The 13 Books I Cannot Wait To Read This Year, From Buzzy Debuts to New Stories From Firm Favourites

Jennette McCurdy follows up I'm Glad My Mom Died with her debut novel, the highly-anticipated Half His Age. When a creative writing student starts a passionate affair with her married (and older) teacher, what unfolds is a 'funny and sad' exploration of sex, power and desire.

After the success of her debut Green Dot, Madeleine Gray returns with Chosen Family which follows high school besties Nell and Eve, who spend almost two decades toeing the line between love and friendship.

Manish Chauhan's debut Belgrave Road tells the story of Mira and Tahliil, two strangers in Leicester who gradually fall in love - drawn together by proximity, but living lives that are worlds apart.

From Asako Yuzuki, author of Butter, comes Hooked. Eriko is successful, ambitious and lonely. Shōko is a blogger and unconventional housewife. When Eriko decides to befriend Shōko, the lines between friendship and obsession begin to blur.

It's the debut that's been called outrageous, frenetic and playful - 200 Monas follows Arvy, a college student who finds hundreds of rare orgasm-inducing pills in the wake of her mum's death - and must find a way to get rid of them all within 48 hours.

This collection of short stories from Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and Long Island, focuses on love, longing and loss while living away from home, with the protagonists pondering the pull of their pasts and fragility of their futures.

Tayari Jones' Kin follows Vernice and Annie, inseparable childhood friends who eventually drift apart. But, despite forging different paths, fate draws the women together once again in this exploration of motherhood, sisterhood, class and race.

In this colourful retelling of the Trojan War, Life of Pi author Yann Martel explores the 'universal song of homesickness and regret, ambition, love and grief', and the threads that tie together the past and present.

Dubbed The Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid’s Tale, Caro Claire Burke's debut follows a modern-day 'trad wife' who finds herself transported back to 1805 - facing the stark reality of her new (old) life.

After the success of her punchy debut The Eyes Are The Best Part, Monika Kim is back with Molka. One colleague indulges in voyeurism, the other in revenge - and it culminates in this feisty, feminist horror.