GENERAL FICTION


William Morrow, 14th March, pb, £10.99, 9780063325777 Epic historical novel of ingenuity, courage, love and loss spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans.


Charlene Carr We Rip the World Apart Welbeck, 14th March, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781802795455 Multi-generational story about motherhood, race and secrets in the lives of three women.


Jan Carson Quickly, While They Still Have Horses Doubleday, 4th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857529909 Glittering anthology from the multi-award-winning author of The Raptures, bold, tender, surprising stories of youth and innocence, age and experience and all the spaces in between.


Alexia Casale The Best Way to Bury Your Husband Viking, 14th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241605448 Four new friends, four dead bodies, one big problem.


Stephen Cashmore Three into One Does Go Sparsile, 18th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781914399671 Based on the author’s personal experiences, this novel took two decades to complete. Part fiction, part memoir, it is filled with one man’s completely relatable struggle with the human condition.


joy that flow into the world. They take the sparks and hide them around the world for others to find.


Alba de Cespedes, Elena Ferrante Her Side of the Story Pushkin Press, 7th March, hb, eb, £20,


9781782277583 Captivating feminist classic about a woman’s struggle for independence in fascist Italy from the author of Forbidden Notebook. With an afterword by Ferrante.


Alba de Cespedes, Ann Goldstein (tr) Forbidden Notebook Pushkin Press, 7th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782278221 Rediscovered Italian classic, the moving story of a woman’s rebellion against her traditional family life, now in paperback.


James Champion Adventures of an American Medical Student Roundfire, 26th April, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781803414980 Compelling and gritty novel explores a range of human suffering with heart, soul and humour.


Shankari Chandran Song of the Sun God Ultimo Press, 4th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781761152290 Spanning three continents and three generations of one family, this book is about the wisdom and sacrifices of our past enabling us to live more freely in the future.


Jennifer Chiaverini The Museum of Lost Quilts William Morrow, 20th June, hb, £20, 9780063080799 Chiaverini’s beloved Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first novel since 2019’s The Christmas Boutique.


Eleanor Catton Birnam Wood Granta, 7th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781783784288 Thrilling work from Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries.


Karin Celestine The Joy Bringers Graffeg, 23rd May, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781802586626 The foxes and their friends collect up the sparks of


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Catherine Chidgey The Axeman's Carnival Europa Editions, 14th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781787704619 Dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world perfectly balances violence and humour.


Kate Chopin The Awakening and Other Stories Union Square, 2nd April, hb, £14.99, 9781454952992 A scandal when it was first published in 1899, The Awakening remains a daring portrayal of a woman rejecting domesticity in favor of her


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own happiness and self-expression.


Gina Chung Sea Change Picador, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035019434 Sparkly début about losing yourself and making your way back.


Gina Chung Green Frog Picador, 6th June, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781035019458 Amusing collection of stories about women trying to make their own way features daughters, divorcees, fox demons, a praying mantis and green frogs.


Jenna Clake Disturbance Trapeze, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398712096 Lyrical novel about the lingering physical and psychological effects of domestic abuse and the discovery of the occult as a way of banishing a presence haunting one woman’s life.


Amy Suiter Clarke Lay Your Body Down Collins, 15th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063329447 A young woman battling years of religious trauma returns to her rural Minnesota hometown where a radical evangelical pastor has poisoned everyone’s minds and may be covering up a murder.


James Clarke Sanderson's Isle Serpent's Tail, 2nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781788163545 Denis Johnson meets Alan Warner in a 1960s-set noir in which a man infiltrates a sect of hippies in search of a missing child.


Sue Clark A Novel Solution SRL, 19th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781915073273 11th June, pb, £9.99, 9781915073280 Following wannabe author Trish who gets nurtured by a once- celebrity writer, Amanda, at her gloomy house in the woods. But when Amanda goes missing is Trish up to the job?


Megan Clawson Love At First Knight Avon, 25th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008647346 She is no damsel in distress and he is certainly not wearing any shining armour. But one knight can change everything.


Aoife Clifford It Takes a Town


Ultimo Press, 9th May, hb, £16.99, 9781761152894 What happens to a community after murder? It will take a town to solve this crime, but what will be broken in the effort to piece together the truth?


In an alternative London, the city’s theatre district is a walled area south of the river where an immersive production—the Show— has been running for centuries.


Mary Costello Barcelona Canongate, 7th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805301837 Compelling short story collection examines love, loss and the turbulent lives of ordinary people.


Ajay Close What Doesn’t Kill Us Saraband, 9th February, pb,£12.99, 9781913393960 A killer stalks the streets of Leeds. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, a feminist collective is fighting back.


Paula Cocozza Speak to Me Tinder Press, 14th March, pb, £8.99, 9781472299963 Barbed and painfully well-observed study of contemporary relationships centring on the love triangle between a wife, her husband and his mobile phone.


Teju Cole Pharmakon Mack, 2nd February, hb, £40, 9781915743398 Bringing together a sequence of disquieting photographs with a dozen original short stories, Pharmakon is a surprising new work from the singular mind of Teju Cole (Open City, Fernweh, Tremor).


Kate Collins A Good House for Children Serpent's Tail, 7th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781788169318 Scintillatingly sinister folk horror debut.


Susan Coll Real Life and Other Fictions Harper Muse, 4th July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781400234141 Coll uses her experience as both an author and bookshop employee to deliver a big-hearted and dramatic comedy about myths, real life and the overlap between them.


Faith Compton Mackenzie, Kate Macdonald Tatting Handheld Classics, 11th June, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781912766840 Idiosyncratic novel from 1957 by Compton Mackenzie’s first wife traces patterns across the Cornish landscape.


Tara Conklin Community Board HarperCollins, 9th May, pb, £10.99, 9780062959386 New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise and generous tale of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.


John Connolly The Land of Lost Things Hodder, 15th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529391848 From the bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mystery series comes a new book for fans of The Book of Lost Things.


Rachel Connolly Lazy City Canongate, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838859695 Electrifying début set in Northern Ireland explores dysfunctional relationships, love and heartbreak through the lens of a young woman wrestling with the death of her closest friend.


Mary Costello Academy Street Canongate Canons, 7th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805302339 Heartbreaking and evocative début novel by Irish writer Costello.


Katy Cox The Mother Load Corvus, 7th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838953201 Stanley starts school, Jack enters the terrible twos, dad Ed retreats into his Action Man collection and mum Lucy tries to hold it all together. Motherland meets The A Word.


Sara Cox Way Back Coronet, 28th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529392500 Great new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author of Thrown.


Tom Cox 1983 Unbound, 11th July, hb, £16.99, 9781800183438 Story exploring the magical nature of childhood in 1980s Nottinghamshire.


Matt Coyne Frank and Red Wildfire, 1st February, hb, £18.99, 9781472297426 A one-to-watch début novel from author of Dummy and Man vs Toddler.


Paddy Crewe True Love Doubleday, 4th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857529978 A book about want, loneliness and the restless longing we all hold to be seen and heard for who we are. By the writer of My Name is Yip.


Anne Corlett The Theatre of Glass and Shadows Black and White, 23rd May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781785305528


Jennifer Croft The Extinction of Irena Rey Scribe, 14th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781915590121 From the International Booker Prize–winning translator of Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights a beguiling novel about eight translators and their


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