Brilliant books heading to your bookshelves this year...

NON-FICTION

Adam Kay’s millions of fans will be delighted to hear he’s writing a follow-up to This Is Going To Hurt, out in September. He “opens up old wounds with hilarious and heartbreaking stories from in and out of hospital”.

Could we be any more excited about

Matthew Perry’s memoir? The Friends star promises to take readers behind the scenes of the most successful sitcom of all time and shares his battles with addiction. It’s due in the autumn.

There are plenty more memoirs in the pipeline: actress Minnie Driver’s Managing Expectations is due in May; Floella

Benjamin tells the story of her journey from the Caribbean to the House Of

Lords in What Are You

Doing Here? (June); and

Ronnie Archer-Morgan

recounts how he went from a childhood in care and run-ins with gangs to becoming a well-loved Antiques Roadshow presenter in Would It Surprise You To Know…? (June). The Diaries Of Alan

Rickman are due in October – an edited collection of the muchmissed actor’s 27 diaries. We’re promised they’ll be “spiky, gossipy and incredibly funny”. And a “literary memoir” by Prince

Harry, Duke of Sussex, is provisionally scheduled for autumn. “I’m writing this not as the prince I was born but as the man I have become,” he declared, promising an “account of my life that’s accurate and wholly truthful.” Whatever your opinion of the controversial prince, blanket coverage is guaranteed.

FICTION

It’s 25 years since Marian Keyes’ most popular novel Rachel’s Holiday was published, selling 1.5m copies, and the sequel lands in February. These days, life is going well for Rachel, but the reappearance of a man she once loved jeopardises everything.

Another eagerly anticipated sequel is