GENERAL FICTION


Bea Setton Plaything Doubleday, 27th June, hb, £16.99, 9780857528001 Chilling spin on girl-meets- boy in which jealousy and obsession cost the ultimate price. From the author of the critically acclaimed Berlin.


Tom Shakespeare The Ha-ha Farrago, 28th March, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781788424776 A modern country-house farce with a diverse cast of characters.


William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Renard Press, 27th March, pb, eb, £5, 9781804470947 “Venus and Adonis” was likely to have been the first work published by the same quill that gave the world “Macbeth”, “Romeo and Juliet” and the rest of his time-tested canon.


LJ Shen, Parker S Huntington My Dark Desire Orion, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398722026 Hotly anticipated second book in the Dark Prince Road series. Welcome to Dark Prince Road. Sinners only.


Shelley Shepard Gray Unforgiven Revell, 9th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780800745790 An uneasy friendship is just starting to grow between Seth and Tabitha when small gifts begin to appear at Tabitha’s home—gifts that can only be from her violent ex-husband.


Jo Sheringham The Perfect Companion Instant Apostle, 15th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781912726769 Maggie, a Christian of quiet faith through the years, is captured by a vision as a weekday service at the cathedral closes.


Pete Sherlock The Mask of Merryvale Manor Fairlight, 20th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781914148484 When a body is found at Merryvale Manor young Ben is placed on a collision course with his wealthy family and sees their power in a harsh new light.


Toni Shiloh A Run At Love Bethany House, 25th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780764241512 As a Black woman in a field with little diversity, Piper McKinney is


determined to make her mark in the horse-racing world. Then a shocking scandal hits the media.


Catriona Shine Habitat Te Lilliput Press, 7th March, pb, eb, £16, 9781843518877 Tracks seven people over the course of a week as their mid-century apartment building in Oslo inexplicably disappears.


Kyung-Sook Shin I Went to See My Father Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399611732 A story of one woman’s efforts to reconnect with her ageing father and a sweeping family saga that charts Korea’s tumultuous history.


Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (tr) Violets Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781474623568 Neglected young woman experiences the violence and isolation of contemporary Korean society. By the author of Please Look After Mother, which has sold two million copies.


Eithne Shortall The Lodgers Corvus, 4th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838951887 Uplifting tale of friendship, community and a mystery package from the author of Love in Row 27 and Grace After Henry.


Parini Shroff The Bandit Queens Allen & Unwin, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838957179 For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife. Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows too.


Mihret Sibhat The History of a Difficult Child Chatto & Windus, 1st February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781784744373 Exhilarating tragicomedy about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family in the wake of Ethiopia’s socialist revolution.


Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi The Centre Picador, 18th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529097849 Dark and comic début following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a


mysterious language school promising complete fluency in just 10 days, but at a sinister cost.


Gill Sims Why Mummy Drinks From the Bottle HarperCollins, 20th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008591984 Bestselling author back with eagerly awaited new Why Mummy novel.


Laura Sims How Can I Help You Verve, 25th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857308757 Morbidly quirky, cat-and- mouse thriller featuring two librarians caught in a deadly web of intrigue. Explores the dark side of human nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession.


Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih Funeral Nights And Other Stories, 2nd July, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781913505967 Like Boccaccio’s Decameron set among an Indigenous North Indian tribe, Funeral Nights is a novel in tales: vast, infinitely varied, delightfully told.


Curtis Sittenfeld Romantic Comedy Penguin, 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804991916 A TV script writer thinks she is done with romance until an unlikely love interest upends all her assumptions. Humorous, sharp and tender novel.


Alice Slater


Death of a Bookseller Hodder, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529385373 Deliciously dark, unsettling and utterly addictive, Death of a Bookseller is a rollercoaster of suspense that will make readers’ skin crawl and hearts pound.


Gabriel Smith Brat: A Ghost Story Scribner, 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781398525313 Scribner Audio, audiofile, £14.99, 9781398529960 Disquieting yet profoundly funny. Formally inventive and dazzlingly clever, Brat is a meditation on grief and art that will haunt readers long after they have finished turning the pages.


Han Smith Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking JM Originals, 20th June, eb, £14.99, 9781399814256 Experimental, daring début about a young


woman who comes of age in a town that is reckoning with its past.


Lee Smith Silver Alert Algonquin, 2nd May, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781643755809 Endearing tale about an elderly man who heads off on a joyride with a new young friend who has secrets of her own.


Rebecca Smith Conversations With an Octopus Legend Press, 3rd July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915643742 A story of murder, ice cream and an octopus who understands everything. Diana is a beautician with a temper and she is not the only woman who’s had enough of slimeballs.


Slobodan Snajder, Celia Hawkesworth (tr) The Brass Age Mountain Leopard Press, 2nd May, hb, eb, £25, 9781914495229 Modern epic spanning 200 years that explores a Europe destroyed by fascism, communism and nationalism with a tragic love story between the narrator’s parents at its heart.


Lauraine Snelling, Kiersti Giron A Season of Harvest Bethany House, 26th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780764235788 Larkspur Nielsen is determined to keep the family homestead running even if she must do it alone. When she reaches breaking point can Isaac McTavish convince her of his love?


Ani Kayode Somtochukwu And Then He Sang a Lullaby Grove Press, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804710197 Captivating and utterly heartbreaking, this novel tells the story of two young gay men in Nigeria who are determined to love each other despite all that stands in their way.


Victoria Springfield Invitation to Italy Orion, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398712515 When childhood friend Salvo comes to stay Loretta is forced to confront her past and the fears that have kept her away from the water for 40 years.


Danielle Steel Fairytale


Pan, 15th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781035043750 Spellbinding, modern-day fable set in Napa Valley. Palazzo 28th March,


9781529022445 Escape to Italy with a powerful story of love, family and legacy. Happiness 6th June, 9781529022506 Inspirational story of courage and self-love by the billion-copy-seller.


Danielle Steel Never Too Late Macmillan, 29th February, hb, eb, £22, 9781529085587 An act of terror, a summer of change. Powerful new drama.


Only the Brave 25th April, 9781529085785 Heartwrenching story of courage and hope set in wartime Berlin. Resurrection 4th July, 9781529085822 Potent yarn of family, survival and hope.


Emma Steele The Echoes of Us Welbeck, 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781802795332 Robbie and Jenn have reconciled but as a truck hurtles towards their car, Robbie dives into Jenn’s past and may find more than he bargained for.


Jon Kalman Stefansson, Philip Roughton (tr) Your Absence is Darkness MacLehose Press, 28th March, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781529418781 An extraordinary and ambitious mosaic of a novel of a family over centuries, from Iceland's most exceptional contemporary storyteller.


Josh Stenberg (tr), Jicai Feng Missives From the Masses Sinoist Books 23rd February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781838905651 Award-winning author’s latest collection of darkly humorous and strange accounts of the hidden lives eked out during China’s turbulent economic rise.


Michelle Min Sterling Camp Zero John Murray, 15th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399802352 The old world is broken. Be part of a better future.


Jessi Jezewska Stevens The Visitors And Other Stories, 6th February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781913505707 In an alternative-reality Occupy era, a gnome appears in C’s apartment


where C is mourning the end of marriage, fertility and liquidity.


Jessi Jezewska Stevens Ghost Pains And Other Stories, 5th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781913505844 Collected after publication in the best magazines, Stevens’ stories spy big ethical and historical questions in comic, shambolically human situations.


Kate Storey The Memory Library Avon, 1st February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008658540 For 42 years, Sally has been building a library. Sally’s daughter discovers that when one chapter ends another will soon follow.


J Michael Straczynski The Glass Box Titan, 19th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781803364223 Thought-provoking pressure cooker about a young woman imprisoned in a psychiatric facility for her political views. May appeal to readers of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Girl, Interrupted.


Sara Stridsberg, Deborah Bragan-Turner (tr) The Faculty of Dreams MacLehose Press, 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780857054746 Booker 2019 long-lister, a shocking novel that brimngs to life one of the most controversial, forgotten and fascinating characters of second- wave feminism.


Phoebe Stuckes Dead Animals Sceptre, 11th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399728133 Short, sharp shock of a novel about an act of violence, a woman haunted by the memory of what happened and her lover’s plan for revenge.


Hema Sukumar Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments Coronet, 25th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781399708500 Warm-hearted début set in the beautiful coastal city of Chennai. For fans of Alexander McCall Smith, Joanna Nell and Graeme Simsion.


Defne Suman Summer Heat Apollo, 6th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781035902330 Set alternately in 2003 and 1974 during Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus, Suman’s third novel to be


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