Okay, this might be cheating, because I’ve already read some of these books, but I’ve specifically kept them out of my 2024 round-up (coming soon!) because I wanted to write about them here. So I hope you’ll forgive me, and put some of these books on your radar for 2025!
by Kylie Lee Baker
Out 7th January 2025
Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner. But the bloody messes don’t bother her, not when she’s already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. But the killer was never caught, and Cora is still haunted by his last words: bat eater.
Haunting, horrifying, and truly terrifying, Bat Eater devoured me like a hungry ghost and will continue to haunt me for years to come.
A SERIAL KILLER’S GUIDE TO MARRIAGE
by Asia Mackay
Out 14th January 2025
A couple that kills together stays together…
by Lucy Rose
Out 30th January 2025
A FOLK TALE. A HORROR STORY. A LOVE STORY. AN ENCHANTMENT.
Visceral and aching, The Lamb is a magnetic, monstrous tale of womanhood and desire. I devoured it, hungry for each and every word. Margot is going to haunt me forever.
by Katie Buckley
Out 30th January 2025
A love story for our times: a novel that exposes the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free.
by Emilia Hart
Out 13th February 2025
Sisters separated by centuries. Voices that can’t be drowned out. From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward, THE SIRENS is another fantastical and fascinating tale of female rage and empowerment.
by Trisha Sakhlecha
Out 13th February 2025
Most family reunions end in tears. This one will end in murder.
On a private island off the west coast of Scotland, the Agarwals gather for a much-awaited family reunion…
by Nydia Hetherington
Out 27th February 2025
Born of the sun and moon, shaped by fire and malady, comes a young woman whose story has never been told…
Described as a beautifully written and deeply moving imagining of what came before Shakespeare’s The Tempest, SYCORAX is Nydia Hetherington’s long-awaited second novel.
by Agustina Bazterrica (translated by Sarah Moses)
Out 13th March 2025
A fearsomely dark, incantatory new dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic convent.
I was desperate to get my hands on an advance copy of THE UNWORTHY, having devoured Tender is the Flesh not long before. Dark, seductive, and truly haunting, I couldn’t get enough of this brilliant literary horror novel.
by Suzanne Collins
Out 18th March 2025
When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?
Suzanne Collins has famously said that she only writes a book when she’s got something to say, so I’m looking forward to reading this one!
by Lucy Lapinska
Out 17th April 2025
As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity’s final days looking after her husband David. Tender, powerful and thought-provoking, SOME BODY LIKE ME explores the boundaries of sexuality and the indefinable human capacity for love at the end of the world.
by Sarah Griffin
Out 22nd April 2025
A twisted, tangled story about workplace love-affairs, and plants with a taste for human flesh from the acclaimed author of Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke.
by Anna Bailey
Out 25th April 2025
You can never return home; but home never lets you go…
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones, OUR LAST WILD DAYS is the chilling story of a journalist returning home to the swamplands of Louisiana when one of her former best friends has gone missing.
by Beth Lewis
Out 12th June 2025
Gold fever has taken him. I believe he means to kill me…
Canada, 1898. The Gold Rush is on in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon. Fortunes are made as quickly as they’re lost, and Dawson City has become a lawless settlement.
An absolute treasure. Immersive, bold, and full of wonder, I was completely captured by these unforgettable characters and immersive setting.
by Catherine Dang
Out 12th August 2025
A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nyugen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for fans of Jennifer’s Body and Little Fires Everywhere.
As someone who has also comped Jennifer’s Body, I can’t wait to get stuck into this!
Which books are you looking out for in 2025?
VIKKI PATIS 
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