*New & Notable Adult Fiction - January Highlights*

Published this month and new to the collection

Updated January 20, 2026
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Greater Victoria Public Library
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No Life Forsaken: The Second Tale of Witness
Erikson, Steven
Paper Book
The epic fantasy sequence continues with the new book from the bestselling author of Gardens of the Moon. A goddess awakens to a new world, only to find that some things never change. Amidst the ashes of a failed rebellion in Seven Cities, new embers...
Call Me Ishmaelle
Guo, Xiaolu
Paper Book
Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor 'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare 'One of the most valuable writers in the world' Deborah Levy 1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on...
No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done
Hannah, Sophie
'The twist is perfection. I think it's just about the cleverest thing I've ever read' Gillian McAllister 'This joyous adventure is one of Sophie Hannah's very best books' Alex Michaelides You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the policeman on the doorstep....
The burning grounds
Mukherjee, Abir
'Compulsive reading. This is a master storyteller at the top of his game.' Ann Cleeves 'Historical crime fiction at its best' The Times 'An utterly spellbinding triumph from a master storyteller' Joseph O'Connor In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta,...
Vigil
Saunders, George
The Poet Empress
Tao, Shen
'Vicious, gorgeous, and fiercely haunting' CHLOE GONG 'Sublime' AMELIE WEN ZHAO 'Enthralling' ANDREA STEWART 'Astounding' CHELSEA ABDULLAH 'Lyrical' K. X. SONG 'Devastating' KRITIKA H. RAO 'Fantasy at...

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