GENERAL FICTION
Picador, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529055238 Utterly irresistible, darkly funny and heartwarming début novel about chickens and grief.
Clare Pooley The Authenticity Project Black Swan, 18th Febru- ary, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781784164690 Six strangers with one thing in common: their lives aren’t always what they make them out to be. What would happen if they told the truth instead?
Miranda Popkey Topics of Conversation Profile, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788164054 Paperback edition to take a widely acclaimed début compared to Sally Rooney and Rachel Cusk to a mass readership.
Chris Power A Lonely Man Faber & Faber, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571341214 First novel by the acclaimed author of Mothers—an atmospheric twist on the cat-and- mouse narrative, a search for identity and the elastic nature of truth.
Kevin Power White City Scribner, 1st April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781471132780 Gripping and ultimately moving novel about the agony of losing control of your life and learning hard truths about the person you thought you were.
Ann Quin, Claire-Louise Bennett Passages And Other Stories, 2nd February, pb, eb, £10, 9781911508922 From mid-century working-class experimentalist Quin, author of Berg comes this poetic, erotic and psychologically charged mystery.
Ella Quinn The Most Eligible Viscount in London Zebra, 30th March, pb, £7.50, 9781420149692 In Quinn’s intriguing new Regency trilogy a dashing suitor must decide if love and marriage are mutually exclusive.
Leanne Radojkovich Hailman Emma Press, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912915705 Collection of short stories largely set in the dusty suburbs and countryside of Aotearoa from the author of 2017’s First Fox.
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Sue Rainsford Redder Days Doubleday, 11th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780857526786 Exploration of the devastating damage that can be done when power falls into the wrong hands. Powerful new novel from the author of Follow Me to Ground.
Rosa Rankin-Gee Dreamland Scribner, 15th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781471193811 audiofile, £14.40, 9781398501577 Set against a backdrop of rising populism, austerity and a creeping mainstreaming of social engineering and eugenics, Dreamland is a story of love, loss, friendship, adventure and hope.
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David and Ameena Fairlight, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912054275 Modern-day New York love story that picks apart the lives of two people and tests their relationship against the external world.
Gary Raymond Angels of Cairo Parthian, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913640286 Robert Clifford is in Cairo to present his latest small- budget film for a festival prize. A riotous fish-out- of-water tale reminiscent of the sharp pen of Graham Greene or Evelyn Waugh.
Melody Razak Moth Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 10th June, hb, £14.99, 9781474619233 Heartrending story of a Brahmin family living in 1940s Delhi during India’s Independence and subsequent Partition. A spellbinding new talent in fiction.
John Rechy City of Night Profile, 20th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781788166713 The taboo-busting 1960s classic that gave voice to a hidden subculture.
Francessca Reece Voyeur Tinder Press, 10th June, hb, £16.99, 9781472272195 Propulsive, vivid and witty début set over a French summer that tackles the pull between desire and power introduces a bold new voice in fiction.
Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu Rising Hutchinson, 27th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781786331526
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Malibu, August 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party and anticipation is at a fever pitch.
Cathy Rentzenbrink Everyone is Still Alive Phoenix, 8th July, hb, £14.99, 9781474621120 Wise and witty début from Rentzenbrink explores the deeper reality of marriage, parenthood and the way life thwarts our expectations.
SERIES
Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics Anthony Rhodes 10: Sword of Bone Imperial War Museum, 22nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781912423385 Wry account of the events leading up to the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in May 1940.
comes an eviscerating account of a toxic mother- daughter bond, grief and the damage done in the course of a life.
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Te Seven Sisters Lucinda Riley 1: The Seven Sisters Pan, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529069464 Reissue of the first title in the phenomenal series. 7: The Missing Sister Macmillan, 29th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781509840175 Seventh instalment but not the last in Riley’s multimillion-selling epic series.
Sam Riviere Dead Souls Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6th May, hb, £16.99, 9781474617642 Extraordinary début from award-winning poet, about poets, plagiarism, love, technology, feuds and affairs and how writing really does alter reality.
Jaap Robben, David Doherty Summer Brother World Editions, 13th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912987139 In this honest and tender account of brotherly love, 13-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brother in his trailer-park home.
Pam Rhodes Summer’s Out At Hope Hall Lion Fiction, 23rd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782642879 The loves and lives of those at Hope Hall will make you laugh and cry.
Keith Ridgway A Shock Picador, 24th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529064797 Unsparing and slippery but thrilling and memorable novel from the fringes of urban life by a cult writer.
Catherine Robinson Where There’s Muck Orion, 4th March, pb, £8.99, 9781409199939 Laugh-out-loud caper packed with Yorkshire humour, heart and charm, from the author of Forging On , longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2019.
Helen Rolfe The Kindness Club on Mapleberry Lane Orion, 4th February, pb, £7.99, 9781398700246 Warm, wise and welcoming, Rolfe writes from the heart and invites readers into a comforting world.
Gwendoline Riley My Phantoms Granta, 1st April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781783783267 From the prize-winning author of First Love
Richard Roper When We Were Young Orion, 22nd July, hb, £12.99, 9781409185642 Quirky, tender, and funny story about the bittersweet highs and lows of 30-something life. For fans of Mike Gayle, Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Gail Honeyman.
CD Rose The Blind Accordionist Melville House, 17th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781612199177
Discover a long-lost collection of fable-like stories supposedly written by the little-known middle European writer Maxim Guyavitch in this masterful, world-making third novel by Rose.
Alan Rossi Mountain Road, Late At Night Picador, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529002362 When a couple are killed on an isolated road in North Carolina they leave behind an orphaned son. Compulsive novel explores the nature of family.
Leone Ross This One Sky Day Faber & Faber, 15th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571358007 Sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates oddness.
Jacqueline Roy, Bernardine Evaristo The Fat Lady Sings Penguin, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241482698 Groundbreaking journey of two women attempting to navigate the mental health system in the UK as they find a way to come back to themselves. Black Britain: Writing Back.
Kate Ruby Mummy Dearest Simon & Schuster, 22nd July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781398500266 Loosely based on a true story, Mummy Dearest is bursting with tension, layered characters and relationships which are never as simple as they first seem.
Cynthia Ruchti Facing the Dawn Revell, 5th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780800737290 When husband Liam’s three-year absence becomes something more, Mara struggles to cope and discovers that even when faith is fragile we are not forgotten or unloved.
Alyson Rudd Eleven Lines to Somewhere HQ, 3rd March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008278359 A story of love and loss from the author of The First Time Lauren Pailing Died.
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The Thorn of Truth Lion Fiction, 21st May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782643364 Tense and involving legal thriller revolving around a barrister and a face from
Anbara Salam Belladonna Penguin, 29th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241986745 Coming-of-age novel about love and obsession
a case from long ago. What is truth? And how does conscience affect our action?
Kate Russo Super Host Tinder Press, 9th February, hb, £18.99, 9781472270016 What do you do when you’re left with a large house? Wry, warm novel of life, love and loneliness.
Donal Ryan Strange Flowers Black Swan Ireland, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781784163044 Extraordinary story of a family devastated by a sudden disappearance and transformed by a miraculous return.
Eimear Ryan Holding Her Breath Sandycove, 17th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781844885466 Beautiful coming-of-age story in the shadow of a complex love affair.
Jennifer Ryan The Me I Used to Be Avon, 8th July, pb, £7.99, 9780063073678 In Ryan’s Wm Morrow dramatic début, a young woman, disgraced and nearly destitute, returns home to discover she’s inherited the family ranch.
Aleksandra Rychlicka The Nocturnals Hawkwood, 15th March, pb, £7.99, 9781838024727 A runaway woman moves in with a stranger on a secluded estate. She discovers a secret community of sleepless tenants and soon realises that escape is impossible.
Jessica Ryn The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside HQ, 24th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008364656 Dawn Brightside finds hope in the most unlikely of places—St Jude’s Hostel for the Homeless. But when her past catches up with her will everything crumble once again?
Eva Garcia Saenz The Water Rituals Berkley, 23rd February, pb, £12.99, 9781984898616 The sensational Trilogy of the White City returns with a second instalment in which Inspector López de Ayala investigates ritualistic murders that target pregnant women.
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