Best books for may

The best new books you’ll love

by Lucy Jane Wood (£20, HB, Pan Macmillan) Annie Wildwood works tirelessly to be the perfect witch. As well as running the Celestial Bakehouse, she goes above and beyond to please everyone around her,

by Patricia Cornwell (£22, HB, Little, Brown Book Club) The Phantom Slasher is wreaking havoc in Northern Virginia. The killer’s signature is to invade his victims’ homes and watch their every move us

by Phaedra Patrick (£9.99, PB, Bloomsbury) Would you leave everything behind for the perfect life? Once upon a time, Greta had it all. As well as being a happy wife and mother, she was the well-known

Our books editor Zoe West’s favourite picks for the month

HEART THE LOVER BY LILY KING This year marks 250 years since Jane Austen was born so it’s fitting that love stories are having an epic moment. The current fiction boom (sales are up 18% on last year)