The award-winning American essayist and poet’s first collection to be published in the UK combines civic awareness with an interrogation of language and self.Ī Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders (Bloomsbury) Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Faber)
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Pratchettesque romp set around a Manchester newspaper dedicated to the paranormal whose reporters get sucked into a battle between good and evil.Īmari and the Night Brothers by BB Alston (Egmont)įilm rights have been snapped up for the first in a new supernatural adventure series with a black heroine.įrom the US YA sensation, this hard-hitting prequel to the award-winning The Hate U Give focuses on Starr’s father as a young man. The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell (Bantam) Incendiary, beautifully written thriller debut about siblings living with the emotional legacy of childhood abuse in a ‘House of Horrors’.
Smart, gobble-at-a-sitting thriller about life as a yummy mummy influencer and the dark side of Instagram. The Art of Falling by Danielle McLaughlin (John Murray)ĭebut novel about a woman rebuilding her marriage, from the celebrated Irish short story writer.Ī River Called Time by Courttia Newland (Canongate)Īmbitious speculative epic set in an alternate London where slavery and colonialism never happened. Three lives entangle in contemporary India, in a debut about class and aspiration that has been a sensation in the US. His story collection Lot won last year’s Dylan Thomas prize this deft debut novel explores the complications of family and a gay relationship on the rocks.
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)Ī family grapples with mortality while Australia burns, in a magical realist fable about extinction and Anthropocene despair from the Booker-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North. In the year’s buzziest debut, a black American millennial tackles the difficulties of work, love, sex and being seen for who you really are. Photograph: Tejinder Singh Khamkha/NETFLIX The Netflix adaptation of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger.