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include acclaimed bestsellers The Big Picture, The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship and The Moment.
Emma Kennedy The Never-ending Summer Arrow, 15th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787463295 Best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on one last adventure before their adult lives begin.
Louise Kennedy The End of the World is a Cul De Sac Bloomsbury, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526623270 Announcing a major new voice, this is the début short story collection from the twice-shortlisted Sunday Times Audible Short Story Prize writer.
Margaret Kennedy Where Stands a Winged Sentry Handheld Press, 23rd March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912766383 Taken from the author’s war diaries, this book conveys the tension, frustration and bewilderment of the progression of the Second World War.
Nicole Kennedy Everything’s Perfect Head of Zeus, 3rd June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781800240124 Smart and thought- provoking romantic comedy about
motherhood, friendship and the quest for perfection in an Instagram age.
Maylis de Kerangal Painting Time MacLehose Press, 18th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857059864 Highly original coming-of- age story: the artistic and emotional apprenticeship of a young decorative painter from the Wellcome Book Prize-winning author of Mend the Living.
Imprint 27, 1st March, hb, £16.99, 9781910620816 What does it mean to be silenced, to be censored? Or perhaps, more importantly, what does it mean to break free?
Sue Monk Kidd The Book of Longings Tinder Press, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781472232519 Powerful, exquisitely written new historical novel from bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings.
John Oliver Killens The Minister Primarily Amistad, 22nd July, hb, £20, 9780063079595 Eagerly anticipated posthumous novel from the man considered the founding father of the Black Arts Movement and the mentor of Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, Arthur Flowers and Terry McMillan.
Lily King Writers & Lovers Picador, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529033137 Bitingly clever story of Casey, a young writer who has lost her direction in life, until two men enter her world and offer her two very different futures.
Sophie Kinsella Love Your Life Black Swan, 24th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784163587 Number one bestselling author returns with an irresistible new standalone about falling in love with someone, though not necessarily with their life.
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Flame Tree Collectable Classics Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book Flame Tree, 16th February, hb, £9.99, 9781839642166 Flame Tree Classics edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. Also includes The Second Jungle Book.
Coco Khan, Various Aiden Shaw’s Penis and Other Stories of Censorship From Around the World
Carol Kirkwood Under a Greek Moon HarperCollins, 8th July, hb, £12.99, 9780008393380 Pure escapist pleasure when secrets, lies and passion combine in an exciting and page- turning novel. Glamorous début fiction from the TV presenter.
Binnie Kirshenbaum Rabbits for Food
Serpent’s Tail, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788164665 Devastating comic story of a woman’s slide into depression and institutionalisation from a master of razor-edged literary humour.
Harriet Kline This Shining Life Doubleday, 3rd June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780857526274 Kline paints a picture of grief and hope, destruction and reconciliation, old life and new in this début about family, loss and understanding.
TJ Klune Flash Fire Hodder & Stoughton, 13th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473693104 Explosive sequel to The Extraordinaries by USA Today bestselling author.
Yun Ko-Eun, Lizzie Buehler The Disaster Tourist Profile, 1st July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788163156 Satirical Korean eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility.
Taeko Kono Toddler Hunting and Other Stories Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 18th March, pb, £9.99, 9781474619202 Captivating collection of pitch-black tales from one of the most important Japanese writers of the second half of the 20th century.
Betina Krahn Hero Wanted Zebra, 23rd February, pb, £7.50, 9781420151954 Filled with with Krahn’s signature sparkling wit the battle of wills between these two lovers are sure to captivate readers.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming Tuskar Rock, 6th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781781258927 Winner of the National Book Award 2019 and the defining masterwork of the Man Booker International winner’s spectacular career now in paperback.
Nicole Krauss To Be a Man Bloomsbury, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781408871850 Début short story collection from the twice-Orange Prize- shortlisted author of The History of Love.
GENERAL FICTION
Gabriel Krauze Who They Was 4th Estate, 27th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008375034 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020. “Exceptional”—Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie. “This is a new voice arriving fully formed and raring to go”—Booker Prize judges 2020.
Daniela Krien, Jamie Bulloch Love in Five Acts MacLehose Press, 29th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529406382 The stories of five women whose paths intersect. Punchy and contemporary, for readers of Conversations with Friends and An American Marriage.
Kevin Kwan Sex and Vanity Windmill, 27th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786091055 Author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians returns with the glittering tale of a young woman who finds herself torn between two men.
Benjamin Labatut, Adrian Nathan West (tr) When We Cease to Understand the World Pushkin Press, 1st July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782276128 Fast-paced, mind- expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.
Catherine Lacey Pew Granta, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781783785193 Foreboding, provocative and amorphous fable about the world today—our borders and boundaries, our fears and our woes—for fans of Shirley Jackson and Sarah Hall.
Kiare Ladner Nightshift Picador, 18th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529010381 Compelling story of obsession and compulsion: one woman’s decision to shrug off her normal life and join the otherworldly existence of London’s nightshift workers.
Jhumpa Lahiri Whereabouts Bloomsbury, 4th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526629951 New from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman,
Oliver K Langmead Birds of Paradise Titan, 16th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789094817 American Gods meets The Chronicles of Narnia in this adult fantasy about the Biblical Adam recovering the lost pieces of the Garden of Eden.
Emma Larkin Comrade Aeon’s Field Guide to Bangkok Granta, 6th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781783786183 The secrets hidden in an overgrown plot of land in the centre of Bangkok reveal the politics, society and culture of contemporary Thailand in this luminous début novel.
Jamie Marina Lau Gunk Baby Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 8th July, hb, £14.99, 9781474620901 From a young Australian voice in contemporary literary fiction about a young woman who cleans people’s ears in a shopping centre.
her decisions, her conversations and her solitariness in an unnamed Italian city.
Nikita Lalwani You People Penguin, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241987070 “Exceptional novel about the Britain we live in, even if we choose not to see it”—Kamila Shamsie.
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Dylan Brian Landers 3: Coincidence of Spies RedDoor Press, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913062446 Winter 1981: Poland is in turmoil, the Communist regime is close to collapse and the CIA wants to help it along. 4: Exodus of Spies 22nd April, 9781913062439 Tom and Julia Dylan confront death, betrayal and their conscience when they start pulling together clues to solve a crime and the politicians take over.
Antoine Laurain The Readers’ Room Gallic, 3rd June, pb, £8.99, 9781913547004 A Parisian editor is drawn into a murder investigation when an unknown thriller author is shortlisted for a prize.
Marie Lavoie Confessions of a Boring Wife Welbeck, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787394698 Comedy about what happens to a woman when she discovers her husband’s affair.
DH Lawrence, Frances Wilson The Man Who Loved Islands riverrun, 6th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529412567 New selection of the much- loved stories of Lawrence.
John Lawton Hammer to Fall Grove Press UK, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781611854725 Moving from icy Finland to Cold War Prague, Hammer to Fall is a tale of vodka smuggling and a legendary female Red Army general who is playing a dangerous game.
Emily Layden All Girls John Murray, 18th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529330083 Keenly perceptive coming- of-age novel set at a prestigious New England prep school as nine young women navigate their ambitions, friendships and fears.
Jonathan Lee The Great Mistake Granta, 17th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781783786244 Set at the dawn of the 20th century, this is the story of Andrew Haswell Green, the father of New York City, his hidden life and his mysterious assassination.
Christy Lefteri Songbirds Bonnier Zaffre, 8th July, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781838773762
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