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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 and storiebooks 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.

Abir Mukherjee The Burning Grounds reviewAbir Mukherjee – The Burning Grounds

historical novel and thriller about Calcutta
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Released: November 4, 2025
Length: 384 pages
Format: hardcover/ ebook
Prize: $ 28.95 / $ 18.99
Order book from: Amazon / Bol
Award-winning crime novelist Abir Mukherjee returns to his brilliant mystery series set in late-1920s Calcutta, as Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee must reunite to solve a high profile murder and disappearance. In The Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular philanthropist and patron of the arts. A man, who was, by all accounts, beloved by all. So what could possibly be the motive for murder? Though out of favour with the Imperial Police Force, Detective Sam Wyndham is assigned to the case, and finds himself thrust into the glamorous world of cinema when his investigation leads him to a film the victim was funding…read on >

Salman Rushdie The Eleventh HourSalman Rushdie – The Eleventh Hour

Stories
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: 4 November 2025
Do we accommodate ourselves to death, or rail against it? How can we bid farewell to the places that we have made home? How do we achieve fulfilment with our lives if we don’t know the end of our own stories? The Eleventh Hour ponders life and death, legacy and identity with the penetrating insight and boundless imagination that have made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time…read on >

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

English hovel
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.

Rupert Thomson Dark Is the Morning reviewRupert Thomson – Dark Is the Morning

English novel
Publisher: Other Press
Released: June 23, 2026
As a 9-year-old schoolgirl, Franca tells Gino that she will marry him one day, and against all the odds her prophecy comes true. Set in a mountain village in Abruzzo in the early 2000s, Dark Is the Morning is the story of two ordinary young people who fall in love and seem destined for a life of happiness. But there is something in Franca’s past that haunts Gino. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession—an obsession that will have heartbreaking consequences…read on >

Ben Tufnell Paradise reviewBen Tufnell – Paradise

Dystopian novel
Publisher: Influx Press
Released: March 5, 2025
Paradise is a crumbling cottage deep in a forest; Nash is free to leave the house but must not leave the woods. It is winter, and this wild and remote place is unknowable and terrifying. He attempts to map his surroundings to find a way out, but they resist him, the land seemingly shifting and changing. Moreover, he begins to suspect that his employers’ intentions may be much darker than anticipated…read on >

Neil Rollinson The Dead Don't Bleed reviewNeil Rollinson – The Dead Don’t Bleed

English novel, debut novel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Released: January 8, 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: January 6, 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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Rosemary Tonks – Businessmen as Lovers

Rosemary Tonks Businessmen as Lovers review and information of the content of the 1969 novel by the English writer. New Directions will publish the reissue of the Rosemary Tonks novel, on March 24, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Rosemary Tonks Businessmen as Lovers review

  • “Tonks throws out aphorisms, and scorn, like loose change.” (London Review of Books)
  • “Uncommonly good.” (The Guardian)

Rosemary Tonks Businessmen as Lovers

Businessmen as Lovers

  • Author: Rosemary Tonks (England)
  • Book type: English novel from 1969
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing
  • Released: March 24, 2026
  • Length: 160 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 16,95
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the 1969 novel by Rosemary Tonks

Friends and lovers frolic on a sun-soaked Italian vacation—but in classic Tonks style, everything boils over with operatic drama, misanthropy, and arch silliness.

Mimi and Caroline set off to a beautiful Italian island, where they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of expats and vacationers including their debonair host and his mistress, a proud venture capitalist, an Iranian tycoon, and a villainous, slightly tragic local dentist. There is also Mimi’s great love, Beetle, a quiet and unassuming English journalist. As everyone begins to relax and settle into the vacation, drinking and eating away the stress of everyday life, their impish plots culminate in an odd Mediterranean prank involving the dentist’s prize lemon tree.

Back in print after many decades, Businessmen as Lovers is an extraordinarily jubilant and delightful novel by the inimitable Rosemary Tonks: businessmen fall in love, too, but it is with each other.

Rosemary Tonks was born October 17, 1928 in Gillingham, Kent, Engeland. She published two poetry collections and six novels, and wrote for The Observer, The Times, The New York Review of Books, The New Statesman, and Encounter, and presented poetry programs for the BBC. Tonks died on April 15, 2014.

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Carmella Lowkis – A Slow and Secret Poison

Carmella Lowkis A Slow and Secret Poison review and information of the new gothic novel by the English writer. Doubleday will publish the novel by Carmella Lowkis, on January 22, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Carmella Lowkis A Slow and Secret Poison reviews

  • “Atmospheric and delicious, A Slow and Secret Poison slowly unfolds its mysteries, taking in a 1920s sapphic love story, the class intrigue of The Little Stranger, and a reminder that some parts of the natural world are also poisonous. Carmella Lowkis has done it again with this deeply satisfying and gothic stunner.” (Ally Wilkes, author)
  • “Carmella Lowkis has a true talent for the creeping gothic. Her characters are alluring and settings entrancing. A Slow and Secret Poison conjures the uncertainty and dark potential of the interbellum in Great Britain in a thoroughly engrossing way. For fans of Sarah Waters, A Slow and Secret Poison is a must.” (Emma Hinds, author)
  • “A Slow and Secret Poison is one of the best gothic novels the genre has to offer. Twisty, erotic, and atmospheric, this one is sure to linger long after you have finished reading.” (Johanna van Veen, author)

Carmella Lowkis A Slow and Secret Poison

A Slow and Secret Poison

  • Author: Carmella Lowkis (United Kingdom)
  • Book type: gothic novel
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • To be released: January 13, 2026
  • Length: 352 pages
  • Format: hardback / ebook / audiobook
  • Prize: £ 16.99 / £ 8.99 / £ 14.00
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blub of the new gothic novel by Carmella Lowkis

‘We are cursed, here at Harfold, whether you believe in it or not.’

1922, Wiltshire. When Vee Morgan accepts the job of gardener at a crumbling stately home, she’s hoping for a fresh start where nobody knows her troubled history.

But Harfold Manor is shadowed by grief and the memories of long-faded glory, its rooms haunted by the only surviving member of the family, Lady Arabella Lascy. Vee is fascinated by her enigmatic new employer, a woman obsessed with the curse she believes has killed her family one by one. A curse that is coming for her next.

As Vee immerses herself in the world of Harfold, she finds herself increasingly entranced by Arabella and the secrets that poison her.

But Vee has her own things to hide: secrets that caused her to flee Cardiff, secrets that estranged her from her own family, secrets that might finally catch up to her.

Carmella Lowkis grew up in Wiltshire and has a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick. After graduating, she worked in libraries, before moving into book marketing. Her debut novel Spitting Gold was published in 2024. Carmella lives in North London with her fiancée.

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Rupert Thomson – Dark Is the Morning

Rupert Thomson Dark Is the Morning review and information of the content of the novel by the British author. Other Press will publish the new Rupert Thomson novel, on June 23, 2026. 

Rupert Thomson Dark Is the Morning reviews

  • “A masterfully ambiguous depiction of how the sincere convert is often at risk of becoming a dangerous zealot…Dartmouth Park provides a powerfully evocative catalyst for thought and feeling.” (New York Times Book Review praise for Dartmouth Park)

Rupert Thomson Dark Is the Morning

Dark Is the Morning

  • Author: Rupert Thomson (England)
  • Book type: English novel
  • Publisher: Other Press
  • To be released: 23 June 2026
  • Length: 272 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: $ 17.99 / $ 11.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the new novel by Rupert Thomson

A man’s inner demons threaten his chance at love with a childhood friend in this poignant, propulsive novel set against the beauty of modern Italy.

Dark is the morning that passes
without the light of your eyes
—Cesare Pavese

As a 9-year-old schoolgirl, Franca tells Gino that she will marry him one day, and against all the odds her prophecy comes true. Set in a mountain village in Abruzzo in the early 2000s, Dark Is the Morning is the story of two ordinary young people who fall in love and seem destined for a life of happiness. But there is something in Franca’s past that haunts Gino. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession—an obsession that will have heartbreaking consequences.

Dark Is the Morning has a timeless, eternal quality, like a fable or a fairy-tale. In a world where women’s strength often holds communities together, it speaks to male fragility and to the insidious and corrosive power of jealousy. Shifting between tenderness and paranoia, between beauty and tragedy, this is an extraordinary novel from one of the UK’s most unpredictable and celebrated writers.

Rupert Thomson was born 5 November 1955 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England. He is the author of more than a dozen acclaimed novels, including Katherine Carlyle, Secrecy, The Insult, which was short-listed for the Guardian Fiction Prize and selected by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time; The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by Ana Kokkinos; and Death of a Murderer, which was short-listed for the Costa Novel of the Year Award. His memoir, This Party’s Got to Stop, was named Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year and his novels Barcelona Dreaming and Dartmouth Park. He lives in London.

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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. Jonathan 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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Ben Tufnell – Paradise

Ben Tufnell Paradise review en information about the new dystopian novel and eco-thriller by the English author. Influx Press will publish the new Ben Tufnell novel, on March 5, 2026. Here you can read information about the content of the book, the author and the publication.

Ben Tufnell Paradise reviews

  • “Paradise is a compelling fusion of literary noir with eco-fable – page turning and profound, I loved this book, Tufnell is a tour de force of imaginative power.” (James Miller, author of Lost Boys)

Ben Tufnell Paradise

Paradise

  • Author: Ben Tufnell (England)
  • Book type: dystopian novel, eco-thriller
  • Publisher: Infux Press
  • To be released: March 5, 2026
  • Length: 332 pages
  • Format: paperback / ebook
  • Prize: £ 11.99
  • Order book from: Amazon

Blub of the new Ben Tufnell novel

A world on the brink of collapse. Dense woods, mountains, a standing stone, a barrow, and a very old house. But if you’ve only ever known concrete and glass, how do you live in a place like this

Recruited by a mysterious organisation, Nash thinks things are finally going his way. But when a job goes badly wrong, he is taken to an isolated location to await a decision on his fate

Paradise is a crumbling cottage deep in a forest; Nash is free to leave the house but must not leave the woods. It is winter, and this wild and remote place is unknowable and terrifying. He attempts to map his surroundings to find a way out, but they resist him, the land seemingly shifting and changing. Moreover, he begins to suspect that his employers’ intentions may be much darker than anticipated.

Forming an unlikely friendship, Nash finally begins to understand the consoling power of the place that has become his home. Brigid is sure of herself and at home in the natural world, while he is urban, lost. But she longs for his world, and he longs for hers.

Now the wheel of the year is turning. As winter gives way to spring Nash’s fate has been decided, and they are coming to deliver their verdict.

Paradise is the brilliant new novel from Ben Tufnell, an uncategorizable Kafkaesque eco-thriller combining elements of noir, folk horror and nature writing, addressing the most urgent of contemporary issues.

Ben Tufnell is a writer and curator based in London. His short stories have been published by Conjunctions, Litro, Lunate, Nightjar Press, Storgy and Structo, amongst others, and included in Best British Short Stories 2024 (Salt Publishing). He has been longlisted or highly commended for the BBC National Short Story Award, the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize, The White Review Short Story Prize and the Disquiet Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the Society of Authors’ ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award for short fiction. His debut novel, The North Shore, was published by Fleet (Little, Brown) in 2023.

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Abir Mukherjee – The Burning Grounds

Abir Mukherjee The Burning Grounds review and information of the content of the novel and thriller by the British-Indian author. Pegasus Books will publish the second Abir Mukherjee novel about Calcutta in the 1920s, on November 4, 2025. Here you can read information about the content of the novel, the author and the publication.

Abir Mukherjee The Burning Grounds review

  • “”A brilliantly conceived murder mystery set amidst political and social turmoil. Beautifully crafted.” (C.J. Samsom)
  • “The flamboyant evocation of 1920s Calcutta make this a mesmerising read.” (Guardian)
  • “In this follow-up to The Shadows of Men, Mukherjee subtly recaps key events from previous novels so that even new readers can step in and be up to speed. The gritty, noirish tone of Sam’s POV chapters adds to the book’s intensity and is supported by well-crafted descriptions of life in 1920s Calcutta. Anyone who enjoys period mysteries should give this series a try.” (Library Journal)
  • “With writing as striking as its plot twists, Abir Mukherjee’s sixth Wyndham & Banerjee historical mystery is an intoxicating brew. With a cracking double mystery plot, The Burning Grounds demonstrates why CWA Dagger Award-winner and twice Edgar-nominated author Abir Mukherjee is an international bestseller and critical favorite.” (BookPage)
  • “An utterly spellbinding triumph from a master storyteller.” (Joseph O’Connor)

Abir Mukherjee The Burning Grounds

The Burning Grounds

  • Author: Abir Mukherjee (United Kingdom)
  • Book type: historical novel and thriller about Calcutta
  • Publisher: Pegasus Books
  • Released: November 4, 2025
  • Length: 384 pages
  • Format: hardcover/ ebook
  • Prize: $ 28.95 / $ 18.99
  • Order book from: Amazon / Bol

Blurb of the novel by Abir Mukherjee

Award-winning crime novelist Abir Mukherjee returns to his brilliant mystery series set in late-1920s Calcutta, as Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Banerjee must reunite to solve a high profile murder and disappearance.

In The Burning Ghats of Calcutta, where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear.

The body is that of a popular philanthropist and patron of the arts. A man, who was, by all accounts, beloved by all. So what could possibly be the motive for murder? Though out of favour with the Imperial Police Force, Detective Sam Wyndham is assigned to the case, and finds himself thrust into the glamorous world of cinema when his investigation leads him to a film the victim was funding.

Meanwhile Sam’s former colleague, Surendranath Banerjee, recently returned from Europe after three years running from the fallout of his last case, is searching for a vanished photographer, one of the first women in the profession. When he discovers the missing woman is somehow linked to Sam’s murder investigation, the two men are forced to work together once again—but will Wyndham and Banerjee be able to put their differences aside to solve the case?

Abir Mukherjee grew up in Scotland. He has spent the last twenty years working in finance.A Rising Man, his debut novel, won the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition and is the first in a new series starring Captain Sam Wyndham and ‘Surrender-Not’ Banerjee. Abir is married with two small children and lives in London.

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