New Trade Paperbacks - Fiction

n the proud tradition of Spider-Man: Life Story - and in celebration of the Fantastic Four's 60th Anniversary - comes this incredible exploration of the lives of the fabulous foursome if they aged in real time across the decades.

Ireland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan Gillespie to find out why, it must be in secret.

1943. Garda Inspector Stefan Gillespie, on a diplomatic mission for the Irish government, takes a train from the chaos of German-occupied Rome to the Reich itself. Late at night he waits for a long-delayed connection at an empty station in neutral Switzerland.

In the style of Benjamin Black, an evocative, literary crime thriller set in Ireland and London during the outbreak of WWII.

1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and war-torn London. Rumours that a British soldier murdered a Maltese teenager can't go unchallenged without damaging loyalty to Britain. Now Britain will cooperate with Ireland to find the killer and Stefan is sent to Malta. The British believe the killer is an Irishman; that's the result they want. And they'd like Stefan to give it to them. But in the dark streets of Valletta there are threats deadlier than German bombs...

The next thrilling historical crime novel in the Stefan Gillespie series... The Second World War may well be drawing to a close, but there is still espionage work for Stefan to do amid the chaos.

Appealing to fans of Boy Parts and Luster, I'm New Here is a thrilling, hallucinatory debut and masterclass in unreliable narration that positions Ian Russell-Hsieh as one of the most exciting new authors in the UK.

Wry, rueful and rich in observation, SUPER HOST provides a delicious portrait of middle-age, marriage, and the underlying fears and loneliness that colour so many lives. Being lost in a place you know by heart is one of life's most disconcerting feelings.

Brimming with warmth, wisdom and Russo's signature wry humour, Somebody's Fool is another classic from a modern master of storytelling.

Set in Paris, a quirky novel about an inseparable grandfather and grandson who embark on a crazy adventure before life changes for good. For fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Three Things About Elsie.

Your father is on death row. You have seven days to save him. But do you want to?

EVERYONE BELIEVES YOUR HUSBAND IS GUILTY. ONLY YOU CAN PROVE THEM WRONG.