2026 is just around the corner and we couldn’t be more excited by all the newness we’ll get!
Yes, we’re making our New Year’s resolutions. And one of yours might be to read more.
Don’t worry because there are plenty of brilliant new books coming out in 2026. Here are some books we can’t wait to read!
Banshee: Mythological Irish Women Retold – Edited by Ailbhe Malone
In this spellbinding anthology, Ireland’s most electrifying female writers breathe new life into the women of Irish myth and legend.
For centuries, the women of Irish myth have stood in the shadows of warriors and kings. Until now. In Banshee you’ll find stories of savage queens and defiant mermaids, unruly mothers and women outrunning their destiny – stories pulsing with danger, desire and freedom.
Featuring stories by: Naoise Dolan, Megan Nolan, Jess Kidd, Wendy Erskine, Nikita Gill, Sarah Maria Griffin, Jane Casey, Anne Griffin, Sheila O’Flanagan, and Salma El-Wardany.
Out February
All Them Dogs – Djamel White
Things are different since Tony Ward landed back in town.
After five years abroad, when the opportunity arises to work side by side with Darren ‘Flute’ Walsh, a top enforcer of notorious crime boss Angus Lavelle, it feels like a no brainer.
With retribution from his past actions always close, the protection offered by Flute is crucial. But how safe is Tony when a mutual attraction starts to complicate matters?
Out March
Nothing Good Happens After 2AM – Niamh Hargan
In the vibrant and competitive world of London’s bar scene, cocktail-making stars Robbie Saunders and El Tippett navigate their passionate and tumultuous relationship.
They are repeatedly drawn back to each other despite professional betrayals, as they seek to build something new amidst the chaos.
Out January
Half His Age – Jennette McCurdy
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.
Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn’t?
Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.
Out January
The Island Retreat – Cathy Kelly
Six people gather on a fabulous Greek island, each one hoping that ten days in the sun, writing their life stories, will magically fix their lives. Rose Talisman is pinning it all on a fresh start.
Five years after her career as a tv therapist ended in one catastrophic instant, she is opening a retreat in Corfu. The understated, luxurious Villa Artemis is surrounded by wild pines and sea views.
Just six guests. One week. Time for Rose to help them face their secrets – and move forwards. But Rose has staked everything on the retreat. It has to work – or she loses it all And people’s secrets have a way of revealing themselves in ways no one expected.
Nobody’s past is staying hidden for long…Will that include Rose’s, too?
Out February
Hooked – Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton
Eriko’s life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan’s largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness.
Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by a housewife, Shoko. Shoko’s posts about eating convenience store food and her untidy home are the opposite of the typical Japanese housewife’s manicured lifestyle. When Eriko tracks Shoko down at her favourite restaurant and befriends her, Shoko is at first charmed by her new companion.
But as Eriko’s obsession with Shoko deepens, her increasingly possessive behaviour starts to raise suspicion. As Eriko’s carefully laid plans begin to unravel, how far will she go to hold on to the best friend that she’s ever had?
Out March
Famesick – Lena Dunham
For the last decade, as she’s spent countless hours in doctor’s waiting rooms searching for diagnoses, treatments, and relief, being the owner and operator of Lena Dunham’s body has felt, as she puts it, ‘like towing a wrecked car across town at midnight.’ It’s not easy dragging a wrecked car anywhere, much less to the Met Gala while sewn into a gold lamé corset.
Or to the set of the hit show that you – as a twenty-five-year-old – are writing, directing, producing, and starring in. Or to the White House, the Golden Globes, or your publicist’s office to discuss the latest internet disaster. But Dunham does it – even if it means interminable hospital stays, vomiting in the bathroom when she’s meant to be meeting Oprah, or terrifying those closest to her – because she can no longer tell the difference between fighting to do what she loves and being a servant to her own ambition.
All the while, she is holding out for a love that can withstand her personal and public challenges and, more than anything, yearning to feel like herself again – if only she could remember who that self was.
Out March
This Story Might Save Your Life – Tiffany Crum
Benny and Joy are best friends and co-hosts of a globally successful ‘comedy survival’ podcast, gleefully finding life-affirming humour in near-death experiences.
Inspired by Joy’s own experience of narcolepsy, they ponder what they would do in life-altering situations. Then Joy and her husband Xander (also the duo’s shrewd business manager) go missing, leaving behind nothing but an empty house and shattered glass.
Before long, Benny becomes the main suspect in this missing persons case and the media storm is relentless. To clear his name, he must dig up secrets that even their most devoted podcast fans would never guess… Will he be able to solve their own survival story? This is a book about love and friendship, power and money and deeply complex relationships.
Out March
Sister Wake – Dave Rudden
A proud culture oppressed for centuries. An island over-run by bestial gods. And a girl with the power to raise the fallen. For three hundred years, the wild island of Croí has been subject to the Empire of the Answering.
Clans have been subjugated, their language outlawed, their religion reduced to the whisper of fugitive priests. Until Croí’s prayers are answered. The Gods return. Feral and majestic, they stride the land as colossi, throwing the Empire into chaos. The dispossessed and the vengeful struggle for power. A ruthless priestess rallies the faithful, offering a simple choice – believe, or die – even as the empire’s Queen makes the first moves in a long and dangerous game.
But for all their machinations, one woman will decide the fate of them all – Sister Wake, unwilling saint of the Goddess of Death.
Out January
Witch Trial – Harriet Tyce
Two teenage girls. One murdered classmate. And a modern-day witch trial that will divide the nation. When 18-year-old Christian Shaw is found dead in an Edinburgh park, the city reels – and the shock only deepens when police charge her best friends, Eliza Lawson and Isobel Smyth, with her murder.
As social media explodes and headlines scream for justice, rumours of bullying spiral into something darker: whispers of rituals, obsession, and a teenage pact gone wrong. Matthew Phillips, a respected heart surgeon, is reluctantly called for jury duty on the case. But as the trial unfolds – and the girls reveal a chilling defence no one saw coming – he begins to question everything: the motives, the evidence, even his own judgement.
Who’s telling the truth? Who can be trusted? And what really happened to Christian Shaw?
Out Febraury
The Perfect Match – Adiba Jaigirdar
An enemies-to-lovers and angsty queer Bend it like Beckham meets Cross the Line, jampacked with quirky side characters who cannot help but interfere in their feuding coaches’ lives. Dina is done.
She’s burnt out after years in corporate London and is now working in her family’s struggling Bangladeshi restaurant. The last thing she expects is to be roped into coaching a football team of disadvantaged amateur players – or to say yes. Maya is back. She could have had a brilliant career, but it all went…well, wrong.
Now she’s back home, back in her childhood bedroom. Her only escape is agreeing to coach her old secondary school’s team. It doesn’t take long for them to bump into each other again and for as long as anyone can remember, Dina and Maya were rivals. But will the very game that tore them apart bring them back together?
Out March
Hungry: A Biography of My Body – Katriona O’Sullivan
Raised in a home marked by poverty, addiction and abuse, Katriona defied the odds: from teenage motherhood struggling with her own addictions to becoming a university professor and successful author. But beneath the achievements lay a more private struggle – with her body, her worth, and the unrelenting drive to be enough.
In this fiercely honest memoir, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves – and how society teaches them to measure their value.
Told with stunning courage and vulnerability, Hungry is both a personal reckoning and a powerful reclaiming of body, voice and self. It is one woman’s story – and a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive.
Out April
Love Scene – Anna Carey
Hate at first sight, then comes the rewrite. Writing for an iconic soap opera was supposed to be a dream come true. But Annie’s boss is a tyrant, the actors are out of control, and there are rumours that Northside will soon be cancelled.
The worst part of all of it: Annie has to share an office with her nemesis, Art Sullivan. Talented-and-he-knows-it Art was once the Next Big Thing with a promising Hollywood career. So why is he back in town, writing for a show he’s never seen a single episode of?
Annie tries to ignore Art, who still knows exactly how to push her buttons – and is still distractingly hot. But when she suspects someone’s sabotaging Northside, she realises she’ll need Art’s help to stop them. If they can quit arguing long enough to work together, there might just be another plot twist ahead…
Out May
Land – Maggie O’Farrell
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland.
The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse.
His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home? Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonisation and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away.
Out June
Our Deadly Summer – Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
They’re back! The co-authors of the What a Complete Aisling series have reunited for a brand new story.
Best friends Laura and Dee spend a wild summer waitressing at a Long Island country club in the early noughties, a season that ends with a dead body and a secret buried between them.
Twenty years later, an unexpected email forces them to confront what really happened that deadly summer, in a sharply funny, heartfelt novel about friendship, bad men and the past that never quite stays buried.
Out May
Starside – Alex Aster
Hundreds of years ago, a brutal war split a land in two. Starside is the realm of magic and immortals—the descendants of the gods, living in a power-rich paradise. Stormside is where mortals fight for scraps of that magic.
Every fifty years, the gates between them open, and fifty challengers are allowed to journey across Starside on a deadly quest to access a pool of magic that can heal, grant wealth, or extend life.
Everyone has their reasons for entering, but Aris has only vengeance. As a child, a goddess set fire to her village, killing her family. Aris isn’t after the gods’ magic—she’s going to kill them.
Out March
Fury Bound – Sable Sorensen
Revenge demands sacrifice. Don’t miss this action-packed, jaw-dropping, dark and romantic sequel to Dire Bound.
Death is in the air, and Meryn Cooper vows to be the one to sow it. But is she willing to sacrifice her soul—and heart—to seize her destiny?
Blood will spill. Bonds will break. Fate will be tested.
Out May
Rites of the Starling – Devney Perry
The much-anticipated follow-up to the slow-burn, high-stakes romantasy where enemies become lovers, monsters stalk a cursed realm, and a forgotten princess finds the strength to tear off her crown and become the warrior she was never meant to be.
Hunted by monsters, driven to exhaustion, and kidnapped by a powerful priest, the only thing keeping her going is the little girl counting on her to keep her safe.
It’s the princess’ turn to become the Guardian.
Out April
Whatever Happened to Madeline Stone? – Louise O’Neill
Twin sisters Madeline and Chelsea Stone are joint stars of the AtomicKids sitcom Double Trouble, but everyone knows it’s Maddie who shines most brightly.
Until Chelsea beats her sister out for the role of a lifetime and is catapulted into the spotlight. And just as Chelsea’s star reaches impossible new heights, Maddie disappears.
Chelsea Stone retired from acting after her sister’s disappearance – but living life under the radar is easier said than done when you’re the most famous woman of your generation.
When a storage locker is found containing heart-breaking truths about the year Maddie went missing, Chelsea feels a flicker of hope for the first time in twenty years. This is her chance to discover what really happened to her twin, but to follow the trail she’ll have to face the past and step back into the spotlight…
Out April
Brigid – Kim Curran
In a wild, ancient grove at the edge of winter, a desperate girl prays to the gods for her freedom. None have ever listened to Brigid’s prayers.
But this time, a goddess answers . . . with a vision that will transform Brigid’s path forever.
The new Christian god is coming, a faith that Brigid can bend to her will, building a sanctuary for other powerless women. But power, like a flame, consumes as it grows. As Brigid rises, challenging kings, defying bishops, her enemies draw closer.
What – or who – will she sacrifice to hold on to her legacy?
Out January