Discover Will’s 10 Titles not to miss
A huge amount of non-fiction is hitting the shelves in September. The bulk of submissions centred around history, politics and current affairs reflecting, perhaps, the perpetual feeling that there is “a lot going on”. Publishers are feeding our appetite to understand the context of the contemporary moment, from the tremendous courage and sacrifice of wars past and present in Daniel Huhn’s I Will Come Back For You (Ithaka) and Lara Marlowe’s How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying (Apollo) to how we measure our self-worth and recognise those around us in Michèle Lamont’s Seeing Others: How to Redefine Worth in a Divided World (Penguin). Children’s read- ing remains a pressing concern too, and Sam Leith’s The Haunted Wood (Oneworld) has some pointed observations from history about meeting children where they are.
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I am resolving to think less about charts and sales about the joy of sharing a book that will resonate with a customer
Two new reissue series land this month, both focusing on eclectic selections of women writers. The new Vintage Classics Weird Girls series champions nine works of “weird-girl fiction” that disrupt standard notions of femininity, including works by Audrey Niffenegger, Intan Paramaditha, Hitomi Kanehara, Yoko Ogawa, Ottessa Moshfegh, Jewelle Gomez, Angela Carter, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Marjorie Bowen.
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Memoir
Daniel Handler And Then? And Then? What Else?
Oneworld, 25th, £9.99, 9781836430339
The man also known as Lemony Snicket has written a thought-provoking and entertaining on writing, reading, publishing and our place in the world of books. Unfortunate events aplenty litter Handler’s life but all are shown sensitively to be a part of his drive to read and write. Topics include the frustrations of being a medical mystery, the Pet Shop Boys, adopting his mystery persona, writing for children, banned books and the wildly varied reception his books have received from publishers, booksellers and readers, with the latter reading his books in droves and the former sometimes being lukewarm. Handler’s book, which started life as a
preface to Aaron Poochigian’s translation of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil with comic anecdotes. Baudelaire returns frequently, as in the title. A young Handler read Baudelaire’s mocking of epic poetry and understood that the rules of art are fallible. Handler’s comments on reading acclaimed books nobody reads anymore will resound with many, but I am self-aware enough to know few will laugh like I did when Handler mentioned being at a party and trying to engage in conversation by bringing up E Arnot Robertson’s Four Frightened People.
e a n while , Penguin Michael Joseph (PMJ) celebrates 90 years of
publishing with the Mermaid Collection, striking B-format paperbacks with flaps designed by PMJ senior designer Lauren Wakefield and picture editor Alice Chandler. The collection will champion quality commercial women’s fiction from the mid-to- late 20th century, with a first instalment including novels by Lettice Cooper, Helen McCloy, Fay Weldon and Margaret Kennedy. A new commercial herit- age list will be hugely appreciated by readers who have been well served in recent years by the brilliant work of Persephone, British Library Publishing, Handheld Press and Dean Street Press among others, all of whom draw attention to neglected women writers. Film and TV tie-ins range from
Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro (Canongate) ahead of a six-part Sky TV adaptation starring Matt Smith and Lindsay Duncan, to Ryan David Jahn’s Texan crime-thriller The Dispatcher (Pan) transposed to Australia in an upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation starring Patrick Brammall and Maxine Peake. Jussi Adler-Olsen’s
final
Department Q novel Locked In (Quercus) arrives just after viewers are getting a taste of the new Edinburgh-set adaptation on Netflix starring Matthew Goode.
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