Top Ten Reads for March
From a former winner of the Foyles Book of the Year's new novel, to the thrilling true story of Sir Roger Casement. A sprawling, definitive biography of James Baldwin to a coming-of-age debut set in a girls' boarding school where the supernatural is rife. Presenting your Top Ten Reads for March.
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story
12/03/2026
Published late last year in the US to great acclaim, Boggs' extensively researched, lovingly crafted biography is a fascinating insight into one of the 20th Century's most enduring, exciting and adored writers. Boggs explores both the public and private Baldwin, building a gloriously three-dimensional portrait.
Spoiled Milk
Spoiled Milk
12/03/2026
The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school turns out to be the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events in this thrilling debut of teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age.
The Library of Traumatic Memory
The Library of Traumatic Memory
12/03/2026
From the visionary director of The Company of Wolves and Interview with the Vampire, a high-concept, literary piece of science fiction where memory is currency of the future and the past refuses to stay buried. Switching between 2084 and the 18th century, The Library of Traumatic Memory is an unsettling, atmospheric, endlessly ambitious tour de force.
Look What You Made Me Do
Look What You Made Me Do
12/03/2026
A new dark comedy from one of our finest contemporary novelists, Look What You Made Me Do is a thrilling page-turner about entitlement, betrayal and revenge. Lanchester skewers the middle-class North London idyll with a deft brutality and rips apart the lives of his characters with surgical precision.
Hooked
Hooked
12/03/2026
From the author and translator of the international bestselling phenomenon Butter, an introspective, insightful novel about obsession, friendship, relationships and the hardships of being a woman in your thirties in Japan. An uncomfortable, unsettling and unforgettable read, Hooked further cements Yuzuki as an important voice in Japanese literature.
Cosmic Music
Cosmic Music
19/03/2026
The first full-length biography of Alice Coltrane, the jazz musician and spiritual leader who laid the groundwork for new age, ambient and electronic music. It's rare for a music biography to capture the essence of the artist it portrays, but Cosmic Music is a work of art in and of itself – one that breathes new life into the life’s work of a musician only now receiving the credit she deserves.
Minor Black Figures
Minor Black Figures
19/03/2026
From the author of Booker-Prize shortlisted, Foyles Book of the Year-winning Real Life comes a captivating new novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire, and creativity. Taylor's writing is always deeply affecting and profound, but Minor Black Figures adds even more depth to his writing, in what is a poignant state-of-the-nation novel/masterpiece.
A Rebel and a Traitor
A Rebel and a Traitor
26/03/2026
Rory Carroll, the author of the brilliant Killing Thatcher, returns with the gripping story of Sir Roger Casement and his transmogrification from a British diplomat and hero to a traitor for his leadership role in Irish nationalism. A painstakingly researched, endlessly fascinating book, A Rebel and a Traitor is a wonderful character study, as well as an invaluable infusion to Irish historiography.
The Beginning Comes After the End
The Beginning Comes After the End
26/03/2026
Always one of the most exciting, original voices writing today, in The Beginning Comes After the End—a sequel to Hope in the Dark—Solnit offers a thrilling survey of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century.
When the Forest Breathes
When the Forest Breathes
31/03/2026
With her bestselling book Finding the Mother Tree, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard introduced the world to the profound intelligence and interconnectedness of trees. Now, with When the Forest Breathes, she uncovers the ways that nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal can ensure the longevity of threatened ecosystems.
