My final preview of 2021 is, as usual, the smallest of the year. The big seller is sure to be Karen M McManus’ standalone thriller You’ll Be the Death of Me , with the paperback of Dav Pilkey’s Cat...
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The end of another publishing 12-month, and as is customary on the cusp of the new year, it’s a time to diet, a time to get fit, a time to sleep better, a time to go vegan, a time for self-knowledge...
December is generally the smallest and quietest month in terms of new fiction, and there’s no change to that in this most unusual of years. There are a couple of big names: a graphic novel adaptation...
The number of paperbacks out this month is almost half what it is during the summer, as publishers focus on Christmas hardbacks. But there are still gems—and Christmas gifts—to be found among the...
November is often a relatively quiet month for new children’s books but this year offers some really outstanding titles, including two of the best middle-grade books of the year in Ross Montgomery’s...
While not quite on a par with the extent of my September and October previews, November is still a hefty month, with a fresh crop of celebrity autobiographies; a strange conjunction of sartorial...
