So many promising new books being released in coming months

[theveg]

I thought I'd start making a list because it feels like literally all of my favourite authors have new titles coming out and my Amazon pre order habit is in danger of getting out of hand.

If anyone wants to add any they are aware of please do!

So

18th August new Anthony Horowitz in the Hawthorn series The Twist of a Knife - loved this series so far and will listen on audible

Same day - Haven, new book by Emma Donoghue

Same day again- 1989 by Val McDiarmid - enjoyed the first one of these

30th august - The Ink Black heart - R Galbraith. Cannot wait. Again will listen on audible

On the same day Maggie O'Farrell The Marriage Portrait - can't wait for this, again loved everything she has ever written

1st September Ann Cleeves new Vera, The Rising Tide

6th September new Stephen King- Fairy Tale

September 27th new Kate Atkinson- Shrines of Gaeity

September 29th Elly Griffiths new novel in the Harbinder Kaur Series -Bleeding Heart Yard

October 5th Dead Mans Creek by Chris Hammer - enjoyed Opal Country by him and this is the same series

6th October - the Romantic by William Boyd

Any I've missed??

I’m getting to read the new Vera book early through the Pigeonhole app. So excited!

Just marking my place. I’m not finishing anything at the moment. I’m really looking forward to Ink Black Heart and the new Vera.

Reading a sample in French was good though. It look as long to complete the sample as the whole novel would take in English, so it may be a way for me to save money towards the electricity bill!

@theveg We seem to like a lot of the same authors. Lots of good ones have just come out this summer too, and I've realised I missed a few in the spring.

I don't preorder from Amazon, I add them to my Kindle wishlist because this helps me to spot sudden price drops and offers, which sometimes happen outside of Kindle daily deals or sales - eg I bought new releases by Monica Ali and Sara Paretsky for 99p within a few weeks of publication. I also scour library print book and ebook catalogues. So I got to borrow a new ebook by Jessie Burton last month on the day before official publication - I was astonished. The House of Fortune is the sequel to The Minituarist. And I also somehow finished it a few days before it was due back, as the ebooks go back automatically if you don't return them first.

I've been lucky enough to read two September releases through egalleys - copies sent to reviewers but in electronic form, via Netgalley. I do want to write reviews as both Shrines of Gaiety and Bleeding Heart Yard were excellent, and my reviews will be positive.

I'd managed to borrow Patrick Gale's Mummy's Boy (actually published in March but I didn't realise until more recently) and Louise Welsh, The Second Cut, sequel to her debut novel, from libraries but on holidLeay in Kent I found them for £2 and £3 in new hardback in a charity shop.

Maggie O'Farrell is on order at my libraries and I've joined the queue.

All I need to do is keep up, which I won't. But at least this way I won't rush to buy something brand new at full price and then not get to it it until long after it's in paperback and regularly in Kindle Deals. Then I can hold out for a charity shop or Kindle bargain (or both, in which case I can pass on a good condition dead tree version.

I'm also reading or looking books by some debut or new to me authors - reading Lessons in Chemistry and looking forward to Olga Dies Dreaming and The Whalebone Theatre.

Ilona Andrews & Patricia Briggs both have new books coming out on the same day next week & I've got them both pre-ordered.

23rd August -

Ruby Fever (Hidden Legacy) - Ilona Andrews.
Soul Taken (Mercy Thompson book 13) - Patricia Briggs.

I don't know which one to read first.

Anthony Doerr who wrote All The Light We Cannot See has his new book Cloud Cuckoo Land out now in hardback and kindle but I love reading paperbacks and that's out on Sept 29th :)

Didn't know William Boyd and Kate Atkinson had new books out. How exciting! Thanks for the thread!

Also just realised Snow Country from Sebastian Faulks is out in paperback so will go and get that today!

Fab thread, thank you OP. Lots of my favourite authors here, I had no idea so many new books were due out. I have a big backlog already and this will not help

I love Dorothy Koomson's books, and she's got a new book coming out on 18th August.

@elkiedee very jealous you got to read those two as review copies!! I read The whalebone theatre earlier this year and loved it.

@SpotOnMyBot I just read Cloud Cuckoo Land- it's brilliant!

Oooh how exciting @theveg - I don't know if I can wait till end of September for the paperback but every time I buy a hardback I regret it (or my wrists do!)

@theveg "Very jealous you got to read those two as review copies!! I read The whalebone theatre earlier this year and loved it."

I do feel quite lucky at the moment, but you do have Shrines of Gaiety and Bleeding Heart Yard still to look forward to.

Just heard part of the abridged serial non fiction Book of the Week on Radio 4, always a place where I hear bits of really interesting memoirs and biographies etc. This week is a memoir by Kit de Waal, Without Warning and Only Sometimes - I've found a copy to reserve when I've picked up waiting reservations. It's out tomorrow and on order, and I'm joining a queue, but that is just fine at the moment. I'm happy to look forward to a book for a few months and hope that when it comes through I've got or can make space to collect it, but like to get my reservations in. Then they all turn up at once. Even those huge queues often vanish astonishingly quickly.

I also have Kit de Waal's novels and an anthology of short stories edited by her and have discovered that she also published an interesting sounding book written for younger readers in 2019.

Not mentioned yet are a couple I'm excited about - a new novel by Ian McEwan which is out next month called Lessons, and Alan Rickman's diaries (October).

Looking forward to Maggie O'Farrell and Kate Atkinson especially. Would love a new Ann Patchett as the icing on the cake.
This one is imminent (due out tomorrow, I think): Eden by Jim Crace.

WHAT?! Alan Rickman diaries - I absolutely love reading diaries and I absolutely love the much-missed AR so I can't wait to read this.

Thank you @theveg, that's filled up my library holds list nicely!

Ooooof, so much to look forwards to!

I'm back at uni end of September. I feel I should start my reading list now so I can read some of these without feeling too guilty.

I've just pre-ordered John Boyne's (adult) follow up to the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (which I didn't like much) but I much prefer the sound of the sequel
www.waterstones.com/book/all-the-broken-places/john-boyne/2928377087593

There's a new Graham Norton coming out too. I love his books.

Following for winter book ideas!

Great thread!! Got 5 on pre order!! Didn't know about Ian McEwen so thanks for that one.

Also just seen Adam Kay has a new book out on 15 Sept called "Undoctored". I've really enjoyed his books.

following

While trawling library catalogues I discovered an overlooked newish novel by Nina Stibbe, whose first book was mostly made of up of letters home to her sister, Love, Nina. She followed that up with 3 at least partly autobiographical novels about childhood and teens in a rather quirky family. It was actually published in the spring and a copy came through to my local branch library within a day or two of requesting.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned but the Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty looks interesting.

Looking forward to the new Cormoran Strike, KA and Maggie O’Farrell!

Great thread! Added Alan Rickman diaries to my Christmas list.

Preordered Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes (due out this month).

The new Rebus (Ian Rankin) A Heart Full Of Headstones is out 13th October. I'm looking forward to that and the New Roy Grace (Peter James) Picture You Dead is out 29th September as well as many of the others mentioned.