Publishing This Week: Liz Hyder, Dennis Lehane and Simon Winchester

Publishing This Week

Hello,

Among this week's dozen new and notable novels are Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies set in Boston in the summer of 1974, when the city's public school desegregation program exploded into violence; and The Gifts, Liz Hyder's debut novel for adults, "an insightful mysterious read celebrating female friendship and solidarity" which takes us to a Victorian London "brimming with historical detail" (Daily Express, UK).

There are also half a dozen nonfiction books including a new work from Simon Winchester.

As always, I've included brief details on 10 books below, and you'll find more information on all 18 (including early reviews) in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu).

BookBrowse's "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists. So, this is the place to be if you want to see what's coming soon or look back to previous months; you can sort each month by publication date, genre and title.

Enjoy!

Davina, BookBrowse Publisher

This Week's New and Notable Books

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. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

More about how we pick and rate books.

The Gifts: A Novel
by Liz Hyder

On sale Apr 25 from Sourcebooks
Genre: Literary Fiction. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.0/5

The Gifts is an astonishing novel, a spellbinding tale told through five different perspectives and set against the luminous backdrop of nineteenth century London, it explores science, nature and religion, enlightenment, the role of women in society and the dark danger of ambition.

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Ghost Girl, Banana: A Novel
by Wiz Wharton

Debut Author
On sale Apr 25 from HarperVia
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.

Hungry Ghost
by Victoria Ying

On sale Apr 25 from First Second
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family dynamics, and ultimately, a journey to self-love.

We Are a Haunting: A Novel
by Tyriek White

Debut Author
On sale Apr 25 from Astra House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A poignant debut for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation.

Ordinary Notes
by Christina Sharpe

On sale Apr 25 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Essays. 392 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The critically acclaimed author of In the Wake, "Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements...and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility" (Saidiya Hartman).

Salvage This World: A Novel
by Michael Farris Smith

On sale Apr 25 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Thrillers. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this "tense, brooding" novel, a young woman returns home with her child to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the stormridden territory to find the girl who may be a savior in the apocalypse. (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

Small Mercies: A Novel
by Dennis Lehane

On sale Apr 25 from Harper
Genre: Thrillers. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River—an all-consuming tale of revenge, family love, festering hate, and insidious power, set against one of the most tumultuous episodes in Boston's history.

The Last Word: A Novel
by Taylor Adams

On sale Apr 25 from William Morrow
Genre: Thrillers. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the author is a little touchy—or very, very dangerous—in this pulse-pounding novel of psychological suspense and terror from the critically acclaimed author of No Exit and Hairpin Bridge.

Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
by Larry Rohter

On sale Apr 25 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Biography. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt.

Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
by Ava Chin

On sale Apr 25 from Penguin Press
Genre: Biography/History. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A sweeping narrative history of the Chinese Exclusion Act through an intimate portrayal of one family's epic journey to lay down roots in America

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