r's sweeping family saga explores identity, race, queerness, love, and the complicated bonds that shape families across time. 

Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour

'Meet Me in the Garden' by Nina LaCour

About: Beginning in 1940s New Orleans, Meet Me in the Garden follows Odette Honoré, a young Creole woman who dreams of becoming an artist while secretly falling in love with another woman. Alongside her cousin Delphine, who is hiding a forbidden interracial romance, Odette imagines a freer future in a secluded garden that becomes their sanctuary. Spanning generations and moving from New Orleans to Los Angeles, Nina LaCour's sweeping family saga explores identity, race, queerness, love, and the complicated bonds that shape families across time.&nbsp;Release date: 4 August, 2026.

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About: After surviving years of war as a military working dog, Etna embarks on a remarkable journey home through a devastated landscape. Traveling across ruined towns and uncertain terrain, he encounters both animals and humans trying to rebuild their lives after unimaginable loss. Told through the eyes of its unforgettable canine protagonist, Etna is a deeply moving novel about memory, hope, resilience, and the enduring search for belonging.Release date: 4 August, 2026.

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'Etna' by Paul Yoon

About: Ten years have passed since the events of Big Little Lies, and the children of Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie are now teenagers navigating the messy realities of high school. But when the principal receives a severed human finger in the mail and a mysterious stranger begins lurking around the school, old secrets resurface and new ones threaten to unravel the tight-knit community. Filled with Moriarty's trademark wit, emotional insight, and page-turning suspense, Big Little Truths explores motherhood, family, friendship, shame, and the lies we tell ourselves and the people we love.&nbsp;Release date: 25 August, 2026.

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'Big Little Truths' by Liane Moriarty

About: Eighteen years after fleeing his hometown with little more than a guitar and a dream, country music star Tyler Sinclair returns to Stone Mountain for a benefit concert honoring his childhood friend, Doc. But the homecoming stirs painful memories of abuse, betrayal, and friendships left behind. When violence erupts during the concert and Tyler narrowly escapes a deadly attack, long-buried secrets begin to surface, revealing the fractures beneath the town's close-knit façade. Blending literary fiction with mystery and suspense, Richard Russo delivers a gripping story about loyalty, forgiveness, and the inescapable pull of the past.&nbsp;Release date: 11 August, 2026.

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'Under the Falls' by Richard Russo

Why ‘Absolute Jafar’ by Sarnath Banerjee is our July pick

About: Brighu is getting older. Badminton has replaced judo, irritation has replaced anger, metabolism has slowed down. Yet, some things remain: the inability to take a cab, anxieties about the digital universe and panic for the future. So Brighu walks. Unceasingly, through known and unknown terrains, with the pointlessness of a detective without a case.An Indo-Pak romance withstands years of toxic nationalism between two hostile countries, only to unravel in a third, in Europe. Jafar, born of that romance, inherits a history he has no control over. As he grows up in Berlin, his father, Brighu, desperate to hold on to the fantasies of a fading home, tells him bedtime stories: of sultans and jinns, of street food and eccentric cousins, of Delhi, Calcutta and Karachi.

'Meet Me in the Garden' by Nina LaCour

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