Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Yepoka Yeebo
Anansi’s Gold Bloomsbury, summer 2023, HB, 9781635574739
From the “Tinder Swindler” to the trials of Anna Sorokin, we are in the season of the scammer. One of my favourite books of this year has been Symeon Brown’s Get Rich or Die Trying, an incisive exposé and exploration of influencer culture, so I was excited to receive this submission. West African reporter Yeebo tells the astounding story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th century’s longest, most audacious frauds. It’s too early for reading material (publication has just been delayed to summer 2023), so I’m going off vibes alone. And boy, this is giving me great ones.
Jessica George
Maame Hodder, 16th Feb 2023, HB, £12.99, 9781529395570
This has a lot of talking points, so I’m going to list them off one by one. 1. Publishing staffer— George is assistant editor at Bloomsbury. 2. Acquired in an eight-way auction. 3. Also snapped up in the US following a seven-figure pre-empt. 4. The publisher’s superlead title for 2023. 5. If all that isn’t enough, Maame has been pitched for fans of “Chewing Gum”, Queenie and Dolly Alderton and follows a twentysome- thing British Ghanaian woman as she grapples with the expectations of her family, caring for her father, friendship, love and loss. I don’t know how they fit all this in the press release.
Louise Hare Miss Aldridge Regrets HQ, 19th Jan 2023, PB, £8.99, 9780008332655 This historical murder mystery explores class, pre-Second World War politics and race, spanning the Soho 1930s jazz club scene and an Atlantic crossing on board the “Queen Mary”. After a murder at the club she works at, the protagonist boards a ship to New York, but murder follows her…
Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Kevin Jared Hosein Adoration Bloomsbury, 23rd Feb 2023, PB, £13.99, 9781526644497 A novel about violence, religion, class and family, rooted in the wild and pastoral landscape of colonial central Trinidad, Adoration explores how a small community is altered forever after the mysterious disappearance of a prominent figure.
Rachael Davis; Islenia Mil (illus)
A Mind Like Mine Wide Eyed Editions , 5th July, HB, £14.99, 9780711273993
Amazingly, we are all waking up to the importance of understanding and discussing our mental health—particularly for kids. This gorgeously illustrated biography anthology explores the hidden mental health stories of 21 famous figures from science, sport, music and politics, from past and present, including Serena Williams, Michelangelo and Ada Lovelace . This is a vital and heartfelt book that explores mental health condi- tions and how they are treated through the stories of figures who changed the world.
Chidi Ebere
Now I am Here Picador, 19th Jan 2023, HB, £12.99, 9781035004010
No reading material yet, but read this synop- sis and tell me you’re not fascinated: Now I am Here is the fictional account of a soldier facing certain death who writes home to his love to explain how he ended up being seduced by the military and gradually transformed from gentle man to war criminal. An examination of why we do what we do, this title is a reflection on how good people can do terrible things—transformed by circumstances and the violence of war. Ebere’s short stories have appeared in UK Cosmopolitan, Ambit and West 8. This is his first novel. One to watch!
Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida Sort Of Books, 25th Aug, HB, £16.99, 9781908745903 Ten years after his début Chinaman swept the Commonwealth Book Prize and DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, Karunatilaka is back with a searing state-of- the-nation epic set in Sri Lanka.
Europa Editions, 6th Oct, PB, £12.99, 9781787704213 Europa’s superlead title is a raucous story of a transgender woman’s re-entry into life on the outside after more than 20 years in incarceration, told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend. Loosely inspired by James Joyce’s Ulysses.
novel about two children locked in the same attic almost a century apart, told through the lens of Black history.
Femi Kayode Lightseekers Bloomsbury, 1st July, PB, £8.99, 9781526617576 Winner of the 2019 University of East Anglia Crime Writing Prize, this title launches a new crime series set in Nigeria featuring investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo.
Sarah Lee An Ocean Apart Macmillan, 21st July, HB, £20, 9781529095586 Lee’s début historical novel is set in the 1950s and follows the lives of three young women from the Caribbean as they come to England to train as nurses for the NHS.
T L Huchu Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments Tor, 1st Sep, PB, £8.99, 9781529039542 The second book in the Edinburgh Nights series features ghosts, myster- ies and mayhem as the protagonist grapples with her newfound magical abilities.
Lola Jaye The Attic Child Pan, 27th Oct, PB, £8.99, 9781529064582 A dual-narrative historical
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Nadine Matheson The Binding Room HQ, 7th Aug, HB, £14.99, 9780008359447 This title is the second Inspector Henley Thriller from Matheson following The Jigsaw Man, which has sold almost 50,000
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