Turn the page on a new year

Jessie Burton’s The House Of Fortune (July), which follows her bestselling debut The Miniaturist. Nella longs to find a husband for her 18-year-old niece, but as past secrets threaten to overwhelm the present, Nella fears the miniaturist has returned. Brick Lane author

Monica Ali returns in February with Love Marriage, in which Yasmin introduces her Muslim parents to fiancé Joe’s feminist firebrand mother, setting the stage for “the unravelling of longheld secrets, lies and betrayals”.

Hanya Yanagihara follows the acclaimed A Little Life with To Paradise (January). It opens in an alternate 1893 America, where same-sex relationships are the norm; part two is set during the AIDS epidemic in 1982 Manhattan; and in a totalitarian society in 2093, a woman investigates her husband’s disappearances.

In One Day I Shall Astonish The World (April) by gifted comic writer Nina Stibbe, Susan and Norma have been best friends for 30 years, but when Norma’s life takes an unforeseen turn, Susan begins to wonder if she’s followed the wrong path in life – and in friendship.

Candice CartyWilliams follows hit debut Queenie with People Person (April), which explores the meaning of family after a dramatic event brings Dimple’s absent father and four halfsiblings crashing back into her life. In April, look out for

PJ Harvey’s comingof-age poem Orlam, set in an alternate West Country, and six years in the writing.

And you’ll need tissues for Douglas Stuart’s follow-up to the Booker Prizewinning Shuggie Bain. In Young Mungo (April), Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in the sectarian world of Glasgow’s housing estates where their love must remain a closely guarded secret. It’s a “gripping story about… the dangers of loving someone too much”.

DEBUTS

In the fast, funny and furious Lessons In Chemistry (April), brilliant scientist Elizabeth fights back against 1960s sexism,

and author Bonnie

Garmus is surely destined for major success.

Another of the year’s most hotly tipped debuts is Wahala (January), by Nikki

May, described as “Sex And The City with a killer edge for fans of Queenie”.

Fans of historical fiction should look out for Rosie

Andrews’ The Leviathan (February). As the English

Civil War rages, a man must investigate allegations of witchcraft against his sister’s servant.

And Joanna Quinn’s The Whalebone Theatre (June) follows three siblings from their 1920s childhood to the Second World War in a novel compared to Dodie Smith’s I Capture The

Castle. BY CHARLOTTE HEATHCOTE

THRILLERS

Watch out, Jolene – Dolly Parton’s thoughts are taking a murderous turn. The country music superstar has collaborated with the world’s bestselling crime writer James Patterson on one of the most eagerly anticipated thrillers of 2022. In Run, Rose, Run (March), an aspiring singer dices with death in – you’ve guessed it – Nashville.

Another guaranteed bestseller is Lucy Foley’s

The Paris Apartment (March) which sees an Englishwoman turn up in the French capital to stay in her brother’s flat, only to find he has vanished.

As always with Foley, there are multiple narrators, in this case the other residents of the apartment block – all, naturally, with secrets to hide.

The Rev Richard Coles’ debut novel lands in June. Murder Before Evensong is the first in a new crime series in which Canon Daniel Clement turns detective after a body is found in the church.

And Janice Hallett follows her bestseller The Appeal with The Twyford Code, a murder mystery told through audio files on an iPhone as a former convict investigates the unusual power of a famous children’s novel.

There’s an ingenious premise behind Nina De

Gramont’s The Christie Affair (January), which weaves a mystery story around the reallife disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926.

Among the most eagerly anticipated debuts are Nita Prose’s

The Maid (January) in which a quirky hotel maid investigates the mysterious death of a guest, and Amen

Alonge’s gritty

A Good Day To Die (February), which sees the sole survivor of a gangland massacre seek revenge.

Finally, legions of readers will be counting the months until two surefire bestsellers are published: With A Mind To Kill, Anthony

Horowitz’s third James Bond novel (May); and the third Thursday Murder Club novel by Richard Osman (September). BY JAKE KERRIDGE