GENERAL FICTION


Istros, 2nd June, pb, £13.99, 9781912545377 The tale of the reluctant prophet Jonah passed down from mother to daughter over the course of history, from the eighth century BC to the present day in a sweeping narrative.


Ann Patchett Tom Lake Bloomsbury, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526664297 Astonishing new work from internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.


K Patrick Mrs S Fourth Estate, 9th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008561031 Powerfully sensual and sublimely stylish, Mrs S is a tale of queer love that smoulders with the heat of summer.


Nancy Peach Hot Mother Hera, 25th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804367353 Penny is still hot—only now it comes in flushes. A funny, relatable story of motherhood, menopause and middle age from Comedy Women in Print nominee.


Belen Lopez Peiro, Mo Shaughnessy (tr) Why Did You Come Back Every Summer Charco Press, 9th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781913867805 Fractured account of family abuse and secrets. Told in multiple voices, with real police reports and interviews, it explores the cost of ensuring the truth is heard.


Douglas Penick The Oceans of Cruelty NYRB Classics, 21st May, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781681377667 Haunting, unexpectedly relevant rendering of an ancient Indian short story collection by a contemporary author and Buddhist practitioner.


Samantha Pennington The Unretirement Avon, 23rd May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008694166 When pensioner Peggy comes out of retirement to help a failing community restaurant she rediscovers not only her love of food but so much more about herself.


Emily Perkins Lioness Bloomsbury Circus, 9th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526660688 Hypnotic portrait of women unravelling and


being unravelled from the Women’s Prize longlisted author of The Forrests.


Rob Perry Dog Europa Editions, 25th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781787704718 The moving story of the life-changing relationship between a boy with an obsessive fear of germs and a lost dog.


Sarah Perry Enlightenment Jonathan Cape, 2nd May, hb, eb, £20, 9781787334991 Story of love and astronomy told over the course of 20 years through the lives of two improbable best friends.


Ingrid Persaud The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh Faber & Faber, 23rd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780571386499 Unforgettable story of four incredible women. An epic of wonder, danger and risk from the author of Love After Love.


Andrew X Pham Twilight Territory WW Norton, 8th March, hb, eb, £19.99, 9781324064848 Wide-ranging first novel of love, war and resistance in post-Second World War Vietnam by the award- winning author of Catfish and Mandala.


Khue Pham, Daryl Lindsey (tr), Charles Hawley (tr) Brothers and Ghosts Scribe, 11th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781915590046 Praised as “courageous” and a “bold achievement” (Ocean Vuong) Pham’s moving tale explores the life of a young Vietnamese German woman, torn between two cultures yet belonging to neither.


Hesse Phillips Lightborne Atlantic, 2nd May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781805460367 Major début on queer love, betrayal and survival in the Elizabethan Age from a vital new voice in historical fiction.


Jo Piazza The Sicilian Inheritance HQ, 25th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008626181 A century-old, unsolved murder, a disputed inheritance and a family secret that some will kill to protect. From co-writer of You Were Always Mine.


Holly Pester The Lodgers Granta, 1st February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781783789832 First novel from the Forward Prize-shortlisted poet, The Lodgers is a burlesque, dark comedy about lodgings, lovers and mother-daughter bonds that falter across time and tenancies.


Laurent Petitmangin, Shaun Whiteside (tr) What You Need From the Night Picador, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529063523 Short, heartbreaking début about a father and son, the lure of the far right and how the bonds of love survive acts of violence.


Olivia Petter Gold Rush Fourth Estate, 4th July, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008606411 Rose has a close circle of friends and a budding career and has just spent the night with one of the most famous men on the planet.


Paul Pickering Lucy Salt, 15th July, pb, £12.99, 9781784633240 Pickering’s extraordinary wartime novel traces the violent exploits of Operation Lucy, centred on the mysterious Hyman Kaplan.


Cecile Pin Wandering Souls Fourth Estate, 29th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008528812 Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. “A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope”—Ocean Vuong.


Christine Platt, Catherine Wigginton Greene Rebecca, Not Becky Amistad Press, 1st February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063213586 Whip-smart tale about two upper-class, stay-at- home mothers in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship and sisterhood against the backdrop of too-familiar racial reckoning.


Edgar Allan Poe Essential Tales and Poems


Union Square, 12th March, pb, £9.99, 9781435171879 Comprehensive collection of best-loved and most- feared literary creations, an essential treasury for novices and experts alike.


Peter Polites Seeing Other People Ultimo Press, 20th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781761151705 Wickedly funny story of two very different sisters and the summer that tests their relationship when they are forced to ask: where is the line between self-love and selfishness?


Gaye Poole The Edges of Me Cranthorpe Millner, 25th June, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781803782157 Intense, interdependent friendship develops over decades but who comes out whole or are the edges too blurred between them for either to survive?


Clare Pooley How to Age Disgracefully Bantam, 25th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781787637146 When age makes you invisible secrets are easier to hide. Feelgood fun from the author of The Authenticity Project.


Alana S Portero, Mara Faye Lethem (tr) Bad Habit Fourth Estate, 23rd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008663292 Sublimely beautiful, internationally bestselling début following the coming-of-age of a young trans woman in Madrid in the last decades of the 20th century.


Alexandra Potter More Confessions of a Forty-something F**k Up Pan, 23rd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529098839 Time for more confessions. As heartfelt and hilarious as the strong-selling first novel.


Miranda Pountney How to be Somebody Else Jonathan Cape, 15th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781787332102 Exquisitely written, sublimely fraught and erotically charged, How to be Somebody Else is an uncoming-of-age in New York.


Catherine Prasifka This is How You Remember It Canongate, 2nd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805300991 Potent and compulsive novel about the dangers of growing up online from author of Irish Book


Awards-nominated None of This is Serious.


Scott Preston The Borrowed Hills John Murray, 11th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399812849 Blistering début from a one-to-watch new voice in British fiction.


Rosie Price The Orange Room Harvill Secker, 4th July, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781787304093 What Red Was, Price’s début, was championed by Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes.


Christine Pride, Jo Piazza You Were Always Mine HQ, 18th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008336028 Exploration of race and class asks the question, is the truest family the one we are born into or the one we make for ourselves?


Alexander Pushkin, Anthony Briggs (tr) The Queen of Spades and Selected Works Pushkin Press, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805330936 Some of the finest works by one of Russia’s greatest writers. Includes “The Stationmaster” and a selection of Pushkin’s best poetic work.


Anna Quindlen After Annie Simon & Schuster, 20th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781398525184 Simon & Schuster Audio, audiofile, £14.99, 9781398525221 Written in Quindlen’s emotionally resonant voice and with a deep, generous understanding of people, this is a story that ends with hope. A beautiful novel about how adversity can change us.


Horacio Quiroga, Diego Jourdan Pereira (tr) Tales of Love, Madness and Death Renard Press, 7th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804470923 Quiroga’s first published short-story collection in a brand-new translation. Also includes his lauded tongue-in-cheek “Ten Commandments for Short-Story Writers”.


Huma Qureshi Playing Games Sceptre, 11th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529368772 Qureshi's lovely first novel: a tender and intimate story of two sisters caught up in the joys and pains of art and family.


Cecilia Rabess Everything's Fine


Picador, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529083194 Clever, funny and deeply moving love story in which two people from different worlds are confronted by the age-old question: is love enough?


Tom Rachman The Imposters riverrun, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529425840 For admirers of The Imperfectionists, this is a return to the formal ingenuity and technique that Rachman exhibited so flamboyantly in his bestselling début.


Smriti Ravindra The Woman Who Climbed Trees HarperVia, 25th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780063240490 When she marries a man from Nepal, Meena must leave behind her family and home in India and forge a new identity in a strange place.


Clare Reddaway Dancing in the Shallows Fairlight, 14th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781914148460 Isla moves to the Isle of Skye to escape her purposeless life. But as she learns more about her family she must question whether family patterns can really be broken.


Francesca Reece Glass Houses Tinder Press, 23rd May, hb, £20, 9781472272249 Past and present collide in this forbidden love story set in North Wales. For readers of Naoise Dolan, Sally Rooney and Saba Sams.


Hannah Regel The Last Sane Woman Verso, 2nd July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804295373 Beguiling début novel about friendship and failure, written with unusual craft and spryness.


Rebecca K Reilly Greta & Valdin Hutchinson Heinemann, 8th February, hb, £14.99, 9781529154191


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