SAGAS, ROMANCE & HISTORICAL


navigates a new life she’d never dreamed of.


Tish Delaney Before My Actual Heart Breaks Hutchinson, 18th Febru- ary, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781786331984 While the Northern Irish troubles rumble in the distance, one woman has a battle of her own, right on the doorstep. For fans of “Derry Girls”.


Barbara Delinsky The Stud Severn House, 26th February, hb, eb, £20.99, 9780727890658 Contemporary romance from well-known author. Jenna McCue wants a baby and if her first choice agrees, it won’t be test tubes—it’ll be the old fashioned way.


Lizzy Dent


The Summer Job Viking, 15th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780241470909 Birdy just got her dream job. The problem is, it’s not hers.


Margaret Dickinson Secrets At Bletchley Park Macmillan, 18th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781529018509 Pan, 29th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529018516 Page-turning story full of heart.


Des Dillon


Pignut and Nuncle Sparsile Books, 24th May, pb, £8.99, 9781916457294 Jane Eyre is lost on a stormbound moor. She finds two men looking for shelter. They claim to be King Lear and his fool.


Emma Donoghue The Pull of the Stars Picador, 27th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529046199 Dublin, 1918: three days in a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu. A world of work, risk, death and unlooked-for love. By the bestselling author of Room.


Head of Zeus, 4th March, hb, eb, £12, 9781838939069 Winter is coming to the Four Streets. And so is trouble. In the biting cold there is no work and no food.


Donna Douglas A Sister’s Wish Trapeze, 1st April, pb, £6.99, 9781409190929 Sweeping new saga series from Sunday Times bestselling author set in Yorkshire during World War II.


Stephanie Dray The Women of Chateau Lafayette Bantam Press, 30th March, pb, £12.99, 9780593335932 Epic generational based on true story of an extraordinary French castle.


Ruth Druart While Paris Slept Headline Review, 4th March, hb, £14.99, 9781472267962 Headline Review’s lead launch for spring is a gripping, moving début novel of courage, survival and the endurance of hope.


Kimberly Duffy A Tapestry of Light Bethany House, 27th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780764235641 When Ottilie Russell’s younger brother inherits a title and must travel to England, Ottilie is shattered by the secrets that come to light.


Elaine Everest A Mother Forever Pan, 4th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529015966 Unputdownable novel from bestselling author of The Woolworths Girls.


Suzanne Ewart One Month of You Trapeze, 24th June, pb, £7.99, 9781409194378 Winner of the eharmony Write Your Own Love Story competition.


Nigel Farndale The Dictator’s Muse Doubleday, 20th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857527172 Set against the backdrop of the Berlin Olympics and the political turmoil of 1930s London. A novel about misdirected love, buried guilt and the truths and lies of the past.


Nadine Dorries Coming Home to the Four Streets


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Louise Fein People Like Us Head of Zeus, 4th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781789545029 Love story set in 1930s Germany. Hetty, daughter of an SS officer, falls in love with Walter, a Jew.


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Bruce Fellows The Best One There Book Guild, 28th July, pb, £8.99, 9781913913083 Exciting yarn grapples with tough topics around personal beliefs in Nazi Germany. The author writes with undertones of Elmore Leonard.


Liz Fenwick The River Between Us HQ, 10th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008290573 Gloriously broad story of a family torn apart during World War I and how a woman who arrives to renovate a tumbledown cottage years later unravels an age-old mystery.


Katie Fforde A Wedding in the Country Century, 18th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781780897585 Izzie has just arrived in London, determined to make the best of her new life. But she wants to have some fun first.


Linda Finlay The Girl With the Silver Bangle HQ, 18th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008392642 Heart-warming tale from the queen of West Country saga.


Suzanne Woods Fisher The Moonlight School Revell, 16th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800735012 Cora Wilson knows the plague of illiteracy. So do Lucy and Wyatt. Cora hatches a plan to open the schoolhouses to adults on moonlit nights.


John Fletcher Wuhan Head of Zeus, 8th July, hb, eb, £20, 9781800249875 Historical epic set during events little known in the West—the Second Sino- Japanese War of the 1930s and 40s.


Zoe Folbigg The Night We Met Aria, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838930691 Daniel and Olivia are destined to be together. At least, Daniel thinks so the night he sees Olivia across a sea of people.


Kate Forster Finding Love At Mermaid Terrace Aria, 13th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800246027 Heartwarming village romance about the power of love and second chances.


Kate Forster Starting Over At Acorn Cottage


Ari, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800247352 Buying a thatched cottage in the country may not be the usual cure for a broken heart. But for devastated Clara Maxwell it feels like the only way forward.


Suzanne Fortin The Forgotten Life of Arthur Pettinger Aria, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781800243767 Sometimes the past won’t stay hidden. It demands to be uncovered.


Ben Foster Tania in China Matador, 28th February, pb, £11.99, 9781800461543 It’s never been easy to understand a different country, and China’s dazzling past and daunting present has made that harder. This is for anyone who wants to learn about China.


Megan Frampton A Wicked Bargain for the Duke Avon, 10th June, pb, £6.99, 9780063023086 Third book in the Hazards of Dukes series, a series that made Sarah MacLean say: “Make Megan Frampton your next read.”


Laura Frantz Tidewater Bride Revell, 16th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780800734961 Can two fiercely


independent people find happiness and fulfillment on their own? Or will they discover that what they’ve been missing has been right in front of them all along?


Esther Freud I Couldn’t Love You More Bloomsbury, 10th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526629906 Spellbinding novel of three women connected across half a century by love, betrayal, secrets and motherhood.


Jeaniene Frost Wicked All Night Avon Books, 18th March, pb, £7.99, 9780062695666 Set in Frost’s Night Huntress World, ancient deities are poised to wreak havoc unless vampires Veritas and Ian can stop them.


Jean Fullerton


A Ration Book Daughter Corvus, 6th May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781838950927 Queen of the East End returns with a wonderful new nostalgic novel.


Rivka Galchen Everyone Knows Your


Mother is a Witch Fourth Estate, 8th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780007548736 Startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.


JM Gale Cupid’s a Psycho Arkbound, 15th February, pb, £6.99, 9781912092185 Contemporary love story set in Glasgow. The tense relationships between three teenagers are tested by the limits of love and forgiveness.


Annie Garthwaite Cecily Viking, 29th July, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241476871 Wife, mother, politician, traitor, fighter, survivor.


Elizabeth Gill The Foundling School for Girls Book 3 Quercus, 13th May, hb, eb, £20.99, 9781787473454 Gill returns with the final novel in trilogy. Expect to have your heart broken and put back together again in this moving tale of hardship.


Seni Glaister Growing Season HQ, 3rd March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008285050 “Extremely charming”— Marian Keyes on Mr Doubler Begins Again.


Guinevere Glasfurd The Year Without Summer Two Roads, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473672338 A super-volcanic explosion in 1815 led to the “Year without Summer” 12 months later—a massive climate disruption causing famine, poverty and rebellion.


Merryn Glover Of Stone and Sky Polygon, 1st April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781846975653 Set in the upper reaches of the River Spey, Of Stone and Sky follows a shepherding family and the bonds between people, their land and way of life.


Adrian Goldsworthy The Fort Head of Zeus, 10th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781789545746 AD 105, Dacia. Centurion Flavius Ferox commands an isolated fort beyond the Danube. First in a new adventure trilogy set on the frontier of the Roman Empire.


Rosie Goodwin An Orphan’s Journey


Bonnier Zaffre, 18th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781838773113 Britain’s best-loved saga writer.


Sharon Gosling The House


Beneath the Cliffs Simon & Schuster, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471198670 Beautiful, moving and absorbing, this is a novel of friendship and food, storms and secrets, and the beauty of second chances.


Molly Greeley The Heiress Hodder & Stoughton, 8th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529358025 A LGBTQ+ reimagining of the life of Pride & Prejudice character, Anne de Bourgh. An extraordinary tale of self-discovery and liberation set in Jane Austen’s world.


Erin Green From Shetland, With Love Headline Review, 27th May, pb, £8.99, 9781472281500 Green launches an uplifting new series with this novel of love, friendship and changing your life.


Jocelyn Green Shadows of the White City Bethany House, 30th March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780764233319 From the glittering architecture of the rich to the dark houses of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, Sylie Townsend searches for her 17-year-old Polish ward.


Paula Greenlees The Rain Tree Arrow Books, 18th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781787466166 When Miranda’s husband secures a British government job in Singapore, he insists that they take the opportunity to start a new life.


Philippa Gregory Dark Tides Simon & Schuster, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781471172885 Set in London, Venice and the tensely contested frontier of early America, this is a novel of greed and desire.


Kate Grenville A Room Made of Leaves Canongate, 3rd June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838851248 Beautifully wrought novel from the author of The Secret River tells a story of passion and resilience and gives voice to a woman silenced by history.


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