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resistance in Jersey during the German occupation.
Francesca De Tores Saltblood Bloomsbury, 25th April, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526661333 Literary epic spotlights the golden age of piracy and the life of the infamous female pirate Mary Read.
Rose Tremain Absolutely and Forever Vintage, 6th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529922509 Electrifying novel about first love flits between 1960s London and Paris.
Amy True Meet Me in Ivy Falls Hera, 4th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804366837 When Torran’s high-school sweetheart comes back to Ivy Falls sparks fly. Sweet, smalltown, contemporary romance.
SJA Turney Caracalla Canelo, 9th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781800326743 Can the two imperial heirs set their differences aside or will Rome see the blood of a fratricide? Masterful final novel in the Damned Emperors series.
Chika Unigwe The Middle Daughter Canongate, 4th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781838857936 “Absorbing and tender... a finely drawn portrait of a young woman’s resilience in the face of violence and grief”—Paula Hawkins.
Alexandra Vasti Ne’er Duke Well Corvus, 25th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781805461364 A scandalous duke enlists the help of the most proper debutante in London to save his reputation. Witty, feminist romance of Regency times
Margaret Verble Stealing HarperCollins, 11th April, pb, £10.99, 9780063267091 Gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s.
Lucy Vine Date With Destiny Simon & Schuster, 9th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781398515352 Simon & Schuster Audio, audiofile, £14.99, 9781398515376 Ginny knows six things that will happen when she turns 32, and one is that she will meet the man of her dreams. The only
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V Vinicchayakul, Lucy Srisuphapreeda (tr) A Night Full of Stars River, 8th April, pb, £10.99, 9786164510807 Set against the backdrop of the 1932 revolution, this beautiful novel deals with universal themes of love, loyalty, greed, anger, lust and jealousy.
Taleen Voskuni Lavash At First Sight Pan, 9th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781035018680 Armenian, LGBTQ+ “Romeo and Juliet” romcom from the author of Sorry, Bro.
Eric Vuillard An Honourable Exit Picador, 28th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035004003 Forensic take on the build-up to the Vietnam War skewers French and later US politics to show the prelude to the end of the colonial period.
Noboru Wada, William Scott Wilson (tr), Haruna Wada (illus) The Snow Woman and Other Yokai Stories From Japan Tuttle, 16th April, pb, £12.99, 9784805317587 Extraordinary collection of Japanese folk tales, many in English for the first time. Contains 79 stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu.
Betty Walker Victory for the Cornish Girls Avon, 11th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008615840 Will the Cornish girls come out on top once the war finally ends?
Jeannette Walls Hang the Moon Scribner, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781471154997 From the author of The Glass Castle a riveting novel about an indomitable young woman in Prohibition-era Virginia.
Harper Muse, 29th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781400233946 Two women survive against all odds and become legends. Violet Jessop is Miss Unsinkable. Daphne has survived calamity of her own.
Mollie Walton A Sister’s Hope Welbeck, 15th February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781802793086 Two years after war broke out and its dangers are becoming ever more real. Against her mother’s wishes, 18-year-old Connie has moved out but life is about to get dangerous.
Jesmyn Ward Let Us Descend Bloomsbury, 9th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781526666765 From two-time National Book Award winner comes a haunting masterpiece set to be a classic. It follows a slave girl in the years before the American Civil War.
Alan Warner Nothing Left to Fear From Hell Polygon, 7th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781846976612 Traces the last journey through Scotland of Bonnie Prince Charlie, a man history has defined for his failure.
Jo Watson Love At First Flight Headline Eternal, 9th May, pb, £9.99, 9781035400522 Author of the smash-hit Love to Hate You entrances with deliciously funny, fake-dating romcom.
Pam Weaver A Sister’s Bond Avon, 4th July, pb, eb, £7.99, 9780008542351 When they lose their father suddenly can two half-sisters from very different worlds help each other face their futures as war loom?
Alison Weir
Mary I: Queen of Sorrows Headline Review, 9th May, hb, £25, 9781472278135 The princess who became Bloody Mary.
Jenni L Walsh Unsinkable
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AJ West The Betrayal of Thomas True Orenda, 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781916788152 London, 1710. A carpenter with a secret life searches for a traitor in the outrageous underworld of the molly houses. Author of The Spirit Engineer returns with a devastating thriller.
Roseanna M White A Noble Scheme Bethany House, 14th May, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780764240935 As part of England’s most elite private investigation firm Gemma and Graham must set aside their broken relationship to work together on a search for a missing child.
Holly Williams The Start of Something Orion, 11th April, hb, eb, £18.99, 9781398706347 Intoxicating, provocative and thought-provoking novel that, through 10 interlocking sexual encounters, questions what true intimacy might look like in today’s world.
TA Williams Far From Home Canelo, 23rd May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781804366233 From Lerici to Parma and then Tuscany three women find love, family and themselves. New romance will mend broken hearts and overcome tragic pasts.
Gary D Wilson The Narrow Window Roundfire, 23rd February, pb, eb, £15.99, 9781803414621 As the turbulent ’60s draw to a close an inexplicable crime forces two young Americans teaching in Africa to confront issues of motivation, culture and belonging.
Lorraine Wilson Cora’s French Cafe One More Chapter, 25th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008564995 Escapist summer romance about a girl who moves to France to find herself.
Alice Winn In Memoriam Penguin, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780241567838 Heart-shattering love story of two soldiers in the First World War.
Karen Witemeyer If the Boot Fits Bethany House, 7th May, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780764240423 After a mystery guest saves Samantha’s brother’s life and then disappears her search for the guest leads to an ending more enchanting than she imagined.
Daisy Wood The Royal Librarian Avon, 11th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008636920 A royal palace, a closed book and a betrayal that will echo through generations.
Kimberley Woodhouse Set in Stone Bethany House, 7th May, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780764241697 Palaeontologist Martha Jankowski discovers a dinosaur skeleton, giving her the opportunity to make her name.
Laura Wood Under Your Spell Simon & Schuster, 20th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781398529762 Simon & Schuster Audio, audiofile, £14.99, 9781398529786 She wants only three things and he is not one of them. When it comes to love, Clemmie is learning you should be careful what you wish for.
Mary Wood The Guernsey Girls Go to War Pan, 20th June, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781529089776 Next gripper in the Guernsey Girls trilogy, featuring Harriet and Annie.
Val Wood Annie Penguin, 23rd May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781804994702 Classic saga about love, death and courage.
Val Wood The Doorstep Girls Penguin, 1st February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781804994726 Can two lifelong friends find hope in hard times? Rags-to-riches saga.
Yael van der Wouden The Safekeep Viking, 30th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780241652305 Exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes and the unexpected shape of revenge.
Maisey Yates Other People’s Weddings Headline Eternal, 13th June, pb, £10.99, 9781035413768 Enemies-to-lovers, forced- proximity romcom about a wedding cake designer and the photographer she is forever clashing with.
Helen Yendall The Highland Girls on Guard HQ Digital, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008603298 It iks a long hot summer in Scotland but the Women’s Timber Corps have more than forest fires to worry about.
Kate Young Experienced Fourth Estate, 23rd May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780008609498 Bette is in love for the first time. Then Mei announces
that she wants a three- month break so that Bette can do all the exploring she has missed out on.
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