Faber, out now
Hall is best known for her glittering short stories: this is the novel she\u2019s been working on for two decades. Set in Cumbria\u2019s Eden valley, it tells the story of the Helm \u2013 the only wind in the UK to be given a name \u2013 from its creation at the dawn of time up to the current degradation of the climate. It\u2019s a huge, millennia-spanning achievement, spotlighting characters from neolithic shamans to Victorian meteorologists to present-day pilots.<\/p>\n
Katabasis<\/a><\/strong> by RF Kuang<\/strong> Good and Evil and Other Stories<\/a> by <\/strong>Samanta Schweblin<\/strong>, translated by <\/strong>Megan McDowell<\/strong> What We Can Know<\/a><\/strong> by Ian McEwan<\/strong> Will There Ever Be Another You<\/a><\/strong> by Patricia Lockwood<\/strong> The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny<\/a><\/strong> by Kiran Desai<\/strong> Cursed Daughters<\/a><\/strong> by Oyinkan Braithwaite<\/strong> Shadow Ticket<\/a> by <\/strong>Thomas Pynchon<\/strong> Big Kiss, Bye-Bye<\/a> by <\/strong>Claire-Louise Bennett<\/strong> The Four Spent the Day Together<\/a> by Chris Kraus<\/strong> The Land of Sweet Forever<\/a><\/strong> by Harper Lee<\/strong> The Rose Field<\/a><\/strong> by Philip Pullman<\/strong> Vaim<\/a><\/strong> by Jon Fosse<\/strong>, translated by <\/strong>Damion Searls<\/strong> \u200bTom\u2019s Crossing<\/strong> by <\/strong>Mark Z Danielewski The Eleventh Hour<\/a><\/strong> by Salman Rushdie<\/strong> The Silver Book<\/a><\/strong> by <\/strong>Olivia Laing<\/strong> The Wax Child<\/a> by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken<\/strong> On the Calculation of Volume 3<\/a> by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell<\/strong> From left: Patti Smith, Zadie Smith, Margaret Atwood and Bradley Wiggins. Composite: Tom J Newell\/The GuardianNonfiction All the Way to the River:<\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/strong>Love, Loss and Liberation<\/a><\/strong> by <\/strong>Elizabeth Gilbert<\/strong> Fly, Wild Swans<\/a><\/strong>:<\/a><\/strong> by My Mother, Myself and China<\/a><\/strong> by <\/strong>Jung Chang<\/strong> If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI<\/strong> by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares<\/strong> When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows \u2026<\/a><\/strong>Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage<\/a><\/strong> by Steven Pinker<\/strong> 107 Days<\/a> by Kamala Harris The Boundless Deep:<\/strong> Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief<\/strong> by Richard Holmes<\/strong> On Friendship<\/a><\/strong> by <\/strong>Andrew O\u2019Hagan The Big Payback:<\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/strong>The Case for Reparations for Slavery and How They Would Work<\/a><\/strong> by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder<\/strong> The Chain<\/a> by Bradley Wiggins The Uncool:<\/a><\/strong> A Memoir<\/a><\/strong> by Cameron Crowe<\/strong> The Seven Rules of Trust<\/a><\/strong>: Why It Is Today\u2019s Most Essential Superpower<\/a><\/strong> by Jimmy Wales Dead and Alive<\/a> by Zadie Smith We Did OK, Kid<\/a><\/strong> by <\/strong>Anthony Hopkins<\/strong> Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run<\/a> by Paul McCartney<\/strong> Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts<\/a> by Margaret Atwood Bread of Angels<\/a> by Patti Smith One Aladdin Two Lamps<\/a><\/strong> by <\/strong>Jeanette Winterson<\/strong> Composite: Tom J Newell\/The GuardianCrime<\/p>\n Spies, lies and the return of the Da Vinci codebreaker<\/p>\n Each September, bookshops are invaded by a charge of the big beasts in crime and thrillers. Leading the pack as ever is Richard Osman, returning to his Thursday Murder Club franchise of retiree armchair detectives with <\/strong>The Impossible Fortune<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>(Viking, 25 September), featuring a wedding guest in fear for their life. Cormoran Strike and his detective agency partner Robin are still struggling with their feelings for each other in the eighth outing from Robert Galbraith (The Hallmarked Man<\/a><\/strong>, Sphere, out now), while Mick Herron serves up another helping of spies and lies in the ninth of his Slow Horses series: Clown Town<\/a><\/strong> (Baskerville, 11 September), which has its roots in a Northern Ireland cover-up.<\/p>\n Janice Hallett\u2019s latest cosy puzzler, The Killer Question<\/a><\/strong>, is based around pub quizzes (Viper, out now), while William Boyd offers The Predicament<\/a><\/strong> (Viking, out now), a swinging 60s espionage thriller featuring \u201caccidental spy\u201d Gabriel Dax, first seen in 2024\u2019s Gabriel\u2019s Moon. And The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown is back after eight years\u2019 absence with the thumpingly titled The Secret of Secrets<\/a><\/strong> (Bantam, 9 September), another race-against-time conspiracy fest for his Harvard symbologist hero Robert Langdon.<\/p>\n October promises a James Bond spin-off in Vaseem Khan\u2019s Quantum of Menace<\/a><\/strong> (Zaffre, 23 October), the first in a cosy mystery series featuring Q, now ousted from MI6 and running his own investigation into the death of a quantum computer scientist. Meanwhile, Shetland detective Jimmy Perez returns in a new standalone novel from Ann Cleeves: in The Killing Stones<\/strong> (Macmillan, 7 October) Perez has moved to Orkney, where he sets out on a mission to discover the truth behind the murder of a childhood friend. Expect more dark secrets and simmering community tensions against a new ruggedly beautiful landscape.<\/p>\n Memoir<\/p>\n From Hollywood to Harvey Nicks\u2026 more life stories<\/p>\n If the end of the year is a time for looking back at life, that\u2019s not been lost on celebrities (I\u2019m sure it has nothing to do with Christmas sales). Musicians are to the fore. Scooby Snacks singer Huey Morgan tells tales of 90s excess in The Fun Lovin\u2019 Criminal<\/a><\/strong> (Quercus, 11 September). For a grungier vibe try Rumours of My Demise<\/a><\/strong> <\/strong>(Faber, 6 November) by Evan Dando of indie darlings the Lemonheads. Slightly eclipsing them both in star power \u2013 sorry, guys \u2013 is Lionel Richie, whose autobiography Truly<\/a><\/strong> (William Collins, 30 September) is a sure-fire bestseller, given the man has shifted more than 125m albums globally. Yusuf\/Cat Stevens tells us about his wild world in Cat on the Road to Findout<\/a> <\/strong>(Constable, 18 September), and from the clubs, drag DJ Jodie Harsh dishes the dirt on London\u2019s 00s scene in You Had to Be There<\/a> <\/strong>(Faber, 25 September).<\/p>\n From Hollywood comes Charlie Sheen\u2019s tell\u2011all The Book of Sheen<\/strong> (Gallery, 9 September), a tome he \u201cshouldn\u2019t be alive\u201d to write after what are euphemistically described as a \u201cvortex of extracurricular activities\u201d. And Michael J Fox offers not a full-blown memoir but a slice of acting life in Future Boy<\/a><\/strong> (Headline, 14 October), the story of his 80s smash hits Family Ties and Back to the Future. Rocky Horror Show star Tim Curry looks back on a wayward career in Vagabond<\/a><\/strong> (Century, 14 October).<\/p>\n It\u2019s not just actors: \u201cqueen of shops\u201d Mary Portas tells us how she got her break at Harvey Nicks in I Shop, Therefore I Am<\/a><\/strong> (Canongate, 2 October) while comedian and writer Ben Elton asks What Have I Done?<\/strong> (Pan Macmillan, 9 October), a question that may also be relevant to tennis star Boris Becker, whose Inside<\/a><\/strong> (HarperCollins, 25 September) tells us how he went from Wimbledon to Wandsworth prison. Malala Yousafzai returns with the story of life after becoming a human rights icon, Finding My Way<\/a><\/strong> (W&N, 21 October), and The Orchid Thief author Susan Orlean, promises to enchant with Joyride<\/a><\/strong> (Atlantic, 6 November), her memoir of chasing down stories for the New Yorker.<\/p>\n
HarperVoyager, out now
The follow-up to Yellowface takes its title from the Ancient Greek for a journey to the underworld. Two Cambridge postgrads in the field of analytic magick venture into hell to retrieve the soul of their academic supervisor in a big, bold fantasy romp.<\/p>\n
Picador, out now
An eerie new collection from the three times International Booker-nominated Argentinian author. Set at the boundaries between our exterior and interior worlds, the stories examine moments of violence and revelation.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Cape, 18 September
A century from now, an academic in an impoverished Britain sinking under the seas pores over literary archives from the impossibly rich and fortunate early 21st century. He is on the trail of a poem that was read aloud once, and then wondered about for generations. What was its message, and does it still matter in the aftermath of catastrophe?<\/p>\n
Bloomsbury, 23 September
No one else writes sentences as wild, clever and funny as Lockwood. Shortlisted for the Booker and Women\u2019s prizes in 2021, No One Is Talking About This <\/a>was a blazingly original take on social media and family tragedy. The follow-up continues Lockwood\u2019s autofictional project, as an American woman struggles with a breakdown in the aftermath of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
Hamish Hamilton, 25 September
Two decades on from Desai\u2019s Booker winner The Inheritance of Loss comes a mighty love story, already longlisted for this year\u2019s prize<\/a>. An epic of modernity and tradition, generational hope and despair, it moves between India and the US as a couple are buffeted by the forces of fate, family and their own ambitions.<\/p>\n
Atlantic, 25 September
My Sister, the Serial Killer <\/a>was a critical and commercial smash. In the Nigerian-British author\u2019s follow-up, Eniiyi is determined to break the family curse that condemns its women to heartbreak.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Cape, 7 October
Following 2013\u2019s Bleeding Edge, the 88-year-old American great returns with another slice of antic noir. It\u2019s the Great Depression, and private eye Hicks McTaggart takes on a routine case that turns out to be anything but: think spies, swing musicians, interplanetary languages and paranormal intrigue.<\/p>\n
Fitzcarraldo, 9 October
From the author of Pond and Checkout 19, a new novel about intimacy and connection in which a woman who has moved to the countryside turns over the ephemera of her past.<\/p>\n
Scribe, 9 October
Kraus made her name with the autofictional cult classic I Love Dick<\/a>. Now she investigates American poverty and division through the story of a murder committed by three teenagers, and the woman who becomes obsessed with it.<\/p>\n
Hutchinson Heinemann, 21 October
A decade on from the rediscovery of Go Set a Watchman<\/a>, some early stories and later nonfiction from the author of To Kill a Mockingbird.<\/p>\n
Penguin, 23 October
It\u2019s 30 years since we were first introduced to dust, daemons and Lyra Belacqua in Pullman\u2019s groundbreaking YA novel Northern Lights: now, with the culmination of the Book of Dust trilogy, comes the conclusion of Lyra\u2019s quest across worlds, and hopefully answers to many mysteries.<\/p>\n
Fitzcarraldo, 23 October
Named for a fictional Norwegian fishing village, Fosse\u2019s first novel since receiving the Nobel prize in literature in 2023<\/a> follows a man who sails to the big city in search of a needle and thread and finds his long-lost love instead. Two more novels about Vaim are promised.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Pantheon, 28 October
A new novel from the author of the twisty cult classic House of Leaves, pitched as his \u201cmost accessible yet\u201d, features two friends in the American west on a mission to rescue horses set for slaughter.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Cape, 4 November
These five stories about old age, when the midnight of life is approaching, move between India, England and America, reckoning with public life and private tragedy, regret and mortality, experience and imagination.<\/p>\n
Hamish Hamilton, 6 November
Danilo Donati, designer for Fellini and Pasolini, meets a young English artist in Venice. Laing\u2019s second novel is a queer love story and noir thriller set in the dreamlike world of Italian cinema, in the months leading up to the murder of Pasolini in 1975.<\/p>\n
Viking, 6 November
Ravn\u2019s International Booker-shortlisted The Employees was set on a 22nd-century spaceship; now the visionary Danish author goes back in time for a tale based on an infamous 17th-century witch trial, as a woman melts down beeswax and shapes it into human form.<\/p>\n
Faber, 20 November
The first two volumes of this Danish timeloop series in which a woman must live the 18th of November over and over again caused a sensation. In the third, after 1,143 repeated days, something changes: she meets a man who has also fallen through the cracks of time.<\/p>\n![\"All](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/331.jpg\")
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Bloomsbury, 9 September
A very different kind of memoir from the author of Eat Pray Love: Gilbert\u2019s portrait of a compelling but destructive relationship encompasses terminal illness, addiction and the hard work of recovery.<\/p>\n
William Collins, 16 September
Jung Chang\u2019s 1991 account of \u201cthree daughters of China\u201d, Wild Swans, did more than any other book to shape western popular understanding of Mao\u2019s rule. More than 30 years later she returns with a sequel \u2013 bringing her distinctive blend of memoir and social history to bear on the era of Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n
Bodley Head, 18 September
Should you worry about superintelligent AI? The answer from one of the tech world\u2019s most influential doomsayers, Eliezer Yudkowsky, is emphatically yes. The good news? We aren\u2019t there yet, and there are still steps we can take to avert disaster.<\/p>\n
Allen Lane, 23 September
Human societies can\u2019t operate without common knowledge \u2013 the shared assumptions about how we think and ought to conduct ourselves. Cognitive scientist and occasional controversialist Pinker looks at how that knowledge is structured \u2013 and how it can lead us astray.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Simon & Schuster, 23 September
Once Joe Biden decided to end his bid for a second term in the White House, Kamala Harris had about 15 weeks \u2013 or 107 days to be precise \u2013 to turn the Democrats\u2019 fortunes around and save the world from another Trump presidency. She failed, of course, but not for want of trying \u2013 a story laid bare in this account of the punishing campaign.<\/p>\n
William Collins, 25 September
Holmes\u2019s prize-winning 2009 book, Age of Wonder, demonstrated how the scientific discoveries of the 18th and 19th centuries suffused the literature of the time, from Keats\u2019s poetry to Mary Shelley\u2019s Frankenstein. His new biography of Tennyson places the poet in the context of the broader clash between faith and the emerging theory of evolution.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Faber, 9 October
This delightful collection of short essays explores friendship and loyalty in all its many forms \u2013 from relationships with work colleagues to the bonds we form with members of the animal kingdom \u2013 incorporating plenty of literary detours along the way.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Faber, 9 October
\u201cHow is it that owners were paid compensation from our taxes, yet the enslaved and their families were not,\u201d ask author and comedian Lenny Henry and media executive Marcus Ryder in this searching book about what it would really take to right the historic wrongs of the slave trade.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>HarperCollins, 23 October
The Tour de France and Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist explores \u201cthe darkest parts\u201d of his life for the first time in this revealing memoir of depression and addiction.<\/p>\n
4th Estate, 28 October
We all know how Crowe got into writing \u2013 as an unfeasibly young music journalist he covered some of the greatest bands of the 70s \u2013 a coming of age immortalised in his autobiographical film Almost Famous. But his subsequent career, making films such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Vanilla Sky, was just as glamorous. Uncool tells the story of a life at the cutting edge of popular culture.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Bloomsbury, 28 October
The founder of Wikipedia could have monetised his creation and become a billionaire, like his near contemporaries Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. Instead, he has jealously protected its status as a public good, free for everyone and trusted by billions. Here he shares his formula for a better internet \u2013 and in turn, better politics and institutions.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Hamish Hamilton, 30 October
The latest essay collection from the author of White Teeth and The Fraud moves magpie-like across popular culture and politics: from T\u00e1r to Stormzy, Trump to Starmer and Martin Amis to Hilary Mantel.<\/p>\n
Simon & Schuster, 4 November
In 1948, a 10-year-old boy from Port Talbot watched Laurence Olivier\u2019s Hamlet on the big screen. It was a turning point in Hopkins\u2019s life, setting him on a course that would eventually lead to six Oscar nominations and two wins. Aged 87, he looks back on humble beginnings and a glittering career.<\/p>\n
Allen Lane, 4 November
How did McCartney, who turned 83 this year, manage to squeeze in writing a book alongside the 79 dates of his Got Back tour? Well, he had some help \u2013 this nearly 600-page tome is compiled from 500,000 words of interviews and edited by a former speechwriter to the Clinton White House. In any case, it promises fresh insights into the frenetically creative period that followed the Beatles\u2019 breakup.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Chatto & Windus, 4 November
Fans of one of the most famous living writers have waited in vain for a memoir \u2013 until now. Atwood goes back to the beginning, writing about her childhood as well as the inspiration behind many of the 18 novels that made her a household name.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Bloomsbury, 4 November
The singer and poet\u2019s first memoir, Just Kids, focused on her tumultuous relationship with the maverick photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, evoking a now disappeared New York of dirt-cheap rentals and avant-garde performance. This new instalment focuses on her life as an artist in her own right \u2013 from childhood inspirations to adult acclaim.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Cape, 13 November
Winterson takes the Arabic folk tale 1001 Nights as her starting point, using the image of Scheherazade, a woman spinning a tale every night to fend off death, to explore the value and future of storytelling.<\/p>\n