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Publishing This Week

Hello,

 

Among this week's two dozen notable new books are a number of authors you'll likely recognize including Diana Abu-Jaber, James Runcie, Elena Ferrante and Simone St. James. There are also many debuts to discover including Melissa Fu's tremendously powerful Peach Blossom Spring.

And don't miss Lessons From The Edge, the extremely timely memoir from Marie Yovanovitch, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine who I am sure you'll remember from the 2019 impeachment hearings.

As is often the case, there's way too many books to include in this newsletter, so I've picked out 10 below and you'll find the rest at bookbrowse.com/ptw.

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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.
Fencing with the King book jacket
Fencing with the King: A Novel
by Diana Abu-Jaber


On sale Mar 15 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Novels. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5

A mesmerizing breakthrough novel of family myths and inheritances by the award-winning author of Crescent.

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Peach Blossom Spring book jacket
Peach Blossom Spring: A Novel
by Melissa Fu


Debut Author
On sale Mar 15 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Historical Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.8/5

A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home (Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were the Lucky Ones).

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A Novel Obsession book jacket
A Novel Obsession: A Novel
by Caitlin Barasch


Debut Author
On sale Mar 15 from Dutton
Genre: Novels. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A wry and bold debut novel, which is at once an irresistible catastrophe waiting to happen and an unflinching exploration of how we narrate the stories of our lives, as an aspiring novelist finds herself stalking - and writing about - her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend.

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Vagabonds! book jacket
Vagabonds!: A Novel
by Eloghosa Osunde


Debut Author
On sale Mar 15 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Novels. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos, a cast of vivid characters - some haunted, some defiant - navigate danger, demons, and love in a quest to lead true lives.

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The Great Passion book jacket
The Great Passion
by James Runcie


On sale Mar 15 from Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Historical Fiction. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.

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In the Margins book jacket
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
by Elena Ferrante


On sale Mar 15 from Europa Editions
Genre: Essays. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.

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The Cartographers book jacket
The Cartographers: A Novel
by Peng Shepherd


On sale Mar 15 from William Morrow
Genre: Mysteries. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret - one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her family's dark history.

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When We Were Birds book jacket
When We Were Birds: A Novel
by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo


Debut Author
On sale Mar 15 from Doubleday
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut introduces two unforgettable outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead.

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Lessons From The Edge book jacket
Lessons From The Edge: A Memoir
by Marie Yovanovitch


On sale Mar 15 from Mariner Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An inspiring and urgent memoir by the US Ambassador to Ukraine who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power.

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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial book jacket
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took On a World at War by Deborah Cohen

On sale Mar 15 from Random House
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A prize-winning historian's revelatory account of a close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism.

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