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Publishing This Week
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Among the literary delights for you to explore this week are new works from John Banville, Cormac McCarthy and Siddhartha Mukherjee. See 10 below and all 16 in our Publishing this Week section.

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.
Is Mother Dead book jacket
Is Mother Dead
by Vigdis Hjorth


On sale Oct 25 from Verso
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will and Testament.

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Sign Here book jacket
Sign Here
by Claudia Lux


Debut Author
On sale Oct 25 from Berkley Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in Hell (literally) and is on the cusp of a big promotion if only he can get one more member of the wealthy Harrison family to sell their soul.

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The Singularities book jacket
The Singularities: A Novel
by John Banville


On sale Oct 25 from Knopf
Genre: Literary Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

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Inciting Joy book jacket
Inciting Joy: Essays
by Ross Gay


On sale Oct 25 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Essays. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights.

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The Passenger book jacket
The Passenger
by Cormac McCarthy


On sale Oct 25 from Knopf
Genre: Thrillers. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.

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Strike the Zither book jacket
Strike the Zither: Kingdom of Three #1 by Joan He

On sale Oct 25 from Roaring Brook Press
Genre: Fantasy (Young Adult). 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A dazzling new fantasy from New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He, Strike the Zither is a powerful, inventive, and sweeping fantasy that reimagines the Chinese classic tale of the Three Kingdoms.

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Martha Graham book jacket
Martha Graham: When Dance Became Modern
by Neil Baldwin


On sale Oct 25 from Knopf
Genre: Biography. 576 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A major biography - the first in three decades - of one of the most important artistic forces of the twentieth century, the legendary American dancer and choreographer who upended dance, propelling the art form into the modern age, and whose profound and pioneering influence is still being felt today.

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The White Mosque book jacket
The White Mosque
by Sofia Samatar


On sale Oct 25 from Catapult
Genre: Memoir. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to create an identity.

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The Sassoons book jacket
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
by Joseph Sassoon


On sale Oct 25 from Pantheon Books
Genre: History. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade - cotton, opium, shipping, banking - that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. With full access to rare family photographs and archives.

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The Song of the Cell book jacket
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
by Siddhartha Mukherjee


On sale Oct 25 from Scribner
Genre: Science. 496 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human.

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John Shors Travel: Literary Tours
Bestselling author John Shors is offering a series of exceptional tours in 2023 (more about John's books and his tours in our blog).

He personally leads all tours, which in 2023 will include:

Cambodia   – January 2023. John will co-lead a literary tour to Cambodia, alongside Loung Ung, the author of  First They Killed My Father.  This tour will dive deeply into the origins of Loung’s book; as well as  Temple of a Thousand Faces , John’s novel about Angkor Wat.

Cambodia – February 2023. For this tour John has hired a yoga master to accompany the group, and there will be daily yoga and meditation classes at special sites.

Bhutan – April 2023. This tour will feature an extraordinary itinerary emphasizing the past and present wonders of this legendary Himalayan country.

Japan – May 2023. John lived for several years in Japan and has created a one-of-a-kind itinerary that will give participants an exciting and rich cultural experience.

Uzbekistan – September 2023. Participants will enjoy a wonderful journey along The Silk Road; staying in fabled cities, experiencing the best sights of a beautiful country.
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