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BORROWED TIME de Gerard Lyons

A vital new examination of debt that looks at twelve questions to explore how the economics of the debt we are born, live and die with impacts us individually and the wider world around us.

BORROWED TIME:
How Debt Shapes Your Life and the World in 12 Questions
by Gerard Lyons
Reaktion Books, TBD 2027
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A succession of economic shocks have hit the world economy this century, from the global financial crisis in 2008 to the recent pandemic. This has led to a surge in debt and levels are now at all-time highs, in the public as well as the private sector.

By exploring debt through 12 questions that get to the heart of the modern economy, Gerard looks at how big picture macroeconomics relates to everyday lives via some of the most pressing topics of our time; from ageing populations in many industrialised countries, the financialisaton of Main Street over the last 40 years, who precisely should pay for student debt, could a major country such as the UK go bust, and do we have an environmental debt to the planet?

Gerard Lyons has been described by The Times as ‘one of the most influential analysts of the global economy’. He has over thirty years of experience in senior roles in the City and public policy. Gerard’s analysis of the global economy – particularly emerging economies across Asia, Africa and the Gulf and Middle East – has regularly been sought by policymakers, including politicians and central bankers both at home and abroad. He has spoken in 82 countries, testified to committees of the US Congress and Senate, and to committees in UK Parliament.

OVERDRIVE de Chloe Michelle Howarth

The hotly-anticipated third novel from the author of Sunburn, which sold over 100,000 copies and was shortlisted for the Nero Book Award, the British Book Awards and the Polari Prize.

OVERDRIVE
by Chloe Michelle Howarth
Penguin Michael Joseph, June 2027
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Meadhbh has just moved to London from rural Ireland with her best friend, Saoirse.
Aly lives off her parents’ wealth and is studying for yet another master’s degree.

They meet by chance at a party and fall instantly and madly in love, spending a lustful summer driving around London in Aly’s vintage Capri, playing at domesticity. They expect the spell between them to break, but instead fall deeper into each other’s worlds, eventually swapping city life for rural Ireland with two babies in tow. But when the recession comes down hard, so do the illusions they’ve built around themselves. Will their love story survive the crash? 

Told through their alternating perspectives, this tender and addictive novel is for fans of Coco Mellor’s Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Nicola Dinan’s Bellies.

Chloe Michelle Howarth was born in July 1996. She grew up in the West Cork countryside, which has served as an inspiration for her writing. She attended university at IADT in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, where she studied English, Media and Cultural Studies. Chloe currently lives in Brighton. Her debut novel, Sunburn, was shortlisted for the 2024 Polari First Book Prize, the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award at the British Book Awards and the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction and longlisted for the 2024 Diverse Book Awards.

THE EMPTY CRADLE de Lisa Rookes

A completely gripping and chilling suspense novel, with a shocking twist.

THE EMPTY CRADLE
by Lisa Rookes
Orion, August 2025
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Amy’s so sure that her husband, Joel, is deeply invested in their future together. After all, it’s his dream of a family together that has them trying so hard to have a baby, despite a series of disappointments. It’s this certainty that leaves Amy absolutely floored when she learns of Joel’s affair with her best friend.

Heartbroken and horrified, Amy flees to a dilapidated cottage in a Yorkshire village, a place she’d bought with dreams of making it feel homey and warm. In the new village, she feels like a clear outsider, but a group of local women soon take her under their wing. They gather for a routine book club, they say. Before Amy knows it, these women are in her life, and in her home.

Amy wakes one night to find herself outside in the fields. Strange offerings seem to be left on her doorstep. And the surveillance camera she installs shows shapes creeping around her house in the night. Strangest of all, she suddenly finds she’s pregnant. A pregnancy that feels like a cruel joke.

The book club is incredibly invested in Amy’s pregnancy. And it might just be in Amy’s mind, but the women’s interest doesn’t always seem safe. What do the women want with her? And what do they want with her baby?

Lisa Rookes is an award-winning journalist and lecturer. She spent the start of her career as a crime reporter and news editor before moving to national newspapers and women’s magazines. She is currently head of the undergraduate Journalism programme at the University of Sheffield and has won further multiple awards for her teaching. She lives in Holmfirth in South Yorkshire with her two sons, an arthritic Labrador and a disabled pug.

ALL AT SEA de Jonathan Whitelaw

A destination murder-mystery – think Below Deck meets Knives Out. Perfect for all fans of Only Murders In the Building.

ALL AT SEA
by Jonathan Whitelaw
HarperNorth, publication date TBC
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Howie Temple is down on his luck and desperate for cash. A once promising action movie star, he now lives off a crumbling reputation. On his way to film a new reality TV show, which casts a team of c-list celebrities as crew aboard a luxury yacht, he meets fellow contestant, influencer-of-the-moment Cassandra Troy. The duo take an immediate dislike to each other.

After a hectic first day of filming, the pair are shocked discover that the captain of the ship has been murdered – locked in his control room, slumped over the wheel, a knife in his back. Convinced by the show’s ever-opportunistic director to keep the cameras rolling, the pair team-up to hunt the murderer.

Will the show make Howie and Cassandra bigger stars than they could ever dream of? And can they crack the case before the killer strikes again, or will they go down with this sinking ship?

Jonathan Whitelaw is a Scottish writer and journalist based in Canada, and he’s also a regular host at book events and panels, as well as a regular arts reviewer on BBC Radio Scotland’s Afternoon Show. Jonathan is a leading author in the cosy crime market. His latest series, Bingo Hall Detectives, is published by HarperNorth. There are currently two books in the series, The Bingo Hall Detectives (2022) and The Village Hall Vendetta (2023), the first of which awarded the Gilpin Hotel Prize for Fiction at this year’s Lakeland Book Awards.

AMY ELMAN DOESN’T FEEL SEXY de Mary Newnham

Don’t miss this brand-new laugh-out-loud novel about friendship, relationship woes, and finding your self-worth, perfect for fans of Kristen Bailey and Sophie Ranald.

AMY ELMAN DOESN’T FEEL SEXY
by Mary Newnham
Hodder, January 2026
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« When you’re not getting any, sex is EVERYWHERE. I’ve also developed a paranoia that people can sense that Josh and I haven’t had sex for 180 nights. There are prison sentences shorter than this. »

Amy Elman’s To Do List:
– Start wedding planning
– Buy lingerie
– Have sex again

Amy has her entire life planned out: marry her fiancé Josh, move out of their London flat and live happily ever after in the countryside.

There’s just one problem – Amy and Josh haven’t had sex in 180 days. She’s counted.

So when Josh’s family decide to throw them a surprise wedding, Amy scrambles to cross everything off her to-do list… including Josh.

With the help of a glass of red wine (or two), Amy steps out of her star-patterned pyjamas and into a world of too-tight lingerie and sex-positive affirmations.

As the big day approaches, will Amy’s luck finally turn around? Will her and Josh be one of those couples who just never have sex? Or will she start to realise that love isn’t something that can be checked off a list so easily?

Mary Newnham grew up in Didcot, South Oxfordshire with a view of the power stations. Her love for filmmaking led her to a degree in Film Production. She has worked in an advertising agency in London, as a producer in Australia, and as a tour guide in Oxford. She found her passion for writing in her early twenties, when she started blogging about Bloody Marys. In 2022, she gained an MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes. When she’s not writing fiction, she writes and records The Quack, which features humorous stories and muddled observations about being a millennial woman.