GENERAL FICTION
From the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo a triumphant exploration of loss, the strength of the human spirit and the unbreakable bonds of courage.
Hilary Leichter Temporary Faber & Faber, 18th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571363865 Eighteen boyfriends, 23 jobs and one ghost who occasionally pops in to give advice. Welcome to the world of the temporary.
Stephan Le Marchand So Much More the Man Book Guild, 28th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913551971 Sixty-year-old Philip, an English teacher facing retirement, reflects on his unremarkable life. Connecting with an old flame 40 years after they first met changes his life.
Sanae Lemoine The Margot Affair Sceptre, 17th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529384697 A Parisian coming-of-age tale from a bright new voice in literary fiction.
Gabrielle Levy
The Insomniac Society Hodder & Stoughton, 4th February, hb, eb, £17.99, 9781529327137 Five strangers. Hundreds of sleepless nights.
SERIES
Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics Cecil Lewis 9: Pathfinders Imperial War Museum, 22nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912423378 Follows a Pathfinder crew as it sets out to raid a target in Germany. Six men, thrown together by chance, are bound close by adventure and danger.
Jeffrey Lewis Land of Cockayne Haus, 24th May, hb, £12.99, 9781913368166 A parable of American society today, Land of Cockayne is by turns furious, funny, subversive, tragic and horrifying. What is to be done in the disaster of our times?
Susan Lewis The Lost Hours HarperCollins, 1st April, hb, £12.99, 9780008286934 The Crayce family have it all until the men become suspects in the murder of 17-year-old Karen Lomax.
Marina Lewycka The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid
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Fig Tree, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241430323 Comic novel about family, bank fraud and Britain from the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
Rebecca Ley For When I’m Gone Orion, 4th March, pb, £8.99, 9781409195399 Emotional, upmarket women’s fiction for fans of The Things We Left Unsaid and If Only I Could Tell You.
Rosanna Ley The Orange Grove Quercus, 4th March, hb, eb, £20.99, 9781787476325 24th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787476349 Set in sunny Seville, The Orange Grove is the wonderfully evocative new novel from the bestselling author of The Lemon Tree Hotel.
SE Lister Prophecy Old Street, 6th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913083052 An ageing priestess, once close to the emperor, prophesies imminent doom for him, his city and its hedonistic inhabitants. Few listen and fewer still have the courage to act.
Tess Little The Octopus Hodder & Stoughton, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529358841 From the LA hills to the Norfolk marshes, a stylish exploration of power— the power of memory, perception and one person over another.
Margot Livesey The Boy in the Field Sceptre, 27th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529339147 Poignant and probing psychological drama follows the lives of three siblings in the wake of a violent crime.
Sheila Llewellyn Winter in Tabriz Sceptre, 18th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781473663145 Beguiling second novel from the author of Walking Wounded. For fans of Anna Funder and William Boyd.
Ellery Lloyd People Like Her Pan, 22nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529039405 Readers of Liane Moriarty and Lucy Foley will love this—an exciting début about truth and lies in the Instagram age.
Josie Lloyd The Cancer Ladies
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Running Club HQ, 13th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008373658 Feelgood book club fiction about a group of women who find strength against adversity in the most unlikely of circumstances.
Patricia Lockwood No One is Talking About This Bloomsbury Circus, 16th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781526629760 Début novel from master of the zeitgeist— a classic book for our times about what it feels like to live and think online.
Julia von Lucadou, Sharmila Cohen The High-rise Diver World Editions, 5th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912987160 Chilling and distressingly plausible dystopia creates a world in which performance is everything and one woman’s failure to achieve becomes another’s downfall.
Rachael Lucas The Village Green Bookshop Macmillan, 15th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781529058758 Pan, 27th May, pb, £7.99, 9781529058734 Truly heartwarming tale of how good books and good friends can transform your life. Set in the same village as the runaway bestseller The Telephone Box Library.
Maja Lunde
The End of the Ocean Scribner, 15th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471175541 From the author of The History of Bees a captivating novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter.
Alain Mabanckou The Death of Comrade President Profile, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788162333 Poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa by one of the continent’s greatest living novelists.
Tim MacGabhann How to Be Nowhere Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 15th April, pb, £8.99, 9781474610506 “Taken” meets “Narcos” in this adrenaline-fuelled sequel to MacGabhann’s genre-busting début, Call Him Mine.
Bella Mackie How to Kill Your Family Te Borough Press, 10th June, hb, £12.99, 9780008365912 Début novel. When Grace discovers her absentee millionaire father has rejected her dying mother’s pleas for help she vows revenge. Wickedly dark and outrageously funny.
Sophie Mackintosh Blue Ticket Penguin, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241986691 Devastating but euphoric road trip novel about desire, choice and the meaning of free will from the Man Booker- longlisted author of The Water Cure.
Kathleen MacMahon Nothing but Blue Sky Penguin, 15th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241986653 Wise, thoughtful and beautifully observed portrait of a marriage.
Annie Macmanus Mother Mother Wildfire, 27th May, hb, £16.99, 9781472275882 Moving and powerful reading group novel about family that will appeal to fans of Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You.
Adam MacQueen The Enemy Within Lightning, 7th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785632341 Twenty-year-old ex-male prostitute turned investigator Tommy Wildeblood is back in the thrilling sequel to the bestselling Beneath the Streets.
Jamal Mahjoub The Fugitives Canongate, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781838850821 Moving from Sudan to Washington DC and then across the US in a road trip unlike any other, this is a book about music, friendship and the desire for home.
Julie Ma Happy Families Welbeck, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787396883 Amy has given up her career in the city to move back in with her grandfather and work in the Chinese takeaway Why? That’s a secret she won’t tell.
Agustin Fernandez Mallo, Thomas Bunstead The Things We’ve Seen Fitzcarraldo Editions, 24th March, pb, £14.99, 9781913097301 A novel in three parts and
Mallo’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
Lucy Mangan Diary of a Suburban Lady Profile, 4th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781788161084 Mangan’s first foray into fiction is a witty update of the classic Diary of a Provincial Lady.
SERIES
Te Balkan Trilogy Olivia Manning 2: The Spoilt City Windmill, 11th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786091550 Dramatic and colourful portrait of a city in turmoil and a sharply perceptive portrait of a young couple struggling to make their marriage work.
3: Friends and Heroes 9781786091543 Harriet is newly arrived in Athens. Having fled Nazi-occupied Rumania, she awaits news of her husband. When the young couple reunite they have little idea of the problems still to come.
Adam Mars-Jones Batlava Lake Fitzcarraldo Editions, 23rd June, pb, £10.99, 9781913097622 Exploring masculinity, class and identity, Batlava Lake is a brilliant story of men and war by one of Britain’s most accomplished writers.
Charles Martin The Water Keeper Tomas Nelson Fiction, 18th March, pb, £8.99, 9780785230946 Riveting story of heroism, heartache and the power of love to heal all wounds. Now available in trade paperback.
Daniel Mason A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth Picador, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529038507 Great collection of short stories from award- winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner.
Victoria Mas The Mad Women’s Ball Doubleday, 17th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780857527028 Gem of a novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women, one deemed mad, the other sane, who find their salvation at the Mad Women’s Ball.
Hannah Mathewson Witherward Titan, 16th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789094435 Intelligent, witty and compelling fantasy: Six of Crows meets The Prestige. For fans of VE Schwab.
Nicolas Mathieu And Their Children After Them Sceptre, 1st July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529303865 The voice of a generation: an immersive, nostalgic novel recalling the long, sultry summers of the 1990s from a hot new talent and the winner of the Goncourt Prize.
Martin Maudsley Celebrating the Seasons Te History Press, 1st March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780750994026 Month-by-month treasury of stories and traditions that bring to life the changing seasons and celebrate the turning year.
Paul Maunder The Atomics Lightning, 10th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781785632327 Claustrophobic literary novel set in the late 60s about a worker at a new nuclear power plant in East Anglia coming to terms with a violent incident in his past.
Nicola Maye Goldberg Nothing Can Hurt You Raven, 1st July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781526619471 The Virgin Suicides meets Little Fires Everywhere. Inspired by a true story, this haunting novel pieces together a chorus of voices to explore the aftermath of a college student’s death.
Joyce Maynard Count the Ways William Morrow, 8th July, hb, £20, 9780062398277 A landscape of grief, reconciliation, forgiveness and the way the mistakes of parents are passed down through generations to fester or to be healed.
Imbolo Mbue How Beautiful We Were
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