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Fleet, 6th, £16.99, HB, 9780349726670
Début In a gentrifying Latinx neigh-
Michelle de Kretser Scary Monsters Allen & Unwin, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781838953959 A two-sided book (which can be read in either order) about the monsters of misogyny and racism. In a near- future Australia, Asian migrant Lyle works for a sinister government department while fearing repatriation himself. In the south of France in the 1980s, Lili observes how the North African immi- grants are treated.
bourhood in Brooklyn, wedding planner Olga and her congressman brother Pedro grapple with the return of their mother, who abandoned them 27 years earlier to work for a militant politi- cal cause.
Picador, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781529062977 A “non-fiction novel” following Satya who, on a writer’s retreat, decides that the pressures of the outside world—a raging US president, a dangerous virus—should inform his new novel. “A brilliant, expansive account of one man’s attempt to follow his moral compass through a maze of disin- formation and discord,” says Jenny Offill.
to the Scottish Highlands, believing they offer the best hope for rewilding the ruined landscape. On finding the body of a farmer, she refuses to believe her wolves could be responsible, and makes a reckless decision. From the author of Migrations.
disabled women in their thirties, who live together in a Barcelona flat and fight to keep their inde- pendence. Spanish author Morales’ English-language début.
Sequoia Nagamatsu How High We Go in the Dark Bloomsbury, 18th, £16.99, HB, 9781526637185
Début First novel from the Japanese-
Alice Hoffman The Book of Magic Scribner, 6th, £16.99, HB, 9781398509948 The conclusion to the Practical Magic series. For centuries, the Owens family has been cursed in matters of the heart. Now Jet Owens has finally discovered the secret to breaking the curse, but time is running out: she only has seven days to live. BookScan
Sara Freeman Tides Granta Books, 6th, £12.99, HB, 9781783787586
Début After a sudden, devastating loss,
Mara flees her family and ends up drifting in a wealthy coastal town. When her money runs out, she finds a job but eventu- ally she will have to reckon with her present desires and her past mistakes.
Xochiti Gonzalex Olga Dies Dreaming
Literary Fatima Daas, Lara Vergnaud (trans)
The Last One Small Axes, 27th, £10.99, PBO, 9781913109851
youngest daughter of Algerian immi- grants, raised in the high-rise banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois, 15km north of
Paris, in a household where discussion of love and sexuality is taboo. As she grows from a bright and rebellious teenager, spending hours on the bus in order to study in the city, to an adult, she grapples with the different, often conflicting, parts of her identity: French, Algerian, Muslim and a lesbian. Published in France last year, this saw 25-year- old Daas hailed as the voice of a new generation.
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Faysal Khartash, Max Weiss (trans) Roundabout of Death Apollo, 6th, £14.99, HB, 9781801107266 A schoolteacher living in Aleppo in the early days of the Syrian civil war that followed the Arab Spring, observes the effect of the fighting on his beautiful city. Khartash is a leading Syrian author, this is his first novel to be published in English.
Amitava Kumar A Time Outside This Time
Jacqueline Maley The Truth About Her Te Borough Press, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9780008520175 In Sydney, a journalist and single mother finds out that the subject of one of her investigative exposés, a wellness blogger, has killed herself, and must deal with the conse- quences. An exploration of guilt, shame, female anger and mothering. Meg Mason is a fan.
Derek B Miller How to Find Your Way in the Dark Doubleday, 13th, £16.99, HB, 9780857527516 Orphaned 13-year-old Sheldon Horowitz is determined to avenge the death of his father in 1930s America, a quest that will take him from industrial Hartford, Connecticut to the Catskills, to the Big Apple. From the author of Norwegian by Night, which won the CWA Best First Novel Dagger in 2013.
American author follows a cast of linked characters across hundreds of years after a scientist working in the Arctic Circle discovers a virus, newly unearthed from melting permafrost, that will devastatingly reshape life on Earth for generations to come.
Trapeze, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781398705241
Début Said to be a “darkly funny
and heartbreaking début” about forbidden love and an Indian-American family confronting the secrets between them. Aspiring LA songwriter Akash Amin struggles with feelings of shame—about liking men, about his alcoholism— when he is called back to Illinois to help his mother pack up the family home.
Ralf Rothmann Nat Ogle
In the Seeing Hands of Others Serpent’s Tail, 13th, £14.99, HB, 9781788168359
Début A novel formed of documents and
Cristina Morales Easy Reading Jonathan Cape, 20th, £14.99, TPB, 9781787332676
Charlotte McConaghy Once There Were Wolves Chatto & Windus, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781784744397 A woman is determined to reintroduce grey wolves
Début Said to be an “explosive and
daring” novel about bodies, sex, politics and disability, this tells of the lives of four cousins, all
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Début Drawing on the author’s own experience (Fatima Daas is a pseudonym), this autofiction tells of the
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Nina de Gramont The Christie Affair Mantle, 20th, £16.99, HB, 9781529054170
evidence—transcripts of police interviews, emails and texts, conversations on 4chan—that tell the story of a contentious trial. Corina, a nurse on a dialy- sis ward, attempts to live in the aftermath of a rape trial in which the defen- dant was exonerated. Author Ogle is a London bookseller.
Neel Patel Tell Me How to Be
The God of that Summer Picador, 20th, £14.99, HB, 9781529009835 A “devastating” novel about the final months of the Second World War seen through eyes of German civilians, follow- ing 12-year-old Luisa, and her mother and sister, who escape the chaos of the city and seek shelter in the countryside. From the author of To Die in Spring. BookScan
David Sanchez All Day Is a Long Time Sceptre, 20th, £16.99, HB, 9781529367867 A semi-autobiographical
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In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days and refused to ever speak of it afterwards. Nina de Gramont’s fourth novel reimagines this event, which made headlines around the world, and tells the story from the
point of view of Nan O’Dea, Agatha’s husband’s mistress. The two women, from very different backgrounds, become unlikely allies and during Agatha’s “missing” 11 days, they will unravel a dark secret that only Nan holds the key to. Film rights have sold to Miramax. Mantle is very keen on this and will support strongly.
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