SAGAS, ROMANCE & HISTORICAL
Factory. Explores beauty and power, success and failure, and the Victorian obsession with spectacle.
Debbie Macomber Someday Soon Avon Books, 22nd July, pb, £7.99, 9780063073708 Fall in love with the first book in Macomber’s Deliverance Company series featuring a romance between a mercenary and a widow inexplicably drawn together.
KJ Maitland The Drowned City Headline Review, 1st April, hb, £16.99, 9781472235947 Breathtaking Bristol-set historical thriller which unfolds in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot by an expert writer at the height of her powers.
Miranda Malins The Puritan Princess Orion, 4th February, pb, £8.99, 9781409194811 Power, politics and a devastating fight for the crown are the core of this gripping historical novel following the rise of Oliver Cromwell’s youngest daughter.
Susan Mallery The Stepsisters Mills & Boon, 10th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781848458505 Captivating story that reads like Sarah Morgan’s recent titles about the complexities of family dynamics in a soft contemporary romance setting.
Allan Mallinson The Tigress of Mysore Bantam Books, 17th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857504401 Marks the welcome return of Matthew Hervey and the 6th Light Dragons in their 14th adventure in a bestselling series.
Jeremy Mallinson On the Subject of Relationships Book Guild, 28th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913551513 Historical fact blended with fiction, set in Africa. Written by Gerald Durrell’s deputy and zoological director, of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust.
Shirley Mann Bobby’s War Bonnier Zaffre, 18th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781838772222 Inspiring tale of women on the home front. For fans of Annie Groves and Nancy Revell.
Katie Marsh Unbreak Your Heart
Hodder, 29th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781473685741 Three broken hearts, one extraordinary love story.
SI Martin, Bernardine Evaristo Incomparable World Penguin, 4th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780241482704 Historical thriller set in 1780s London about three black men embracing their postwar freedom. Their destinies are determined by their struggle to survive in a harsh and unforgiving city.
Daniel Mason The Piano Tuner Picador, 18th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781529053821 New edition of international bestseller, a richly sensuous story of adventure and discovery.
Elsie Mason The Biscuit Factory Girls At War Orion, 15th April, hb, £20.99, 9781409196495 For fans of Nancy Revell, Elaine Everest and Daisy Styles comes a story of strength, love and the importance of family.
Anne-Louise Mathie No Traveller Returns Matador, 28th March, pb, £8.99, 9781800462045 Passionate account of a young women growing up in Second World War France explores little- known histories of Jewish, Marxist and Muslim communities in Russia and North Africa.
Peter Maughan Love and Miss Harris Farrago, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781788423076 With their East London home theatre bombed during the war, the Red Lion troupe embarks on a tour of Britain to bring a new play to audiences further afield.
Cathy Maxwell Her First Desire Avon Books, 27th May, pb, £6.99, 9780062897305 Maxwell’s Logical Man’s Society series continues with a delicious battle of the sexes between a determined woman and a stubborn gentleman.
Nicola May Welcome to Ferry Lane Market Hodder, 22nd July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529346442 New series from author of ebook sensation The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay.
Shelagh Mazey All That Glitters
Matador, 28th February, pb, £9.99, 9781800462069 Set in the late 19th century, this novel charts the heroic adventures of two women who travel abroad for romance, love and new futures.
Chris McCormick The Gimmicks HarperPerennial, 4th February, pb, £10.99, 9780062908582 The bond between two cousins and the woman they both love over the years as they scatter from their hometown in Soviet Armenia and grapple with the reverberations still felt from a genocide.
Sue McDonagh Escape to the Art Cafe Choc Lit, 6th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781781894637 Third book in the successful Art Cafe series. Set in Wales.
Cressida McLaughlin The Cornish Cream Tea Wedding HarperCollins, 29th April, pb, £7.99, 9780008408787 Latest in the charming Cornish Cream Tea series from mutliple ebook bestseller.
Anna McPartlin Below the Big Blue Sky Zaffre, 4th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781838770808 How does a family pick up the pieces when the person who held them together has gone? Sequel to The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes, which sold 60,000 copies.
Martin M McShane The Brotherhood Book Guild, 28th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781913913076 A pope and a king conspire to rid themselves of the Holy Order of Knights. One because he owes them a fortune, the other because they have become too powerful.
Fenella J Miller The Girls in Blue Aria, 4th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800245976 Jane Hadley runs away to join the Women’s Auxiliary Air Forc, to escape her abusive father. But when her father tracks her down, she will need all her new-found strength.
Holly Miller The Sight of You Hodder, 18th February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529324389 Unforgettable, life- affirming love story that will make your heart soar on one page and break on the next.
Caroline Montague Shadows Over the Spanish Sun Orion, 27th May, pb, £7.99, 9781409198079 Sweeping tale of love, betrayal and war set in the heat and turmoil of the Spanish Civil War. Good for fans of Lucinda Riley, Tracy Rees and Dinah Jeffries.
Santa Montefiore Untitled Simon & Schuster, 8th July, hb, £16.99, 9781471197031 audiofile, eb, £14.40, 9781471198199 Secrets buried deep in a family’s history are uncovered when a young writer starts to delve into past feuds and tragedies of a once eminent Irish family.
Katy Moran Scandalous Alchemy Head of Zeus, 10th June, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781786695420 A web of intrigue, gossip, lust and long- held hatreds entangles young Queen Sophia of England and her secret lover.
Robbie Morrison Edge of the Grave Macmillan, 4th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781529054019 First novel in historical crime series set against the backdrop of 1930s Glasgow. For fans of William McIlvanney, Denise Mina and Philip Kerr.
Elizabeth Morton Angel of Liverpool Macmillan, 27th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781529060232 Pan, 8th July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529060249 Emotionally compelling and authentic Liverpool saga from actress and screenwriter.
Jojo Moyes Silver Bay Hodder, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780340895931 Shortlisted for the 2007 RNA Novel of the Year award and twice winner, Moyes returns with an emotionally fulfilling novel.
Jojo Moyes Sheltering Rain Hodder, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780340960356 Captivating first novel from Jojo Moyes.
Jojo Moyes Foreign Fruit Hodder, 13th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780340960363 Spellbinding winner of the 2004 Romantic Novelists’ Association Novel of the Year Award.
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