Publishing This Week: 20 Titles Including Five Debut Novels and Six Nonfiction

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's notable new books are The Lost English Girl by Julia Kelly, bestselling author of Light Over London; and The God of Endings by debut novelist Jacqueline Holland; both were reviewed favorably by BookBrowse members assigned to read them for our First Impressions Program.

Also among this week's 20 books are four other debut novels; half a dozen works of nonfiction; and a new novel from Eleanor Catton, who won the Booker Prize for The Luminaries.

You'll find brief details on 10 titles below, and full information on all 20, including early reviews, in our New This Week section (under the "New" menu tab).

Our "New" section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists. So, if you want to look forward in time to see what's coming soon or back to previous months, this is the place to be; 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.

The God of Endings: A Novel
by Jacqueline Holland

Debut Author
On sale Mar 7 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 4.3/5

Suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking debut spans history, weaving a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman.

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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez
by Claire Jimenez

Debut Author
On sale Mar 7 from Grand Central Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A powerful debut novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and a**-kicking" (Jamie Ford), of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.

Letters to a Writer of Color
by Deepa Anappara

On sale Mar 7 from Random House
Genre: Essays. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work

Birnam Wood: A Novel
by Eleanor Catton

On sale Mar 7 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Thrillers. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries brings us Birnam Wood, a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.

The Curator
by Owen King

On sale Mar 7 from Scribner
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 480 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From New York Times bestselling author Owen King comes a Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine.

Weyward: A Novel
by Emilia Hart

Debut Author
On sale Mar 7 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.

Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult: a Memoir
by Michelle Dowd

Debut Author
On sale Mar 7 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A moving, heartbreaking, and lyrical true story of the author's escape from an apocalyptic cult—and the survival skills that led to her freedom.

The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
by Larry Loftis

On sale Mar 7 from William Morrow
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch watchmaker who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews during WWII—at the cost of losing her family and being sent to a concentration camp, only to survive, forgive her captors, and live the rest of her life as a Christian missionary.

Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector
by Amit Katwala

On sale Mar 7 from Crooked Lane Books
Genre: True Crime. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A thrilling account of the creation of the so-called lie detector, exploring shocking murders and dramatic trials to uncover the true nature of the polygraph. This tense true crime story is perfect for fans of American Predator and The Invention of Murder.

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