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powerful but corrupt city state, in a place very like Ancient Greece, where the portents are pointing to catastrophe but only one aged prophetess seems to realise. “Powerful,” said the Guardian.


Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi The First Woman Oneworld, 1st, £8.99, 9781786078582 Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize, this follows a young woman, Kirabo, growing up in a small Ugandan village as her country is transformed by the dicta- torship of Idi Amin. By the award-winning author of Kintu, it was a “Best Book of 2020” in the Daily Mail and Sunday Times.


Nicolas Mathieu And Their Children After Them Sceptre, 1st, £8.99, 9781529303865 The Goncourt winner tells the story of Antony and his friends, growing up over the long hot summers of the 1990s in France.


Alexander McCall Smith The Geometry of Holding Hands Abacus, 1st, £8.99, 9780349144092 The 13th in the Isabel Dalhousie series sees her trying to make the right choices for everyone, while protecting those she loves. “Delightful,” said the Sunday Telegraph.


Charlotte McConaghy Migrations Vintage, 6th, £8.99, 9781529111866


Début Franny Stone is determined to


follow the Arctic terns on Memoir Caitlin Moran


More Than a Woman Ebury Press, 8th, £8.99, 9781529102772


what may be their final migration to Antarctica, but the dark secrets of her life unspool as she travels further from shore. “Compulsive stuff, driven at a cracking pace by the power of the elements and the fierce will of its single- minded narrator,” said the Mail. Previously published as The Last Migration.


Tiffany McDaniel Betty


W&N, 8th, £8.99, 9781474617543 Born in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings, growing up in poverty and violence.


Andrew O’Hagan Mayflies Faber & Faber, 1st, £8.99, 9780571273713 James and Tully’s friend- ship begins in 1986, based on music, films and their rebel spirits. Thirty years on, the phone rings. Tully has some news. A Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, FT and Evening Standard book of the year pick, this is “spectacular”, said the Spectator.


Joyce Carol Oates Cardiff, by the Sea Head of Zeus, 8th, £8.99, 9781800241411 A collection of four never- before-seen novellas from the major American writer.


Caroline O’Donoghue Scenes of a Graphic Nature Virago, 1st, £8.99, 9780349009971 The author of Promising Young Women tells of Charlie, who decides to return to her ancestral home on an island off the west coast of Ireland to connect with her dad’s history before she loses him—only to


Christopher Potter The Thing Is Constable, 1st, £8.99, 9781472134332 Starting out as being written by an alien, seeing the Earth from the outside, this then moves to the perspective of an everychild, who vaguely remembers having once been an alien, and then to a biography of everyone who has ever lived.


Nguyen Phan Que Mai The Mountains Sing Oneworld, 1st, £8.99, 9780861540136


Début Set against the backdrop of


the Vietnam War, this


find herself caught in a decades-old conspiracy. “A darkly humorous, keenly observed blend of Millennial drift and murder mystery from a razor- sharp writer,” said Red. Slipped from May.


is the multigenerational story of the Tran family. “A feat of hope, an unflinch- ingly felt inquiry into the past, with the courageous storytelling of the pres- ent,” said Ocean Vuong.


Anbara Salam Belladonna Fig Tree, 29th, £8.99, 9780241986745


Isabella and Bridget both receive an offer to leave Connecticut and spend nine months in a silent convent in 1950s Italy.


Sarah Elaine Smith Marilou is Everywhere Hamish Hamilton, 1st, £8.99, 9780241986516 Popular, wealthy Jude disappears one summer, and Cindy, younger, poorer, performs a vanish- ing act of her own, slip- ping into Jude’s life. “It’s a book brimming with long- ing, with heartbreak. It’s a coming-of-age by coming into somebody else,” said the New York Times.


Won-pyung Sohn Almond HarperVia, 22nd, £10.99, 9780062961389 Everything changes for Yunjae, who was born with a brain condition called Alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear or anger, after a shocking act of violence on his 16th birthday.


Harold Sonny Ladoo No Pain Like This Body Vintage Classics, 1st, £8.99, 9781784877026 A classic of Trinidadian literature and of Canadian culture, where the author lived after he immigrated, this tells of the perilous


One to Watch


This follow-up to How To Be a Woman, which has sold more than 700,000 copies, sees Moran, now with ageing parents, teenage daughters, “a bigger bum and a To-Do list without end”, exploring the lives of older women. She’s tackling the tough ques-


tions which arise in middle age, from why there isn’t such a thing as a “Mum Bod”, to how sex got boring. A Sunday Times bestseller.


Literary


Sayaka Murata Earthlings Granta Books, 1st, £8.99, 9781783785698


existence of a poor rice- growing family during the August rainy season in the Eastern Caribbean. “A masterpiece of hurt,” said the New York Times.


David Trueba Rolling Fields W&N, 8th, £8.99, 9781474612883 When his father dies, Dani Mosca fulfils his last wishes and embarks on a road trip back to his child- hood village. Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery. “Effortlessly read- able and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful,” said the Mail on Sunday.


Gina Wilkinson When the Apricots Bloom Headline Review, 27th, £8.99, 9781472285294 In Iraq at the turn of the millennium, three women, a secretary, an artist and a diplomat’s wife, must decide how far they will go to protect their families under the rule of a dictator.


said Good Housekeeping; “full of grace and human- ity,” said the Sunday Times. Transworld prom- ises social media advertis- ing and “targeted” digital activity.


Literary short stories


Nicole Krauss To be a Man Bloomsbury Publishing, 8th, £8.99, 9781408871850 A short story collection from the twice Orange Prize-shortlisted author of The History of Love.


Commercial


Melanie Blake Ruthless Women Head of Zeus, 8th, £8.99, 9781800243040 This top-10 bestseller “does for TV what The Devil Wears Prada did for fashion”, said OK!


Elaine Feeney As You Were Vintage, 1st, £8.99, 9781529111514


Début Young property developer Sinéad


Hynes is keeping her diag- nosis of terminal cancer secret from everyone, even her family.


Linda Green


Anne Youngson Three Women and a Boat Black Swan, 1st, £8.99, 9781784165338 The Costa-shortlisted author of the wonderful Meet Me at the Museum tells of three older women who go on a canal-boat adventure with a dog. “Life-affirming and funny,”


The Marriage Mender Quercus, 22nd, £7.99, 9781529416725 Alison, whose job is helping couples who fear they have reached the end of the road, thinks she can handle it when her husband’s ex Lydia arrives on the doorstep, demanding to see her son. By the author of While My Eyes Were Closed.


One to Watch


Natsuki, who spent her childhood hoping a spaceship would take her home, flees her asexual marriage and returns home to the mountains to find her cousin. “Shocking, hilarious and hugely, darkly entertaining,” said the FT. The author’s


Convenience Store Woman has sold more than 100,000 copies in the UK, says Granta, and more than a million copies in Japan; it is being translated into 23 languages. Fantastic, eye-catching cover.


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