The 2027 Fly On The Wall Book Club
Four extraordinary books. Delivered early. 20% off.
*8 books in 2027 - so if you enjoy these, you can sign up again!
Be among the first to read our 2027 list. Subscribe once and each title lands on your doormat 2–4 weeks before publication, before it reaches bookshops, at 20% off the cover price.
From menopausal fury rewritten as myth to a Cornish gymnast living among chimpanzees, a 1920s Glasgow policewoman who won't stay quiet, and a prize-winning story of survival and friendship, this is a year of reading that's bold, surprising and impossible to put down.
What's in your subscription
Women, Changing by Tracy Fahey
Short stories · Published 22 February 2027
"I was referred here after I punched a man in the middle aisle in Lidl. It was over the last pearl-blue air-fryer."
Surreal, darkly comic stories of female midlife metamorphosis, where Greek myth and fairy tale collide with menopausal rage. For readers of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties.
The Angel of St Piran by John Ironmonger
Paperback · Published 2 March 2027
Angel Restorick, a young gymnast from a quiet Cornish fishing village, travels to a remote African island to study chimpanzees, not from a distance but living with them in the treetops. When illegal trophy hunters arrive, she must decide how far she'll go to protect them. A story of courage, love and some extraordinary apes, for fans of Remarkably Bright Creatures and Once There Were Wolves.
Murder, Classified by Donna Moore
Historical crime · Published 6 May 2027
1920s Glasgow is simmering with strikes and secrets. When young women's bodies are found across the city and her male colleagues look the other way, statement-taker Mabel Adair follows the thread herself, with help from the unorthodox team at Price's Detective Agency. The third Mabel Adair mystery, for readers of Kate Atkinson's Shrines of Gaiety. (Also stands alone)
A Handful of Nutmeg by Maeve Clarke
Literary fiction · Published 29 June 2027
Winner of the 2024 SI Leeds Literary Prize Judges' Award and Readers' Award
Esther has always been the storyteller. When she, her best friend Mercy and their classmates are seized from their school by boy soldiers, it falls to Esther to find words for what neither of them can forget. An unflinching, powerful testament to survival and female friendship, for readers of The Beekeeper of Aleppo.
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