These Literary Fiction stories confront the unpredictability of age, ambition, and the human heart. From wickedly honest takes on growing older and midlife reckonings to poetic collisions of passion and regret, each novel illuminates the courage and complications of surviving in a world that rarely plays fair. Perfect for readers who crave fiction unafraid to probe the messiest truths, darkest corners, and richest emotional landscapes of modern (and ancient) life.
Ethan Frome Sled
by Sebastian Dureaux-Russell
Release Date: October 13, 2026
From the acclaimed, multi-award-winning novelist of Burning with a Blue Flame comes Ethan Frome Sled—a jolting poetic journey through the fires of passion, the bleakness of cold regret, and the crumbling landscapes of life, culminating in a final, shattering collapse.
100 Ways Not To Become a Grumpy Old Lady
by John Forgetson
Release Date: October 23, 2026
Getting older is mandatory. Becoming boring is optional.100 brutally relatable ways to survive aging without becoming THAT woman. The one complaining about the music, the menu, and how nobody knows how to park anymore. Packed with laugh-out-loud stories, games, and gloriously inappropriate wisdom. Get older. Not old.
Half an Orange in Gretna Green (Midlife Recorder Book 7)
by Linzi Day
Release Date: October 30, 2026
Galicia should be warmth, wine, and golden sunsets. Instead, Niki McKnight finds a realm where every blessing has a price, every sin comes with a fine, and a powerful church has spent centuries collecting anything of value.
The Snow Witch
by Kirsty Ferry
Release Date: September 3, 2026
As the Newcastle Witch Trials spread fear across the north, suspicion takes hold in Newbrough, near Hadrian’s Wall. Meg Noble – healer, midwife, and the so-called ‘Snow Witch’ – finds solace at Coventina’s Well. But when tragedy strikes, whispers of witchcraft begin to swirl, and something ancient is stirred – bound to a sacred dagger and a forgotten goddess.
Royal Witch
by Philippa Gregory
Release Date: October 20, 2026
Ambition. Sorcery. Treason. How far will one woman dare to go? 1420. Eleanor Cobham arrives at the court of Henry V. Pretty but not highborn, she hopes for nothing more than to marry well. It is a golden age for England, its royal family’s dynasty stretching across Europe. But chaos waits in the shadows. Betrayals and shifts of power change the flourishing world Eleanor has stepped into.
The Lost Kingdom of Daughters
by Weina Dai Randel
Release Date: November 1, 2026
In a distant matriarchal land, a woman’s passions for two American brothers spell love and lust, jealousy and betrayal, in a suspenseful historical novel by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Last Rose of Shanghai.
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