GENERAL FICTION
Corvus, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838953560 From the author of Ayesha At Last comes a sparkling new romcom for fans of “You’ve Got Mail”.
CLR James, Bernardine Evaristo Minty Alley Penguin, 4th February, pb, £8.99, 9780241482667 The only novel from the revolutionary intellectual CLR James and the first by a black West Indian to be published in the UK—nearly 100 years ago. With an introduction by Evaristo.
Sébastien Japrisot Trap for Cinderella Gallic, 25th April, pb, £8.99, 9781913547127 A young woman wakes up in a hospital room. What happened to her and why a mystery.
Nicole Jarvis The Lights of Prague Titan, 18th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789093940 For readers of VE Schwab and fans of “The Witcher” science and magic clash in atmospheric gaslight- era Prague.
Crystal Jeans The Inverts Te Borough Press, 1st April, hb, £14.99, 9780008365875 Bettina prefers women to men. Bart prefers men to women. Society will never stand for it. So they’ve decided to get married. A celebration of queer friendship and love.
Morgan Jerkins Caul Baby Harper, 29th April, hb, £20, 9780062873088 Family saga full of secrets, betrayal, intrigue and magic.
Victor Jestin Heatwave Scribner, 22nd July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781471199776 audiofile, £14.40, 9781398501683 Set on a campsite in the south of France, Heatwave is an intense psychological thriller in the vein of Leila Slimani’s Lullaby about the devastating consequences of doing nothing.
Paulette Jiles Simon the Fiddler William Morrow, 13th May, pb, £9.99, 9780062966759 Set at the end of the Civil War in Texas this tells the story of an itinerant fiddle player and, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels seeking fame-and-fortune.
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Meng Jin Little Gods One, 25th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781911590439 Heartbreaking epic opening on the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre about the legacy of migration with a tangled family mystery at its heart.
Jessica Gaitán Johannesson How We Are Translated Scribe, 11th February, hb, £12.99, 9781913348069 From Mr B’s the bookseller and climate activist comes a playful, multi-lingual début about identity, culture and belonging. Praised as “patient, humane and quirky” by Niamh Campell.
Debbie Johnson The Moment I Met You Orion, 15th April, pb, £7.99, 9781409188032 It only takes a second for your life to change forever.
Jane Johnson The Sea Gate Head of Zeus, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789545180 A novel about the lives of two women, 70 years apart, and the secrets that bind them together.
Jane Johnson The Salt Road Head of Zeus, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789545272 Historical adventure brings together the most unlikely of people in an epic quest that spans the decades and the hot, shifting sands of Morocco.
Nancy Johnson The Kindest Lie William Morrow, 18th February, hb, £20, 9780063005631 For fans of Tayari Jones and Jacqueline Woodson a thought-provoking, page-turning début about race, identity and the pursuit of the American dream.
Uwe Johnson, Damion Searls Anniversaries Vol 1 NYRB Classics, 16th March, pb, eb, £22.50, 9781681375557 Anniversaries Vol 2 £19.99, 9781681375571 Titanic masterpiece of 20th-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by New York Times critics, in two volumes.
JA Johnstone, William W Johnstone Outlaw Country Pinnacle, 27th April, pb, £7.50, 9780786047253 Set in the early days of
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the Jensen family saga, this gunblazing adventure follows Smoke and Sally from their first year of marriage to the founding of the Sugarloaf Ranch.
JA Johnstone, William W Johnstone Gold Mine Massacre Pinnacle, 27th April, pb, £7.50, 9780786047291 The Jensens have struggled to build their home, their land and their dreams. But now the family is forced to fight fire with fire, bullet by bullet, blood for blood.
JA Johnstone, William W Johnstone Go West, Young Man Kensington, 27th April, pb, £10.99, 9781496734495 New standalone Western adventure set along the wagon trail just before the Civil War.
The Jackals ride again in the Johnstones’ gunblazing chronicle of the wild and lawless West.
William W Johnstone Blood, Guts, and Glory: Smoke Jensen Pinnacle, 30th March, pb, £7.99, 9780786047888 One of the greatest characters in Western fiction. This is how Smoke Jensen became a legend.
Jonas Jonasson Sweet Sweet Revenge HarperVia, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008407582 From the popular author of The Hundred Year- Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
Serge Joncour, Jane Aitken, Polly Mackintosh Wild Dog Gallic, 4th March, pb, £8.99, 9781910477861 A literary sensation in France, Wild Dog is a menacing tale of isolation, human nature and the infinite savagery of the wild.
Carole Johnstone Mirrorland Te Borough Press, 1st April, hb, £12.99, 9780008361389 A vivid world that twin sisters Cat and El created as children. A place of escape but from what? A sharply crafted mystery about the power of imagination and freedom.
William W Johnstone, JA Johnstone A Quiet, Little Town Pinnacle, 23rd February, pb, £7.50, 9780786044382 Stagecoach guard Red Ryan has managed to survive every dirty, danger-filled trail in Texas. But this time, the journey is hell on four wheels.
William W Johnstone, JA Johnstone By the Neck Pinnacle, 23rd February, pb, £7.50, 9780786046058 Rollie Finnegan is a man of few words. As a Pinkerton agent with two decades of experience he uses his stony silence to break down suspects.
William W Johnstone, JA Johnstone Every Mother’s Son Pinnacle, 30th March, pb, £7.50, 9780786047512
Ruth Jones Us Three Black Swan, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784162238 Funny and uplifting novel about life’s complications, the power of friendship and how it defines us from the co-creator of “Gavin & Stacey” and author of smash-hit Never Greener.
Nancy Jooyoun Kim The Last Story of Mina Lee Headline Review, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472281616
Searing mother-daughter story explores the unsettling realities of being an immigrant in America.
Jayne Joso Japan Stories Seren, 8th March, pb, £9.99, 9781781725894 Joso’s new collection of short stories reveals Japanese life in city and countryside through a variety of characters notable for their shared humanity.
A Natasha Joukovsky The Portrait of a Mirror Abrams, 10th June, hb, £18.99, 9781419752162 Reinvention of the myth of Narcissus as a modern novel of manners about two young, well-heeled couples whose parallel lives intertwine over the course of a summer.
Rachel Joyce Miss Benson’s Beetle Black Swan, 30th March, pb,
eb, £8.99, 9780552779487 The bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry delivers an intoxicating adventure about female friendship and having the courage to live your dreams, however unlikely they may be.
Ben Kane Lionheart Orion, 18th February, pb, £7.99, 9781409173496 Swashbuckling medieval drama introduces a new series.
Ben Kane Crusader Orion, 29th April, hb, £14.99, 9781409197799 Second thrilling novel in the Lionheart series.
Mary Karras
The Making of Mrs Petrakis Two Roads, 1st July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529344936 A story about the limited choices women sometimes find themselves confronting.
Shehan Karunatilaka Chats With the Dead Sort of Books, 24th June, pb, £14.99, 9781908745903 Epic satire by Sri Lanka’s coolest author.
Ani Katz
A Good Man Windmill, 11th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786090829 What does it mean to be a good man? A loving husband, a devoted father, a good son? Thomas Martin is all these things. But an unspeakable tragedy has befallen his family.
Rebecca Kauffman The House on Fripp Island Profile, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788165211 Page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families—one rich, one not—holiday together off the coast of South Carolina little do they know that someone won’t be returning home.
Charlie Kaufman Antkind 4th Estate, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008319502 Bold and boundlessly original début novel from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of “Being John Malkovich”, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and “Synecdoche, New York”.
Mieko Kawakami, Sam Bett (tr), David Boyd (tr) Breasts and Eggs Picador, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509898213 Strange, beguiling novel about three women
struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo.
Mieko Kawakami Heaven Picador, 13th May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781509898244 Haunting story exploring the threat of violence that can stalk our teenage years.
David Keenan Monument Maker White Rabbit, 10th June, hb, £30, 9781474617093 New work by one of the most exciting and entertaining writers to have emerged from Scotland in the past decade.
Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin Tyll riverrun, 2nd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529403671 Riotous historical novel with an unforgettable folkloric hero by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Measuring the World.
Tamsin Keily
The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke Orion, 27th May, hb, £16.99, 9781409191063 Some moments you remember forever. But what if you could live them again? A fresh, uplifting story of love, loss and second chances.
Cathy Kelly Other Women Orion, 18th February, hb, £12.99, 9781409179269 Kelly brings readers a refreshingly honest, warm and funny story about female friendship, marriage and all the great loves of our life.
Martha Hall Kelly Sunflower Sisters Ballantine Books, 30th March, pb, £12.99, 9780593356876 hb, £22.50, 9781524796402 audiobook, £40, 9781984845412 Kelly tells the story of her ancestor Georgeanna Woolsey, a Union nurse who joins the war effort during the Civil War.
Luke Kennard The Answer to Everything 4th Estate, 13th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008444501 Heartbreakingly moving and hilariously funny novel about marriage, parenting, love, desire and betrayal.
Douglas Kennedy Afraid of the Light Hutchinson, 8th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780091953751 Kennedy’s 12 novels
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