Archives de catégorie : Frankfurt 2026 Adult Fiction

CASCADIA de Colin Meloy

A dual timeline narrative with deep roots in current global crises, CASCADIA is an absurdist yet all too relatable vision of a future where unchecked capitalism, advanced technology, and climate emergencies have come to a head.

CASCADIA
by Colin Meloy
Little, Brown, Summer 2027
(via Writers House)

Barnaby Chambers is no hero. He’s just another bio broker in Cascadia trying to scrape out a living in an already scraped-thin world. Plummeting birth rates mean the market is rising for anything people believe will promote fertility, especially cauls (the membrane that can cover a newborn’s head). But when a lead on a new caul saddles Barnaby with an abandoned baby, instead, he must navigate the dangerous road home and a difficult AI-run government system in search of someone to care for his unex­pected ward.

A decade earlier, in 2043, civilization as we know it is careening towards the cliff of no return. Cascadia is newly formed, having just separated from the United States. Its people are searching for a better method of government to combat climate change and guard against the pitfalls of governance tainted by human self-interest. Two computer scientists meet for the first time: Dr. Emil Franke and nine-year-old prodigy Gershwin Datta. They will change everything.

As the story moves back and forth in time, it becomes clear that Barnaby’s troubles—and the baby he’s rescued—are inextricably linked to Emil and Gershwin’s work. They are all connected. Not just to the fate of Cascadia, but the world.

Colin Meloy is the author of the middle grade novels The Whiz Mob and the Grenadine Kid, The Stars Did Wander Darkling, and the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles, as well as two picture books, The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger and Everyone’s Awake! He is also the singer and songwriter for the indie rock band the Decemberists. Colin lives in Oregon with his wife and frequent collaborator, illustrator Carson Ellis, and their sons.

IN RESIDENCE de Jessica Widner

A literary ghost story in the vein of Pola Oloixarac’s Mona with a Shirley Jackson twist, for fans of Jordan Peele.

IN RESIDENCE
by Jessica Widner
Mariner, Fall 2027
(via Wolf Literary Services)

When Eva and Elliot receive a vast inheritance from Elliot’s mother, it is as welcome as it is troubling. Middle aged, without children and already leading a comfortable middle-class life in Edinburgh, they decide to use the money to launch a fully funded residency for emerging artists.

Yet, as soon as the money arrives in Elliot’s account, a strange atmosphere converges around the couple. It follows them to the Yorkshire Dales, where they renovate a large countryside property ahead of the inaugural residency. They each begin dreaming of a presence, a dark and inescapable creature, and whispers seem to linger in the air even after they wake.

When the first batch of guests arrives – a dancer from Busan, a mixed-media artist from Los Angeles and a writer from Toronto – they too are caught up in the increasingly terrifying happenings. Tensions escalate as they all suspect each other of foul play, but the true culprit is a legacy that extends far into the past, surfacing to remind Eva and Elliot of the full extent of their inheritance.

Perceptive and piercing, Widner examines the small compromises we make with ourselves every day, spinning a story of patronage, privilege, class, and complicity until its dark heart emerges.

Jessica Widner is a writer and literary scholar. She is a lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY de Julianne MacLean

From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes a sweeping time-bending novel of sisterhood, unrequited love, and the devastating cost of the secrets we carry. For readers of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Audrey Niffenegger.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY
by Julianne MacLean
Wildthorn/Tor, October 2027

On the morning of her sister’s wedding, Ivy Calder forces a smile through her heartbreak—because she’s secretly in love with the groom, Everett. But then, the next moment, everything has changed. Ivy is now a hundred years old, her sister Audrey has been missing for decades and presumed dead, and Ivy herself is married to Everett. Just as Ivy begins to grasp this impossible new reality, she snaps back to the present—standing beside Audrey in her wedding dress.

Terrified by the future she’s glimpsed, Ivy supports her sister at the wedding but then flees, determined to change a fate she no longer understands. Years later, when Ivy and Everett cross paths again, the connection between them flares to life, undeniable and dangerous. And Audrey—alive, vibrant, and carrying a secret capable of shattering all three lives—forces Ivy to confront what loyalty truly demands.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AND A DAY is a story about the bonds that define us, the choices that haunt us, and the love we spend lifetimes trying to protect.

Julianne MacLean is a USA Today bestselling author of more than forty novels, including These Tangled Vines, Beyond the Moonlit Sea, A Fire Sparkling, and the popular The Color of Heaven series. Readers have described her work as “breathtaking,” “soulful,” and “uplifting.” She has sold millions of books worldwide in more than a dozen languages. MacLean studied in Nova Scotia, earning a degree in English literature from the University of King’s College in Halifax and a business degree from Acadia University in Wolfville. She loves to travel and has lived in New Zealand, Canada, and England. She currently resides in Nova Scotia, Canada. Please visit the author’s website at www.juliannemaclean.com for more information about her books and writing life and to subscribe to her mailing list for all the latest news.

CHARLOTTE d’Elizabeth Ferris

An enchanting, historically grounded, literary debut inspired by a critical year in the life of Charlotte Brontë and the writing of Jane Eyre.

CHARLOTTE
by Elizabeth Ferris
William Morrow, April 2027
(via DeFiore and Co.)

1846 is no time for a woman to pursue her dream of being a novelist. A responsible young woman ought to pack away her ambition and follow society’s expectations. If she is to write, she must do so under a man’s name and about scholarly, masculine things. Certainly not a book about an orphan governess, a madwoman, and a transgressive romance.

But Charlotte Brontë is no ordinary woman.

Charlotte is secretive, difficult, and restless. She is blind to the tender interest of a local curate, yet she writes obsessively to a married man. She is brilliant, impassioned, and sensitive: as a schoolgirl, Charlotte is just as likely to entertain her classmates with recitations of Byron as she is to weep from shyness. More than anything, Charlotte is desperate to be seen and read, to be reckoned with for her true self.

With every London publisher rejecting her first novel, her family’s savings dwindling, and her brother drinking away what little remains, Charlotte is running out of time. As the eldest daughter, it’s up to Charlotte to save her family. The only sensible thing to do is return to teaching.

Instead, she picks up her pen one last time. What she writes is not the respectable, measured book a London publisher might want, but a novel with all of herself in it. Her rage. Her loneliness. Her daring.

That novel is Jane Eyre.

Drawing on Charlotte’s letters and the rich, strange world of a village parsonage—three brilliant sisters, a dissolute brother, and an ailing father—Elizabeth Ferris’s Charlotte imagines the emotional depths beneath the placid exterior of a country spinster and examines the cost of insisting, against all obstacles, that her inner life is worth something.

“The fascinating story of how Charlotte Brontë created one of the greatest characters in literature – a must for anyone who loves Jane Eyre.” — Janice Hadlow, bestselling author of The Other Bennet Sister

Elizabeth Ferris is a writer and writing teacher living in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. She has taught writers of fiction and nonfiction at the Studio School at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Young Writers, and James River Writers. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte and a former contributing writer of Richmond magazine.

COLD PLACES de Tom Baragwanath

In this follow-up to the award-winning Lorraine Henry thrillers Paper Cage and Lucky Thing, Tom Baragwanath delivers his trademark in-depth exploration of isolated communities, wild environments, and resourceful cops—and records clerks—under pressure.

COLD PLACES
by Tom Baragwanath
Text Publishing Australia, August 2027

When it’s time for a little rest and relaxation, police records clerk Lorraine Henry heads north to Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf to visit her colleague, constable Dion Warwick—but the island has something else in store.

After the bodies of two women wash ashore bound in rope, Lorraine and Dion must work with spiky veteran detective Mo Roche to uncover a hidden threat lurking in plain sight, even if doing so means confronting decades-long secrets. And for Lorraine, some of those secrets hit a little too close to home, putting her and her family in real danger.

Without her Masterton connections to draw from, Lorraine needs to find new ways to stay ahead of the danger waiting around every corner, navigating hostile locals, watchful neighbours, and an island commune that isn’t quite what it seems.

‘Wonderful, emotional storytelling with a fine protagonist—an Antipodean Miss Marple, but fiercer—makes this too good to miss.’ – Daily Mail UK on Lucky Thing

‘Lorraine Henry is a refreshingly different crime fiction protagonist.’ – Shelley Burr

‘Just the kind of dark, disturbing, gritty, and unusual treat thriller lovers are looking for.’ – Kirkus (starred review) on Paper Cage

Tom Baragwanath is originally from Masterton, New Zealand, and now lives in Paris with his young family. His first novel, Paper Cage, was the 2021 winner of the Michael Gifkins Prize. His second novel, Lucky Thing, is currently shortlisted for Best International Crime Fiction in the 2026 Ned Kelly Awards as well as being longlisted for the 2026 Ngaio Marsh Awards.