Books We Can't Wait to read - Autumn 2024

Sally Rooney returns in September with what is sure to be another massive, culturally relevant book that will be all anyone can talk about. Rooney’s previous works (Conversations with Friends, Normal People and Beautiful World, Where Are You) have been international bestsellers and translated into multiple languages. Intermezzo is an exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family. It follows two brothers, who could not be more different. In the wake of their father's death, they examine their lives and the people they love. They must learn how much they can take before they reach a breaking point. This is sure to be a compelling read from the masterful Sally Rooney.

Nancy Birtwhistle’s first cookbook is back, but updated for 2024. Nancy is known for her win on the Great British Bake Off in 2014, and has since written more than 500 recipes, and many Green Guides to living, cleaning and cooking.

Sizzle and Drizzle was first published in 2020. Now, four years later, it is being updated and with a new jacket to match all of Nancy’s other titles. And new tips, tricks and videos of Nancy making the dishes that you can follow along with! We are so excited to have a new edition of this beloved book.

Graham Norton is back with what he does best. Or, maybe second-best, behind being an iconic television presenter.

Frankie is the story of a woman who has never taken centre stage in her own life. It is an immersive story that takes place across multiple decades and is told with Norton’s trademark heart, intelligence and wit. This novel is the story of Frankie’s life, as she tells it to her carer. How she has been on the outside of many interesting events from Ireland, London and New York. Frankie discovers that life doesn’t always go as we hoped. But that can be a blessing.

Who doesn’t love a YA enemies-to-lovers romantasy series? Two rival assassins are pitted against each other in a deadly city, a deadlier game of revenge but make the mistake of falling in love. Sera has her heart set on revenge, after the murder of her mother and seeks shelter with an assassin guild. But when a boy from the rival guild begins to follow her, both are surprised when something other than magic draws them together. They must face a deadly choice - forgiveness or vengeance? Kiss or kill? Dagger or Flame?

Jodi Picoult takes a step outside her usual writing and dips her toes into historical fiction. What if Shakespeare was a woman? We follow Emilia Bassano as she writes plays in 1581, but cannot attach her own name to them. By paying a man to use his name, she writes herself out of the history books. But what choice did women have back then but to accept this?

Contrasting that, we have modern playwright Melina Green but faces the same dilemma. Have we as a society progressed? Or must she also hide behind a male name in order for her works to make it to the stage, and for her voice to be heard? This is a beautifully written, compelling novel about identity. 

Jacqueline Wilson returns to one of her most well-beloved Girls series in this adult instalment. Ellie, Magda and Nadine are now aged 40. If they think life's done surprising them - they'll have to think again... Readers who grew up with the Girls will be so excited to return to this world and these characters, to see how they have grown up and where they are now. But it is safe to say, no one knows what is coming.