I really enjoyed looking back on 2023 at all the utterly fabulous new authors I had discovered, so thought I’d do it again for 2024! Not every book on this page was released in 2024 – although most are; instead there are books I have read in 2024 that just happened to be that author’s debut novel, regardless of when it was released.
Are we still on the same page?
Great. Let us commence!
– Caraval by Stephanie Gaber. Published by Hodderscape on 30th November 2017
– Pinch of Nom by Catherine Allinson and Kay Featherstone. Published by Bluebird on 21st March 2019
– The Night I Met Father Christmas by Ben Miller. Published by Simon & Schuster on 31st October 2019
– The Wild Way Home by Sophie Kirtley. Published by Bloomsbury on 1st July 2020
– Are You Okay, Elliot Hart? by Kate S Martin. Published by Creative James Media on 23rd March 2022
– The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart. Published by Penguin on 13th September 2022
– How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent. Published by HQ on 16th February 2023
– No Life For a Lady by Hannah Dolby. Published by Aria on 2nd March 2023
– Greenwild: The World Behind the Door by Pari Thomson. Published by Macmillan on 1st June 2023
– A Place For Lost Souls by Belinda Black. Published by Quercus on 22nd June 2023
– Good Girls Die Last by Natali Simmonds. Published by Headline on 22nd June 2023. [Please note this is Natali’s thriller debut]
– Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald. Published by Penguin on 20th July 2023
– The Witchstone Ghosts by Emily Randall-Jones. Published by Chicken House on 14th September 2023
– Blame by Charlotte Langley. Published by No Exit Press on 14th September 2023
– The Black Angels by Maria Smilios. Published by Virago on 5th October 2023
– The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou by Eleni Kyriacou. Published by Aries on 9th November 2023
– The Manic Mission by C.J Simone. Published on 20th December 2023
– The Excitements by C.J Wray. Published by Orion on 18th January 2024
– Keanu Reeves Is Not In Love With You by Becky Holmes. Published by Unbound on 25th January 2024
– The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad. Published by Harper on 13th February 2024
– The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey. Published by Hutchinson Heinemann on 15th February 2024
– Die Smiling by Julie Casson. Published by Haythorp Books on 15th February 2024
– The Mysterious Mrs Hood by Kim Donovan. Published by Seven Dials on 22nd February 2024
– The Antique Hunter’s Guide to Murder by C.L Miller. Published by Pan on 29th February 2024
– The Painter’s Daughters by Emily Howes. Published by Phoenix on 29th February 2024
– Remember, Remember by Elle Machray. Published by HarperNorth on 29th February 2024
– Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst. Published by Chatto & Windus on 29th February 2024
– Lunch With the Deadly Dozen by Peter Berry. Published by Bloodhound Books on 19th March 2024
– How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin. Published by Quercus on 26th March 2024
– Mrs Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford. Published by Michael Joseph on 28th March 2024
– Clara Reads Proust by Stephanie Carlier. Published by Gallic Books on 28th March 2024
– The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. Published by Chatto & Windus on 4th April 2024
– Three Dads Walking by Three Dads Walking. Published by Robinson on 4th April 2024
– The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher. Published by Bantan on 18th April 2024
– Wild Treasures by Hannah Stitfall. Published by Gaia Books on 25th April 2024
– The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr. Published by Orion on 9th May 2024
– The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. Published by Sceptre on 16th May 2024
– You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here by Dr Benji Waterhouse. Published by Jonathan Cape on 16th May 2024
– The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden. Published by Viking on 30th May 2024
– The Switch by Lucy Samson. Published by Century on 6th June 2024
– The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada. Published by Brazen on 6th June 2024
– The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks. Published by W&N on 20th June 2024
– A Curtain Twitcher’s Book of Murder by Gay Marris. Published by Bedford Square on 20th June 2024
– Garden of Her Heart by Zoe Richards. Published by UCLan on 20th June 2024
– Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell. Published by Orion on 4th July 2024
– A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke. Published by Jonathan Cape on 4th July 2024
– Alter Ego by Helen Heckety. Published by Renegade Books on 18th July 2024
– Costanza by Rachel Blackmore. Published by Renegade Books on 1st August 2024
– The Groundworld Heroes by Adrian So. Published by Monarch Educational Services on 6th August 2024
– The Instrumentalist by Harriet Constable. Published by Bloomsbury on 15th August 2024
– Country Comforts by Hari Beavis. Published by Carnival on 3rd September 2024
– Bibliotherapy by Molly Masters. Published by HarperCollins on 12th September 2024
– The Secret Life of LEGO Bricks by Daniel Konstanski. Published by Unbound on 19th September 2024
– Maisie vs Antarctica by Jack Jackman. Published by Nosy Crow on 26th September 2024
– The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley. Published by Breakthrough Books on 26th September 2024
– The Rhino Keeper by Jillian Forsberg. Published by History Through Fiction on 3rd October 2024
– The Kiss of the Nightingale by Adi Denner. Published by Renegade Books on 10th October 2024
– The Tiny Compendium of Ridiculousness by Hubert J Watergipridget. Published on 21st October 2024
– Fia and the Last Snow Deer by Eilish Fisher. Published by Puffin on 22nd October 2024
– The Christmas Eve Murders by Noelle Albright. Published by Quercus on 15th November 2024
– The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong. Published by Hodderscape on 7th November 2024
– City of Silk by Glennis Virgo. Published by Allison & Busby on 21st November 2024
– Bitter Passage by Colin Mills Published by Lake Union on 1st January 2025
– The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold . Published by Penguin on 9th January 2025
– Strange Pictures by Uketsu. Published by Pushkin Vertigo on 16th January 2025
– I Don’t Do Disability And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself by Adelle Purdham. Published by Dundurn Press on 16th January 2025
– The Lotus Shoes by Jane Yang. Published by Sphere on 28th January 2025
– The Lamb by Lucy Rose Published by W&N on 30th January 2025
– Bethnal Green by Amélie Skoda. Published by Manilla on 30th January 2025
– The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan. Published by HQ on 30th January 2025. [Please note this is Amy’s debut as Amy Jordan]
– BLOB by Maggie Su. Published by Sceptre on 6th February 2025
**Please note that all mistakes are my own**
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