SEASON HIGHLIGHTS
General fiction The sequel to The
Handmaid’s Tale was the joint winner of the Booker Prize 2019. “The Testaments is Atwood at her best, in its mixture of gener- osity, insight and control. The prose is adroit, direct, beautifully turned. All over the reading world, the history books are being opened to the next blank page and Atwood’s name is written at the top of it. To read this book is to feel the world turning,” says Anne Enright in the Guardian.
Sabine Durrant Finders, Keepers Mulholland Books, 9 July, hb, £14.99, 9781473681644
Adventure, crime & horror
I’m a huge fan of Durrant’s sophisticated,
well-written psychological thrill- ers, so I’m looking forward to this, billed as a creepy and mesmerising novel about the neighbour from hell. From the author of the bestselling Lie With Me.
Tracy Chevalier A Single Thread Borough Press, 9 July, pb, £8.99, 9780008153847
General fiction England, 1932. Violet
Speedwell is one of the “surplus women”, one of those whose
potential husbands were killed in the First World War, but is determined to strike out on her own. “Writing with quiet but devastating empathy, Tracy Chevalier pinpoints Violet’s predicament as a single woman, her unexpected emotional crisis and her struggle to give her life depth and meaning,” says the Daily Mail.
Belinda Bauer Exit Bantam Press, 9 July, hb, £14.99, 9781787630956
Adventure, crime & horror
Hurrah for a new Belinda Bauer! Snap
elevated her to another level sales-wise, with her biggest hardback sales ever and a paperback leap to over 100,000 copies. She’s such an original crime writer and this recognition is so well deserved. Of Exit, all I know is that 75-year-old Felix Pink is about to find out that it’s never too late... for things to go horribly wrong.
Clare Chambers Small Pleasures Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 9 July, hb, £14.99, 9781474613880
General fiction I became a huge fan of
Chambers the instant I discov- ered her writing in the late 1990s, so I am very excited
about this, her first fiction in 10 years. W&N is comparing her to Maggie O’Farrell, which I think is spot on, and this is billed as a novel of unexpected second chances and secrets, set in 1950s England.
David Nicholls Sweet Sorrow Hodder Paperback, 9 July, pb, £8.99, 9781444715422
General fiction Charlie Lewis, now in his thir-
ties, looks back at his 16-year- old self and the events that changed his life over the course of a single summer. A love story that captures perfectly the angst, the pain and the awkwardness of falling in love for the first time. Now in paperback.
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