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New English novels

New English novels. What new novels by English writers are coming out? Who is the author of the new novel from England? When will the book be released and by which publisher? Who is the writer of the novel?

What new English novels are coming out?

This page provides an overview of new English novels that are being released or will soon be available in bookstores. Besides information about the books’ content, you’ll also find information about the author, the publication, and ordering options. Published reviews of the thrillers are also included.

New English novels in 2025

The list of new novels in 2025 by authors from England is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Ian McEwan What We Can Know recensieIan McEwan – What Can We Know
English climate novel, dystopic novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 18 September 2025
Dutch translation: Wat we kunnen weten
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. The novel is a masterpiece, a fictional tour de force that reclaims the present from our sense of looming catastrophe, and imagines a future world where all is not quite lost…read on >

Paula Byrne Six Weeks by the Sea reviewPaula Byrne – Six Weeks by the Sea
Novel about Jane Austen
Publisher: Fontana
Released: 12 August 2025
Set against the backdrop of Austen’s family, the tensions of the war against France, and naval and colonial politics, Six Weeks by the Sea is the fascinating story of how Jane Austen,  the most famous romance writer of all time fell in love for the first time…read on >

Phoebe Greenwood Vulture reviewPhoebe Greenwood – Vulture
English novel
Publisher: Europa Editions
Released: 12 August 2025
Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and a tragi-comic coming-of-age novel. In November 2012, Sara Byrne, an ambitious young journalist, is sent to Gaza to cover a war from The Beach. At the four-star hotel, staff work tirelessly to provide safety, comfort and generator-powered internet for the world’s media, even as their own homes and families are under threat…read on >

Kasim Ali Who Will Remain reviewKasim Ali – Who Will Remain
Birmingham novel
Publisher: 4th Estate
Released: 17 July 2025
Amir has grown up in Alum Rock, Birmingham, under the care of his sensible older brother, Bilal, and his cousin Saqib, born just a few days before Amir. Alum Rock can be a troubled place, but Amir has managed to keep his head down, worked hard and stayed out of trouble … until now…read on >

Benjamin Wood Seascraper reviewBenjamin Wood – Seascraper
English novel
Publisher: 4th Estate
Released: 17 July 2025
Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp, spending the afternoon selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street, and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream…read on >

Irenosen Okojie Curandera reviewIrenosen Okojie – Curandera
Engelse roman
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Released: 8 July 2025
Set between seventeenth-century Cape Verde and contemporary London, Curandera is a kaleidoscopic story of rebirth and redemption, and a mythic tale of metamorphic recalibrations across time. In Gethsemane, Cape Verde, the appearance of a mysterious new arrival, Zulmira, coincides with a series of strange events. Zulmira is a shamanic disciple of Oni, an omnipotent and loving yet vengeful deity. In contemporary London, botanist Therese lives with Haitian musician Azacca, Peruvian drifter Emilien, and daring Finn…read on >

Nell Stevens The Original reviewNell Stevens – The Original
English historical novel
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Released: 1 July 2025
In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor. Deftly plotted and shimmering with Nell Stevens’s distinctive intelligence, style, and wit, The Original takes readers on an unforgettable adventure through a world of forgeries, family ties, and the fluctuations in fortune that can change our fate…read on >

Neil Blackmore Objects of Desire reviewNeil Blackmore – Objects of Desire
English novel
Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
Released: 15 Mai 2025
Deliciously vicious and darkly funny, Objects of Desire features an astonishing cast of 20th century glitterati. It is at once a colourful glimpse into the scandalous lives of the cultural elite, and a tense, gripping story of betrayal, backstabbing and literary fraud…read on >

Ben Markovits The Rest of Our Lives reviewBen Markovitz – The Rest of Our Lives
English Family novel
Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
Released: 15 Mai 2025
Shortlist Booker Prize 2025
When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair, the synopsis reads, ‘he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest child turned eighteen. Twelve years later, while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. He is also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he’s been put on leave at work after students complained about the politics of his law class – something he hasn’t yet told his wife…read on >

New English novels in 2026

The list of new novels in 2026 by authors from England is organized by publication date, with the newest books at the top. Links lead to detailed information about the book, ordering options, and often to reviews.

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don't Bleed reviewNeil Rollinson – The Dead Don’t Bleed
English novel, debut novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 8 January 2026
Set against elemental landscapes – the dying coalfields of Northumberland and the barren wastelands of Andalusia – The Dead Don’t Bleed is an unflinching exploration of fraternal rivalry, family trauma and the lasting effects of a violent patriarchy…read on >

Patrick Charnley This, My Second Life reviewPatrick Charnley – This, My Second Life
English novel, Cornwall novel
Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
Released: 6 January 2026
Twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno is living a simple life in Cornwall with his uncle following a life-changing brain injury. Slowly adjusting to the reality of his new life, he gets caught up in the murky world of local villain, Bill Sligo, who appears to have designs on Jago’s uncle’s farm and in particular a field. Jago determines to find out why Bill Sligo wants the field – and in so doing puts his own life in grave danger…read on > 

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers, English novel

Neil Rollinson – The Dead Don’t Bleed

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don’t Bleed review and information of the content of the novel by the British author. Jopnathan Cape will publish the Neil Rollinson debut novel, on january 8, 2026. 

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don’t Bleed review

  • “This dangerous delight is what happens when one of Britain’s best poets marries Lorca’s landscapes and 1970s gangland Newcastle in fiction – a thrilling, deep-song, high-proof novel that’s brilliantly imagined, gorgeously crafted and several cuts above the usual debut .” (Sarah Hall)
  • “Throw Sexy Beast and Get Carter in a blender, add some Lorcanian duende from blasted blood-drenched Spain and some of that soul-sadness from sodden, post-industrial far north of England, and you’ll get something like this gripping, compelling, elegiac and dismayed novel. Savage, sorrowful, superb.” (Niall Griffiths)
  • “Marrying the violence, duende and scouring light of Lorca’s Andalusia to the broken bottles and police sirens of 1970s Newcastle, this compelling, beautifully written story of male heartbreak slyly explores the way poetry helps you survive your past.” (Ruth Padel)

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don't Bleed

The Dead Don’t Bleed

  • Author: Neil Rollinson (England)
  • Book type: English novel
  • Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • To be released: 8 January 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the first novel by Neil Rollinson

Set against elemental landscapes – the dying coalfields of Northumberland and the barren wastelands of Andalusia – The Dead Don’t Bleed is an unflinching exploration of fraternal rivalry, family trauma and the lasting effects of a violent patriarchy.

Frank Bridge turned his back on his family’s gangland conflicts in Northumberland decades ago. His brother, Gordon, fled to Spain with the proceeds of a disastrously botched robbery and has not been heard from since. Frank’s life has taken a different path: he fell in love, studied Lorca and is now writing a book.

But when their gangster father, the head of their savage dynasty, dies, Frank feels he must track Gordon down and tell him that their father’s reign of terror is over. Can Frank’s appearance after twenty-five years prompt a truce, a reconciliation even, or will his arrival merely be the catalyst for more turmoil and brutality?

Taut, elegiac, violent and beautiful, Neil Rollinson’s debut novel is about how family can make or break us. Beneath the scorching, pitiless Andalusian sun, the two brothers are finally brought together for one last reckoning.

Neil Rollinson is the author of four poetry collections: A Spillage of Mercury(1996), Spanish Fly(2001), Demolition (2007) and Talking Dead (2015). He won the National Poetry Competition in 1997, received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2005, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Poetry Prize for Talking Dead. The Dead Don’t Bleed is his debut novel, and won the Deborah Rogers Award for previously unpublished prose writers in 2023.

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Patrick Charnley – This, My Second Life

Patrick Charnley This, My Second Life review and information of the content of the new book by the British author. Hutchinson Heinemann will publish the Patrick Charnley novel, on january 6, 2026. 

Patrick Charnley This, My Second Life review

  • “Utterly absorbing, beautifully written and insightful in unexpected ways. This, My Second Life is a moving must-read.” (Jennie Godfrey)
  • “Thrilling and tender, I enjoyed every word. Jago is a very original and memorable narrator, full of warmth and optimism and entirely lacking in guile.” (Julie Myerson)
  • “An unexpectedly peaceful and life affirming story woven into the fabric of a thriller.” (Esther Freud)

Patrick Charnley This, My Second Life

This, My Second Life

  • Author: Patrick Charnley (England)
  • Book type: English novel
  • Publisher: Hutchinson Heinemann
  • To be released: 6 January 2026
  • Length: 304 pages
  • Format: hardcover / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the debut novel by Patrick Charnley

Twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno is living a simple life in Cornwall with his uncle following a life-changing brain injury.

Slowly adjusting to the reality of his new life, he gets caught up in the murky world of local villain, Bill Sligo, who appears to have designs on Jago’s uncle’s farm and in particular a field.

Jago determines to find out why Bill Sligo wants the field – and in so doing puts his own life in grave danger.

Beautifully written, spare and elegiac, filled with shafts of light and darkness as well as the beauty and harshness of the Cornish landscape, Jago’s journey is one of hope, acceptance and of resilience as he comes to terms with this, his second life.

Patrick Charnley grew up in the English West Country where he fell in love with Cornwall, the setting for this novel. While convalescing from a cardiac arrest that very nearly ended his life and left him with a brain injury, he began to write. He now lives in north London with his wife and children. This, My Second Life is his first novel.

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