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5th March, hb, £16.99, 9781435172692 Have inspired many to embrace Thoreau’s individualism and love of nature.


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Picador Collection Picador, pb, eb,97810350 John Banville The Sea 2nd May, £10.99, 39043 Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss. Alain de Botton Essays in Love 8th February, £10.99, 38589 By the bestselling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life. Jim Crace Quarantine 4th April, £10.99, 38633 Booker-shortlisted masterpiece. Emma Donoghue The Wonder 2nd May, pb, eb, 10.99, 38824 Two strangers transform each other’s lives. Now a major Netflix film starring Florence Pugh. Shusaku Endo, William Johnston (tr) Silence 4th April, £10.99, 38862 Reissue of highly acclaimed historical fiction novel. Percival Everett Assumption 21st March, £9.99, 36424 Baffling triptych of murder mysteries. Percival Everett Damned If I Do 21st March, £9.99, 36431 Brilliantly postmodern set of short stories from one of America’s most inventive living writers. Percival Everett I Am Not Sidney Poitier 21st March, £9.99, 36493 Hilarious take on race, class and identity. Percival Everett Percival Everett 21st March, £9.99, 36523 Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/ Faulkner Award for Fiction. Percival Everett So Much Blue 21st March, £9.99, 36554 Deadpan humor and insightful commentary. Percival Everett Telephone 21st March, £9.99, 36585 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist. Hannah Kent Burial Rites 7th March, £9.99, 38626 Inspired by a true story, Burial Rites follows the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829. Cormac McCarthy Child of God


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8th February, £10.99, 39012 A novel that examines the darkest shades of human experience with dignity and grace. Cormac McCarthy Outer Dark 13th June, £10.99, 39029 Second novel of an American writer growing in stature. Cormac McCarthy The Orchard Keeper 11th July, £10.99, 39067 Extraordinary début novel is about a young boy and an outlaw. Cormac McCarthy Suttree 4th April, £10.99, 39272 Compelling, semi- autobiographical novel. VS Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas 7th March, £10.99, 38602 From the winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswa. Barbara Pym Quartet in Autumn 13th June, £10.99, 38923 Reissue of work by acclaimed novelist. Colm Tóibín The South 4th April, £9.99, 29518 Début is a classic story of art, sacrifice and courage. Colm Tóibín


Mothers and Sons 4th April, £9.99, 29525 Sensitive and beautifully written nine-story meditation. Colm Tóibín The Blackwater Lightship 4th April, £9.99, 29853 Reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter. Now part of the Picador Collection. Colm Tóibín The Master 4th April, £9.99, 29860 Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James. Colm Tóibín The Heather Blazing 4th April, £9.99, 29877 Wonderful character study of a man, his childhood, family, and community. Colm Tóibín The Story of the Night 4th April, £9.99, 30859 Tóibín portrays a difficult relationship during dark times. Tim Winton Cloudstreet 11th July, £10.99, 38930 Winton’s great family drama, a saga of love, joy and heartbreak set in Australia.


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Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics


Imperial War Museums, 25th April, pb, £8.99, 97819124237


experiences of its author, this is an insightful, often humorous, look at Wales, and Britain at a time of changing social norms.


Joseph Conrad Victory Naxos AudioBooks, 1st February, audiobook, £25, 9781781984888 Conrad’s last major novel. Set in 1900, it tells the story of a European who has retreated to the Dutch East Indies following a business misadventure. Read by David Horovitch.


Alexander Baron There’s No Home 81


In August 1943, Sergeant Craddock leads his battle- weary platoon in Catania, Sicily. SERIES


Alexandre Dumas Twenty Years After Naxos AudioBooks, 1st March, audiobook, £46, 9781781984925 Extraordinary tale that reunites the four dauntless comrades from The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask. Read by Bill Homewood.


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Spanning Sicily, from its countryside to its brothels, this is the final book in Baron’s War trilogy, this is a series of pithy vignettes that reflected the author’s wartime experiences.


Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales Macmillan Collector’s Library, 15th February, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781035017409 Written for children, enjoyed by grown-ups, Belloc’s hilarious and irreverent cautionary tales and poems have entertained for generations.


Sander Berg (tr), Louis-Ferdinand Celine War Alma Classics, 20th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781847499165 Intensely autobiographical account of a crucial episode in Céline’s life, presented here in a masterful first


English translation. SERIES


Mary Chadwick (ed), Anna Maria Bennett Ellen, Countess of Castle Howel Honno, 18th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781912905997 Marked by the sometimes scandalous life


The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction


Sheridan Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Catherine Crowe Victorian Ghost Stories Arcturus, 1st March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398835078 By flickering candlelight, these 14 terrifying tales were carefully penned by some of greatest writers of the Victorian era.


Rudolph Fisher The Walls of Jericho Dover, 23rd February, pb, £7.49, 9780486851938 A satire of jazz-age Harlem explores concepts of race and class still relevant today. Includes four short stories—”City of Refuge”, “The Promised Land”, “Ringtail” and “Blades of Steel”.


Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Séamas ÓCatháin (tr) Gatsby GalÁnta— The Great Gatsby Phaeton Publishing, 7th March, hb, £35, 9781908420299 pb, £22, 9781908420305 English and Irish on facing pages demonstrate ÓCatháin’s superb translation of Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece into the Ulster Irish of Fitzgerald’s ancestry.


Elizabeth Gemmill, Jerome Bertram Mediaeval Inscriptions: The Epigraphy of the County of Oxfordshire Oxfordshire Record Society, 26th March, hb, £35, 9780902509801 Mediaeval inscriptions made by donors to commemorate people enable the modern reader to find out about the lives


of individuals and communities in the past in detail.


John Godwin Roman Verse Satires Liverpool University Press, 2nd April, hb, eb, £85, 9781802074697 New guide to the major writers of Roman satirical verse.


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Aris & Phillips Classical Texts Liverpool University Press, hb, eb, £115, 978180207 Alexandros Kampakoglou 1: Callimachus: Select Longer Fragments and Epigrams 2nd April, 8619 Ptolemaic Alexandria’s foremost poet. Gesine Manuwald 4: Cicero: Republic 3rd June, 4420 English translation and up-to-date commentary on all the surviving text of Cicero’s De re publica. John Godwin 2: Juvenal Satires Book III 1st April, pb, eb, £29.99, 4741 Text, translation and commentary of three of Juvenal’s most famous poems.


Rosemary Gray (ed) London: An Illustrated Literary Companion Macmillan Collector’s Library, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035031689 Fascinating literary overview of London through the centuries.


Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness Naxos AudioBooks, 1st February, audiobook, £33, 9781781984895 Highly influential lesbian novel written in the 1920s recounts the life and loves of Stephen Gordon, a defiant woman who simply wanted to be true to herself. Read by Lucy Scott.


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Pushkin Classics Pushkin Press, pb, eb, 9781805330 Hermann Hesse Demian 29th February, £9.99, 349 Powerful story of spiritual enlightenment and self-discovery from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Siddhartha and Narziss and Goldmund. Teffi, Robert Chandler (ed) And Time Was No More 25th April, £12.99, 424 The finest work by the great Russian writer Teffi in a new selection.


Tayari Jones, Diane Oliver Neighbors and Other Stories Faber & Faber, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571386086 Haunting tales of life in racially divided 1950s America for fans of Shirley Jackson and “Get Out” by a lost star of Black literature.


Amitava Kumar My Beloved Life Picador, 30th May, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781035013692 Exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man’s life from his 1935 birth in a small village in India to his death from Covid in 2020.


Sinclair Lewis Arrowsmith Alma Classics, 21st March, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781847499134 First published in 1925 to great critical acclaim, Arrowsmith is the third major novel by Lewis and arguably his most ambitious work. Annotated edition.


Rose Macaulay The Towers of Trebizond Naxos AudioBooks, 1st February, audiobook, £21.50, 9781781985113 Macaulay’s best-known novel follows Laurie Panton and her eccentric aunt as they embark on a journey to Turkey. Read by Clare Corbett.


Albert Maltz The Cross and the Arrow Calder, 24th April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780714550787 Rediscovered gem by one of the Hollywood Ten, who were blacklisted for their involvement with the Communist Party in the US. With an introduction by Professor Patrick Chura.


Albert Maltz A Tale of One January Naxos AudioBooks, 1st February, audiobook, £11, 9781781985052 In Poland in 1945 two women and four men escape Nazi imprisonment. They form a family caught between the euphoria of freedom and the terror of their circumstances. Read by Rupert Degas.


Guy de Maupassant, Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Frederic Benson, William Hope Hodgson, Montague Rhodes James Ghost Stories Arcturus, 1st July, hb, £19.99, 9781398834934


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