GENERAL FICTION
Meg Mitchell Moore The Islanders William Morrow, 22nd July, pb, £7.99, 9780063079274 A food truck is roving around the island, selling goodies-and threatening her business. Lu Trusdale is spending the summer on her in-laws’ dime.
Sarah Morgan The Summer Seekers HQ, 27th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781848457966 Multi-generational story about two women who take a road trip acrossAmerica together.
Sinead Moriarty About Us Sandycove, 15th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781844885350 Three women are at a crossroads—can they save their relationships or should they find happiness alone?
Joanna Nadin The Talk of Pram Town Mantle, 4th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529024623 About mothers, daughters and second chances for fans of The Queen of Bloody Everything and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.
Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr) Earthlings Granta, 1st July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781783785698 Mind-blowing, dark and wild, the new novel from the author of Convenience Store Woman asks: how far would you go just to be yourself?
Peter Murphy A Statue for Jacob Oldcastle, 22nd July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857304179 Jacob Van Eyck’s selfless generosity may well have prevented disaster but it reduced Jacob to ruin. Now his descendant sets out to change that.
Beth Morrey Saving Missy HarperCollins, 3rd March, pb, £8.99, 9780008334062 “A touching, deftly written début that celebrates community and kindness”—Sunday Times.
Clive Morton Oh to Be a Gentleman Book Guild, 28th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781913551490 Embarking on a cruise from Gibraltar for Barcelona, Rome, Pisa and Florence, eight passenger’s lives become entwined.
Sarah Moss Summerwater Picador, 10th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529035476 Sharp, tense and devastating Sunday Times bestseller from author of Women’s Prize-longlisted Ghost Wall.
Fiona Mozley Hot Stew John Murray, 18th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529327205 Riotous novel about sex and money in the electric world of Soho.
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Andrew Hunter Murray The Last Day Arrow, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781787463615 The world has stopped turning. One half suffers an endless frozen night, the other nothing but burning sun. Only in a slim twilit region between them can life survive.
Perumal Murugan, N Kalyan Raman (tr) The Story of a Goat Pushkin Press, 29th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782275718 Funny, poignant, and surprising novel about a goat’s life in rural India by the greatest living Tamil author.
Emma Musty The Exile and the Mapmaker Legend Press, 16th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800319431 Theo, an aging Parisian cartographer, seaches for the woman who left him years ago to fight in the Algerian War of Independence with the help of a young refugee.
Benjamin Myers Male Tears Bloomsbury Circus, 29th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526611352 From the Walter Scott Prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole comes a wild, unsettling, mordantly funny collection that excavates and eviscerates the male psyche.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Ann Napolitano Dear Edward Penguin, 4th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780241985892 Luminous, life-affirming bestseller about a 12-year- old boy who is the sole survivor of a plane crash.
Marc Nash Stories We Tell Our Children Lendal Press, 15th April, pb, £12, 9781912436941 Thematically linked tales about cultural change at rapid speed re-evaluate what it means to grow up and grow old in a divided age. Frighteningly incisive yet told with kind-hearted curiosity.
Ibrahim Nasrallah, Ziad Khadash, Ahmad Jaber, Khaled Hourani, Ameer Hamad et al The Book of Ramallah Comma Press, 18th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912697427 Ten short stories from the Palestinian city of Ramallah offer a glimpse of life inside this place of refuge, full of hope, humour and precious moments of intimacy.
Michael Nath The Treatment riverrun, 18th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781787479371 Freewheeling, kaleidoscopic and wickedly funny, this is a novel that shows Nath to be a writer of rare linguistic and imaginative power.
Louise Nealon Snowflake Manilla, 13th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781786580702 A novel for a generation and Manilla’s lead début for 2021. A startling novel about growing up and leaving home only to find you’ve taken it with you.
Karla Neblett King of Rabbits William Heinemann, 25th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781785152481 Wonderful début about the magic and confusion of childhood. A beautiful, painful, at times funny novel about how a little boy perceives the world.
Joanna Nell The Great Escape From
Woodlands Nursing Home Hodder & Stoughton, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529349320 Fun yet poignant novel from the author of The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village.
Christina Ann Nelson The Way It Should Be Bethany House, 16th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780764235399 Over the course of one summer, three women’s hearts and lives hang in the balance as one of them desperately works towards a new life.
Erica Ruth Neubauer Murder At Wedgefield Manor Kensington, 30th March, hb, £21, 9781496725882 In the wake of World War I Jane is travelling abroad, enjoying the hospitality of an English lord and a perfectly proper manor house until murder makes an unwelcome appearance.
David Nicholls Starter for Ten Hodders, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780340734872 Comedy masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of One Day and The Understudy.
David Nicholls The Understudy Hodder, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780340935217 Another comedy masterpiece.
Owen Nicholls Perfect Timing Headline Review, 1st July, eb, £16.99, 9781472263223 “Will-they-won’t- they?” love story follows musician Tom and comedian Jess over the course of their careers.
Shelley Noble Imagine Summer William Morrow, 10th June, pb, £9.99, 9780062953605 Noble delights with her latest beach read about two estranged sisters who must decide to face the past or risk history repeating itself.
Annie England Noblin Maps for the Getaway William Morrow, 22nd July, pb, £10.99, 9780062910738 Four high school friends find themselves emotionally fractured when tragedy strikes so they go on a road trip and rediscover what made them best friends forever.
Test Signal Bloomsbury, 8th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526630919
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