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disappointments and excesses of love in all its forms, says Virago.


Gianfranco Calligarich, Howard Curtis (trans) Last Summer in the City Picador, 19th, £14.99, HB, 9781529042269 First English translation for this “lost classic” of Italian literature, with an introduction from André Aciman (Call Me By Your Name). In 1960s Rome, on the eve of his 30th birthday, wealthy drifter Leo Gazzarra meets the fragile, seductive Arianna and goes on to fall in love—and lose everything.


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girl, Anaïs, whose Haitian mother died in childbirth. He flies with her back to Haiti, a beautiful island plagued by violence and government corruption, to find her remaining family.


climate change. The trio wait on the Libyan shore, in the hope of boarding a boat heading for Europe.


Ash Davidson Damnation Spring Headline, 3rd, £18.99, HB, 9781472286628


Début Début novel exploring the


Kia Corthron


Peter Cameron What Happens at Night Europa Editions, 26th, £12.99, TPB, 9781787703216 An American couple travel to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, one they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. But nothing is as it seems and the longer they remain at their eerily deserted hotel, the less they seem to know about themselves, their marriage, and life itself.


Maryse Conde, Richard Philcox (trans) Waiting for the Waters to Rise World Editions, 5th, £12.99, PBO, 9781912987153 A Mali doctor living in Guadeloupe takes it upon himself to save a


Literary/historical


Pat Barker The Women of Troy Hamish Hamilton, 26th, £18.99, HB, 9780241427231


Moon and the Mars Seven Stories Press UK, 19th, £13.99, PB, 9780995580794 Set in the Five Points neighbourhood of New York City during the years 1857–63, this tells of half Black, half Irish orphan Theo, living between both sets of grandparents in the lead-up to the American Civil War. Author Corthron has won the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama and was a writer on “The Wire”.


human cost of environ- mental exploitation. For generations, Rich Gunderson’s family has made a living by logging redwood forests on California’s rugged coast. Now, a giant timber company looks set to make a killing on a swathe of uncut redwoods on his doorstep.


HB, 9781529069471 An examination of the refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. Nine-year- old Amir, fleeing the war in Syria, survives a sinking ship and meets a teenage girl, Vänna, a native of the island he washes up on. Although they are complete strangers, she decides to do whatever it takes to save him. By the author of American War.


tells him her life story with a sense of urgency, before her memories of the Russian 20th century, and its horrors, are wiped out. In the tradition of the great Russian novel, says Europa.


Virginia Feito Mrs March 4th Estate, 5th, £14.99, HB, 9780008421717


Début Said to be a darkly funny


Raphaela Edelbauer, Jen Calleja (trans) The Liquid Land Scribe UK, 12th, £14.99, TBP, 9781913348076


Début In the literary tradition of


Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Marjolijn de Jaeger (trans) The Mediterranean Wall Pushkin Press, 5th, £12.99, TPB, 9781782277095 A story of migration, struggle and sisterhood which follows three women: Dima, who fled the war in Syria; Semhar, running from conscription in Eritrea; and Soshana, driven from Nigeria by


Thomas Bernhard, a tale of trauma and history about the horror that lies beneath repressed memory. Ruth searches for her late parents’ mysterious home town in order to bury them, and discovers that beneath the town lies a vast cavern that exerts a strange control over the lives of the town’s inhabitants.


Omar El Akkad What Strange Paradise Picador, 19th, £14.99,


début novel, full of suspense and paranoia, about the fragility of iden- tity and the smothering weight of expectations that follows the titular Upper East Side wife, whose world is upended when a shopkeeper assumes that the protago- nist in her husband’s new book—a sex worker—is based on Mrs March herself.


Sasha Filipenko; Brian James Baer, Ellen Vayner (trans) Red Crosses Europa Editions, 5th, £12.99, TPB, 9781787703148


Début In a Soviet-era apartment block


in Minsk, 90-year-old Tatiana befriends the troubled young man who moves in next door and


One to Watch


Frustratingly there was no reading material available for this sequel to The Silence of the Girls (a previous Book of the Month), so I couldn’t make this an Editor’s Choice. I’m a huge fan though, and this is bound to be terrific. In the


aftermath of the fall of Troy, the Greek victors wait for a good wind to return home. But the gods are offended and there is no wind. As her captors squabble, Briseis remains in the Greek camp and forges alliances—with rebellious Amina, defiant Hecuba and Calchus, the disgraced priest—and begins to see the path to revenge… BookScan


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The Essential Terrance Dicks Volume 1 BBC Books, 26th, £25, HB, 9781785946646


David Grossman More Than I Love My Life Jonathan Cape, 26th, £18.99, HB, 9781787332935 On a kibbutz in Israel in 2008, Gili is celebrating the 90th birthday of her grandmother Vera, when Nina, the absent mother who abandoned Gili as a baby, returns. Reunited, the three women travel to a desolate island, formerly part of Yugoslavia, to come to terms with the terrible moral dilemma faced by Vera when she was held as a political prisoner five decades earlier. A Horse Walks into a Bar won the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. BookScan


Second novel from the author of Petite Mort, who teaches Creative Writing at Brighton University.


Miles Jupp History Headline, 19th, £16.99, HB, 9781472239952


Début First novel from actor, comedian


and presenter Jupp is said to be a “satirical, tragi- comic” tale about Clive, a dissatisfied teacher at a private school. Following a disastrous holiday with wife Helen and an incident at school, his life starts to unravel before his eyes. Can he turn it around? After all, it’s his own time he’s wasting... The author will promote at festivals.


Beatrice Hitchman All of You Every Single One Serpent’s Tail, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9781788166690 Vienna, 1911. Julia has fled her unhappy marriage for tailor Eve Perret, but their happiness is threatened by Julia’s longing for a baby. Ada’s wealthy industrialist family have sent her to Dr Freud in the hope he can cure her mutism—but help will come from an unexpected quarter.


Katie Kitamura Intimacies Jonathan Cape, 5th, £14.99, HB, 9781787332003 An interpreter, a woman of many languages and identities, has left New York and come to work at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Drawn into the simmering personal dramas of those around her, and interpret- ing for a former president


One to Watch


Published on the anniversary of Dicks’ death (in 2019) this two-volume set features his 10 best “Doctor Who” novels; Dicks became the script editor of the beloved TV programme in 1968. The 10 have been chosen by fans from the 64


books he wrote in total. Frank Cottrell-Boyce has written the foreward to Volume 1, and Volume 2 (1785947353), published simultaneously, has a foreword by Robert Webb. Publication will be supported by a targeted social media campaign across Penguin and official Doctor Who channels, with a combined reach across Twitter, Facebook and YouTube of 10 million.


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