Publishing This Week: Sebastian Barry, Jacqueline Winspear and Five Debuts

Publishing This Week

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This week's 14 notable new books include five debut novels, a mystery from two-times Pulitzer finalist Sebastian Barry, and the first in a new series by Jacqueline Winspear starring former wartime operative Elinor White.

As always, you'll find brief details on ten books below (if we include more, some email services will cut the message short) and information on all, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu). Our "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists. So, this is the place to be if you want to look forward to see what's coming soon or back to previous months; you can sort each month by publication date, genre and title.

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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.

Commitment: A Novel
by Mona Simpson

On sale Mar 21 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023—a masterful and engrossing novel about a single mother's collapse and the fate of her family after she enters a California state hospital in the 1970s.

Y/N: A Novel
by Esther Yi

Debut Author
On sale Mar 21 from Astra House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.

Beyond That, the Sea: A Novel
by Laura Spence-Ash

Debut Author
On sale Mar 21 from Celadon
Genre: Historical Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own.

Old God's Time: A Novel
by Sebastian Barry

On sale Mar 21 from Viking
Genre: Mysteries. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets.

How I'll Kill You
by Ren DeStefano

Debut Author
On sale Mar 21 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark.

The White Lady: A Novel
by Jacqueline Winspear

On sale Mar 21 from Harper
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White—veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity—when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind.

The Lies of the Ajungo: The Forever Desert #1
by Moses Ose Utomi

Debut Author
On sale Mar 21 from Tor.com
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 96 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy's epic quest to bring water back to his city and save his mother's life. Prepare to enter the Forever Desert.

Crooked: The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal
by Nathan Masters

Debut Author
On sale Mar 21 from Hachette Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down

Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond

On sale Mar 21 from Crown
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.

The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
by Bill Hammack

On sale Mar 21 from Sourcebooks
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problems. Whether it's planting crops, building skyscrapers, developing photographs, or designing the first microchip, all creators follow the same steps to engineer progress. But this powerful method, the "engineering method," is an all but hidden process that few of us have heard of - let alone understand - but that influences every aspect of our lives.

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