GENERAL FICTION


an unsettling coming-of- age début about the importance of learning how to be yourself, of finding hope in the shadows, of letting your dreams bloom.


John A Williams, Merve Emre, Ishmael Reed The Man Who Cried I Am Fitzcarraldo Editions, 24th April, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781804270967 Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists.


Pam Williams A Trace of Sun Legend Press, 1st March, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781915643353 Raef is left behind in Grenada when his mother follows her husband to England in search of a better life. When they finally reunite seven years later they are strangers.


loved was on another planet?


Emma-Claire Wilson Untitled Avon, 25th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008608118 When Stephanie is told she is pregnant and that she is sick on the same day she faces an impossible choice.


Lorraine Wilson Mother Sea Fairlight, 16th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781914148347 Climate scientist Sisi’s island is under threat. When outsiders try to persuade her community to leave the island she must fight to save her home, her people and her unborn child.


Ashley Winstead Fool Me Once Aria, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035904181 Simmering, sizzling second-chance romcom from author of TikTok winner In My Dreams I Hold a Knife.


Helen Wolff, Marion Detjen, Tristram Wolff (tr), Jefferson Chase (tr), Elizabeth Power Background for Love Pushkin Press, 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781805330721 Heady, rapturous novel of love and self-discovery in the south of France.


Phillip B Williams Ours Granta, 22nd February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781803510774 Spellbinder of a yarn about rebellion, redemption, magic and humanity and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life in America's darkest days.


Tia Williams A Love Song for Ricki Wilde Quercus, 6th February, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781529426168 From the author of Seven Days in June, this is an epic love story 100 years in the making.


Lauren Willig Two Wars and a Wedding William Morrow, 9th May, pb, £10.99, 9780062986191 Two remarkable women striving to make their place in a man’s world. Unforgettable saga of friendship and fighting for what is right.


Deborah Willis Girlfriend on Mars Serpent's Tail, 16th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800817586 What if the person you


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Charlotte Wood Stone Yard Devotional Sceptre, 7th March, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399724340 New from the Stella Prize- winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.


Ellie Wood The Restaurant at the Heart of the Lakes HarperNorth, 14th March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008626303 What is the real recipe for happiness? An invitation to tuck in to a feast of friendship, food and finding joy in the beautiful Cartmel countryside.


Naomi Wood This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things Phoenix, 4th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399615891 Frersh short story collection explores the dark side of family and femininity. Contains the story “Comorbidities”, winner of the BBC Short Story Award.


Judith Woolf The Case of the Campus Cat Cranthorpe Millner, 30th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781803782218


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When the disappearance of a battle-scarred tomcat is rapidly followed by baby-snatching and murder, lesbian literary scholar Morgan Byrd is drawn into the investigation.


Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Union Square, 22nd February, pb, £7.99, 9781435172869 The Ramsays spend their summers on the Isle of Skye where they entertain and make plans to visit the nearby lighthouse as it becomes a silent witness to their lives.


Virginia Woolf In the Orchard Renard Press, 27th March, pb, eb, £5, 9781804470954 Woolf’s short story is perhaps her most experimental, painting the same picture in three very different ways.


David Frazer Wray The Other Side of the Island Sparsile, 11th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781914399657 Uncovering a world of fishermen and farmers, shopkeepers and odd-job- men, expats and migrant workers, housewives and husbands, these stories are, by turns, poignant, funny, tragic and thought-provoking.


Joad R Wren All the Colours You Cannot Name Seren, 18th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781781727201 Set in London during the Great Plague of 1665, this is a story of faith, religion, family and the dawn of the modern age.


Hillary Yablon Sylvia's Second Act Orion, 12th March, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781398710924 The story of Sylvia who, when her life is turned upside-down, moves to New York and sets out to follow her dreams (with hijinks along the way).


Kira Yarmysh, Arch Tait (tr) The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 Serpent's Tail, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781800817555 Powerful prison story that renews a grand Russian tradition of fabulist, existential uncertainty.


Esther Yi Y/N: A Novel Europa Editions, 16th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781787705012 Surreal, hilarious and shrewdly poignant, a novel about a Korean American woman living in


Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.


Liao Yiwu,


Michael M Day (tr) Wuhan Polity, 24th May, hb, eb, £25, 9781509562992 Gripping story from the heart of the Covid pandemic, based on real events.


SERIES


Legends of the Condor Heroes Jin Yong MacLehose Press, pb, eb, £10.99 The most popular series by the most successful Chinese author—a cultural monument translated into English for the first time. A Past Unearthed Gigi Chang (tr) 14th March,


9781529417531 A Hero Born IES Anna Holmwood (tr) 28th March,


9781529432671 A Bond Undone Gigi Chang (tr) 28th March,


9781529432688 A Heart Divided Shelly Bryant (tr), Gigi Chang (tr) 28th March,


9781529432701 A Snake Lies Waiting Anna Holmwood (tr), Gigi Chang (tr) 28th March,


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Nicola Yoon One of Our Kind Trapeze, 13th June, hb, eb, £20, 9781398715394 “The Stepford Wives” meets “Get Out” meets The Other Black Girl in this mind-bending thriller, the adult début of YA sensation Yoon.


Paul Yoon The Hive and the Honey Scribner, 14th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781398530508 Scribner Audio, audiofile, £14.99, 9781398530539 Winning author of Run Me To Earth brings a masterful collection of short stories that elegantly and empathetically imagine the past, present, and future of the Korean diaspora experience.


Asako Yuzuki Butter Fourth Estate, 29th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780008511685 Cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case. Inspired by a true story.


Alia Trabucco Zeran, Sophie Hughes (tr) Clean Fourth Estate, 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008607937 Shockingly compulsive new novel from the International Booker- shortlisted author of The Remainder.


Laura Zigman Small World Ecco Press, 15th February, pb, £10.99, 9780063088290 Written with wry humour and keen sensitivity, Small World is a powerful novel of sisterhood and hope, a reminder that sometimes you have to look back in order to move ahead.


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