Spring has finally arrived, bringing warmer weather, runny noses, and — most importantly — an avalanche of incredible new books to sink your teeth into! From queer literary fiction, bloodthirsty horror, and a particularly messy romance with an overbearing pangolin, these titles offer something for everyone — and probably something that you’ve never seen before!
Little F by Michelle Tea
9781917008235 | Cipher Press | PB | £12.99 | OUT NOW
A gutsy and joyful road trip of a novel by cult favourite author of Black Wave and
Valencia. In Spencer’s fantasies, the breezy, queer streets of Provincetown are utopia, a place where he can be free. And when a violent attack in his suburban Arizona schoolyard sends him to the hospital, he decides queer utopia can’t wait. One night, with the help of his best friend, the teenage witch Joy, he hitches a ride to find it.
What follows is a cross-country road odyssey throughout the USA, taking Spencer from new moon rituals in Arizona canyons to Texas bus stations, from the luxe drag stages of Houston’s Montrose district to the jazzsoaked streets of New Orleans and beyond. This new novel from Michelle Tea tells the story, by turns raw, romantic, and sweet, of a sheltered boy taking his first leap into queer life, among all the complicated queers who live it.
No Such Thing As Monday by Sian Hughes
9781917378130 | Indigo Press | HB | £14.99 | OUT NOW
Steffie spends her days working in a dry-cleaner’s, trying to scrub the world clean one garment at a time. But no matter how spotless the clothes, she can’t rid herself of the guilt and grime she feels inside.
Haunted by what happened to her sister when they were children, large fragments of which she can’t fully remember, Steffie is stuck in a loop of self-destruction, defiance, and shame.
When her violent, bullying father dies suddenly, it sparks a reckoning that cracks open her past. What follows is an unexpectedly redemptive journey of a woman trying to piece
herself together in a world that failed to make space for her.
Raw, exhilarating, and full of heart, No Such Thing As Monday confirms Sian Hughes as a masterful chronicler of life lived on the edge, and people at their most vulnerable.
Pandora by Ana Paula Pacheco
9798893380224 | Transit Books | PB | £16.99 | OUT NOW
A hallucinatory portrait of a mind on the brink of collapse, as a professor wrestles with grief and isolation!
Confined to her apartment, a professor falls into an unlikely romance — with a pangolin. Ana, a literature professor, plans her remote classes while confined to her apartment during lockdown. Her lover, Alice, has died of Covid. In her place are a series of animals that demand Ana’s care and attention: an overbearing pangolin, a swarm of insects, a giant bat.
Amid changes in medication and fraught faculty meetings, Ana’s grip on reality loosens. She begins to devise a syllabus on the financialization of art and life, posing questions about labour and intimacy she will use her own body to answer. Her apartment fills with creatures, her teaching slides into absurd allegory, and her sense of what is real, permissible, or politically legible fractures.
Equal parts tender and grotesque, Pandora is a hallucinatory portrait of a mind and a world in collapse, a razor-sharp meditation on desire, delusion, and the absurd endurance of the human.
“Ribald and unsettling…the experimental and provocative narration is consistently engrossing.”
— Publishers Weekly
No Ghosts by Max Lury
9781913512811 | Peninsula Press | PB | £12.99 | OUT NOW
Kieran and Harlow’s best friend Annie disappeared a year ago. And now, so have the ghosts.
After being reunited at Annie’s memorial, Kieran and Harlow begin separate searches for their lost friend, all while trying to repair their friendship. Harlow, recently retired from the CGI company she helped found, discovers fragments of the dead — faces, gestures, glances — in AI generated videos; meanwhile Kieran, aimless and isolated, stumbles into an occult community of those dedicated to finding the missing ghosts.
The friends’ journeys will lead them through a world at once recognisable and strangely removed. A subterranean world of endless tunnels filled with ominous arrangements of consumer goods; a world of seances where attendees are haunted by the empty spaces where ghosts used to be. As Harlow and Kieran are drawn deeper into the circumstances behind Annie’s — and the ghosts’ — disappearance, a terrifying, singular pattern breaks the surface.
No Ghosts is a startling debut which plumbs the undercurrents of feeling that pool beneath our use of emergent technologies, to ask what new forms haunting might take. Told with a sinister precision, it dramatises the abstraction and unreality that increasingly define our everyday lives, and marks the arrival of a major new literary novelist.
Thrall by Rebecca Mahoney
9781368113816 | Hyperion Avenue | PB | £16.99 | 21st April 2026
A young woman looking for a transformative college experience is bitten by a vampire and must team up with his other living victims to hunt him down.
Twenty-three-year-old Lucy Easting has at last broken free from her grim home life and is ready to truly live. But her long-awaited new beginning at Rollins University isn’t what she expected. After attending the first campus party of the year, Lucy awakens the next day with a memory block… and two puncture marks on her neck.
She tries to piece together what happened that night, but every lead brings her to another dead end. Until she receives a handwritten note from the campus radio station, inviting her to call. When she does, the host’s soothing voice over the line confirms her worst fear, and the simplest explanation of what’s happening to her: she’s turning into a vampire.
Lucy teams up with the show’s host, who narrowly escaped an attack her sophomore year, and a beautiful archery champion who, while exactly Lucy’s type, is as likely to shoot her as kiss her. They believe their “friend with the cold hands” is responsible for the disappearance of several women in town, and they’ve been tracking him via the airwaves since long before Lucy arrived.
As the vampire’s sway over Lucy grows and his plans become clear, she realizes she must fight for a future of her own, or she may not have any future at all.
Holy F*ck by Joseph Incardona
9781916725256 | Bitter Lemon | PB | £9.99 | 23rd April 2026
Stella works miracles. Literally. She heals the sick and the paralysed. The Vatican is overjoyed — imagine, a real saintin the 21st century, and in Georgia, the heart of the American South.
The only hitch? Her method: she heals the people she sleeps with in her motorhome. And she sleeps with a lot of people — it’s what she does for a living. And that’s precisely what’s bothering the Vatican.
A saintly prostitute isn’t exactly presentable. A martyred saint, on the other hand, with a conveniently rewritten past. That’s a job tailor-made for the Bronski twins — the best contract killers in the business.
Malc’s Boy by Shaun Wilson
9781919184708 | Conduit Books | PB | £12.99 | 23rd April 2026
Malc’s Boy charts a son’s struggle and friendship with his father amidst a legacy of toxic masculinity and violence. Shaun grows up in Wigton, a small market town on the fringes of the Lake District, as the son of Malc, a prominent publican with a fearsome reputation. More concerned with establishing himself as an artist than making a name for himself in the town’s hierarchical pub scene, Shaun rebels against his father’s expectations. But when Malc is attacked by an old enemy, Shaun is forced to confront his father’s past and escape the life he’s been expected to lead.
‘A stunning, hilarious depiction of northern working-class violent
masculinity conveyed – in a skewed way – through the form of
experimental literary fiction.’
– Chris Kraus, bestselling author of I Love Dick
Us Fools by Nora Lange
9781911710318 | Two Dollar Radio | PB | £12.99 | 30th April 2026
Joanne and Bernadette Fareown are raised on their family farm in rural Illinois, keenly affected by their parents’ volatile relationship and mounting financial debt, haunted by the cursed history of the women in their family. Largely left to their own devices, the sisters educate themselves on Greek mythology, feminism, and Virginia Woolf, realising they must find unique ways to cope in these antagonistic conditions, questioning the American Dream as the rest of the country abandons their community in crisis.
As Jo and Bernie’s imaginative solutions for escape come up short against their parents’ realities, the family leaves their farm for Chicago, where Joanne — free-spirited, reckless, and unable to tame her inner violence — rebels in increasingly desperate ways. After her worst breakdown yet, Jo goes into exile in Deadhorse, Alaska, and it is up to Bernadette to use all she’s learned from her sister to revive a sense of hope against the backdrop of a failing world.
With her debut novel, Nora Lange has crafted a rambunctious, ambitious, and heart-rending portrait of two idiosyncratic sisters, determined to persevere despite the worst that capitalism and their circumstances has to throw at them.
