SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
India, that shaped his life. Now in paperback.
Walter Mosley Farewell, Amethystine Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 6 June, hb, £22, 9781474616591
Adventure, crime & horror
Unlicensed private investigator
turned hard-boiled detective Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins returns to the mean streets of Los Angeles for a new case following Blood Grove.
A K Blakemore The Glutton Granta Books, 6 June, pb, £9.99, 9781783789214
General fiction
One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and
destruction set in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Costa First Novel Award-shortlisted and Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches. Now in paperback.
General fiction
I have been impressed with Segal’s previous
novels, the Costa First Novel Award-winning The Innocents and The Awkward Age. This marks a change in direction, says Vintage—the tale of London vet Charlotte who moves to the tiny, remote island of Tuga de Oro to study endangered tortoises and finds herself falling for the warm- hearted community who live there, and one handsome doctor in particular…
Elizabeth Macneal The Burial Plot Picador, 6 June, hb, £16.99, 9781529090949
Sagas, romance & historical
Third novel from the author of The Doll Factory and Circus of
Cecilia Rabess Everything’s Fine Picador, 6 June, pb, £9.99, 9781529083194
General fiction
“‘I’m Black, you’re white. I’m liberal, you’re conservative…’
Said that way it almost sounds like poetry. Opposites attract. The best kind of love story. But that’s not quite right. Or at least it’s not what Jess means. They’re not really opposites. More like two people playing for different teams.” Rabess’ clever, sharp, spiky love story ponders the question—is love enough? Now in paperback.
Carissa Broadbent The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King Tor, 6 June, hb, £20, 9781035040964
Science fiction & fantasy
A memorably succinct pitch for this
BookTokker favourite: The Hunger Games with vampires. Second romantasy (romance + fantasy) in the Crowns of Nyaxia series follows The Serpent and The Wings of Night and promises heart-wrenching romance, dark magic and bloodthirsty intrigue.
Francesca Segal Welcome to Glorious Tuga Chatto & Windus, 6 June, hb, £18.99, 9781784745387
Rose Tremain Absolutely & Forever Vintage, 6 June, pb, £9.99, 9781529922509
Sagas, romance & historical
How do you find the courage to make your own life? An
electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris. ‘’Lively and emotional... Not many novelists of this calibre are so easy to read and hard to put down”, said the Sunday Times. Now in paperback.
Akwaeke Emezi Little Rot Faber & Faber, 18 June, hb, £16.99, 9780571382804
Wonders is a cat-and-mouse thriller set in Victorian London where former street grifter Connie takes a position as a lady’s maid in a grand house on the Thames, but comes to wonder if she is part of a dark plan masterminded by her old partner in crime…
General fiction
The much-lauded author of Freshwater, The Death of Vivek
Oji and You Made A Fool of Me With Your Beauty returns with this tale which follows five people over the course of a heady weekend in Lagos which will brutally upend all of their lives.
Gill Sims Why Mummy Drinks from the Bottle HarperCollins, 20 June, hb, £16.99, 9780008591984
General fiction
Now a bona fide brand, the Why Mummy… series
continues the adventures of Ellen and the Russell family with this latest summery instalment. Since publication of the first in the series, Why Mummy Drinks, HarperCollins says Sims has sold over one million books across all formats, and the series so far has sold into 16 languages.
Phoenix, 11 July, hb, £18.99, 9781474621175
General fiction
I thoroughly enjoyed Rentzenbrink’s first novel, Everyone is Still
Alive, so am very much looking forward to this, said to be inspired by one of her all-time favourite novels: Anna Karenina. It tells of vicar’s wife Anna who, fed up with a husband who prefers talking to God and a son who hardly talks at all, finds solace in a new acquaintance. An unforgettable story of the trials and sacrifices of everyday life, says Phoenix.
Irvine Welsh Resolution Jonathan Cape, 11 July, hb, £20, 9781787334755
Adventure, crime & horror
Third in the series, which is now adapted
for TV starring Dougray Scott, follows Crime and The Long Knives and finds former Edinburgh police detective Ray Lennox determined to start a new life in Brighton. But then he meets slick, sharply dressed Mathew Cardingworth, who soon draws him back to a past that he’s desperate to forget.
Chris Whitaker All the Colours of the Dark Orion, 16 July, hb, £20, 9781398707658
Adventure, crime & horror
Laura Dockrill I Love You, I Love You, I Love You HQ, 20 June, hb, £16.99, 9780008586911
Sagas, romance & historical
First adult novel from the multi- talented children’s author, illustrator,
scriptwriter, playwright, and performance poet tells of Ella and Lowe, who first meet as teenagers whereupon Ella falls instantly in love. Friendship is safer though, so over the next 15 years she sticks to that. But can you ever really just be friends with the love of your life?
Kate Mosse The Ghost Ship Pan, 20 June, pb, £9.99, 9781509806935
Sagas, romance & historical
Third novel in the Joubert Family Chronicles follows The Burning
Chambers and The City of Tears. Set off the Barbary Coast in 1621, a “swashbuckling” story of piracy and revenge, and a secret romance on the high seas in a time of war. Now in paperback.
July
Cathy Rentzenbrink Ordinary Time
Damilare Kuku Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow Simon & Schuster Fiction, 18 July, BA, £14.99, 9781398529564
General fiction
Kuku’s follow-up to her irresistibly titled début short story
collection, Nearly All the Men in Lagos are Mad, follows 20-year- old graduate Temi who plans to surgically enhance her bottom, move from Ile-Ife to Lagos, and meet a man, in that order. But when she informs her mother, sister and aunties of this plan, there is uproar because, in
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I can’t wait for this, Whitaker’s follow-up to
We Begin at the End, winner of the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. It is billed as a missing persons mystery, a serial killer thriller and a love story rolled into one, with a unique twist on each…
Nigerian families, none of your business is private…
Victoria Hislop The Figurine Headline Review, 18 July, pb, £9.99, 9781472263940
General fiction
Helena inherits her grandparents’ apartment in Athens,
where she spent summers as a child when Greece was under a brutal military dictatorship and her remote, cruel grandfather was one of the regime’s generals. “Family turmoil, unanswered questions, romance and betrayal, all served up against the backdrop of Greece and its enchanting history”, said the Daily Express. Now in paperback.
Eley Williams Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good Fourth Estate, 18 July, hb, £16.99, 9780008618926
General fiction
Williams’ début short story collection Attrib. and Other
Stories, published by indie Influx Press, won the James Tate Black Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. Following her début novel, The Liar’s Dictionary, and a place on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2023, this is the new, eagerly awaited collection of stories. Includes ‘Scrimshaw’ which was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award in 2020.
Fiona McFarlane Highway Thirteen Sceptre, 25 July, hb, £16.99, 9781529389876
Adventure, crime & horror
Her previous novel, The Sun Walks Down,
set over seven days in 1883 in the colony of South Australia as residents search for a missing six-year-old boy, was terrific. This is quite different, a collection of linked short stories moving from 1950 to 2028 which deal with the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes without centring the murderer himself.
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