Anticipated books 2023: second half of the year!

Back in January I did an anticipated books post here – and almost all the ones that i mentioned have now been published. So I’m coming back around for the stuff that’s still to come this year!

There is a new Alexis Hall coming in October, the cover is very Boyfriend Material-sque but it’s don’t let that fool you – Ten Things That Never Happened has a new couple and has a fake amnesia plot line… Staying with contemporary romance, I love a theatre-set book, so I’m looking forward to Amelia Jones’s The Stage Kiss which comes out in December. And they’re closer to inspirational than plain romance, but the next in Beverly Jenkin’s Blessings series, A Christmas to Remember finally arrives in mid-October. I haven’t read Love in the Time of Serial Killers yet, but Alicia Thomson’s next book is out in a couple of weeks at the start of August – With Love, from Cold World is about two workers at a Florida tourist destination where it’s always winter.

Moving to historical, and Sarah Vaughn has written a Regency-era graphic novel called Ruined about a marriage of convenience, and I love a marriage of convenience story (although I realise I still haven’t finished that recommendsday post about them I’ve been writing for years so have a link to the one about fake relationships instead ) so I’m really looking forward to reading that – it’s out in at the end of November. Staying with historical fiction, Mary Jo Putney has a new historical romance series set in Cornwall starting with Silver Lady which comes out at the end of November. It’s promising swashbuckling adventure – and the first one also has an amnesia plot although I’m not sure she’s faking it in this one! I think it’s already out in the US, but here in the UK we have to wait until the end of August for A Lady’s Guide to Scandal which is the sequel to Sophie Irwin’s A Lady’s Guide to Fortune Hunting, which I really enjoyed last year.

There’s a few series with autumn releases – like the fourth in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, The Last Devil to Die, which arrives in mid September. Then there is the seventh book in the Vanderbeeker series also arriving in September. It’s called The Vanderbeekers Ever After and as the title suggests it’s the final book in the series. Luckily (!) for me the sixth book isn’t out in paperback here yet, so I’m going to be able to make the series last a little longer despite that. There’s a new Sarah Maclean – Knockout is the third in the Hells Belles series. And unexpectedly there is another Shades of Magic novel coming too. I thought VE Schwab was done with the world at the end of the trilogy, but The Fragile Threads of Power is taking it to the next generation as well as giving you another look at the original characters. And there’s a fourth in the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series too – called Before We Say Goodbye.

There are always a slew of memoirs in the run up to Christmas – the one I’m excited about this year is Patrick Stewart’s, but I’m going to need to read some more of the ones I already have before I buy it. And finally there is of course the Lucy Parker – which I mentioned in that post at the start of the year – Codename Charming arrives on Kindle next month (the paperback doesn’t hit the UK until September). I may reread Battle Royal to prepare!

What riches we have to come…