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inhabitants is disrupted. A tale of passion and folly set in the north-east of England.


Won-pyung Sohn Almond HarperVia, 22nd July, pb, £10.99, 9780062961389 Story of an emotionless teenaged boy and a hotheaded troublemaker discovering how love, friendship and persistence can change a life forever.


Rivers Solomon Sorrowland Merky Books, 6th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529118735 Genre-bending work of gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled history of racism in America and the marginalisation of society’s undesirables.


Jean Stafford, Rumaan Alam Boston Adventure NYRB Classics, 15th June, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781681375373 Provocative story of class struggle, privilege and poverty that put American author on the map.


Helen Stancey Relative Secrets Fairlight, 25th March, pb, £8.99, 9781912054862 In a beautifully told drama of family secrets, Stancey once again picks through the everyday of life to uncover poetry, pain and ultimately love.


Alexander Starritt We Germans John Murray, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529317251 Striking and human novel about the Second World War told from the point of view of a German soldier on the Eastern front.


Zoe Somerville


The Night of the Flood Head of Zeus, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838934620 Literary thriller set during the devastating North Sea flood of 1953 in which a love triangle turns murderous.


Louise Soraya Black The Water Garden Muswell Press, 3rd June, pb, £9.99, 9781916360273 About family secrets, guilt and redemption. The story of a 30-year old mother who becomes attracted to a troubled teenage boy.


Jen Spyra, Stephen Colbert Big Time Berkley, 16th March, hb, £20, 9781984855268 Début collection of raucous, strange satirical stories from the “Late Show”.


Dana Stabenow Spoils of the Dead Head of Zeus, 4th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781788549158 Trooper Liam Campbell investigates the death of a young archaeologist, murdered at their own dig site. Campbell will have to find the killer before the situation spirals out of control.


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Catherine Steadman The Disappearing Act Simon & Schuster, 27th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781471189784 audiofile, £14.40, 9781398500570 Breathless Hitchcockian thriller full of twists that hit one after another. For fans of Lisa Jewell, Harriet Tyce and Paula Hawkins.


Danielle Steel The Wedding Dress Pan, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509878086 The love story of a family and a special dress spans three generations over times of extreme social and political change.


Danielle Steel Royal Pan, 22nd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509878192 Sweeping historical novel.


Danielle Steel Daddy’s Girls Pan, 27th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781509878246 Set in the dramatic Santa Ynez Valley in California, Daddy’s Girls is a warm family novel by the world’s favourite storyteller.


Danielle Steel The Affair Macmillan, 4th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529021455 Explores love in all its forms.


Danielle Steel Nine Lives Macmillan, 8th July, hb, eb, £20, 9781529021516 Powerful love story.


Danielle Steel Finding Ashley


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Macmillan, 29th April, hb, eb, £20, 9781529021578 Deeply moving tale of love, loss and redemption.


Jon Kalman Stefansson, Philip Roughton Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night MacLehose Press, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780857059765 International bestseller and winner of the Icelandic Literature Prize.


Susan Steinberg Machine One, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781911590293 A jagged, propulsive story of guilt and youth spinning off its axis in the wake of a drowning.


Anke Stelling, Lucy Jones (tr) Higher Ground Scribe, 8th April, pb, £14.99, 9781913348014 Prize-winning novel translated from German about class, money, creativity and motherhood that ultimately reveals what happens when the hypocrisies we live by are exposed.


Simon Stephenson Set My Heart to Five 4th Estate, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008354244 “You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure”—Scotland on Sunday. “A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human”—Simon Pegg.


Hazel Stevens Our Ike Black Wolf Edition & Publishing, 18th March, pb, £12.99, 978911424642 Ike Wagstaff decides to try to find better prospects in London. He meets the love of his life but . . .


Robert Louis Stevenson, Caroline McCracken-Flesher The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Other Tales Flame Tree, 16th February, hb, £10.99, 9781839644764 New edition brings a fresh perspective to Stevenson’s celebrated evocation of duality: polite society undermined by the weakness deep within itself.


Adalbert Stifter, Isabel Fargo Cole Motley Stones NYRB Classics, 13th April, pb, £14.99, 9781681375205 First complete English translation of the 19th-century Austrian


innovator’s evocative, elemental cycle of novellas.


Bram Stoker, Carol Senf Dracula, a Mystery Story Flame Tree, 16th February, hb, £10.99, 9781839644788 Gorgeous collector’s edition of the gripping gothic tale from the majestic Stoker with a new introduction and the short story Dracula’s Guest.


Emma Stonex The Lamplighters Picador, 4th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529047318 Heartstopping story of an abandoned Cornish lighthouse, an unsolved mystery and three missing keepers lost to the waves.


Rosalind Stopps A Beginner’s Guide to Murder HQ, 27th May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008302610 Highly original coming- of-old-age novel about three women in their 70s who set out to save a young girl’s life through murder.


Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Picador, 15th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529019292 Stuart’s Booker-shortlisted heart-wrenching first novel set in Glasgow during the 1980s.


J Courtney Sullivan Friends and Strangers Two Roads, 18th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529349450


Insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women at two different stages in life.


Jesse Q Sutanto Dial A for Aunties HQ, 29th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780008445850 Brilliantly original and fun this is a romcom with a mystery twist giving a tantalising glimpse into the glitzy and glamorous lives of the uber-rich.


Agust Borgbor Sverrisson, Andri Snaer, Gudrun Eva Minervudottir, Audur Jonsdottir et al The Book of Reykjavik Comma Press, 15th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781910974032 Featuring 10 stories from and about the capital city of Iceland by contemporary local authors, both emerging and award-winning, translated from the Icelandic for the first time.


Karen Swan Untitled Pan, 8th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529006261 Another instantly addictive summer read.


Stacey Swann Olympus, Texas Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 8th July, hb, £16.99, 9781474612425 Boisterous, big-hearted, thoroughly modern family saga in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare and secrets explode.


Shubhangi Swarup Latitudes of Longing riverrun, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529405149 Prize-winning literary epic of the subcontinent, nature, climate and love by a breathtaking new Indian talent.


Archipelago, 18th March, pb, £18.99, 9781939810687 Masterful collection about intimacy, loneliness and time, each inspired by different works of art and spanning the entirety of the great Italian writer’s career.


Lisa Taddeo Animal Bloomsbury Circus, 22nd July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526630940 Pre-order the first novel from Taddeo, author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Three Women.


Ginny Takemori (tr), Ian MacDonald (tr), Kyoko Nakajima (tr) Things Remembered and Things Forgotten Sort of Books, 1st April, pb, £9.99, 9781908745965 Prize-winning Japanese author offers stories haunted by history.


Catherine Talbot A Good Father Penguin Ireland, 25th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781844884841 Chilling psychological thriller delves into the mind of a man driven by jealousy to do the unthinkable.


William Talsman The Gaudy Image Muswell Press, 6th May, pb, £8.99, 9781916129238 Originally published in Europe in the 1950s to avoid prosecution for obscenity, The Gaudy Image is one of the most important “lost” gay novels.


Matson Taylor The Miseducation of Evie Epworth Scribner, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471190834 July 1962. Sixteen- year-old Evie Epworth stands on the cusp of womanhood. But what kind of a woman will she become? Moving, inventive and richly comic.


Sarah Sundin When Twilight Breaks Revell, 16th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800736361 Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent and Peter Lang is working on his PhD in German—and feeding information to the reporter he can’t get off his mind.


Christina Sweeney-Baird The End of Men Te Borough Press, 29th April, hb, £12.99, 9780008407926 Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a patient with flu-like symptoms. The unknown virus sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. The victims are all men.


Antonio Tabucchi, Elizabeth Harris Stories With Pictures


Sue Teddern Annie Stanley, All At Sea Mantle, 8th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529025033 Life-affirming novel that starts with a death. For fans of Joanna Cannon, Rachel Joyce and Beth Morrey.


Emily Temple The Lightness Te Borough Press, 10th June, pb, £8.99, 9780008332686 An hypnotic, disturbing read exploding with sexual tension and dramatic female dynamics.


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