Hi

Among this week's eleven new and notable books are four debut novels including Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen which has been shortlisted for the prestigious Costa First Novel Award.

Next week will be the last issue of Publishing This Week for the year as very few books are published in the second half of December.

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Very best,

Davina

There are too many books published each week for you to read about them all, let alone read them all. So we do the legwork for you, scouring the publishers' catalogs and the pre-publication reviews to pick out what we believe to be among the best and most interesting. For more about our process, click the two right hand links below.