Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath, Edinburgh, Ely, and St Andrews

FICTION

The heart and soul of any bookshop, Fiction is a world of pure imagination. Here Austen lies alongside Atwood, Morrison shares a shelf with Murakami. No matter who you are there is something here that will speak to you, expand your world, and enrich your understanding of humanity. Below you will find the most exciting new books in hardback and paperback - and a handful of our booksellers' all time favourite novels.

A Bookseller Recommends...

Lost Lambs

Madeline Cash

For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens.

Casting a shadow across their lives is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.

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The Infamous Gilberts

Angela Tomaski

5th March 2026

'We shall be forgotten.' he said. 'We shall be lost. They will scrub us away like a set of dirty fingerprints on a plastic kettle.'

A frustrated romantic, a stubborn traditionalist, a dreamer, a diva and an explorer: The Infamous Gilberts will be cast adrift on the irresistible tides of the twentieth century, buoyed by love, buffeted by loss, and tangled together in an unputdownable story where the lines between eccentricity and madness, cruelty and love become hilariously, heartbreakingly blurred.

New Hardback Fiction

Vigil

George Saunders

Glyph

Ali Smith

Signed first edition

Departure(s)

Julian Barnes

Signed first edition

Nonesuch

Francis Spufford

Signed first edition

Lost Lambs

Madeline Cash

The Elsewhere Express

Samantha Sotto Yambao

This is Where the Serpent Lives

Daniyal Mueenuddin

The Barbecue at No.9

Jennie Godfrey

Sharpe’s Storm

Bernard Cornwell

Signed first edition

Universality

Natasha Brown

Signed first edition

The Silver Book

Olivia Laing

Signed first edition

A Long Winter

Colm Tóibín

The House of Wolf

Tony Robinson

Signed first edition

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Kiran Desai

Signed first edition

We Love You, Bunny

Mona Awad

Signed by the author

The Night Hag

Hester Musson

Benbecula

Graeme Macrae Burnet

Cleopatra

Saara El-Arifi

Flesh

David Szalay

The Artist

Lucy Steeds

Picture Imperfect

Jacqueline Wilson

Flashlight

Susan Choi

Signed by the author Signed first edition

The Long Shoe

Bob Mortimer

Theft

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Signed first edition

The Wise Witch of Orkney

Anna Caig

Jesus Christ Kinski

Benjamin Myers

Signed first edition

Men in Love

Irvine Welsh

Cursed Daughters

Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three

Philip Pullman

Seascraper

Benjamin Wood

Signed by the author

The Cromarty Library Circle

Shona MacLean

Signed first edition

This, My Second Life

Patrick Charnley

The South

Tash Aw

Signed first edition

A Fire in Their Hearts

Philip Paris

Signed first edition

Muckle Flugga

Michael Pedersen

This Book Made Me Think of You

Libby Page

The Witching Hour

Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman, Stacey Halls and Michelle Paver

Chosen Family

Madeleine Gray

Signed first edition

The Decadence

Leon Craig

The Private Side of Friendship

Alexander McCall Smith

Will There Ever Be Another You

Patricia Lockwood

Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Heap Earth Upon It

Chloe Michelle Howarth

The Lost Language of Oysters

Alexander McCall Smith

Lean Cat, Savage Cat

Lauren J. Joseph

Audition

Katie Kitamura

Signed first edition

The Elements

John Boyne

Signed bookplate

Circle of Days

Ken Follett

Poor Creatures

Mairi Kidd

Signed first edition

Ripeness

Sarah Moss

Signed first edition

One of Us

Elizabeth Day

Signed first edition

Before Your Memory Fades

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

A Better Life

Lionel Shriver

Boleyn Traitor

Philippa Gregory

Signed first edition

The City Changes Its Face

Eimear McBride

Crux

Gabriel Tallent

HOT WAX

M. L. Rio

Signed first edition

The Land of Sweet Forever

Harper Lee

Ocean

Polly Clark

Bertie's Theory of Ice Cream

Alexander McCall Smith

Rainforest

Michelle Paver

Signed first edition

The Listeners

Maggie Stiefvater

Signed first edition

Parallel Lines

Edward St Aubyn

Stowaways

André Aciman

We Are Green and Trembling

Gabriela Cabezón Cámara

Wreck

Catherine Newman

Boudicca's Daughter

Elodie Harper

Signed first edition

The Passengers on the Hankyu Line

Hiro Arikawa

Signed bookplate

TonyInterruptor

Nicola Barker

The Wax Child

Olga Ravn

The Elopement

Gill Hornby

Signed first edition

Endling

Maria Reva

Esther is Now Following You

Tanya Sweeney

May We Feed the King

Rebecca Perry

The Last Witch

C.J. Cooke

My Sister and Other Lovers

Esther Freud

Signed first edition

Boy Parts

Eliza Clark

The Four Spent the Day Together

Chris Kraus

Signed first edition

Gunk

Saba Sams

Lion Hearts

Dan Jones

Signed first edition

Heart the Lover

Lily King

The Menu of Happiness

Hisashi Kashiwai

The Names

Florence Knapp

The Persian

David McCloskey

Seven

Joanna Kavenna

Tom's Crossing

Mark Z. Danielewski

Twist

Colum McCann

Borderline Fiction

Derek Owusu

Catherine: A Retelling of Wuthering Heights

Essie Fox

End Game

Jeffrey Archer

In the Time of Five Pumpkins

Alexander McCall Smith

Signed first edition

The Shapeshifter's Daughter

Sally Magnusson

The Emperor of Gladness

Ocean Vuong

These Wicked Devices

Matthew Plampin

No Friend to This House

Natalie Haynes

Signed first edition

The Predicament

William Boyd

Signed first edition

Cameo

Rob Doyle

What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

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A Bookseller Recommends...

The Elopement

Gill Hornby

"This third in an Hornby's Miss Austen series which have won over all readers - from the most protective Austenites to those who simply want an expertly written, deeply enjoyable book to fall into. It’s no surprise - these are sparkling, brilliant novels that capture the wit and warmth of Austen as well as the darkness of human nature.

Gill has imbued Austen's Britain with a spark of modern consciousness that sets it ablaze, illuminating life then - and, much as Jane Austen does, shining a light on some aspects of human nature that remain very true to who we are now."

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Perspectives

Laurent Binet

Florence, 1557. As dawn breaks, a painter is discovered lying on the floor of a church, stabbed through the heart.

Bursting with characters and colour, Perspectives is a mystery like no other that shows us Renaissance Florence as we’ve never seen it before – a dazzling, hugely entertaining novel of court machinations, murder and art.

New Paperback Fiction

Fundamentally

Nussaibah Younis

The Elopement

Gill Hornby

My Friends

Fredrik Backman

Flashlight

Susan Choi

The Land in Winter

Andrew Miller

Heated Rivalry

Rachel Reid

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner

Three Days in June

Anne Tyler

Show Don't Tell

Curtis Sittenfeld

The Long Game

Rachel Reid

Tyrant

Conn Iggulden

A Family Matter

Claire Lynch

Gliff

Ali Smith

James

Percival Everett

Gabriel's Moon

William Boyd

Game Changer

Rachel Reid

Two Can Play

Ali Hazelwood

What Does it Feel Like?

Sophie Kinsella

Slags

Emma Jane Unsworth

they

Helle Helle

The Ferryman and His Wife

Frode Grytten

Mere

Danielle Giles

People We Meet On Vacation

Emily Henry

Wild Dark Shore

Charlotte McConaghy

The Duke

Matteo Melchiorre

The South

Tash Aw

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

The Ghosts Of Rome

Joseph O'Connor

Good Spirits

B.K. Borison

Nesting

Roisin O'Donnell

The Safekeep

Yael van der Wouden

Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito

Water Moon

Samantha Sotto Yambao

The Wedding People

Alison Espach

Good Girl

Aria Aber

So Late in the Day

Claire Keegan

Looking for You

Alexander McCall Smith

The Rest of Our Lives

Benjamin Markovits

Theory & Practice

Michelle de Kretser

These Mortal Bodies

Elspeth Wilson

Until August

Gabriel García Márquez

Eurotrash

Christian Kracht

The Mourning Necklace

Kate Foster

Twist

Colum McCann

When the Cranes Fly South

Lisa Ridzén

Consider Yourself Kissed

Jessica Stanley

Every One Still Here

Liadan Ní Chuinn

The Glassmaker

Tracy Chevalier

The Homemade God

Rachel Joyce

Perfection

Vincenzo Latronico

Perspectives

Laurent Binet

Bloody Awful in Different Ways

Andrev Walden

Clear

Carys Davies

The Deserters

Mathias Enard

Helen of Nowhere

Makenna Goodman

The Lamb

Lucy Rose

On Earth As It Is Beneath

Ana Paula Maia

The Party

Tessa Hadley

Role Model

Rachel Reid

Swept Away

Beth O'Leary

There are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

Walk the Blue Fields

Claire Keegan

Bloody Awful in Different Ways

Andrev Walden

Butter

Asako Yuzuki

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

Floodlines

Saleem Haddad

Killing Time

Alan Bennett

Ordinary Saints

Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin

The Paris Express

Emma Donoghue

The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop

Takuya Asakura

The Best of Everything

Kit de Waal

Black Woods, Blue Sky

Eowyn Ivey

The Ha-Ha (Faber Editions)

Jennifer Dawson

Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize

Banu Mushtaq

Mina's Matchbox

Yoko Ogawa

No & Other Love Stories

Kirsty Logan

The Proof of My Innocence

Jonathan Coe

The Tarot Reader of Versailles

Anya Bergman

Disappoint Me

Nicola Dinan

The Employees

Olga Ravn

Holy Boy

Lee Heejoo

Imagine Breaking Everything

May You Have Delicious Meals

Junko Takase

Apparitions

Margo Glantz

The Blanket Cats

Kiyoshi Shigematsu

The Boyhood of Cain

Michael Amherst

Death and the Gardener

Georgi Gospodinov

Death at the Sign of the Rook

Kate Atkinson

The Full Moon Coffee Shop

Mai Mochizuki

I'll Look for You, Everywhere

Cameron Capello

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

Long Island

Colm Tóibín

My Women

Yuliia Iliukha

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

Palaver

Bryan Washington

Precipice

Robert Harris

Secrets of the Starlit Sea

Santa Montefiore

Small Boat

Vincent Delecroix

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Glyph

Ali Smith

Ghosts don't exist.

They don't. End of.

Story, however.

It is haunting.

Everything tells it.

It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.

Is it imaginary? Is it real?

This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.