13th December 2024 Literary
André Aciman The Gentleman from Peru Faber, 13th, £8.99, 9780571385126
A group of college friends find themselves marooned at a luxurious hotel on the Amalfi Coast in Italy, where they befriend a mysterious white-bearded stranger who imparts a life- changing story.
Feryal Ali-Gauhar An Abundance of Wild Roses
Canongate Books, 13th, £9.99, 9781838858209
In the Black Mountains of Pakistan, the discovery of an unconscious, unknown man sets off an avalanche of chaos.
Taffy Brodesser- Akner ( 1) Long Island Compromise
Wildfire, 27th, £9.99, 9781472273079
Four decades after a businessman was kidnapped and then returned to his family, trauma erupts into the present.
Charlene Carr We Rip the World Apart Mountain Leopard Press, 27th, £10.99, 9781802795462
A multi-generational story about motherhood, race, violence and secrets, playing out between Jamaica and Canada.
Vinson Cunningham Great Expectations riverrun, 13th, £9.99, 9781529437782
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a
young Black man’s life.
Carys Davies Clear Granta Books, 13th, £9.99, 9781803510422
Short novel about a fragile bond between a remote Scottish island dweller and the man sent to evict him. “A tender, humane book,” said the Sunday Times. Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for fiction.
Michael Donkor Grow Where They Fall Penguin, 20th, £9.99, 9780241656860
Kwame is a secondary school teacher, still as cautious as he was when he was a boy, trying to find the courage to expand who he might become. “Glows with the ache of being alive,” said the Daily Mail.
Akwaeke Emezi Little Rot
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Ela Lee Jaded Vintage, 13th, £9.99, 9781529933635
After years of success and self-denial to fit other people’s expectations, Jade wonders if she really wants to be the person she has become. A novel addressing racism, class, sexism and consent.
Faber, 13th, £9.99, 9780571382828
Five friends are followed over the course of a life-altering weekend in New Lagos. “Poetic, melodramatic and scorchingly graphic,” said the Observer.
Moa Herngren The Divorce Manilla Press, 27th, £9.99, 9781786583772
A marriage unravelled, told from both the wife and the husband’s points of view.
Ammar Kalia A Person is a Prayer Oldcastle Books, 20th, £10.99, 9780857306043
From Hounslow to Delhi, an intergenerational novel of choice,
family, migration and hope.
Lisa Ko
Memory Piece Dialogue Books, 20th, £9.99, 9780349704340
From the 1980s to the 1990s and an imagined future in the 2040s, three friends strive to build satisfying lives in a radically different world to the one they were promised.
Tom Lamont Going Home Sceptre, 13th, £9.99, 9781399727518
Returning to the north London suburb of his youth, Téo finds everything has
changed but underneath it all, a great deal is still the same. “Pepped up and gorgeous, just bristling with life,” said the Guardian.
Nikki May This Motherless Land Penguin, 6th, £9.99, 9781804994382
A retelling of Mansfield Park examining race, culture and belonging. May’s first novel Wahala is soon to be a BBC TV series, adapted by Theresa Ikoko.
Phoebe McIntosh Dominoes Vintage, 20th, £9.99, 9781529931488
A fairy tale romance is derailed by the legacy of the British slave trade.
Kirsten Miller Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books HQ, 27th, £9.99, 9780008654306 A small group in a small American town refuse to be told what they can and cannot read.
Nathan Newman How to Leave the House Abacus, 6th, £9.99, 9780349145655
Twenty-four hours in the life of Natwest, and his small-town odyssey in pursuit of
a missing package. “A wild and funny ride through modern life,” said the Financial Times.
Téa Obreht
The Morningside W&N, 13th, £9.99, 9781399619912 Working in a crumbling luxury tower, Silvia hears stories about her family’s past from her aunt. Longlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize. “A powerfully imagined tale of exile, belonging and, ultimately, hope,” said the Mail on Sunday.
Alex Schulman Malma Station Fleet, 6th, £9.99, 9780349728049 A train from Stockholm to Malma is full of passengers but their journeys are separated by decades.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Philip Roughton (trans) Your Absence is Darkness
MacLehose Press, 13th, £10.99, 9781529418798
Saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community in Iceland. “Shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy,” said the TLS.
Phoebe Stuckes Dead Animals Sceptre, 27th, £9.99, 9781399728140
A young woman wakes up after a house party with scratches and bruises, and plots revenge.
Rupert Thomson How to Make a Bomb
Apollo, 6th, £9.99, 9781035908554
An acclaimed historian has a midlife crisis brought on by sudden illness.
Amy Twigg Spoilt Creatures Tinder Press, 27th, £9.99, 9781035407958
Iris joins a women’s commune on the Kent Downs that comes under threat,
leading to devastating violence. Longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award.
Emily Usher Wild Ground Serpent’s Tail, 20th, £9.99, 9781800815629
A novel of first love in a working-class Yorkshire town as it grapples with
addiction, identity and class barriers. An eye-catching photographic cover.
Varaidzo Manny and the Baby Scribe, 13th, £9.99, 9781915590282
Set between Bath in 2012 and 1930s London, a novel of Jazz, literature and
Black British culture.
Eduardo Varela, Peter Bush (trans) Patagonia Route 203
Mountain Leopard Press, 13th, £12.99, 9781800699052
A road-trip novel following enigmatic lorry driver Parker’s travels through
the vast mysterious landscapes of Patagonia.
Willy Vlautin The Horse Faber, 27th, £8.99, 9780571384778
A man living an isolated life in rural Nevada must look after a surprise visitor: a horse.
Atsuhiro Yoshida, Haydn Trowell (trans) Goodnight Tokyo
Europa Editions, 13th, £9.99, 9781787705579
A taxi driver collects Tokyo residents’ stories in the early hours of the morning. English language debut for Yoshida.
Literary short stories
Gina Chung Green Frog Picador, 13th, £9.99, 9781035019489
Fifteen offbeat stories influenced by Korean fairy tales, featuring fox demons, a praying mantis and green frogs.
Mary Costello Barcelona Canongate Books, 13th, £9.99, 9781837260362
Stories of love, loss and the lives of ordinary people in moments of desperation. “Full of devastating lines,” said the Times.
Rebecca Ivory Free Therapy Vintage, 20th, £9.99, 9781529931921
Stories of the inner lives of women and men versed in the language of therapy.
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Michael Ball Backstage Betrayal Zaffre, 13th, £9.99, 9781804182321
In the 1920s, a theatre has fallen on hard times. Ball’s second Empire Theatre novel.
Anna and Jacqui Burns Escape to Pumpkin Cottage
Allison & Busby, 20th, £9.99, 9780749031060
Pippa plans a new start in the picturesque Wye Valley village of Riverdean.
Samuel Burr The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
Orion Fiction, 27th, £9.99, 9781398712324
Abandoned at birth on the steps of the Fellowship of Puzzlemakers,
25-year-old Clayton must solve the puzzle of his parentage.
Zen Cho The Friend Zone Experiment Pan, 6th, £9.99, 9781035046058 Love and business collide in this fun London-set novel of second-chance romance.
Sara Cox Way Back Coronet, 27th, £9.99, 9781529392548
To find her way forward Josie must leave her leafy London street for the Lancashire farm of her childhood.
Roxy Dunn As Young as This Penguin, 20th, £9.99, 9780241632734
A woman’s story told through her relationships, tackling the plans
we make for our lives, and what it means to let go of them.
Jasper Fforde Red Side Story Hodder Paperbacks, 13th, £9.99, 9781444763683
Long-awaited sequel to Fforde’s 2010 novel
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