Looking for something new to read? Browse our fiction picks for September! Includes titles by Kate Atkinson, Lucy Foley, A.K. Blakemore and many more.
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Stations
Louise Kennedy
Róisín and Red meet as teenagers in their small Irish hometown in 1982. Brilliant, sharp-tongued and born to slip through the cracks, Red’s reputation for trouble precedes him – but Róisín finds herself swept up in his storm, and soon their connection deepens.
When a brush with the law pushes Red into a corner, he escapes their town to start a new life in England. As the years pass, they remain tethered to one another, a fragile thread holding their once fierce friendship together.
When Róisín arrives in London, the promise of freedom, of reinvention, and of finding her dear friend calls. But searching for Red leads Róisín to a truth darker than she could have imagined: when you go looking for someone you may uncover parts of yourself along the way that you’d rather stayed buried.
And Red – bright, beautiful Red – might not want to be found at all.
Ply
Hernán Díaz
Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher.
Stealing electricity from the grid to power the downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through is dangerous.
Soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her closest friends and even her own identity are put into question – all while following a thread leading to a scientific experiment that could change the fabric of reality itself.
Doom Painting
A.K. Blakemore
It is 1381. England, reeling from plague and years of conflict abroad, is a tinderbox waiting to spark.
Two childhood friends ride into the town of Brentwood, Essex, where they come upon an altercation with a local Justice bent on squeezing more coin from the masses.
Thus begins a rebellion of the common folk – loyal to the king, but not to those wealthy landowners who curtail their freedoms; the multitude finding cause against the powers that threaten their livelihoods.
Our Noble Selves
Kate Atkinson
It’s the summer of 1951 and everyone is looking to put the dark days of the war behind them. The government’s solution: The Festival of Britain, a celebration of the country’s creativity, grit and ingenuity.
For foreign correspondent turned war reporter Harry Flynn, it might offer the chance of redemption after a bad war in the Far East and a peace that is proving no easier to negotiate. Having failed to resume his journalistic career, he reluctantly joins an oddball team of misfits, ne’er-do-wells and downright chancers helping to ready the Festival of Britain for launch.
Flynn’s attempts to resume some semblance of a romantic life also founder when one of his dates goes missing and he is deemed to be the last person to have seen her alive. Could he have been in some way responsible for her disappearance?
No Song For the Dead
Jussi Adler-Olsen, Stine Bolther, Line Holm and Caroline Waight
Former Head of Department Q Carl Mørck has retired. That was the plan, at least. So when he comes across a disturbing audio recording, he turns it over to his former colleagues, who are struggling to keep the old Department up and running on their own.
That is, until a new transfer unexpectedly arrives – Helena Henry, a Frenchwoman who throws herself into the investigation with gusto, but who may also have secrets of her own. As the team realizes that the audio recording might shed new light on a seemingly open-and-shut murder-suicide case from years earlier, suddenly everything they thought they knew about the case is called into question.
And meanwhile, a spurt of seemingly random violence – an explosion off the coast of Jutland, a young woman shot dead in Copenhagen – sets the Department Q team investigating a possible connection to a different long-ago dark and sinister event, one that someone has never forgotten.
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
Lucy Foley
High in the Swiss Alps, with glorious mountain views and exclusive access to powdery slopes, the Grand Alpine Hotel draws guests from far and wide.
The notorious actress. The high-flying politician. The reserved political wife. The reckless friend. The shrewd doctor. But when a guest enters a gondola alive, only to be found dead at the top of the mountain, it’s clear there’s a killer in their midst.
As dark histories simmer, and old grudges emerge like cracks in the ice, someone watches on from the shadows. An unassuming woman with an extraordinary mind: Miss Marple. She suspects everyone in the hotel, and she’s right to.
For it isn’t just a question of who has a motive, but who’s next.
A Game of Cat and Killer
Jiro Akagawa and Haydn Trowell
Detective Yoshitaro Katayama is afraid of many things: heights, dark spaces, blood and – women.
When a young female student is found murdered, he’s given two choices – review the harrowing crime-scene photographs or head to Hagoromo Women’s College to investigate – and reluctantly opts for the latter.
But the murders don’t stop, and soon Katayama has a different surprise on his hands: a calico cat named Holmes. Surely that’s the last thing Katayama needs. Until Holmes begins to display some uncanny investigative instincts of her own.
Serenity Falls
C. J. Tudor
Welcome to Serenity Falls – the most idyllic, and safest, town in the US – a place to grow up, grow your family and grow old together. For Dan and his daughter, Sadie, it’s the perfect relocation option. A fresh start, thousands of miles from their troubled past in the UK.
But their idyll is shattered when they find a dead body in the swimming pool of their new house – a house Dan’s late mother kept secret from him all his life. It’s just the start of a series of disturbing discoveries.
Abandoned houses where people have seemingly just upped and left. The strange woman Sadie sees around town putting up ‘missing’ posters for a child who drowned almost 30 years ago. An ice cream van that drives around at night making sure residents are asleep.
As plans gear up to celebrate Serenity Falls’ 50th anniversary, something is stirring beneath the surface of the blissful façade.
Styx: The River
Nikita Gill
The firstborn child of Titans, Styx is revered as the first of her kind – until she is eclipsed and forgotten amid her scores of siblings, the Oceanids and the Potamoi.
Coming of age in a world simmering with paranoia and unspoken fear of Kronos, the volatile and unchecked god-king, Styx learns to conceal the rage ignited by her growing disillusionment with her parents and her vain and unkind siblings.
Instead, she finds solace and sisterhood in her cousin, Asteria. Together, they train in the arts of creation and magic. And as they seek to learn their divine purpose and their place within the Titanomachy, they discover both the joy sparked by true love and the fierce resilience birthed from motherhood.
The Knave and the Moon
Rachel Gillig
Aisling Cathedral is in ruins. Rodrick Myndacious, Bartholomew and Maude Bauer are rumoured to be dead – and the king has taken Sybil Delling as his bride.
To show off their union and solidify his power over Traum, Benji proposes a series of tournaments throughout the hamlets. Captive and drugged, Sybil remains determined to vanquish him as she once did the Omens, even if she destroys the kingdom’s faith – and herself – in the process.
But then a mysterious knave rises to the top of the lists, a man with no name and no memory who may just be Sybil’s ticket to undoing Benji’s power.
For in a land where stories repeat themselves, where a king can prove as cruel as a god, the only way to truly destroy the Stonewater Kingdom’s faith is to save it.
Tempest
Victoria Aveyard
Cat Rose knows what it is to live in two worlds, in two times. Before – as Lady Catrine Rose of the Meridian Empire, chained to a loathsome lord with a dwindling fortune. And after – as the Widow Rose, queen of a pirate tavern on the Lyrian Sea, determined to be the master of her own fate.
But tides turn and winds change. The Meridian Empire looms on the horizon, the full weight of her navy falling on the Lyrian, bent on reclaiming the wealthy colonies and crushing the pirate republic once and for all. Ship after ship is captured, save for one, captained by a pirate who continually evades both noose and blade: the legendary Valerian Kane.
With his fearsome ship and uncanny connection to the song of the sea, Valerian is the only man who might rally the pirates who remain. The only man who threatens the Empire. And the only man Cat has ever loved, blazing in and out of her life like a star.
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