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a quiet life on the River Sullane, but a young woman’s arrival at his door presents his family with a dilemma. “Exceptional,” said the Times.
Editor’s Choice
Memoir Megan Phelps-Roper
Unfollow riverrun, 8th, £8.99, 9781787478015
Megan Phelps-Roper grew up in a religious hate group, the Westboro Baptist Church—as featured on Louis Theroux’s BBC documen- tary “The Most Hated Family in America”. She took part in her first public protest at the age of five, marching with aggressively homopho- bic signs as a child. This is her memoir about how she came to leave at the age of 26, and it is brave and wise and compassionate. “An exceptional book,” said the Times, amid many superla- tive reviews.
Christine Feret-Fleury The Girl Who Reads on the Métro Pan, 1st, £8.99, 9781509868353 A new paperback look for this French bestseller about Juliette, who meets Soliman, owner of the most enchanting book- shop she has ever seen.
Kornel Filipowicz The Memoir of an Anti-Hero Penguin Classics, 1st, £7.99, 9780241351604 The first book-length English translation of the Polish wartime novella, written in 1961, in which the narrator plans to survive the war no matter what.
Editor’s Choice
Literary short stories Zadie Smith
Grand Union Hamish Hamilton, 8th, £8.99, 9780241983126
The first collection of short stories from the author of White Teeth, collected from the New Yorker and elsewhere, this sold over 37,000 copies in first formats, says Penguin. Crossing the genres—from the historic to the current to the dystopian—it’s a delight to read. “Sexy and hilarious… There is no moment in Grand Union when we are not entertained, or doubt that we are in the company of one of our best contemporary writers,” said the Guardian. Penguin is also reissuing Smith’s On Beauty this month, which was short- listed for the Booker and won the Orange Prize for Fiction.
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Andrew Michael Hurley Starve Acre John Murray, 29th, £8.99, 9781529387308 When Juliette and Richard’s son Ewan dies at the age of five, their house on the edge of the moors becomes a haunted place.
serious... blunt perfection,” said the Guardian.
Marc-Uwe Kling Qualityland Orion, 1st, £8.99, 9781409191155 In Qualityland, a country where everything is geared towards optimis- ing your life, Peter Jobless appears to be the only person who notices that his fellow Qualityland robot citizens are experi- encing an existential crisis.
Benjamin Markovits Christmas in Austin Faber Books, 1st, £8.99, 9780571339761 The author, one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, explores the fall out when the four Essinger children gather in Austin for Christmas.
Favel Parrett There Was Still Love Sceptre, 22nd, £8.99, 9781529343571 Shortlisted for Australia’s Stella Prize, this moves from 1938 Prague, where war forces lives into small brown suitcases, to Prague and Melbourne in 1980.
Kelly Rimmer Truths I Never Told You Headline Review, 15th, £9.99, 9781472247339 When Beth’s father Patrick is diagnosed with dementia, she discovers a notebook written by her late mother which suggests she may not have died in a car accident.
Pete Townshend The Age of Anxiety Coronet, 1st, £8.99, 9781473622951
Début The Who’s lead guitarist’s début
Cynan Jones Stillicide Granta Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781783787098 Set in a dystopian world where water is commodi- fied and where The Water Train that serves the city is increasingly at risk of sabotage, this was first broadcast on Radio 4. “As a tract of written language, [Stillicide] is close to perfect. As a repository for ideas, it is imaginative and far reaching. As a story of and for our times, it is very human, and deadly
novel, first conceived as an opera, “deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long- lost children”, says Hodder.
Literary short stories
Faber Books, 15th, £9.99, 9780571354108 Caldwell edits this new collection of Irish short stories, featuring work from Kevin Barry, Eimear McBride and Lisa McInerney.
Deborah Eisenberg Your Duck Is My Duck Europa Editions, 15th, £8.99, 9781787702639 Six new short stories from the acclaimed Eisenberg. “These stories are rich, round pearls, made smooth over time, six masterpieces in miniature, each with the depth of a novel,” said the Telegraph.
Sarah Hall Sudden Traveller Faber Books, 15th, £8.99, 9780571345052 A new story collection from the award-winning Hall. “Hall’s stories are extraordinary. Magical. I never know where the next one will take me, but I know it will be unex- pected, memorable, and built from language that crackles with energy,” said Chris Power.
sold 80,000 in previous formats, says Transworld.
Sophie Cousens This Time Next Year Arrow, 15th, £7.99, 9781787464940 Quinn and Minnie are born in the same place at the same time, but take 30 years to find each other.
Abbie Greaves The Silent Treatment Arrow, 15th, £7.99, 9781787463172 Frank and Maggie are married, but he hasn’t spoken to her for six months. Maggie sets out to unravel the reasons for his silence. “This is an extraordinarily tense yet tender portrait of a marriage... written with assurance and agonising insight,” said the Mail.
Kristin Hannah Firefly Lane Pan, 15th, £8.99, 9781529055917 Tully and Kate have been best friends for 30 years, until an act of betrayal tears them apart.
Elin Hilderbrand What Happens in Paradise Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, £8.99, 9781473677463 Irene, who discovered her husband was leading a double life when he died in a plane crash, is back on the Caribbean island of St John to find out more.
Etgar Keret Fly Already Granta Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781783780518 A collection of sharp, funny short stories from the Israeli writer called a “genius” by the New York Times.
Noel Streatfeild Noel Streatfeild’s Christmas Virago, 22nd, £6.99, 9780349010939 A collection of Christmas stories from the author of Ballet Shoes. Originally written in 1940s-’60s for annuals, magazines and the radio, these have not previously been collected.
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Trisha Ashley The Christmas Invitation Black Swan, 29th, £7.99, 9781784160937 Meg decides to spend Christmas in a small hilltop village, but spots a familiar face there. This
Carrie Hope Fletcher In the Time We Lost Sphere, 1st, £7.99, 9780751571271 Luna doesn’t want pity, she wants a fresh start, so she heads to a remote island off the wild coast of Scotland. Sphere says this is aimed at fans of Cecelia Ahern, and that Fletcher has sold over 250,000 copies of her books across all formats.
Anna Jacobs Christmas in Peppercorn Street Allison & Busby, 22nd, £8.99, 9780749024734 A Christmas special in Jacobs’ contemporary Wiltshire-set series, this
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