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8 Exciting New Book Releases Coming This September

Here are eight new releases you have to add to your reading list this Autumn.

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With Autumn right around the corner, this couldn’t be a better time for bookworms around the world to shine. From a vampiric heist in a tearoom to a history of witch trials around the world, September awaits you with nine new exciting books you have to read.

Every reader’s favorite season is almost here! Time to wrap up warm, light a few candles, and brave the cold for these new releases.

We’re pushing Christian Girl Autumn aside and letting Reading Girl Autumn lead the way.

1. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Cover of Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

The whimsical sequel to Fawcett’s bestselling fantasy series is finally in paperback. This makes the top of the list because what could be better than reading the coziest fantasy at the height of autumn? Nothing.

The novel follows the titular protagonist as she embarks on a new project — a map of the realms of faerie.

Her fellow scholar, Wendell Bambleby, serves as a somewhat welcome distraction. An exiled faerie king, Emily must help Wendell find a way back to his realm — an adventure which takes them from their academic haven in Cambridge to the Austrian Alps.

Using her expert knowledge of the Fae, Emily must tread carefully and keep her wits about her as she navigates a cunning set of characters in an unfamiliar setting.

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (originally been published on the 16th of January 2024) will now be available in paperback in the UK as of September 5th. In the US, the paperback will be available on Amazon on September 3rd, 2024.

2. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Yellow checkered cover of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

We have all patiently waited two whole years for a new Sally Rooney novel. Our prayers have finally been answered.

Intermezzo follows two brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek, through the challenges they face and the decisions they make after the passing of their father.

Peter has it all: a good job, a loving wife, and a young and wild mistress. But in the wake of his father’s death, he find himself grappling with a sleeping problem that he has to medicate — and actually, maybe his marriage isn’t perfect. He also hates the way his mistress Naomi treats life like “one long joke.”

Ivan, Peter’s younger brother by a decade, does not have it all. He’s “socially awkward, a loner, [and] the antithesis of his glib elder brother.” Shortly after the death of his father, Ivan meets Margaret. Emerging from the unfamiliar, “their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

Sally Rooney’s highly anticipated fiction novel is expected to release on September 24th, 2024.

3. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Red, white, and black cover of We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

Readers saddened by the end of our favorite septuagenarian crime-fighting series need not be sad for long!

Osman’s new series features the unlikely crime-fighting duo Steve Wheeler, a retired police officer, and Amy, his thrill-seeking daughter-in-law.

Steve Wheeler attempts to settle in his new retired life. He keeps a routine and only occasionally dabbles in investigative work. Meanwhile, Amy, probably thankful that a life of routine during retirement is still in her distant future, doesn’t have the time to learn the meaning of the word “relax” — which is why she’s currently on a private island with the “easy job” of keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive…

But “then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy mean an end to Steve’s quiet life.

Richard Osman’s brand new crime series will be released on September 12th, 2024.

4. A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

Cover of A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal, featuring a woman in a hat and suit holding a teacup and shrouded in tendrils of fog

It’s a fact that fantasy books are best when the weather is miserable and cold – so Hafsah Faizal’s newest book, now in paperback, has come at just the right time.

It can perhaps best be summarized in the following manner: “A group of outcasts mounts a heist to save a tearoom (a front for local vampires) in this new scintillating crime and dark fantasy mash-up.”

Criminal mastermind, owner of a prestigious tearoom which just happens to be a front for bloodthirsty vampires, and series heroine Arthie Casimir “is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary when her establishment is threatened.

In an attempt to infiltrate the vampire society, a.k.a the Athereum, Arthie must band together the most notorious criminals in the city of White Roaring. “But not everyone in her ragtag crew is on her side. As the truth behind the heist unfolds, Arthie finds herself in the midst of a conspiracy. A conspiracy that will threaten the world as she knows it.” 

The compelling fantasy novel is set to be published on September 19th, 2024.

5. Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson

Cover of Think Again by Jacqueline Wilson, with blue, pink, and red tones and two dice

A famed author of our childhoods, Jacqueline Wilson is back with this “engaging and warm-hearted story featuring the characters from her beloved Girls series of children’s novels as adults.”

Ellie Allard feels numb, but she knows that she shouldn’t. She has a beautiful daughter, Lottie, and a support system in her two lifelong best friends Magda and Nadine. All she needs is a love life, but that’s easier said than done.

However, all of that is about to change. “As she navigates new, exciting and often choppy waters, she’s about to discover that life will never stop surprising you – if only you let it.

Jacqueline Wilson’s anticipated publication will be available on September 12th, 2024.

6. The Bell Witches by Lindsey Kelk

Cover of the The Bell Witches by Lindsey Kelk, which is dark purple, orange, and white, with a bird, flowers, and an elegant border

Witches and Autumn go hand in hand, so it would be ridiculous to leave The Bell Witches out of this list.

Fans of I Heart New York and Love Story may be shocked to learn that the author of these rom-coms has turned to dark romantasy with her new book The Bell Witches.

You’ll want to be one. Until you know their secrets…

After the death of her father, Emily is promptly forced to live with her aunt and grandmother. But “in a house as beautiful as it is mysterious with the only family she has left, all is not what it seems with the Bell family.

When Emily meets the alluring Wyn, she forms a connection that feels like it was always meant to be. As the spark between them grows more powerful, her life takes an exhilarating and terrifying turn; but every step closer to him takes her a step further away from her family.”

The young adult fantasy is expected to release on September 26th, 2024.

7. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson

Cover of Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson, which has an orange cat against a white background

It certainly must be the season of the witch, as there is yet another witchy recommendation — this one unearthing the devastating truth of witches and witchcraft throughout the ages.

With stories from across the globe, readers are transported out of the frying pan and into the fire (pun intended) as “Gibson traces the shocking history of witchcraft and the stories of many of the accused women.”

From the Middle Ages to Jazz Age Pennsylvania, Witchcraft “explores the origins of witch-hunts taking us in new and surprising directions. Unveiling those whose stories have been overshadowed by the powerful men who hounded them, Gibson writes of the ‘witches’ such as Helena Scheuberin, Anny Sampson and Joan Wright.

“For the fortunate, a witch-hunt is just a metaphor, but, as this book makes clear, witches are truly still on trial.

This historical non-fiction piece will be available on September 26th, 2024.

8. What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie

Cover of What A Way To Go by Bella Mackie, which is green with pink lettering and has a flower

It would have been CRIMINAL to forget about brilliant-minded Bella Mackie and her highly anticipated novel What a Way to Go.

The bestselling author of ‘How To Kill Your Family’ spins another gloriously funny and dark story about dysfunctional families in the shiny but cruel world of the extremely wealthy.”

“I was immensely grateful that despite the gruesome way my husband died, he’d done it with his clothes on.”

What A Way To Go

Anthony Wistern has the perfect life, it would seem. Unspeakable wealth: check. Beautiful wife: check. Grand and richly furnished home: check. Grand and richly furnished second home in France: check. The audacity, and time, for multiple mistresses: check. A moral compass: no comment.

Anthony Wistern had the perfect life. Now he’s dead. And no one is safe from suspicion.

And that’s when the lying starts…

Bella Mackie’s literary fiction will be released on September 12th, 2024.

And finally…

Summer’s not quite over yet, so if you aren’t ready to don your blanket and light a candle while listening to the rain, here are some other recommendations to keep the sun shining wherever you are.

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