Books to look forward to in the first few months of the New Year: Daphne Palasi Andreades’s stunning choral debut following the lives of a group of women of colour as they grow up and away from their shared childhood in Queens; the second novel from Fernanda Melchor to be translated into English by Sophie Hughes, Paradais, as blistering and uncompromising as her International Booker nominated Hurricane Season; another fantastic rediscovery from Faber’s archive, Kay Dick’s quiet and creeping dystopia They; and Pulitzer-winner Louise Erdrich’s latest, about an independent bookshop, haunted by its most annoying customer…
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‘Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book’s a gift’ Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout‘An ode to girlhood’ Raven Leilani, author…
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Translated by Sophie HughesInside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor – an attractive…
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Introduced by Carmen Maria Machado, the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer…‘A creepily prescient tale … Insidiously horrifying!’ Margaret…
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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMANIn this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage…
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‘Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential’ Irish Times‘Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher indicts all of us yet still offers hope that we may change the ending of…
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’Furious and addictive’ New York Times’Urgent, deeply moving, wholly original’ GEORGE SAUNDERS’A dazzling lightning bolt of a novel’ JENNY OFFILL’Fiercely funny and deliciously…
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'A gothic fairy tale, sublime in its creepiness' Florence WelchWhen Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel stranded on the ocean…
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'We are so ready for this book. Exploring the exhausting push-pull of trying to pin down a career you love but that doesn't love you back, Buchanan's book is set to capture the zeitgeist as so many of us question where we're…
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‘This book glows in the heart of the reader’ Max Porter‘Evocative, ecstatic and saturated with off-kilter wit’ Alexandra Kleeman‘This book is such a sneaky head f*ck – an epic poem in an ancient style…
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