suppression of truth from the mines of Chile to the streets of Hong Kong.
Kristin Hannah Wild Pan, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529045130 Powerful story by international bestselling author of the global sensation The Nightingale.
Kristin Hannah The Four Winds Macmillan, 9th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529054569 Sweeping tale of love and loss set in the midst of the Great Depression in 1930s America.
Maeve Haran A Very French Wedding Pan, 24th June, pb, eb, £6.39, 9781529035186 Friends and lovers, old and new, come together and fall apart in deepest France in a tale that culminates in a very special château wedding.
Sophie Hardach The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages Apollo, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838939236 When Kurdish refugee Selim ends up in a small
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town in Germany he believes he is finally safe until the law catches up with him and the clock starts ticking.
Sophie Hardcastle Below Deck Allen & Unwin, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911630531 Strong novel of one wide- eyed young woman’s experience of ill-treatment at the hands of men—and the aftermath.
Rebecca Hardiman Good Eggs Atlantic, 18th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781838952747 Hilarious and heartfelt début follows three generations of a Dublin family and the simmering tensions that boil over when an American home help enters the picture.
Lisa Harding
Bright Burning Things Bloomsbury, 4th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526624468 Immensely powerful novel of maternal love, control and a woman at the mercy of addiction.
Mary Hargreaves Enough Already Trapeze, 10th June, pb, £8.99, 9781409194675 Fresh take on the trials and tribulations of being a woman in your twenties. For fans of Holly Bourne and Mhairi McFarlane.
Sarah J Harris Bright Sparks HarperCollins, 3rd February, hb, £12.99, 9780008377335 Uplifting new yarn from the author of The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder.
Zakiya Dalila Harris The Other Black Girl Bloomsbury, 10th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526630377 Major début about race and authenticity in the workplace where micro-aggressions and gaslighting turn the civilised atmosphere of a publishing house into a slowly unravelling, threatening horror.
Kathleen Hart Devorgilla Days Two Roads, 1st April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529300413 Inspiring tale of one woman’s remarkable journey, a celebration of community and a call-to- arms for anyone who has ever dreamt of starting over.
David Hartley Incorcisms Arachne Press, 27th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913665241 Stories about strange
things for strange people. Tales of possession and obsession, destruction and restoration.
LP Hartley Eustace and Hilda Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 10th June, pb, £10.99, 9781474616485 “A masterpiece” (Guardian) and the magnum opus from the author of the much loved classic The Go-Between.
Gillian Harvey Perfect on Paper Orion, 13th May, pb, £8.99, 9781409191896 You have the successful career, the perfect family and a loving husband. But what if you still weren’t happy? Lindsey Kelk meets Anna Bell via Louise Pentland.
Nadia Hashimi Sparks Like Stars William Morrow, 1st April, hb, £20, 9780063008281 An Afghan-American woman’s quest to return to Kabul and learn the truth about her family who perished in the 1978 coup.
Ethan Hawke
A Bright Ray of Darkness William Heinemann, 2nd February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781785152597 First novel in nearly 20 years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director. A Bright Ray of Darkness is a book about art, love, fame and heartbreak.
Jude Hayland Miller Street SW22 Matador, 28th April, pb, £9.99, 9781800462380 Follows a year in the lives of five neighbours who move into the street in 2005.
Elizabeth Haynes You, Me and the Sea Myriad Editions, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912408757 Compelling and teeming with feral desire: Haynes’ new novel is an intoxicating story of love and redemption set on a remote Scottish island.
Katherine Heiny Early Morning Riser 4th Estate, 15th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008395094 Wise, big-hearted, boundlessly joyful novel of love, disaster and unconventional family from the celebrated author of Standard Deviation.
Padma Hejmadi The Schoolmaster & Other Stories
Bauhan Publishing, 2nd March, pb, £15, 9780872333390 New edition of short stories first published in 1985 which cover upper- class family life in India and cultural displacement and exile in North America.
Miranda Cowley Heller The Paper Palace Viking, 8th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241470718 Breathtaking literary début about one woman’s impossible choice between her husband and her first love.
Donald Henderson, Martin Edwards A Voice Like Velvet Collins Crime Club, 1st April, pb, £8.99, 9780008449391 Sensational wartime crime novel about a BBC announcer who abuses his position to commit crimes against the rich and famous.
Calla Henkel Other People’s Clothes Sceptre, 8th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529357639 Sceptre’s lead début fiction title, Other People’s Clothes is a Berlin-based literary thriller for fans of The Girls and The Secret History.
Philip Hensher A Small Revolution in Germany 4th Estate, 4th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008323103 “Hensher’s quietly brilliant novel opens in the 80s and spans some 30 years, illuminating an entire social world with skill, humour and tenderness”—Mail.
Sally Hepworth The Good Sister Hodders, 15th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781473697034 Dark psychological thriller about the unyielding bond between two sisters and a secret that will break them.
Ronan Hession Panenka Bluemoose, 27th May, hb, £15, 9781910422670 His name was Joseph but they called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story.
Elin Hilderbrand Untitled Hodder & Stoughton, 10th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781529374810 Another blockbusting beach read from the queen of the summer novel.
MK Hill The Woman in the Wood
Head of Zeus, 4th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781788548304 A reality TV star becomes a suspect in an Essex murder case. The second thriller in the Sasha Dawson series.
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir, Meg Matich (tr) Magma Picador, 8th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529045543 A poetic, highly poisonous cocktail of alienated love, delusion, pain and cruelty that will stay with the reader for a long time.
Brandon Hobson The Removed ECCO Press, 18th March, hb, £20, 9780062997548 Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, this novel is about a fractured family reckoning with the death of their son long ago. By a National Book Award finalist.
Patrick Hoffman Clean Hands Grove Press UK, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781611854626 Breakout thriller about a powerful law firm on the brink of disaster and the woman charged with making all their problems go away.
Faith Hogan The Ladies’ Midnight Swimming Club Aria an imprint of Head of Zeus, 6th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800241343 Three women at three different stages of life united by one thing: the chance to start again. A story of friendship, taking chances and finding a new lease in life.
Ruth Hogan Madame Burova Two Roads, 1st April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529373318 In a story spanning over 50 years Hogan has conjured a world of 1970s holiday camps and seaside entertainers, heroes and villains, the lost and the found.
Inez Holden There’s No Story There: Wartime Writing, 1944-1945 Handheld Press, 23rd March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912766369 Remarkable novel about wartime life and work. This edition includes three pieces of Holden’s long- form journalism, detailing wartime life.
Nada Holland Motherborn Lendal Press, 2nd February, pb, £12, 9781912436972 Mysticism meets
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