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Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Editor’s Choice
Crime and thriller/Reissues Cecil Wills
Midsummer Murder Galileo, 2nd, £10.99, 9781915530325
Poison-pen letters start to circulate in the quiet cathedral city of Storminster, each accompanied by a crudely drawn image of the scales of justice. As allegations and scandals are levelled at private citizens and committees alike, bloody mindedness and a love for his parishioners drives Reverend Selwyn Seddicombe to investigate. A suicide and a murder soon follow as the dogged Seddicombe goes after the letter-writer. First published in 1956, this is another lively and entertaining mystery reissue on Galileo’s strong crime list.
Biography and memoir
Bob Cryer Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? Bloomsbury Publishing, 9th, £9.99, 9781526665324
Barry Cryer’s comedy career spanned six decades where he worked with the biggest names in entertainment. Here, his youngest son Bob tells Barry’s story, interweaving a natural sympathy for family history with each bold step in the growth of a career. Anecdotes demonstrate risks, and a development of comedy craft for a man more likely to dismiss his career progress as good fortune. Bob’s access to the archive means a plethora of photos, ephemera and examples of Barry’s gags. Features a foreword by Sandi Toksvig.
Natural history and pets Polly Atkin
Some of Us Just Fall Sceptre, 2nd, £10.99, 9781399718011
“A book about bearing the unbearable”, said the Glasgow Review of Books. Début memoir from poet Polly Atkin blends nature writing, consideration of our rebellious bodies and a journey through lifelong chronic illness. To declare a glaring conflict of interest, Polly is my partner, so I’ve seen first-hand the medical encounters which did little for her long-delayed diagnosis with two genetic conditions. The landscape and history of our Lake District home seep into the memoir, through Polly’s walks and swims and the lives of the region’s writers who experienced chronic pain.
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make her question the relationship.
T C Boyle Blue Skies Bloomsbury Publishing, 23rd, £9.99, 9781526659705 A dark cli-fi comedy set in an apocalyptic America.
Ore Agbaje-Williams The Three of Us Vintage, 23rd, £8.99, 9781529921724 Comedy noir in three parts. What happens when a best friend and a partner love you but hate each other.
Sheila Armstrong Falling Animals Bloomsbury Publishing, 9th, £8.99, 9781526635877
Début The last day of an unidentified
man’s life is told through a chorus of voices of those who crossed his path.
Katie Bishop
The Girls of Summer Penguin, 23rd, £8.99, 9781529177060 In her thirties Rachel recalls her first older boyfriend and their summer romance on a Greek Island as suppressed memories
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involve all around, both old and young, rich and poor, native and foreign. Moves from March.
Soula Emmanuel Wild Geese Footnote Press, 16th, £9.99, 9781804440162
Début An Irish trans woman living in
Scandinavia unexpectedly reconnects with her first (and only) girlfriend.
The path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set before and after the fall of the Berlin wall.
Kehinde Fadipe In Such Tremendous Heat Renegade Books, 2nd, £9.99, 9780349703220
Début Three women in Singapore
have their lives upturned by a hotshot young lawyer.
Natasha Calder Whether Violent or Natural Bloomsbury Publishing, 9th, £9.99, 9781526653703 After antibiotic resistance has wiped out most human life, Kit and Creven’s isolated island life is threatened when a stranger washes ashore.
Amanda Craig The Three Graces Abacus, 2nd, £9.99, 9780349144917 When Enzo shoots an illegal migrant from his bedroom in Tuscany one May night, it triggers a series of events that
Anne Enright The Wren, The Wren Vintage, 16th, £9.99, 9781529922905 A multigenerational novel of motherhood and daughterhood, and the inheritance of both trauma and wonder, from Booker Prize winner Enright.
Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (trans) Kairos Granta Books, 2nd, £9.99, 9781783786138
Sebastian Faulks The Seventh Son Penguin, 30th, £9.99, 9781804942833 A tech billionaire ensures a child is born who is different from any living human. A “strange and unsettling book… one of his best”, said the Financial Times.
A P Firdaus Remember, Mr Sharma Sceptre, 2nd, £9.99, 9781399714471
Début In India, one boy uncovers his
family’s history from the first days of Partition to the economic crises of the 1990s. Winner of the Bath Novel Award.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (trans) A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East Tuskar Rock, 9th, £9.99, 9781800814592 A Prince who lives outside space and time searches for a secret garden. Winner of the 2015 International Booker Prize.
Deborah Levy August Blue Penguin, 16th, £9.99, 9780241987889 Concert pianist Elsa walks off stage mid performance before a young woman, almost her double, shadows her across pandemic-stricken Europe.
Paul Lynch Prophet Song Oneworld, 9th, £9.99, 9780861545896 Eilish’s trade unionist husband is missing in an unravelling Ireland, where a newly formed secret police and tyrannous government offer a nightmare logic. Booker Prize winner in 2023.
Mirinae Lee 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster Virago, 2nd, £9.99, 9780349016771 One woman’s struggle to survive throughout a century of Korean history.
Christy Lefteri The Book of Fire Manilla Press, 23rd, £9.99, 9781786581594 A family survives in the ruins of Greek forest fires.
Lynsey May Weak Teeth Polygon, 2nd, £9.99, 9781846976629
Début In a hot Edinburgh
summer, Ellis’ world comes undone, dogged by toothache, the end of a relationship and a return to a now uncomfortable childhood home.
Kirsten McDougall She’s a Killer
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