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UK (Britain) & Ireland

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The Original

A Novel

by Nell Stevens

Hardcover: Jul 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.

Universality

A Novel

by Natasha Brown

Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Jun 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Remember—words are your weapons, they're your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a "powerful new voice in British Literature" (The Sunday Times).

All Them Dogs

A Novel

by Djamel White

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A young Irish gangster is caught in a brutal dance between love and loyalty.

John of John

A Novel

by Douglas Stuart

Hardcover: May 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the Booker Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a vivid, moving novel following a young man returning to his Hebridean island home, a portrait of a father's expectations and a son's desires.

The Names

A Novel

by Florence Knapp

Hardcover: May 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?

Eat the Ones You Love

by Sarah Maria Griffin

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

This is a story about desire, dreams, decay―and working retail at the end of the world.

The Usual Desire to Kill

A Novel

by Camilla Barnes

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter—for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums.

The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton

A Novel

by Jennifer N. Brown

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A dual-timeline murder mystery set in an English country manor, when an ambitious professor discovers the long-lost manuscript of a Reformation-era prophetess.

London Falling

A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

by Patrick Radden Keefe

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the...

The Ending Writes Itself

A Novel

by Evelyn Clarke

Hardcover: Apr 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Six authors.

One private island.

Seventy-two hours to write the ending that will change their lives.

The Beheading Game

A Novel

by Rebecca Lehmann

Hardcover: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge ...

We all know what happened to Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?

Open, Heaven

A Novel

by Seán Hewitt

Hardcover: Apr 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026

Critics' Consensus:

A stunning debut novel from the acclaimed young Irish poet Seán Hewitt, reminiscent of Garth Greenwell and Justin Torres in the intensity of its evocation of sexual awakening.

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