2025 Debuts

Whilst there are many favourite authors I go back to again and again, I do love discovering fabulous new authors, and I thought you might like to check them out too. Not every book on this page was released in 2025, but instead they are books I have read in 2025 that just happened to be that author’s debut. So, take a look…

– Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nicholls. Published by Scholastic on 7th January 2008
– Thunderpaws & the Tower of London by Ben Housden. Published by Highgate on 1st December 2021
– Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef Published by Corsair on 13th January 2022
– The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore. Published by One More Chapter on 31st August 2023
– Christmas is Coming by Auriol Bishop Published by Headline on 14th September 2023
– Cloistered by Catherine Coldstream. Published by Chatto & Windus on 7th March 2024

– Amma by Saraid de Silva. Published by Weatherglass on 4th April 2024
– Starminster by Megan Hopkins. Published by HarperCollins Children’s Books on 25th April 2024
–Tidemagic by Clare Harlow. Published by Puffin on 2nd May 2024
– After the Storm by G.D Wright. Published by Avon on 1st August 2024
–A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike. Published by Fig Tree on 1st August 2024
– The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August. Published by Del Rey on 5th September 2024

– Floating Solo by Shelley Wilson. Published on 5th November 2024
– In Writing by Hattie Crisell. Published by Granta on 7th November 2024
– The Boy Who Lived by David Holmes. Published by Hodder & Stoughton on 14th November 2024
– Good Girl by Aria Aber. Published by Bloomsbury on 14th January 2025
– Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell. Published by Scribner on 30th January 2025
– The Persians by Sanam Mahloudji. Published by Fourth Estate on 30th January 2025

– Nephthys by Rachel Louise Driscoll. Published by Harvill on 6th February 2025
– Life Hacks For a Little Alien by Alice Franklin. Published by Riverrun on 13th February 2025
– Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito. Published by Fourth Estate on 13th February 2025
– The Wardrobe Department by Elaine Garvey. Published by Canongate on 13th February 2025
– Leonard and Hungry Paul by Ronan Hession. Published by Bluemoose on 14th February 2025
– The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones. Published by Sphere on 20th February 2025

– Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis. Published by W&N on 25th February 2025
– Always On My Mind by Carys Green. Published by Harvill on 27th February 2025
– Grumpfort by Jamie Hammond. Published by Usborne on 27th February 2025
– Greedy Guts by Gina Tonic. Published by Coronet on 6th March 2025
– The Fisherman’s Gift by Julia Kelly. Published by Harvill on 6th March 2025
– Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa. Published by Penguin on 6th March 2025

– The Lamplighter’s Bookshop by Sophie Austin. Published by HarperCollins on 13th March 2025
– Who Wants to Live Forever by Hanna Thomas Uose. Published by Brazen on 27th March 2025
– Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall. Published by Michael Joseph on 27th March 2025
–The Prince Without Sorrow by Maithree Wijeskara. Published by HarperVoyager on 27th March 2025
– Fair Play by Louise Hegarty. Published by Picador on 3rd April 2025
– The Eights by Joanna Miller. Published by Fig Tree on 3rd April 2025

– The Secret Collector by Abigail Johnson. Published by Pan on 10th April 2025
– The Margaret Code by Richard Hooton. Published by Sphere on 10th April 2025
– Death & Other Occupational Hazards by Veronika Dapunt. Published by Bantam on 10th April 2025
– Be Patient by Tilly Rose. Published by Monoray on 17th April 2025
– The Midnight Carousel by Fiza Saeed McLynn. Published by Michael Joseph on 24th April 2025
– The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. Published by Michael Joseph on 29th April 2025

–My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner. Published by Gallery on 29th April 2025
– Land of the Last Wildcat by Lui Sit. Published by Macmillan Children’s Books on 1st May 2025
– PIG by Matilde Pratesi. Published by Corsair on 1st May 2025
– The Show Woman by Emma Cowing. Published by Hodder & Stoughton on 1st May 2025
– The Names by Florence Knapp. Published by Phoenix on 6th May 2025
– Cat Fight by Kit Conway. Published by Bantam on 15th May 2025

– Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle. Published by Bloomsbury on 22nd May 2025
– The World’s Worst Alien by Alice Primmer. Published by Walker on 5th June 2025
– Julie Tudor is Not a Psychopath by Jennifer Holdich. Published by Hodder & Stoughton on 5th June 2025
– Misinterpretation by Ledia Xhoga. Published by Daunt on 5th June 2025
– Awakened by Laura Elliott. Published by Angry Robot on 10th June 2025
– A Murder For Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant. Published by Baskerville on 12th June 2025

– Take Care by Lindsey Burrow. Published by Century on 12th June 2025
– You Are More Than Your Body by Jennifer Caspari. Published by North Atlantic on 17th June 2025
– Dave and Me by Lili Myers. Published by Ebury Spotlight on 19th June 2025
– Endling by Maria Reva. Published by Virago on 3rd July 2025
– Fulvia by Kaarina Parker. Published by Manilla on 15th July 2025
– Maggie, Or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar by Katie Yee. Published by Brazen on 27th July 2025

– Nearly Departed by Lucas Oakeley. Published by Bedford Square on 14th August 2025
– The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing by Juhee Mun. Published by Canongate on 11th September 2025
– The Writer’s Room by Katie da Cunha Lewin. Published by Elliott & Thompson on 11th September 2025
– The Girl Who Raced the World by Nat Harrison. Published by Piccadilly Press on 25th September 2025
– Soyangri Book Kitchen by Kim Jee Hye. Published by Harvill on 2nd October 2025
– The Midnight Book Club by Emily W Anderson. Published on 3rd November 2025

– The Dinner Party by Viola van de Sandt. Published by Tinder Press on 4th November 2025
– Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy. Published by Abacus on 6th November 2025
– Introducing Mrs Collins by Rachel Parris. Published by Hodder & Stoughton on 6th November 2025
– Best Offer Wins by Marisa Kashino. Published by Doubleday on 15th January 2026
– Godstorm by Solitaire Townsend. Published by Bedford Square on 15th January 2026
– Room 706 by Ellie Levenson. Published by Headline on 15th January 2026

– Best Woman by Rose Dommu. Published by Bantam on 22nd January 2026
– Amy Elman Doesn’t Feel Sexy by Mary Newnham. Published by Hodder on 22nd January 2026
– Esther is Now Following You by Tanya Sweeney. Published by Bantam on 29th January 2026
– Very Slowly All at Once by Lauren Schott. Published by HQ on 29th January 2026
– Belgrave Road by Manish Chauhan. Published by Faber on 29th January 2026
– In Her Defence by Philippa Malicka. Published by Hodder on 3rd February 2026

– A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage by M.K Oliver. Published by Hemlock on 12th February 2026
– A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford. Published by Bantam on 12th February 2026
– Laws of Love and Logic by Debra Curtis. Published by Bloomsbury on 17th February 2026
– The Silent Ones by Anna McPartlin. Published by Canelo Crime on 19th February 2026
– The Exes by Leodora Darlington. Published by Michael Joseph on 26th February 2026
– Books and Bewitchment by Isla Jewell. Published by Titan Books on 3rd February 2026

– Motherfaker by Anna Brooke-Mitchell. Published by Macmillan on 26th February 2026
– The Renovation by Kenan Orhan. Published by Hamish Hamilton 26th March 2026
– Under the Hammer by Samantha Dooey-Miles. Published by Verve Books on 19th March 2026