Publishing This Week: The Continental Affair

Publishing This Week

Hello,

There's just seven books in this week's list of new and notable titles. One in particular to look out for is The Continental Affair, a captivating crime caper by Christine Mangan (author of Tangerine and Palace of the Drowned) set on a train traveling from Belgrade to Istanbul in the 1960s. To quote BookBrowse member Claire M., it's "moody and atmospheric, seething with repressed rage and the trauma of a 'dirty' war...a great choice for book groups."

We have brief information on all books below and more in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu). The New section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look ahead to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months; debuts are indicated by a yellow highlight.

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.

The Continental Affair: A Novel
by Christine Mangan

On sale Aug 22 from Flatiron Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring literary caper that is quick on its feet and delightfully surprising.

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Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel
by Brendan Shay Basham

Debut Author
On sale Aug 22 from Harper
Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

"Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic." —Tommy Orange, author of There, There

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
by Yunte Huang

On sale Aug 22 from Liveright/W.W. Norton
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history.

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
by Drew Gilpin Faust

On sale Aug 22 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America.

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
by Kyo Maclear

On sale Aug 22 from Scribner
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love—for readers of Dani Shapiro's Inheritance and Katherine May's Wintering.

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
by Anna Funder

On sale Aug 22 from Knopf
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 464 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century - and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world.

Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
by Nikhil Goyal

On sale Aug 22 from Metropolitan Books
Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest large city in America

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