Journal · 2nd February 2024

Upcoming Books

New Books

New Books

This was initially a massive list of all the books I wanted to highlight but since I’m going back to my book blogging roots of primarily reading and review children’s books (with some speculative fiction thrown in for good measure) this list will now focus on upcoming books in those areas.

Eventually each listing will link to the author’s page/twitter/facebook and the publisher, but for the moment welcome to some upcoming books I’ve seen and been told about and am going to get.

February 2024

  • A Bookshop of One’s Own: How A Group of Women Set Out to Change the World – Jane Cholmeley – Mudlark (9780008651046 – 29th)
  • Compass and Blade – Rachel Greenlaw – HarperCollins Children’s Books (9780008664732 – 29th)
  • Easter! That’s Not Right! – Candy Bee, Lee Cosgrove (illus) – HarperCollins Children’s Books (9780008660000 – 29th)
  • Heart-seer: The Tale of Anise Star – Rowan Foxwood – Usborne (9781803707372 – 29th)
  • Harlequin Butterfly – Ton EnJoe, David Boyd (trans) – Pushkin Press (9781782279778 – 29th)
  • Hide and Seek – Rhian Tracey – Picadilly Press (9781800787292 – 29th)
  • Maybe Later, Georgie! – Luke Scriven – HarperCollins Children’s Books (9780008538156 – 29th)
  • Photography: A Queer History – Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon – Ilex (9781781578698 – 29th)
  • Vile Virginia and the Curse That Got Worse – Issy Emeney, Chris Mould (illus) – S&S Children’s (97814711876643 – 29th)

March 2024

  • My Baby Sister is a Diplodocus – Aurore Petit – Gecko Press (|9781776575725 – 1st)
  • Say Hello to My Little Friend – Jennine Capó Crucet – riverrun (9871529415537 – 5th)
  • An Opinionated Guide to Women Painters – Lucy Davies – Hoxton Mini Press (9781914314551 – 7th)
  • Birnam Wood – Eleanor Catton – Granta Books (9781783785926 – 7th)
  • The Boy Who Loves to Lick the Wind – Flora Carswell, Yu Rong (illus) – Otter-Barry (9781915659156 – 7th)
  • Dragged Up Proppa: Growing Up in Britain’s Forgotten North – Pip Fallow – Pan (9781529051155 – 7th)
  • The Girl Who Dreamed in Magic – Maria Kuzniar – Puffin (9780241624661 – 7th)
  • The Girl Who Wasn’t There – Jacqueline Wilson – Puffin (9780241684030 – 7th)
  • Hags – Victoria Smith – Fleet (9780349726984 – 7th)
  • Lizzy and the Cloud – Eric Fan, Terry Fan (illus) – Frances Lincoln Children’s Books (9780711275942 – 7th)
  • I Love Books – Mariajo Illustrajo – France Lincoln Children’s Books (9780711277991 – 7th)
  • King of Dead Things – Nevin Holness – Penguin (9780241635452 – 7th)
  • The Mark – Friõa Ísberg – Faber & Faber (9780571376742 – 7th)
  • My Rhinoceros – Jon Agee – Scallywag Press (9781915252098 – 7th)
  • The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare – Paul Strathern – Atlantic Books (97818389344332 – 7th)
  • See What Your Missing – Will Gompertz – Penguin (9780241315484 – 7th)
  • We Are Together Because – Kerry Andrews – Atlantic Books (9781805460183 – 7th)
  • We, the Curious Ones – Marion Dane Bauer, Hari & Deepti (illus) – Walker Studio (97871529517927 – 7th)
  • The Things We Leave Behind – Clare Furniss – S&S Childrens (9781471169816 – 9th)
  • Furies – Margaret Atwood et al – Virago (9780349017167 – 13th)
  • All the Wonderful Ways to Read – Laura Baker, Sandra de la Prada (illus) – Little Tiger (9781801044165 – 14th)
  • Annie Bot – Sierra Greer – The Borough Press (9780008584566 – 14th)
  • Bite Risk: Caught Dead – S J Will – S&S Children’s (9781398520974 – 14th)
  • Black Hole Cinema Club – Christopher Edge – Nosy Crow (9781839942730 – 14th)
  • The Book That Wouldn’t Burn – Mark Lawrence – HarperVoyager (9780008456757 – 14th)
  • Dinosaurs Love Hugs – Lara Bryan, Alys Paterson (illus) – Usborne (9781805316503 – 14th)
  • Down the Hole – Scott Slater – Clarion Books (9780358683346 – 14th)
  • Dreamweavers: Roar of the Hungry Beast – Annabelle Sami, Forrest Burdett (illus) – Little Tiger (9781788956246 – 14th)
  • Goddesses – Nina Milns – Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction (9781398518339 – 14th)
  • Help! We Need A Story! – James Harris, Mariajo Illustrajo (illus) – Little Tiger (9781801045780 – 14th)
  • How to Stop the End of the World – Tom Mitchell – HarperCollins Children’s Books (9780008597146 – 14th)
  • Hyo the Hellmaker – Mina Ikemoto Ghosh – Scholastic Fiction (9780702328954 – 14th)
  • In the Lives of Puppets – T J Klune – Tor (9781529088045 – 14th)
  • Kevin the Vampire: A Wild and Wicked Witch – Matt Brown, Flavia Sorrentino (illus) – Nosy Crow (9781839945434 – 14th)
  • Pirates of Darksea – Catherine Doyle – Bloomsbury Children’s Books (9781526655103 – 14th)
  • The Sleep Watcher – Rowan Hisayo Buchanan – Sceptre (9781399710664 – 14th)
  • Strong Female Character – Hanna Flint – Footnote Press (978180441039 – 14th)
  • War Bodies – Neal Asher – Tor (9781529050103 – 14th)
  • What Monstrous Gods – Rosamund Hodge – Magpie (9780008650667 – 14th)
  • Where Sleeping Girls Lie – Faridah Àbíké Íyímídê – Usborne (9781474967549 – 14th)
  • Oracle – Thomas Olde Heuvelt – Hodderscape (9781529331929 – 19th)
  • Ghosts in the Hedgerow: A Hedgehog Whodunnit – Tom Moorhouse – Penguin (9781804991954 – 21st)
  • Song of the Huntress – Lucy Holland – Macmillan (9781529077407 – 21st)
  • Why Surrealism Matters – Mark Polizzotti – Yale (9780300257090 – 26th)
  • Alien Clay – Adrian Tchaikovsky – Tor (9781035013746 – 28th)
  • Ascension – Nicholas Binge – HarperVoyager (9780008505844 – 28th)
  • Big Bad Dragon Club – Beach – S&S Children’s (9781398518407 – 28th)
  • Deep Water – James Bradley – Scribe (9781914484605 – 28th)
  • House of Odysseus – Claire North – Orbit (9780356516103 – 28th)
  • Murder Road – Simone St. James – Michael Joseph (9780241678183 – 28th)
  • Nothing Special – Nicole Flattery – Bloomsbury Publishing (9781526612090 – 28th)
  • Quiet – Richard Jones, Tom Percival (illus) – S&S Children’s (9781471173912 – 28th)
  • The Trouble With the Two-Headed Hydra – Karen Foxlee, Freda Chin (illus) – Pushkin (9781782694151 – 28th)
  • We Are the Wibbly! – Sarah Tagholm, Jane McGuinness (illus) – Bloomsbury Children’s (9781526627346 – 28th)
  • The Whisperwicks – Jordan Lees, Vivenne To (illus) – Puffin (9780241607497 – 28th)

April 2024

  • The Island at the Edge of Night – Lucy Strange – Chicken House (9781913322380 – 11th)

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