What will you be reading in 2018?

New ones this year include books to mark the centenary of the Armistice, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first General Election in which women (over 30, at least) could vote, and a right royal engagement.

Caroline Sanderson, associate editor and non-fiction previewer of trade magazine the Bookseller, and books editor Alice O’Keeffe, recommend.

1. Harry & Meghan: A Royal Engagement by Halima Sadat published by Pitkin.

Already hitting the bookshelves, it is likely to be the first of many on Prince Harry's engagement to Meghan Markle, and the American/British connection.

2. Rise Up Women! The Remarkable Lives Of The Suffragettes by Dr Diane Atkinson (published by Bloomsbury, on February 8). It covers the lives of more than 200 suffragettes, including Pankhurst, but others less well known.

3. Not That Kind of Love by brother and sister Clare and Greg Wise (Emma Thompson's husband).

The moving and surprisingly humorous book from brother and sister Clare and Greg, is based on Clare’s blog, which she started when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2013. When she became too weak to write, he completed Not That Kind Of Love (Quercus, on March 1).

4. The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (Macmillan, on February 8).

Part of the latest fiction favourite, domestic noir, following on from Gone Girl and The Girl on the Tran, comes a book with a narrator who you believe to be a wronged divorcee, whose wealthy ex-husband has traded her in for a younger version, and what revenge she is going to take.

5. Close To Home by Cara Hunter (Penguin, out now)

A psychological crime novel about a missing child and the scandal that erupts in the aftermath, brilliantly plotted with a shocking twist.

6. The Mermaid And Mrs Hancock (Harvill Secker, on January 25)

The debut for Imogen Hermes Gowar, it opens in 1785 with a sailing merchant whose boat has been missing for months, with no contact from the captain. Then one night, the captain arrives home – he has sold the ship for what appears to be a mermaid.

7. Force of Nature by Jane Harper

A group of female colleagues are sent on a corporate retreat team-building course in the Outback. Five set off - only four come back.

8. Snap by Belinda Bauer (Transworld)

Crime writer Belinda Bauer brings us her next psychological thriller Snap in May.

9. Transcription by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, on September 6

A well-established author who always delivers is Kate Atkinson, whose new novel Transcription features a post-war Secret Service heroine whose life starts to unravel.

Other tips for books to read in 2018 include:

Strictly Come Dancing contestant Susan Calman publishes The Kindness Quest: Dancing For Joy (Two Roads, on September 6);

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s autobiography Unmasked (HarperCollins, on March 8), to coincide with his 70th birthday;

Denise Fergus, the mother of murdered child James Bulger, brings out I Let Him Go (Blink, on January 25), about the legal battle to change the way the law treats victims of crime;

Joanna Trollope has picked a topical theme for her next book, An Unsuitable Match (Mantle, Feb 22), about a middle-aged couple getting married, but they both had families before – but how will their respective children get along?

Broadcaster and non-fiction writer Sally Magnusson’s debut novel The Sealwoman’s Gift (Two Roads, on February 8) takes a real event in which Barbary pirates turned up in Iceland and raided the coast, kidnapping 400 Icelanders and taking them to Algiers to sell them into slavery, telling the story of the wife of the pastor.