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but no one knows what love feels like”. Handler is also known as Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events). BookScan
NICK HARKAWAY GNOMON WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 19TH, £12.99, HB, 9781785151279
In a near-future Britain, a surveillance democracy called The System knows everything about everyone and can spy on people’s minds. But when state investigators look into the head of a refusenik novelist they find not her life story, but that of four other people, spread across thousands of years. Fourth novel from the author of The Gone-Away World, Angelmaker and Tigerman. BookScan
JANE HARRIS SUGAR MONEY FABER & FABER, 5TH, £14.99, HB, 9780571336920 Martinique, 1765, and brothers Emile and Lucien are sent by their French master to Grenada, the island they once called home, to smuggle back the 42 slaves claimed by English invaders. Based on a true story, this exposes our troubled colonial past and is a “stunning act of literary ventriloquism”, says Faber. Third novel from the acclaimed author of The Observations and Gillespie & I. BookScan
IAIN MAITLAND SWEET WILLIAM CONTRABAND, 19TH, £12.99, HB, 9781910192917 A man desperate to be with his young son escapes from a psychiatric hospital and plans to snatch his three-year-old child and run away to France. But first he must find the boy, and evade the police. First novel from the author of Dear Michael, Love Dad, a book of letters written to his son who suffered from depression and anorexia.
LORENZO MARONE THE TEMPTATION TO BE HAPPY ONEWORLD, 5TH, £12.99, PB, 9781786072887 A 77-year-old Neapolitan widower rediscovers his appetite for life. This sold 30,000 copies in the first
two weeks in the author’s native Italy, and rights have sold in 12 territories.
ALICE MCDERMOTT THE NINTH HOUR BLOOMSBURY, 19TH, £16.99, HB, 9781408854600 My proof has not arrived in time for this preview but this sounds wonderful: a novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and ‘50s Brooklyn, from the National Book Award- winning author who has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer three times. One for fans of Anne Tyler and Colm Tóibín, I’m told... BookScan
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THEMYSTERY.DOC GROVE PRESS, 5TH, £25, HB, 9781611856200 “Part love story, part prose poem, part documentary, part existential whodunit, part future-fiction, part Bildungsroman, part memoir,” says Grove of this dauntingly long (1,664pp) novel which begins with a man discovering a blank document on his computer called
theMystery.doc.
JOAN SALES WINDS OF THE NIGHT MACLEHOSE PRESS, 5TH, £12.99, TPB, 9780857056160 Translated from Catalan by Peter Bush, this is the follow-up to Sales’ novel of the Spanish Civil War, Uncertain Glory. A Republican chaplain survives the war and completes his theological studies, only to lose his faith in a world where all hope has been extinguished.
TONY PEAKE NORTH FACINGS MYRIAD, 26TH, £8.99, PBO, 9780995590021 It’s 1962, and while the Cuban Missile Crisis unfolds, a group of schoolboys in Pretoria scan the horizon for signs that the world is about to end. Gradually, one of the boys becomes aware of the political unrest closer to home; the Sharpeville massacre, Nelson Mandela’s arrest and the State of Emergency.
EDWARD ST AUBYN DUNBAR HOGARTH, 5TH, £16.99, HB, 9781781090381 St Aubyn is the sixth
customer, until social pressures become
impossible to escape. A tale of friendship and loneliness in contemporary Japan.
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novelist to write for the Hogarth Shakespeare series—following Jeanette Winterson, Howard Jacobson, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood and Tracy Chevalier—with this retelling of “King Lear”. Henry Dunbar, once the all-powerful head of a global corporation, now languishes in a care home in the Lake District. BookScan
DURIAN SUKEGAWA SWEET BEAN PASTE ONEWORLD, 5TH, £8.99, PBO, 9781786071958 A disillusioned man working in a shop selling dorayaki (a type of pancake filled with sweet bean paste) becomes friendly with an elderly
T C BOYLE THE RELIVE BOX AND OTHER STORIES BLOOMSBURY, 5TH, £18.99, HB, 9781408890134 The eleventh collection of short stories from the acclaimed writer explores humanity’s relationship with nature, and the unintended consequences of our efforts to control it. Comic, surreal, satirical and razor-sharp, I’m told.
ANTON CHEKHOV THE BEAUTIES PUSHKIN PRESS, 5TH, £12, PB, 9781782273806 New translations of the greatest short stories by the Russian master of the form. BookScan
JOHN FREEMAN (ED) FREEMAN’S: THE FUTURE
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OF NEW WRITING GROVE PRESS, 5TH, £10.99, TPB, 9781611855135 The fourth in the journal/ anthology series edited by John Freeman follows Arrival, Family and Home, and promises to be “an aesthetic manifesto of our times” with a list of 30 poets, essayists, novelists and short-story writers from around the world who are “shaping the literary conversation right now”.
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short stories about poker. Contributors include playwright and screenwriter Patrick Marber and Carol Ann Duffy.
ELSKE RAHILL IN WHITE INK HEAD OF ZEUS, 5TH, £18.99, HB, 9781786691040 A set of linked stories around the themes of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. The Irish writer’s début Between Dog and Wolf was published by The Lilliput Press in 2013.
ANTHONY HOLDEN AND NATALIE GALUSTIAN HE PLAYED FOR HIS WIFE AND OTHER STORIES S&S UK, 19TH, £16.99, HB, 9781471162282 A collection of original
SUCHEN CHRISTINE LIM THE MAN WHO WORE HIS WIFE’S SARONG MONSOON, 3RD £8.99, PBO, 9781912049080 “Stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore”, previously published in part as The Lies that Build a Marriage in 2008, this contains five additional stories.
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GRAEME MACRAE BURNET THE ACCIDENT ON THE A35 CONTRABAND, 26TH, £12.99, HB, 9781910192870
Sadly reading material wasn’t available in time for this preview, but I loved his second novel His Bloody Project, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2016, a huge coup for tiny Scottish indie publisher Saraband. This is actually a sequel to his first novel, The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau, and is a literary mystery again set in the sleepy French town of Saint-Louis, where Inspector Georges Gorski investigates a seemingly straightforward fatal car crash that resulted in the death of a lawyer. BookScan
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TOM HANKS UNCOMMON TYPE WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 17TH, £16.99, HB, 9781785151514
The first fiction from the pen, or perhaps I should say typewriter, of the A-list Hollywood star with two Oscars to his name. It’s a collection of 17 short stories exploring friendship, love and the human condition. I’ve had nothing to read yet but one of these stories has already been published in the New Yorker, which augurs well for the quality of his writing: “It turns out Tom Hanks is also a wise and hilarious writer with an endlessly surprising mind. Damn it,” says Steve Martin. All credit to the designer for an eye- catching yet elegant jacket.
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