GENERAL FICTION


Alabama, he learns that family, forgiveness and kindness can be found in the most unlikely of places.


Charlene Bell Dietz The Spinster, the Rebel and the Governor Artemesia, 20th February, pb, £15.95, 9781951122805 Murderous rebels and bigoted gentlemen cannot prevent spinster Lady Margaret Brent from wielding her power to defend Maryland settlers from plunder and obliteration.


Lucy Dillon Irresponsible Adult Hodder & Stoughton, 23rd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399719698 Finding it hard to be a grown-up? Escape it all with Dillon's warm and witty new novel.


Nicola Dinan Bellies Penguin, 2nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804991237 Yarn about falling in and out of love, brimming with humour and heartbreak, Bellies asks: is it worth losing a part of yourself to become who you are?


Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Independence William Morrow, 29th February, pb, £10.99, 9780063142398 Deeply moving story of sisterhood and friendship paints an account of India’s independence that is exhilarating and devastating.


Ahn Do-hyun, Deborah Smith (tr) The Salmon Who Dared to Leap Higher Pan, 13th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035034628 Reissue of the life- affirming, inspirational modern fable about love, life and daring to be different.


Lian Dolan The Marriage Sabbatical William Morrow, 23rd May, hb, £20, 9780063270619 What if you could take a vacation from your marriage? A couple decides to give it a shot in this fun, adventurous tale.


Naoise Dolan The Happy Couple Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781474613514 Sparkling ensemble novel about love and marriage, fidelity and betrayal, that is both ferociously clever and supremely enjoyable.


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Hannah Dolby No Life for a Lady Aria, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804544389 Jane Austen meets Sherlock Holmes in this thoroughly modern, historical début about a woman who cannot help breaking the rules. Perfect for fans of Sophie Irwin and India Holton.


Michael Donkor Grow Where They Fall Fig Tree, 7th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780241656853 From the acclaimed author of Hold. A young man reckons with his past and finds the courage to expand the limits of who he might become.


Stuart Douglas Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries: Death At the Dress Rehearsal Titan, 4th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781803368207 Two ageing actors attempt to solve a murder after a body is found on the set. Fun whodunnit.


SERIES


Te Complete Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Union Square, 12th March, pb, 97814351721 Volume I £12.99, 42 Here, in one volume, are the stories that made Sherlock Holmes a household name: “A Study in Scarlet”, “The Sign of the Four”, “A Scandal in Bohemia” and many more. Volume II £9.99, 59


Holmes has changed since his “resurrection” in 1903. His patience with British justice is wearing thin and at times he takes the law into his own hands.


Andre Dubus Such Kindness WW Norton, 7th May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781324076131 To one working-class white man’s painful moral journey Andre Dubus III brings compassion with an edge of dark absurdity to forge a novel as absorbing as it is profound.


Austin Duffy Cross Granta, 4th July, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781803510835 Masterful tale of betrayal and violence in a tight- knit community in Northern Ireland during the 1990s ceasefire in the Troubles.


Roxy Dunn As Young As This


The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction


Fig Tree, 4th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241632697 Tender, devastating and sharply funny—a beautiful depiction of the ways people shape us, the plans we make for our lives and what it means to let go of them.


Clara Dupont-Monod, Ben Faccini (tr) And the Stones Cry Out MacLehose Press, 11th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781529435368 Gentle and beautifully observed novel about a family turned upside down by the arrival of a severely disabled baby boy. Readers of Jaap Robben and Claire Oshetsky are likely to like this.


Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (tr) Vladivostok Circus Daunt, 8th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781914198311 Explores collaboration, creativity and belonging, all the while immersing the reader in Dusapin’s trademark dreamlike prose.


Amanda Dykes Born of Gilded Mountains Bethany House, 16th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780764239519 After scandal shatters her gilded world, Mercy Windsor is determined to forge a new life. But within the towering mountains are ghosts of the past, and perhaps fabled treasure.


Chidi Ebere Now I Am Here Picador, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035004034 Tough novel concerned with how good people can end up doing terrible things during times of war and conflict.


Mateo Garcia Elizondo, Robin Myers (tr) Last Date in El Zapotal Charco Press, 25th June, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781913867843 A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die. Garcia Elizondo gives us a descent for the ages, a long goodbye with no clear line between the living and dead.


Alicia Elliott And Then She Fell Allen & Unwin, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838959432 Unflinching and witty novel of Indigenous life, womanhood and mental health heralds the arrival of an important and


urgent new voice in genre-bending fiction.


story of love and betrayal in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.


Jonathan Escoffery If I Survive You Fourth Estate, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008501242 Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Major début follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew.


Margaret Elphinstone Lost People Wild Goose, 21st February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804323175 Novella grounded in a dystopic, post-war future. Rue finds solace in the garden of a mysterious community and a journey through a landscape of despair brings hope from unexpected sources.


Akwaeke Emezi Little Rot Faber & Faber, 18th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780571382804 Emezi’s exhilarating new novel follows five people over the course of a heady weekend in Lagos which will brutally upend all of their lives.


Shusaku Endo, Van C Gessel (tr) Deep River Pushkin Press, 25th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805331551 From the author of Silence, this work sees cultures and memories clash as Japanese tourists embark on a spiritual tour down the Ganges.


Toh EnJoe, David Boyd (tr) Harlequin Butterfly Pushkin Press, 29th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781782279778 Mind-bending literary mystery about an enigmatic writer who seems able to publish in every language. Part of Pushkin’s second Japanese Novella series.


Anne Enright The Wren, the Wren Vintage, 16th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529922905 Generational saga of daughterhood and motherhood from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author.


Jenny Erpenbeck Kairos Granta, 2nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781783786138 From an internationally acclaimed, multi-award- winning author this is a


Malayna Evans Neferura Sourcebooks Landmark, 13th February, pb, £8.99, 9781464220593 Thrilling tale of the forgotten daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh and the path she must take to escape her own dangerous fate.


Nathan Evans One Last Song Inkandescent, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781912620289 Début novella. When a gentleman called Joan lands up in a care home, new neighbour Jim doesn’t know what’s hit him. An uproarious and uplifting romcom about grey liberation.


Louise Fein The London Bookshop Affair William Morrow, 29th February, pb, £10.99, 9780063304840 Historical drama from Daughter of the Reich author about a bookshop involved in a spy network. Set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis.


Anthony Ferner Small Wars in Madrid Fairlight, 14th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781914148590


Hannah Evans The Mapmaker's Wife Orion, 14th March, hb, eb, £20, 9781398716209 A commercial, sweeping and immersive international story of love, class and family drama. For fans of Santa Montefiore and Dinah Jefferies.


Alone in his Madrid apartment and faced with the prospect of losing his family, David Aguilera confronts his conflicting Catholic and Jewish identities to reconnect with his wife and children.


Jasper Fforde Red Side Story Hodder & Stoughton, 6th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781444763669 Thirteen years after the smash-hit Shades of Grey, Eddie Russett and Jane Grey are about to embark on a new adventure.


Pip Finkemeyer Sad Girl Novel Hodder, 8th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399723572 A young woman tries to figure out if she is the best (a creative genius) or the worst (completely delusional) in this hilarious debut.


AP Firdaus Remember, Mr Sharma Sceptre, 2nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399714471 Explores the ways in which we view the past, its inescapable hold over us and the stories we tell to set ourselves free.


Helen Fisher


Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life Simon & Schuster, 18th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781471188732 Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like his dinner and dessert. Mean Charlie at work sometimes calls him Joe-Nuthin.


Anna Fitzgerald Girl in the Making Sandycove, 21st March, pb, eb, £13.99, 9781844886487 Passionate story of girlhood in a world not made for girls.


F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Union Square, 21st March, hb, £18, 9781454952909 First published in 1925, Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel offers a definitive portrait of the opulence and recklessness of the Jazz Age.


Helga Flatland, Matt Bagguley (tr) Reverberations Orenda, 23rd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916788138 When a teacher flees to a rural cottage after her relationship with a student is exposed her arrival causes unexpected ructions. Startling literary fiction from an author


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