Exciting Debut Books 2024

When The Moon Hatched

The first in a major new series

The Work

The Ministry of Time

The Instant Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller

A Town Called Treachery

A gripping, big hearted new small town crime thriller from an exciting debut author, for fans of Benjamin Stevenson, Holly Throsby and Mark Brandi

Jade and Emerald

Winner of the 2023 Penguin Literary Prize

Pheasants Nest

Bonded By Thorns

Beasts of the Briar

I Hope This Finds You Well

Evenings and Weekends

Bone Lands

Saltblood

An epic historical fiction debut inspired by real life female pirates

Love, Just In

Dirt Poor Islanders

What I Would Do to You

The Little Clothes

Whenever You're Ready

The Beacon

A beachside blockbuster set in Byron Bay

The Deed

The Great Undoing

Audrey's Gone AWOL

Collide

'If you liked the Icebreaker series then this book is for you'

Thanks for Having Me

Hard by a Great Forest

All the Golden Light

A stirring, dramatic new debut historical fiction novel for readers of Kirsty Manning, Natasha Lester and Rosalie Ham

The Star on the Grave

A novel inspired by the 'Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life

The Engraver's Secret

The new, gripping and captivating debut art history novel for fans of Jessie Burton, Tracy Chevalier and Maggie O'Farrell

Everything is Perfect

(It's just her life that's falling apart)

Go Lightly

'nails the chaos, panic and joy of being young'

The Next Big Thing

The Beholders

Fathomfolk

Drowned World: Book 1

The Painter's Daughters

The award-winning debut novel selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club

The Concierge

Women of Good Fortune

The Coast Road

'A perfect book club read' Sunday Times

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

The instant Sunday Times bestseller that everyone s talking about!

Lead Us Not

Twenty-Seven Minutes

An astonishing crime thriller debut with a shocking twist

The Four

The Library Thief

The Binding meets The Vanishing Half in this gripping, original mystery

A Letter to the Luminous Deep

The Sunken Archive: Book 1

Rabbit Hole

The first Jennette McCurdy book club pick for 2024

For Everything a Time

Ordinary Human Love

Death in the Air

Swift River

'I loved everything about it' Curtis Sittenfeld

Spoilt Creatures

An Observer Best Debut of 2024 - 'compelling, cultish and utterly feral' Alice Slater

All the Words We Know

Briefly Very Beautiful

Why Do Horses Run?

Bright Objects

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

TikTok made me buy it! The breakout dark academia thriller everyone's talking about

The Summer Party

the glamorous and absolutely unputdownable Beach Read of 2023!

How to End a Love Story

A Reese Witherspoon Bookclub Pick

Red Dirt Home

The Roadmap of Loss

The Skeleton House

Translations

The Story Thief

Annie Bot

The Principle of Moments

Order of Legends: Book 1

A Sign of Her Own

The vivid historical novel of a Deaf woman's role in the invention of the telephone

Amma

The Stranger at the Wedding

And Now the Light is Everywhere

A stunning debut novel of family secrets and redemption

Everyone Who Can Forgive Me is Dead

A thrilling, suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist

Pelican Girls

I Hope This Finds You Well

Shield Maiden

Shanghailanders

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2025

The Borrowed Hills

'A sucker-punch of a novel' Guardian