POETRY
Collection full of comfort, vulnerability, rage and inspiration from one of the powerhouses of British poetry.
36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem Nam Le 7th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781805300762 Devastating début poetry book from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Poyums Len Pennie 22nd February, hb, eb, £14.99, 9781805301387 From performance poet sensation comes an electric début collection about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving.
Canongate Canons
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Goldenrod Maggie Smith 4th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781805302469 From the author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful and Keep Moving a remarkable anthology that celebrates the beauty and messiness of life.
Poetry Unbound Padraig O Tuama 27th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781838856359 Beautiful book of immer- sive poetry based on the titular podcast, which has been downloaded more than six million times.
Carcanet Classics
Digital edition
The Miraculous Season VR ‘Bunny’ Lang, Rosa Campbell (ed) 29th February, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781800173378 The dramatic, eccentric, startling poetry of Lang, rediscovered and in print for the first time since 1975. It readjusts and enriches our sense of the New York School.
Carcanet Poetry
Egg/Shell Victoria Kennefick 29th February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800173835 Follow-up to Kennefick’s Seamus Heaney Prize- winning debut explores with wry self-awareness early motherhood, miscarriage, the impact of a spouse’s gender transi- tion and the dissolution of a marriage.
Ambush at Still Lake Caroline Bird 27th June, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174122
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Charts marriage, lesbian parenthood, addiction and recovery.
Polkadot Wounds Anthony Ezekiel 25th July, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800174252 Multi-award-winning poet’s new collection brings home the delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of striving to live a connected human life in our fragmenting times.
The Silence Gillian Clarke 28th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800173927 This collection by a laureate of Wales, begins in lockdown. She rsponds to its silences in poems about her mother, childhood, the Great War, its aftermaths and Wales.
The Strong Box Sasha Dugdale 30th May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781800174085 Modernist poem is an extended work that devel- ops elements of Greek mythology, epic literature and the cultures of wars, both ancient and recent.
Coco Island Christine Roseeta Walker 25th April, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174009 First collection from Jamaican poet and novelist explores the bittersweet effects of a postcolonial world.
Baby Schema Isabel Galleymore 28th March, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800173880 Highly anticipated second book collects eco-poems that explore infantilisa- tion, care and commodifi- cation in an age of hyper- capitalism and environmental crisis.
That Which Appears Thomas A Clark 25th April, pb, eb, £19.99, 9781800173859 Four book-length poems in a single volume responding to the experi- ence of walking in the wild landscapes of Scot- land’s Highlands and Islands.
From Base Materials Jenny Lewis 27th June, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174160 Apocalyptic and sensory poems coming from a place of hurt and love, of the human spirit struggling to transcend base matter and make sense of the world.
The Shark Nursery
Mary O’Malley 27th June, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781800174146 The world is at a tipping pointand trust in language is breaking down. The poet gives voice to the wolf, the seal and the shark, finding new language against peril.
Chiselbury
The City Fox & Others in Our Community Chris Parker 25th March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781916556058 Poetry collection intro- ducing different charac- ters within a community, contrasting the complex- ity of the human search for self-understanding with the instinctive connectivity of the non- human aspects of nature.
Dover
The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry Nicholas Zachariah Kay (ed), Nicholas Kay (ed) 14th February, pb, £5.99, 9780486849287 Words on birds from the Elizabethan era to the 20th century. Poems from classics to contemporary include Beckett, Blake, Keats, Poe and others. Ideal for classroom use or independent study.
Faber & Faber
Conflicted Copy Sam Riviere 6th June, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571380985
Electrifying and original sequence of poems using AI as a creative resource.
Skin
David Harsent 1st February, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571382569 Visionary collection consisting of 10 dramatic sequences of poems which, like a planetary system, operate on one another in a dynamic assemblage of propulsion and pull.
Fast Music Hugo Williams 2nd May, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571382613 Rranges from wide-eyed school days to a full- blown sequence of love sonnets to an ode to Brighton’s West Pier and the inevitable helter- skelter of fate.
Silver Rowan Ricardo Phillips 4th April, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571382927 A work that reminds us of the singular and glorious
power of poetry in our complex world.
After You Were, i Am Camille Ralphs 7th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9780571384853 In this extraordinary début charged moments from history collide with our own godless modern world.
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore Paul Muldoon 18th April, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780571386017 Muldoon’s 15th single collection sees him writing with the same verve and distinction that have consistently won him the highest accolades.
Blossomise Angela Harding (illus), Simon Armitage 7th March, hb, eb, £10, 9780571388417 Glorious collaboration celebrating the transfor- mations of spring.
Flapjack Press
What Are You Trying to Tell Me? Dave Morgan 29th February, pb, eb, £8, 9781739623135 Philosophical and poetic discourse on the complexities of ageing, memory and the mutable role of self within community and the natu- ral environment.
A Moonless Night Henry Normal 14th February, pb, eb, £10, 9781739623159 All-new poetry collection from the creator, writer and performer of the BBC Radio 4 series A Normal . . .
Granta Poetry
Three Births K Patrick 7th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781915051097 Extraordinary and playful début collection by one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists explores the joy and fluidity of queer love.
Grove Press
A Working Life Eileen Myles 4th April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781804710357 From “the closest thing we have to a celebrity poet” (Paris Review) comes a collection of euphoric, anxious and indelible poems, perfectly in tune with our strange present.
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Charles Ardai
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Muswell Press, 18th April, pb, £9.99, 9781739123857 It is June and as
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£9.99, 9781739123857 It is June and as
Copenhagen swelters under record
temperatures a headless corpse surfaces in the murky harbour, landing a new case on DI Henrik Jungersen’s desk.
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The Dead Don’t Speak Hodder, 22nd February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529
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Russell Banks American Spirits No Exit Press, 9th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781915798923 From one of America’s
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Shirley Ballas, Sheila McClure Murder on the Dance Floor HQ, 29th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780008558048 Sexy début from world- renowned dancer and Strictly head judge. Behind the sequins and the sparkles the competition is about to turn deadly.
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Lisa Jewell’s Then She Was Gone and Claire Douglas’
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Lin Anderson The Wild Coast Pan, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529084573 Seventeeth novel in forensic crime series, described as the Scottish Silent Witness.
Steve Anderson Lines of Deception Open Road, 12th March, pb, £17.95, 9781504086134 In 1949 a West German nightclub owner embarks on a risky quest behind the Iron Curtain to save his kidnapped American brother.
Jack Anderson The Grief Doctor Raven, 6th June, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781526667540 Brilliantly original, high- concept début in which a controversial scientific genius believes she can cure a man’s grief at the death of his wife. Whatever it takes.
Orenda, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781914585500 Début. An investigative reporter quits her job when her twins die in a fire but the discovery of the body of a missing teenager spurs her into following the story.
Christine H Bailey Burning Little Lies Artemesia, 6th February, pb, £13.95, 9781951122744 Four classmates are directly linked by the murder of one of their own. All four are lying but one’s secret is to die for.
Martine Bailey Sharp Scratch Allison & Busby, 22nd February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9780749030841 18th July, pb, £9.99, 9780749030940 First in a chilling crime series that draws on the author’s time working in the NHS, including at Ashworth top-security psychiatric hospital.
Tina Baker What We Did in the Storm Viper, 15th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781800811843 4th July, pb, £9.99, 9781800811867 Upmarket thriller from the author of Call Me Mummy and Nasty Little Cuts.
David Baldacci Absolute Power Pan, 1st February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035007486 Reissue of the book which launched Baldacci’s career as a worldwide bestseller of thrilling fiction.
David Baldacci A Calamity of Souls Macmillan, 11th April, hb, eb, £22, 9781035035588 Blockbuster drama from fiction superstar.
David Baldacci The Edge Pan, 18th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529062113 Second thrilling novel featuring Travis Devine.
most celebrated storytellers come three interlocking tales about the residents of a rural New York town and the shocking headlines that become local mythologies.
Tom Baragwanath Paper Cage Baskerville, 15th February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781399808118 Prize-winning, literary crime début from young New Zealand novelist.
David Barnett Withered Hill Canelo, 25th July, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781804367513 Sophie finds herself trapped in an isolated Lancashire village. But is it the inhabitants, drenched in folklorish traditions, who keep her prisoner, or something more sinister lurking in the woods?
Rhiannon Barnsley Inside One More Chapter, 6th June, pb, £9.99, 9780008646158 BBC’s Industry meets Anatomy of a Scandal in this début thriller about deception, loyalty and a toxic workplace.
Graham Bartlett City on Fire Allison & Busby, 21st March, hb, eb, £19.99, 9780749030513 The third explosive crime yarn set in the underbelly of Brighton follows the huge success of Bad For Good and Force of Hate.
Quentin Bates (tr), Stella Blómkvist Murder Under the Midnight Sun Corylus Books, 5th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781739298944 Smart, ruthless and with a flexible moral code, razor- tongued lawyer Stella Blómkvist is back for another series of complicated investigations set in Iceland.
Quentin Bates (tr), Óskar Guðmundsson The Dancer Corylus Books, 1st February, Book, eb, £9.99, 9781739298951 With a style that does not shy away from a sometimes graphic take on shocking subject matter, this is Icelandic crime fiction with a tinge of horror.
Kimberly Belle, Layne Fargo, Cate Holahan, Vanessa Lillie Young Rich Widows Sourcebooks Landmark, 2nd April, pb, £8.99, 9781464224331
When four prominent lawyers are killed in a mysterious plane crash their widows must come together to uncover the truth. Edge-of-the-seat thriller with an 1980s mafia vibe.
SJ Bennett
A Death in Diamonds Zaffre, 1st February, hb, eb, £16.99, 9781838776237 Royally brilliant fourth book in the Her Majesty The Queen Investigates mystery series.
Baron Birtcher Knife River Open Road, 6th February, pb, £17.95, 9781504086370 A Ty Dawson mystery. A sheriff fighting to keep the peace in 1970s Oregon faces a shocking secret from his town’s past.
Lynn H Blackburn Never Fall Again Revell, 7th May, pb, eb, £11.99, 9780800745363 Landry Hutton, artist-in- residence of the Haven, went to Gossamer Falls to build a new life for herself and her daughter. When danger threatens can Callum Shaw protect them?
Katherine Blake The Unforgettable Loretta, Darling Viking, 13th June, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780241640685 Con artist, maneater, gold-digger. Watch out Hollywood, here she comes.
Ali Blood
The Other Fiance Avon, 15th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008527198 She’s moved on. He’s long gone. Or is he?
Grethe Boe, Charlotte Barsland (tr) Mayday Mountain Leopard Press, 15th February, pb, eb, £18.99, 9781914495342 When Ylva Norvahl’s plane is forced down over Russian territory during a Nato exercise she and the veteran US major John Evans must race against time to avoid capture.
Claire Booth Home Fires Severn House, 2nd April, hb, eb, £21.99, 9781448310807 A deadly explosion at a fireworks warehouse leaves over a dozen victims. What happened in the moments before the accident? The investigation shakes Sheriff Hank Worth to his core.
Dugald Bruce-Lockhart Second Skin Muswell Press, 10th May, hb, £16.99, 9781739123871 Alistair Haston receives a call from a man claiming to be his son’s grandfather. But Alistair has no knowledge of a son.
Greg Buchanan Consumed Orion, 29th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781398712737 Follow-up to breakout literary thriller Sixteen Horses featuring forensic veterinarian-turned- detective Cooper Allen.
Simone Buchholz, Rachel Ward (tr) The Kitchen Orenda, 11th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781916788077 Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley and her colleagues investigate the murders of men with a history of abuse towards women.
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Te Black Forest Investigations Oliver Bottini, Jamie Bulloch (tr) MacLehose Press,97815294092 Atmospheric whodunnits with Detective Inspector Louise Boni. The Invisible Web 15th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 15 The White Circle 6th June, hb, eb, £20, 39
Patricia Bradley Fatal Witness Revell, 2nd April, pb, eb, £10.99, 9780800741631 Although she witnessed the murder of her parents 25 years ago, Dani Bennett has no memory of the event. But the killer remembers her.
Christianna Brand, Martin Edwards London Particular British Library, 10th April, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780712355407 First published in 1952 and with its setting based on Brand’s own home, the author cited this mystery as her favourite among her many classics.
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