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JERÔME FERRARI THE PRINCIPLE EUROPA EDITIONS, 9TH, £9.99, PBO WITH FLAPS, 9781609453602 A young philosopher is fascinated by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg and his uncertainty principle.


“coming-of-old-age” tale about Dr James Darke, a furiously grumpy man who withdraws from the world to muse on his memories.


screenwriter; 14-year-old Andy finds himself trapped within a carnival hall of mirrors, while one of his reflections walks out and rejoins his parents.


DAVID FOENKINOS CHARLOTTE CANONGATE BOOKS, 2ND, £12.99, HB, 9781782117940


Inspired by the life of the artist Charlotte Salomon, who was unknown in her lifetime but has subsequently been recognised as one of Germany’s great modern artists. She and her unborn baby died in Auschwitz in 1943. This was a bestseller in France and has sold in 20 territories.


HEINZ HELLE EUPHORIA SERPENT’S TAIL, 16TH, £11.99, TPB, 9781781256886 Post-apocalyptic literary fable which asks what becomes of man when all he has left is survival. One for fans of The Road, says Serpent’s Tail.


DAVID KEENAN THIS IS MEMORIAL DEVICE FABER & FABER, 2ND, £14.99, TPB, 9780571330836 The subtitle to this is wonderful: “An Hallucinated Oral History of the Post-Punk Music Scene in Airdrie, Coatbridge and environs 1978-1986”. Memorial Device, a mythic post-punk group, could have gone all the way, beloved as the group was by a cast of misfits and drop-outs.


successful professional gambler until he starts experiencing the Blot, a black spot which starts to distort his vision. There is one surgeon who can help. BookScan 


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£16.99, HB, 9781911215325 Both a literary detective story and a tale of a mother and her nine-year-old daughter making a new life on a remote Scottish island. From the former journalist, founder of the Guardian Review and literary editor of the FT, and author of The Spoiler.


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EDOUARD LOUIS THE END OF EDDY HARVILL SECKER, 2ND, £12.99, HB, 9781846559006 This autobiographical novel caused a sensation when it was published in the author’s native France in 2014, when he was just 21. Describing the author’s childhood in a poor working class town in Picardy, it exposes a world of violence, homophobia and racism.


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EMILY FRIDLUND HISTORY OF WOLVES W&N, 9TH, £12.99, HB, 9781474602945 Outsider Linda lives in remote Minnesota with her hippy parents on an abandoned commune. Teased at school, she latches on to the seemingly ordinary family that she babysits for—only to gradually realise that they are hiding something.


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2ND, £16.99, HB, 9781782119364 Début novel from the 71-year-old rare book dealer and academic who has judged the Man Booker Prize and the Booker International Prize. It’s a


NEIL JORDAN CARNIVALESQUE BLOOMSBURY CIRCUS, 23RD, £16.99, HB, 9781408881392 A dark, twisted tale of identity and metamorphosis from the Oscar-winning


ALICE HOFFMAN FAITHFUL SIMON & SCHUSTER, 9TH, £16.99, HB, 9781471157714 Latest from the author of The Marriage of Opposites follows Shelby, a young woman who walks away from a car crash unharmed yet crippled with guilt, as her best friend has sustained life-changing injuries. But it seems a guardian angel is sending her messages imploring her to take charge of her life again. BookScan 


AFFINITY KONAR MISCHLING ATLANTIC BOOKS, 2ND, £12.99, HB, 9781786490841 Twin girls, Polish Jews, arrive at Auschwitz and are sent to Mengele’s Zoo to be experimented on. Pearl disappears, but Stasha clings to the possibility she may be alive. When the camp is liberated by the Red Army, Stasha travels through a devastated Poland in search of her sister.


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THE BRITTLE STAR SCEPTRE, 9TH, £14.99,


HB, 9781473622036 Southern California, 1860. When his mother’s ranch is attacked, 16-year-old John Evert embarks on a quest for vengeance which will take him from the young city of Los Angeles to Texas and Missouri along the front lines of the American Civil War.


JONATHAN LETHEM THE BLOT JONATHAN CAPE, 2ND, £18.99, HB, 9780224101486


The latest novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude will be a literary event. Bruno Alexander is a


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TWO ROADS, 23RD, £16.99, HB, 9781473640832 Narrated by 15-year-old Samar, this is the story of a refugee Afghan family fleeing the Taliban in the 1990s who travel on the Trans-Siberian Express. Author McVeigh is a former director of PEN International, and has spent time with refugees. Interestingly, she found her agent through Twitter’s #PitchCB, and rights have sold in eight territories to date.


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Montreal in 1914, one to a 12-year-old mother and the other abandoned in a snowdrift. Pierrot and Rose survive the beatings in their Catholic orphanage by creating their own imaginary world. Years later they meet again—and plan to bring their childhood vision to life. BookScan 


DORIT RABINYAN ALL THE RIVERS SERPENT’S TAIL, 23RD, £8.99, PBO, 9781781257647


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A young Israeli translator and a Palestinian painter meet in New York and fall in love. But when they return separately to their divided countries, the relationship looks doomed. This book was banned in schools in Israel for its depiction of a taboo relationship, but Amos Oz is a fan.


IMBOLO MBUE BEHOLD THE DREAMERS 4TH ESTATE, 9TH, £14.99, HB, 9780008158118 New York City, 2007. Jende Jonga, newly arrived from Cameroon, blags a job as a chauffeur to a senior partner at Lehman Brothers. With his wife Neni and their young son, the family has a crack at the American Dream. But the dream comes at a price. Rights have been sold in 14 territories, including a seven-figure US deal.


TIM MURPHY CHRISTODORA PICADOR, 23RD, £16.99, HB, 9781509818570 In Manhattan’s East Village, the Christodora is home to Milly and Jared, a privileged young couple, and Hector, once an AIDS activist but now a drug addict. Moving from the early 1980s through the 2000s and into the future, this explores the sex, drugs, art and activism rife in the city.


GWENDOLINE RILEY FIRST LOVE GRANTA BOOKS, 2ND, £12.99, HB, 9781783783182 Neve is a writer in her 30s, married to an older man. She draws the reader into the battleground of their relationship, an ongoing conflict with competing desires for intimacy and freedom. From the author of Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. BookScan 


HEATHER O’NEILL THE LONELY HEARTS HOTEL RIVERRUN, 23RD, £16.99, HB, 9781849163354 Third novel from the author of Lullabies for Little Criminals follows the lives of two children born in


JEAN-CHRISTOPHE RUFIN THE DREAM MAKER EUROPA EDITIONS, 9TH, £12.99, PBO WITH FLAPS, 9781609453930 Based on the true story of Jacques Coeur, made Master of the Mint in 1436


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