GENERAL FICTION
lucky, they might just leave with the second chance they didn’t know they needed.
Faith Hogan The Bookshop Ladies Aria, 6th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781804545362 Hogan has created another taut saga of friendship, betrayal and secrets in this story of a widow in search of answers to a shocking confession by her dying husband.
Ruth Hogan The Phoenix Ballroom Corvus, 27th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805460701 Uplifting heartwarmer from author of The Keeper of Lost Things.
Henry Hoke Open Throat Picador, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035007783 From a daring and exciting new literary voice, Open Throat is a gripping and surreal début.
Pauline E Hopkins Contending Forces Union Square, 22nd February, pb, £10.99, 9781454951544 A murder mystery, the story of a friendship, and a romance set in Boston’s thriving, politically active middle-class Black community. Unjustly forgotten American classic.
Scott Alexander Howard The Other Valley Atlantic, 18th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781838959623 Major literary début novel that is a cross between Kazuo Ishiguro’s speculative work and the heart-rending search for where it all went wrong in Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library.
Gemma June Howell Girlo Wolf Seren, 1st May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727522 In 1984 Girlo Wolf is born into a world of pickets and poverty. Can she navigate the darker sides of life to pursue her dream of becoming a poet?
Martin Howe Dead Right Troubador, 28th February, pb, £9.99, 9781805142638 Three middle-aged sisters and their elderly aunt decide to starve themselves to death and barricade themselves in a suburban house to face their slow painful end.
Sue Hubbard Flatlands One, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781911590750 New in paperback, a moving tale of friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild landscape of the Fens during the Second World War.
Piper Huguley American Daughters William Morrow, 23rd May, pb, £10.99, 9780063273702 In the vein of America's First Daughter, Huguley's historical novel delves into the remarkable friendship of Portia Washington and Alice Roosevelt, the daughters of educator Booker T.
Caroline Hulse Reasonable People Orion (an Imprint of Te Orion Publishing Group ), 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781409197300 Sharp and funny comedy of errors about a feuding family.
Becky Hunter Meet Me When My Heart Stops Corvus, 21st March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781838958701 New from the author of One Moment, with appeal for fans of One Day by David Nicholls and Impossible by Sarah Lotz.
Laird Hunt Float Up, Sing Down riverrun, 6th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529434507 From National Book Award finalist a masterful collection of interwoven stories capturing one summer's day in Reagan- era Indiana.
Anton Hur Toward Eternity HarperVia, 18th July, hb, £18.99, 9780063344488 Haunting, speculative novel from a translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up with biology?
Unbound, 13th June, pb, £9.99, 9781800183148 Comic but poignant tale of a young British Pakistani boy’s dream of stardom against all odds.
Sairish Hussain Hidden Fires HQ, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008297527 The unmissable novel for 2024. From the author of The Family Tree comes a story exploring grief, loss, the power of family ties and the long arm of history.
Aldous Huxley Brave New World Vintage Classics, 4th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781784879686 Witty, thrilling and uncannily prophetic, Brave New World remains a startling warning against a future that seems eerily present already. A Quarterbound Classic.
Jenny Hval, Marjam Idriss (tr) Paradise Rot Verso, 12th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804294529 Lyrical début novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery.
Chukwuebuka Ibeh Blessings Viking, 22nd February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241618257 Début charts the coming of age of a young gay man in Nigeria in the last decade. A 22-year-old rising star in literary fiction.
Yasushi Inoue,
Michael Emmerich (tr) The Hunting Gun Pushkin Press, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805330394 Novella tells the story of a love affair and its tragic consequences through the letters of three women.
Kelly Irvin The Year of Goodbyes and Hellos Tomas Nelson, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780840709202 Two sisters come together to re-evaluate their priorities when one receives a terminal diagnosis. For readers who like to be deeply moved by their fiction.
Iqbal Hussain Northern Boy
Emily Itami Kakigori Summer Phoenix, 18th July, hb, eb, £20, 9781474620291 Transporting and entertaining work about three sisters reunited for a
Amanda James The Garden of Memories One More Chapter, 20th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008657789 Uplifting yarn about new friends finding each other through the power of gardening and flowers.
Caroline James The French Cookery School One More Chapter, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008669799 Discover the joys of cooking and the lasting power of friendship.
Carla Jenkins Fifty Minutes Trapeze, 16th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781398715844 Compelling first novel in which a young working- class woman becomes embroiled in an exploitative relationship with her older male therapist.
Genevieve Jagger Fragile Animals 404 Ink, 25th April, pb, £10.99, 9781912489961 When a lapsed Catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire she is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past.
Zipora Klein Jakob The Forbidden Daughter HQ, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008665067 Memorable true story of a Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belonging.
summer on the Japanese coast. By the author of Fault Lines.
Howard Jacobson What Will Survive of Us Jonathan Cape, 1st February, hb, eb, £20, 9781787334823 An original homage to love in later life and a provocative look at infidelity, desire and what is left when we strip away every layer.
Sarah Orne Jewett A White Heron and Other Stories Renard Press, 26th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781804470992 Paints beautiful portraits of the American countryside and taps into deep debates around humans and their relationship with nature.
Ethan Joella A Quiet Life Muswell Press, 11th July, pb, £10.99, 9781739193096 Set in a close-knit Pennsylvania suburb in the grip of winter, A Quiet Life follows three people grappling with loss and finding a tender wisdom in their grief.
Hanna Johansson, Kira Josefsson (tr) Antiquity Scribe, 11th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915590596 Queer Lolita story follows an unnamed narrator, a lonely woman in her 30s who is obsessed with a stylish older artist and, eventually, her daughter.
Jessica Johns Bad Cree Scribe, 8th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915590640 Haunting, #OwnVoices début about a young Cree woman whose dreams start to come true. A strong seller in trade paperback, it is now in a table-friendly b format.
Christina Jones Weddings At Sandcastle Cottage Headline Accent, 18th July, pb, £10.99, 9781472297259 The most heartwarming and joyful romcom of 2024. Sun-soaked, laugh- out-loud and utterly uplifting, this is the perfect read for fans of Holly Martin, Jo Thomas and Jenny Colgan.
Dan Jones The Green Man EnvelopeBooks, 1st June, pb, £12.95, 9781915023209 In this monastic detective adventure set in northern England in 1367, logic- lover Brother Jacobus investigates infant disappearances as he defies the cardinals and faces a faith- challenging monster in the woods.
Sophie Jordan The Duchess Avon, 9th May, pb, £9.99, 9780063270749 Chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London. The drama is big, the money
runs deep, and the shade is real.
Susan Juby A Meditation on Murder HarperCollins, 28th March, pb, £12.99, 9781443469524 Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve the murders of her fellow content creators. Wry sequel to Mindful of Murder.
Miranda July The First Bad Man Canongate Canons, 2nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838852740 Must-have summer read from a bestseller.
Miranda July All Fours Canongate, 16th May, hb, eb, £20, 9781838853440 July returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, funny and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.
Elise Juska Reunion Harper, 7th May, hb, eb, £20, 9780063346765 From the author of the "uniquely poignant" (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes a new novel about three friends’ midlife reckonings at a college reunion in coastal Maine.
Franz Kafka, Mark Harman Selected Stories Te Belknap Press, 28th June, hb, eb, £24.95, 9780674737983 Superb new translation of Kafka’s classic stories, authoritatively annotated and beautifully illustrated.
Jaroslav Kalfar Spaceman of Bohemia Sceptre, 4th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399705349 Dazzling, ambitiously original, literary début covers duplicitous love, family secrets, political intrigue, a historical riddle and a cloud of spacedust over Venus.
Ammar Kalia A Person is a Prayer Oldcastle, 30th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780857305855 Intensely moving, lyrical and wryly humorous début novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days across six decades.
Han Kang, Deborah Smith (tr), Emily Yae Won (tr)
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