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MAY PICKS: BOOKS EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT
You know summer is just around the corner when you want to read all the new books that have come out! When your TBR is so full you’re checking your balance account to see if you have enough to buy all of them. This May the list of Fiction and Teen fiction is something to marvel at! From award winning titles to steamy romantasy, hilarious confessions of f##uck ups to blood thirsty vampires there is something for everybody!
So dig in and pick your TBR for this month!
FICTION
Paul Murray
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, winner of the Nero Gold award 2023 and Waterstones book of the month for May 2024.
One of the greatest living comic novelists follows up Skippy Dies and The Mark and the Void with a beautifully crafted bittersweet delight about one family desperately attempting to get through the most trying of times.
The Barnes family are in trouble. Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they’re teetering on the brink of bankruptcy – and that’s just the start of their problems.
Dickie and Imelda’s marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully. Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone’s too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming.
Colm Toibin
The sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.
A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world's finest writers.
In Colm Toibin's masterful new novel, we are reunited with Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn, twenty years on, in the 1970s, living with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and her children in a house in Long Island, rather too close to her Fiorello in-laws. A shocking piece of news propels Eilis back to Ireland, to a world she thought she had long left behind and to ways of living, and loving, she thought she had lost.
Kaliane Bradley
Revolving around the titular establishment set up to bring expatriates from the past to near-future London, this extraordinarily assured debut blends love story, time-travelling tale and state-of-the-nation commentary to terrifyingly clever and ferociously funny effect.
A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever. England must fall.
MORE CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY SOMETHING F##K UP
Alexandra Potter
In this hilarious, un-put-downable follow-up to the bestselling Confessions of a Forty-Something, now the basis for the major TV series called Not Dead Yet, there are laugh-out-loud lessons to be learned, truths to be told, adventures to go on and joys to discover.
Nanae Aoyama
A love letter to Tokyo as it can only be seen through the eyes of a young woman setting out in the world. A bittersweet exploration of loneliness and the transformative power of human bonds, A Perfect Day to Be Alone follows the uneasy co-habitation of 21-old Chizu and 71-year-old Ginko in present-day Tokyo.
The fourth sensationally steamy instalment of Huang's Kings of Sin series sees sparks fly between a playboy billionaire and his driven publicist.
THE SERPENT AND THE WINGS OF NIGHT
Carissa Broadbent
The glorious opening volume of Carissa Broadbent's Crowns of Nyaxia series, The Serpent and the Wings of Night is filled with bloodthirsty vampires, dark magic and deadly desires.
The Serpent and the Wings of Night is the first book in the Crowns of Nyaxia series, the New York Times bestselling TikTok sensation by Carissa Broadbent. It is followed by The Ashes and the Star-Cursed King.
Karen Sawn
The sweeping second instalment in Swan's The Wild Isle series finds more forbidden love and intrigue on the tiny island of St Kilda, as Mhairi MacKinnon falls for the wrong man.
A reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . .
CHILDRENS & TEEN FICTION
Megan Hopkins
An entrancing children’s debut featuring a magical city and a sheltered child who gets into the formidable walls of the eponymous sky-bound school.
Take flight on this beautifully-written, epic and soaring new adventure, perfect for fans of Abi Elphinstone, Aisling Fowler, A F Steadman and Pari Thompson. Astrid has lived in the rhubarb shed her whole life.
Jennifer Bell
The masterful Kate DiCamillo has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real love story about a girl, a ghost, a grandmother and growing up.
Set in a world of magical beasts all conjured using a different emotion, this sumptuous new fantasy adventure finds friends Bitsy and Kosh on a race against time to rescue Bitsy's father from a mystifying villain.
“Every good story is a love story,” and Kate DiCamillo has written one for the ages: emotionally resonant and healing, showing the twice Newbery Medallist at her most playful, universal and profound.
Catherine Doyle & Katherine Webber
Webber and Doyle's bestselling YA romantasy trilogy reaches its heart-pounding conclusion as Rose and Wren must reckon with evil undead ancestors, ruinous curses and affairs of the heart.
Bestselling authors and real-life sisters-in-law Catherine Doyle and Katherine Webber join forces on a compelling YA fantasy bursting with high-stakes adventure, romance and humour.
Two queens, one throne. What can possibly go wrong.
Lauren Roberts
From the international bestselling author of Powerless, comes a sizzling and heart-racing new story set in the Kingdom of Ilya. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Fourth Wing.
Adena and Paedyn have always been inseparable. Fate brought them together when they were young, but friendship ensured they'd always protect each other and the home they built in the slums of Loot. But now Paedyn - an Ordinary - has been selected for The Purging Trials, which means almost certain death. Now alone in Loot, Adena must fend for herself.
Andy Darcy Theo
A blistering debut romantasy steeped in folklore and mythology, The Light That Blinds Us finds four chosen teens with mystical gems plunged into a hidden world of power-wielding Elementals.
Legendborn meets Percy Jackson in this dark and thrilling debut fantasy romance.
When consumed by shadow, even the faintest light can be blinding...
A high-stakes, speculative romance, which masterfully weaves themes of mental health, psychosis, and found family.
Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Cassandra Clare from TikTok and BookTok star @andydarcytheo