Publishing This Week: Salman Rushdie, Jojo Moyes, Tom Rob Smith, Rachel Joyce, Margaret Verble and 19 Others

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's two dozen notable new books are novels from Salman Rushdie, Jojo Moyes, Tom Rob Smith, Rachel Joyce (completing her Harold Fry series), and Margaret Verble. Some BookBrowse members reviewed Verble's book, Stealing, for our First Impressions program rating it an extremely impressive 4.8-star average; and others have been reading Priscilla Gilman's memoir, The Critic's Daughter, about her relationship with her father, writer and theater critic Richard Gilman, with the majority rating it 5-stars.

As always, you'll find 10 books below, and full information on all 24 in our New This Week section.

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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.

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Stealing: A Novel
by Margaret Verble

On sale Feb 7 from Mariner Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.8/5

A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of history and small-town prejudices from Pulitzer Prize finalist Margaret Verble.

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Cold People
by Tom Rob Smith

On sale Feb 7 from Scribner
Genre: Literary Fiction. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 comes a suspenseful and fast-paced novel about an Antarctic colony of global apocalypse survivors seeking to reinvent civilization under the most extreme conditions imaginable.

Maureen: A Harold Fry Novel
by Rachel Joyce

On sale Feb 7 from Dial Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 192 pages

Ten years ago, Harold Fry set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to save a friend. But the story doesn't end there. Now his wife, Maureen, has her own pilgrimage to make.

Someone Else's Shoes: A Novel
by Jojo Moyes

On sale Feb 7 from Pamela Dorman Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars.

Stone Blind: A Novel
by Natalie Haynes

On sale Feb 7 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar returns with a fresh and stunningly perceptive take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman.

Victory City: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie

On sale Feb 7 from Random House
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.

Call and Response: Stories
by Gothataone Moeng

On sale Feb 7 from Viking
Genre: Short Stories. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tradition and caretaking in a rapidly changing world.

A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
by Bruce Schneier

On sale Feb 7 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Current Affairs. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

It's not just computers - hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times bestselling author Bruce Schneier reveals how using a hacker's mindset can change how you think about your life and the world.

The Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls
by Miriam Darlington

On sale Feb 7 from Tin House Books
Genre: Nature. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

One minute I was sipping my tea by the window. There was nothing but the palest edge of grey light and a wisp of steam from my cup―and then a shadow swooped out of the air. With the lightest of scratches, as if the dawn light was solidifying into life, there it was, perched like an exclamation mark on the balcony: an owl, come to my home.

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