Publishing This Week

Hello,

My apologies that this week's issue of Publishing This Week is coming to you later than the usual Sunday delivery. My husband and I have just got in from a two-day drive from beautiful Montana back to home base in California, and I just realized that I did not schedule the email before leaving. So, here for your reading pleasure are this week's new and notable books.

With best wishes,

Davina Morgan-Witts
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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.

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Pilot Impostor
by James Hannaham

On sale Nov 30 from Soft Skull Press
Genre: Novels. 208 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A startling, shape-shifting book of prose and images that draws on an unexpected pair of inspirations - the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and the history of air disasters - to investigate con men, identity politics, failures of leadership, the privilege of ineptitude, the slave trade, and the nature of consciousness.

Small Things Like These
by Claire Keegan

On sale Nov 30 from Grove Press
Genre: Novels. 128 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers.

The Words in My Hands
by Asphyxia

On sale Nov 30 from Annick Press
Genre: Novels (Young Adult). 388 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong.

The Postmistress of Paris: A Novel
by Meg Waite Clayton

On sale Nov 30 from Harper
Genre: Historical Fiction. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Train to London revisits the dark early days of the German occupation in France in this haunting novel - a love story and a tale of high-stakes danger and incomparable courage - about a young American heiress who helps artists hunted by the Nazis escape from war-torn Europe.

People from My Neighborhood: Stories
by Hiromi Kawakami

On sale Nov 30 from Soft Skull Press
Genre: Short Stories. 176 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the author of the internationally bestselling Strange Weather in Tokyo, a collection of interlinking stories that masterfully blend the mundane and the mythical - "fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical, and frequently veering into the macabre" (Financial Times).

Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
by Lydia Davis

On sale Nov 30 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Essays. 592 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis.

Jade Legacy: The Green Bone Saga #3
by Fonda Lee

On sale Nov 30 from Orbit
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 736 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an East Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis in Jade Legacy, the page-turning conclusion to the Green Bone Saga.

Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
by Faith Jones

Debut Author
On sale Nov 30 from William Morrow
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment - an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult.

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