CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (nanakwameadjei-brenyah.com) Harvill Secker (penguin.co.uk) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxx” Stacker are two of the biggest stars in America’s new favourite reality television show, Chain-Gang All-Stars, where prisoners can win their freedom by taking part in a gladiator-like competition where they […]

DIRTY GEESE by Lou Gilmond

DIRTY GEESE Lou Gilmond (lougilmond.com) Fairlight Books (fairlightbooks.co.uk) £9.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Harry Colbey has just been promoted to the Cabinet as Minister for Personal Information, much to the delight of his social-butterfly wife. A general election is looming on the horizon and the Prime Minister wants Harry to shepherd […]

CENTRAL PARK WEST by James Comey

CENTRAL PARK WEST James Comey Aries / Head of Zeus (headofzeus.com) £20.00 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Former New York governor Tony Burke has been murdered in his Central Park West penthouse. All the evidence, including damning videos and the testimony of the building’s doorman, suggests that the culprit is none other […]

RELENTLESS MELT by Jeremy P. Bushnell

RELENTLESS MELT Jeremy P. Bushnell (jeremypbushnell.com) Melville House Books (mhpbooks.com) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Artie Quick is a 17-year-old Bostonian who wants to know everything there is to know about crime. By day, Artie is a shopgirl in Filene’s department store; by night, she dresses in men’s clothes so she […]

PERILOUS TIMES by Thomas D Lee

PERILOUS TIMES Thomas D Lee (thomasdleewriter.wordpress.com) Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Fabled Knight of the Round Table Sir Kay has been dead for sixteen hundred years. Well, mostly. Thanks to Merlin’s magic Kay and his fellow knights have been buried around the realm in sites guarded by sacred trees. […]

BORN THE SAME by Antony Dunford

BORN THE SAME Antony Dunford (antonydunford.com) Hobeck (hobeck.net) £9.99 Colm Reid is writing twelve puff pieces a day for a dying Dublin newspaper when his soon-to-be-ex-editor convinces him to go and cover a story in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s remote Garamba National Park. He will join Norwegian conservationist Kennet Haven on his hunt for […]

THE LAST PASSENGER by Will Dean

THE LAST PASSENGER Will Dean Hodder & Stoughton (hodder.co.uk) £16.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop When Caz Ripley steps onboard the RMS Atlantica with her boyfriend Pete, it’s the start of the holiday of a lifetime. Caz is a homebird, a café owner slowly repaying a debt run up by her father […]

THE FERRYMAN by Justin Cronin

THE FERRYMAN Justin Cronin (justincroninbooks.com) Orion (orionbooks.co.uk) £22 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The archipelago of Prospera exists in blissful isolation from the rest of the world, enclosed in a bubble that keeps whatever is going on “out there” away from the utopian lives of those lucky enough to live here. On […]

THE MESSENGER by Megan Davis

THE PASSENGER Megan David (megandavis.co.uk) Zaffre (bonnierbooks.co.uk) £14.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop Alex Giraud has just spent seven and a half years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now, back on the streets of Paris, he’s determined to get to the bottom of his father’s murder, and prove his […]

INFINITY GATE by M. R. Carey

INFINITY GATE M. R. Carey Orbit (orbit-books.co.uk) £18.99 Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookshop The world is dying, a climate catastrophe doing its best to wipe all vestiges of humanity from the planet. Hadiz Tambuwal is the last person standing at Lagos’ Campus Cross research facility. At the last possible moment, and with […]