Upcoming 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.

December 2023

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year – Jodi Taylor – Headline (9781035412372 – 1st)
Him – Geoff Ryman – Angry Robot Books (9781915202673 – 5th)
The Hunger of Women – Mariosa Castaldi, Jamie Richards (trans) – And Other Stories (9781913505868 – 5th)
Kiki Kicks – Jane Yolen, Ariel Stemple – Beaming Books (9781506485638 – 5th)
Make Me A Liar – Melissa Landers – Disney Hyperion (9781368101462 – 5th)
An Unreliable Magic – Rin Chupeco – Sourcebooks Fire (9781728268866 – 7th)
Black Bird, Blue Road – Sofiya Pasternack – HarperCollins (9780063308954 – 7th)
Books Make Good Friends – Jane Mount – Chronicle Books (9781797209654 – 7th)
Catch Your Death – Ravena Guron – Usborne (9781803705422 – 7th)
Circles of Stone – Katy Soar – British Library Publishing (9780712354592 – 7th)
Donut Feed the Squirrels – Mika song – Pushkin Press (9781782694526 – 7th)
Glowrushes – Robert Piumini, Leah Janexzko (trans) – Pushkin Press (9781782693833 – 7th)
The Imposter – Kelly Collier – Clarion Books (9780358697060 – 7th)
Kozo the Sparrow – Allen Say – Clarion Books (9780063248465 – 7th)
Nine Liars – Maureen Johnson – Katherine Tegen Books (9780063032705 – 7th)
The Rosewood Hunt – Mackenzie Reed – HarperTeen (9780063287600 – 7th)
Run and Hide – Dan Brown – Clarion Books (9780358538165 – 7th)
Snail – Mina Kim, Mattho Mandersloot (trans) – Pushkin Press (9781782694069 – 7th)
Tokyo Night Parade – JP Takahashi – Katherine Tegen Books (9780063224964 – 7th)
Unflappable – Matthew Ward – Clarion Books (9780358400059 – 7th)
Deadliest Animals on the Planet – Jennifer Szymanski – National Geographic Kids (9781426373183 – 19th)

January 2024

The Glass Woman – Alice McIlroy – Datura Books (9781915523044 – 2nd)
Verdigris – Michele Mari, Brian Robert Moore (trans) – And Other Stories (9781913505905 – 2nd)
Oops! Rabbit – Jo Han – Walker Books (9781529509113 – 3rd)
Abandon – Blake Crouch – Pan (9781035000036 – 4th)
Apex Predators – Steve Jenkins – Clarion Books (9780063314320 – 4th)
Bears Love Hugs – Lara Bryan, Alys Paterson – Usborne (9781805312215 – 4th)
Cheeky Chick – Julia Jarman, Tom Knight (illus) – Boxer Books (9781914912290 – 4th)
The Code of Life – Carla Hafner, Mieke Scheier – Flying Eye Books (9781838741785 – 4th)
Countdown to Yesterday – Shirley Marr – Usborne (9781805073628 – 4th)
The Creatures of Kilburn Mine – Dan Smith, Chris King (illus) – Barrington Stoke (9781800902503 – 4th)
Games for Dead Girls – Jen Williams – HarperVoyager (9780008383886 – 4th)
Ghost Drum – Susan Price – Faber & Faber (9780571381586 – 4th)
Harley Hitch Takes Flight – Vashti Hardy – Scholastic Fiction (9780702323447 – 4th)
Impossible – Erri De Luca, NS Thompson (trans) – Mountain Leopard (9781914495663 – 4th)
Killingly – Katherine Beutner – Corvus (9781838959258 – 4th)
Libby and the Manhattan Mystery – Jo Clarke, Becka Moore (illus) – Firefly Press (9781915444394 – 4th)
Littlest Bang – Kelly McCaughrain – Walker Books (9781406375725 – 4th)
Marvin and the Book of Magic – Jenny Pearson, Aleksei Bitskoff (illus) – Barrington Stoke (9781800902695 – 4th)
Meet the Wildings – Glen Millward – Templar (9781787419339 – 4th)
The Mightiest Bite – Howard Calvert, Mike Moran (illus) – Andersen Press (9781839131745 – 4th)
Northern Soul – Phil Earl – Barrington Stoke (9781800902039 – 4th)
Red Team Blues – Cory Doctorow – Ad Astra (9781804547779 – 4th)
Rise of the Zombie Pigs – Emily-Jane Clark – Scholastic Fiction (9780702325113 – 4th)
The Secret of the Ravens – Joanna Cacao – Clarion Books (9780358650119 – 4th)
Signed Sealed Dead – Cynthia Murphy – Scholastic (9780702318528 – 4th)
Stitch – Padraig Kenny – Walker Books (9781529517781 – 4th)
That Self Same Metal – Brittany Williams – Faber & Faber (9780571381623 – 4th)
This Tale is Forbidden – Polly Crosby – Scholastic (9780702325601 – 4th)
Tilly Plants a Tree – William Petty, Axel Scheffler (illus) – Nosy Crow (9781839942075 – 4th)
Wild Song – Candy Gourlay – David Fickling Books (9781788452083 – 4th)
Will You Be My Friend – Sam Bratney, Anita Jeram (illus) – Walker Books (9781529514988 – 4th)
Wondrous, Deadly Skies – Desirai Saunders (illus), Krystal De Napoli – Hardie Grant Explore (9781741178180 – 4th)
First Lie Wins – Ashley Elston – Headline Books (9781472295323 – 9th)
Godplayer – Robin Cook – Pan (9781035022007 – 11th)
The Things That We Lost – Jyoti Patel – Merky Books (9781529186345 – 11th)
Whale – Cheon Myeong-kwan – Europa Editions (9781787704947 – 11th)
Ava Anna Ada – Ali Millar – White Rabbit (9781399613491 – 18th)
The Beholders – Hester Munson – 4th Estate (9780008558611 – 18th)
Blood Red – Gabriela Ponce, Sarah Booker (trans) – Dead Ink Books (9781915368355 – 18th)
The Boy Who Fell From The Sky – Benjamin Dean – S&S Children’s (9781398518742 – 18th)
A Cruel Twist of Fate – H. F. Askwith – Penguin (9780241629642 – 18th)
The End of Nightwork – Aidan Cottrell-Boyce – Granta Books (9781783789542 – 18th)
Foxash – Kate Worsley – Tinder Press (9781472294913 – 18th)
Hunter in Huskvarna – Sara Stridsberg – MacLehose Press (9781529423266 – 18th)
Ink Girls – Marieke Nijkamp – Greenwillow Books (9780063027107 – 18th)
Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings – Swapna Haddow, Yiting Lee (illus) – Magic Cat Publishing (9781915569233 – 18th)
The Little Unicorn – Alberta Torres (illus), Coral Byers – Macmillan Children’s Books (9781035022151 – 18th)
The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone – Audrey Burges – Pan (9781035009251 – 18th)
The Minute Minders – Mary Murphy – Pushkin Press (9781782694229 – 18th)
The Nature of Dogs – Louise Welsh – Canongate Books (9781838859817 – 18th)
Pablo and Splash – Sheena Dempsey – Bloomsbury Children’s Books (9781526662606 – 18th)
PLEASE! – Simon Philip, Nathan Reed (illus) – Bloomsbury Children’s Books (9781526630872 – 18th)
The Principle of Moments – Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson – Gollancz (9781473234192 – 18th)
Rabbit Hole – Kate Brody – Bloomsbury Publishing (9781526646743 – 18th)
The Sisterhood – Katherine Bell – Simon & Schuster Adult Fiction (9781398514287 – 18th)
Snail in Space – Rachel Bright, Nadia Shireen (illus) – S&S Children’s (9781471199462 – 18th)
There’s Nothing Cuter Than a Puppy – Tom Nicoll, Ross Collins (illus) – Macmillan Children’s Books (97781035029310 – 18th)
Three Important Jobs – Yvonne Ivinson – Greenwillow Books (9780062842916 – 18th)
Weyward – Emilia Hart – The Borough Press (9780008499129 – 18th)
One Girl in All the World – Kendare Blake – Disney Hyperion (9781368075206 – 23rd)
The Cat Who Couldn’t Be Bothered – Jack Kurland – Frances Lincoln Children’s Books (9780711287440 – 24th)
The City of Stardust – Georgia Summers – Hodderscape (9781399714204 – 25th)
The Disenchantment – Celia Bell – Serpent’s Tail (9781788169936 – 25th)
The Mountain in the Sea – Ray Nayler – W&N (9781399600484 – 25th)
Runaway Cone – Morag Hood – Two Hoots (9781529026122 – 25th)
Scream for the Camera – Lisi Harrison, Daniel Kraus – Union Square Kids (9781454945185 – 25th)
Edge – Koji Suzuki – Vertical (9781647293246 – 30th)

February 2024

The Burning Land – David Hair – Jo Fletcher Books (9781529433135 – 1st)
Night Swimmers – Roisin Maguire – Serpent’s Tail (9781800816749 – 1st)
Pity – Andrew McMillan – Canongate (9781838858957 – 8th)
Shigidi – Wole Talabi – Gollancz (9781399615655 – 8th)
Sunbringer – Hannah Kaner – HarperVoyager (9780008521516 – 15th)
The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond – Amanda Glaze – Union Square (9781454946793 – 22nd)
The Tainted Cup – Robert Jackson Bennett – Hodderscape (9781399725354 – 27th)
A Bookshop of One’s Own: How A Group of Women Set Out to Change the World – Jane Cholmeley – Mudlark (9780008651046 – 29th)
Heart-seer: The Tale of Anise Star – Rowan Foxwood – Usborne (9781803707372 – 29th)
Harlequin Butterfly – Ton EnJoe, David Boyd (trans) – Pushkin Press (9781782279778 – 29th)
Photography: A Queer History – Flora Dunster, Theo Gordon – Ilex (9781781578698 – 29th)