GENERAL FICTION
General fiction
Tasneem Abdur-Rashid The Thirty Before Thirty List Zaffre, 18th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838778187 Hoping to climb out of her rut while (quite literally) climbing mountains, Maya decides to turn her life around with the help of her dream man’s notebook.
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Michael Emmerich (tr) Mysterious Setting Pushkin Press, 7th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805330486 Darkly madcap novel about the strange fate of a tone-deaf girl who just wants to sing. Written by a Japanese literary star.
Andre Aciman The Gentleman From Peru Faber & Faber, 4th April, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780571385119 Sun-baked Italian summer story from the global bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name.
Sulaiman Addonia The Seers Prototype, 24th June, pb, eb, £12, 9781913513511 The story of a homeless Eritrean refugee arriving in London, written in a continuous paragraph that moves between past and present to explore intergenerational histories, colonial trauma and the UK asylum system.
Ayobami Adebayo A Spell of Good Things Canongate, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838856076 Spellbinding novel about family secrets and bonds, thwarted hope and the brutal realities of life in a society rife with inequality. From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author.
Bisi Adjapon Daughter in Exile HarperVia, 14th March, pb, £10.99, 9780063089006 Gut-wrenching yet heartwarming story about a young Ghanaian woman’s struggle to make a life in the US and the challenges she must overcome.
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Kaveh Akbar Martyr! Picador, 7th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781035026067 Début novel from a celebrated poet. A young man uncovers the truth behind his mother’s death in this transcendental narrative that takes the reader from New York to Tehran.
Lola Akinmade Akerstrom Everything is Not Enough Apollo, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804548141 Brilliant second novel from author of In Every Mirror She’s Black follows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm.
Louisa May Alcott Little Women Union Square, 21st March, hb, £18, 9781454952923 Rarely has a novel had as large an impact as Little Women. Immensely popular from the day it was published, it struck a chord with generations of young women.
Aliya Ali-Afzal The Big Day Aria, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800245730 A British-Asian mother and daughter clash over plans for the bride’s big day. From the author of Would I Lie to You?
Feryal Ali-Gauhar An Abundance of Wild Roses Canongate, 7th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781838858162 Critically acclaimed author’s UK début is a novel that combines lyrical storytelling with urgent contemporary themes of gender violence, tradition and patriarchy.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Jamila Ahmed Every Rising Sun John Murray, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399805988 Fascinating reimagining of the cherished classic One Thousand and One Nights and the fearless woman at its heart, Scheherazade.
Helen Aitchison 31 Days of May Cahill Davis, 12th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915307071 When tragedy repeatedly strikes, May starts on a journey to discover if she still has, or even wants, a place in the new life that has unravelled before her.
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Frank Wynne (ed) The Son of Man Fitzcarraldo Editions, 15th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781804270912 A man reappears in the life of his wife and their son and takes them to the dilapidated house in the mountains. Novel explores the transmission of violence between generations.
Goran Baba Ali The Glass Wall Afsana Press, 10th April, pb, £11.99, 9781739982416 Story of a teenage refugee who must relive the pain of his past to enter a land waiting behind a glass wall.
Nina Allan Conquest riverrun, 18th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529420791 Investigation of the human need to make connections, to find causes and effects, however fantastic, Conquest is the story of a disappearance and of the mystery that follows.
Isabel Allende The House of the Spirits Vintage Classics, 4th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781784879709 The book that brought Allende to the internationsal stage.
Katie Allen Happy is the One Orenda, 23rd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916788114 Robin’s ordered life unravels when he returns home to care for his father and connects with a woman who has as many secrets as he has. Warmly funny, poignant, literary fiction.
Ahmet Altan, Yasemin Congar (tr) Lady Life Mountain Leopard, 1st February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781800699106 Coming-of-age story about freedom with an erotic edge and set in modern Turkey—a society navigating great change, just like the young, male protagonist.
Ali Alyousefi The Labyrinth of Rooms Oro Editions, 12th February, pb, £18.95, 9781957183725 A story with one character, Human, who is an allegorical representation of us all. Human suddenly awakes in a room with no memory of a prior life.
A Anatoli, David Floyd (tr) Babi Yar Vintage Classics, 8th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781784878405 A Ukrainian classic—the gripping account of Kyiv during the Second World War told by a young boy who saw it all.
Graham Anderson (tr), Diego Marani The Celestial City Dedalus, 1st March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915568229 In choosing to study in Trieste, a city of many- layered histories, ethnicities, sunshine and gales, the narrator finds that life throws him more questions than answers.
Graham Anderson (tr), Margherita Giacobino The Ridiculous Age Dedalus, 1st March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781915568281 A brilliant evocation of the challenges of old age, Giacobino’s funny and caustic novel’s dramatic conclusion will leave the reader gasping.
Joseph Andras, Simon Leser (tr) Faraway the Southern Sky Verso, 21st May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804291719 An immigrant radical in underground Paris: Ho Chi Minh in the 1920s.
Kerry Andrew We Are Together Because Atlantic, 7th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805460183 The beautifully observed human dynamics of Sarah Moss meets the emo-apocalypse of The Last of Us in a moving novel about siblings, sex and the end of the world.
Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (tr) What You Are Looking for is in the Library Penguin, 23rd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804994139 For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book
recommendation can help us fulfil our dreams.
Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood (tr) A Perfect Day to Be Alone MacLehose Press, 9th May, pb, eb, £10, 9781529427684 Japanese contemporary classic for fans of Convenience Store Woman—at once wistful, darkly comic and painfully relatable.
Melissa Coss Aquino Carmen and Grace Apollo, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781837931231 Powerful drama about two cousins, inseparable since they were little girls, lured into the drug trade.
Michael Arditti The Choice Arcadia, 11th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781529425765 Rich exploration of desire, sin and redemption by one of the best chroniclers of faith in the 21st century.
Ewald Arenz, Rachel Ward (tr) One Grand Summer Orenda, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916788183 Million-copy bestseller in Germany. When he fails his exams, 16-year-old Frieder is forced to stay with his grandparents for the summer, leading to an unforgettable series of experiences.
Julia Armfield Private Rites Fourth Estate, 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008608033 It has been raining for such a long time that the land has reshaped itself and the cities have retreated to higher storeys.
Chloe Ashby Second Self Trapeze, 18th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398703056 Poignant second novel from the author of Wet Paint about the decisions that many women face and the impact those choices can have on their sense of self.
Abigail Assor, Holly Ovenden, Natasha Lehrer (tr) As Rich As the King Pushkin Press, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782278924 Coming-of-age tale and twisted love story set amid the beaches, streets and mansions of Casablanca in the 1990s. Now in paperback.
Lucy Atkins Windmill Hill Quercus, 9th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529407945
Split between Sussex and Scotland, Windmill Hill is the complex, unsettling and sharply witty new novel from the author of Magpie Lane.
Kate Atkinson
Normal Rules Don't Apply Penguin, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804990803 From the number one bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems.
Nadia Attia Verge Serpent's Tail, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800810167 A deadly curse, two young strangers thrown together by fate and a road trip through a disunited kingdom.
Margaret Atwood Old Babes in the Wood Vintage, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529925043 Highly personal, new collection of stories by twice Booker-winning cultural icon.
Margaret Atwood (ed), Douglas Preston (ed), Celeste Ng, John Grisham, Meg Wolitzer et al Fourteen Days Chatto & Windus, 6th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781784745455 Star-studded collection of writers come together to create a dazzlingly original, multi-voiced novel.
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale Vintage Classics, 4th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781784879679 Republished as a Vintage Quarterbound Classic. “Compulsively readable”— Daily Telegraph.
Stefania Auci, Katherine Gregor (tr) The Triumph of the Lions HarperVia, 28th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780062931702 Explores the origins of one of Italy’s most notorious families—men and women whose ruthless ambition and caprice would chart the course of modern Italian history.
SERIES
Signature Gilded Classics Jane Austen Union Square, 21st March, hb, £18, 978145495 Emma 2886
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in
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