*New & Notable Adult Fiction - May Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated May 7, 2025
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The Devils
Abercrombie, Joe.
Paper Book
My Name Is Emilia Del Valle
Allende, Isabel.
Paper Book
'A spellbinding masterpiece' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Isabel Allende is a literary treasure' KRISTIN HANNAH 'A captivating novel of love and war from one of our most revered storytellers' KATE MORTON The new historical novel from literary legend Isabel...
The South
Aw, Tash.
Paper Book
'A mesmerising tale. Both heartbreaking and joyful' MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer - about family, desire, and what we inherit - from celebrated author Tash Aw. 'Shimmeringly intelligent and elegiacally...
My Friends
Backman, Fredrik.
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman returns with an unforgettably funny, deeply moving tale of four teenagers whose friendship creates a bond so powerful that it changes a complete stranger's life twenty-five years later. Most...
The retirement plan
Hincenbergs, Sue.
Paper Book
Marble Hall Murders
Horowitz, Anthony.
Paper Book
'A masterclass in mystery writing' Ragnar Jónasson 'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders' Express 'Worthy of Agatha Christie' Publishers Weekly *Starred Review* 'The computer isn't born that can out-plot...
Never flinch : a novel
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by Vulture, Men's Health, Book Riot, The New York Post, Goodreads, AARP, Paste, and more! From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines--one about a...
Awake in the floating city
Kwan, Susanna.
Paper Book
For fans of Station Eleven, Birnam Wood and Migrations, an astonishingly beautiful literary dystopia about care and compassion in times of devastation.   In a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed...
The Tenant
McFadden, Freida.
Paper Book
A new, jaw-dropping thriller from the instant #1 New York Times bestseller of The Boyfriend and The Housemaid! There's no place like home... Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of...
The Book of Records
Thien, Madeleine.
Paper Book
The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door.
The emperor of Gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS: 'Read it slowly. Let it wreck you. Then read it again' 'I feel like I lost part of my soul to this book... a contender for my favourite of the year'
Run for the hills
Wilson, Kevin.
Paper Book
A road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here. Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it's just been Madeline Hill and her mother on their Tennessee farm. It's mostly okay. Maybe...

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