Publishing This Week: Including Jane Smiley, Charles Cumming and Cormac McCarthy

Publishing This Week

Hello,

In this week's Publishing This Week lineup, we’ve found 19 books to bring to your attention, including new novels from Jane Smiley, Charles Cumming and Cormac McCarthy. Email providers like Gmail cut overly large messages short, so I can't include all the books in this newsletter; so, below you’ll find the eight debut titles, and all 19 books in our "New This Week" section (under the "New" tab in BookBrowse's main menu).

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.

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel
by Bushra Rehman

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion is an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community.

The Circus Train
by Amita Parikh

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from G.P. Putnam's Sons
Genre: Historical Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl's coming-of-age during the darkest of times.

The Seamstress of Sardinia: A Novel
by Bianca Pitzorno

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from Harper Perennial
Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A bestselling Italian writer makes her American debut with this delightful dramedy of manners, family, romance, and fashion that is set on the island of Sardinia at the end of the nineteenth century - a dazzling and original literary blend of Jane Austen and Adriana Trigiani.

Cursed Bunny: Stories
by Bora Chung

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from Algonquin Books
Genre: Short Stories. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A stunning, wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature - surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite.

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
by Sabrina Imbler

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Essays. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments.

A History of Fear: A Novel
by Luke Dumas

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from Atria Books
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

"A disorienting, creepy, paranoia-inducing reimagining of the devil-made-me-do-it tale" (Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World) following the harrowing downfall of a tortured graduate student arrested for murder.

Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What We Can Do About It
by Erica Thompson

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from Basic Books
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Why mathematical models are so often wrong, and how we can make better decisions by accepting their limits.

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
by Bethany Brookshire

Debut Author
On sale Dec 6 from Ecco
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals "pests" and others not - from cats to rats, elephants to pigeons - and what this tells us about our own perceptions, beliefs, and actions, as well as our place in the natural world.

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