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 /  12 March 2025  

#  10 New Books You Should Know About  


 On holiday, on the commute or just on a chill one at home – these fresh releases will hit the spot.  
 

 



 

 

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## *A Trial in Three Acts* by Guy Morpuss 



 

With an ingenious ending that’s seriously satisfying, Guy Morpuss's latest detective novel is centred on razor-sharp sleuth and barrister Charles Konig. He’s brought onto a case at the last minute when the ex-husband and co-star of an actress who has been decapitated live on stage is accused of her murder. In front of a full house, leading lady Alexandra Dyce took to the stage for the final time but, as Charles and a colleague sift through the evidence, they realise that the key to solving the mystery may lie within the play itself. As Charles navigates celebrity drama and hidden secrets, he must uncover the real murderer to win the case of a lifetime.

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## *The Boy from the Sea* by Garrett Carr 



 

Irish author Garrett Carr’s latest book is a personal reflection on his own upbringing. It’s 1973 when a baby is found abandoned on the beach on Ireland’s west coast. The close-knit community is at once suspicious of the boy who seems to have washed up on the shore, until a fisherman, Ambrose Bonnar, adopts him. Ambrose, a man more comfortable at sea than on land, brings the baby into his home out of love. But it is a decision that will fracture his family and force this man to try to understand himself and those he cares for. This is a novel about a restless man trying to find his place in the world, and an exploration of the ties that make and bind us.

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## *The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne* by Ron Currie 



 

Drug lords, trafficking, power and an unimaginable amount of money rule a small town in Ron Currie’s latest novel. Babs Dionne is a doting grandmother, and a vicious crime matriarch who runs the town with an iron fist. She controls the flow of drugs into its borders with the help of her loyal lieutenants, girlfriends since they were teenagers, and her eldest daughter, Lori, a former soldier struggling with addiction. When a cartel discovers that its numbers are down in the area, they send a malevolent force, known only as The Man, to investigate. At the same time, Babs's youngest daughter, Sis, has gone missing, which doesn't seem at all like a coincidence. In 24 hours, Sis will be found dead, and the whole town will seek shelter from Babs's wrath…

*Released on 3rd April*

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## *Back in the Day* by Oliver Lovrenski 



 

Oliver Lovrenski's debut novel was an instant bestseller when it hit the shelves in Norway in 2023. Now translated into English, it tells the story of two young men grappling to find their place in the world. Ivor and Marco have been getting high since they were 13, started dealing at 14, and picked up their first knives at 15. At 16, they hurtle from one trip to the next, one fight to the next, always watching their backs. Ivor dreams of getting out – finishing school, becoming a lawyer, marrying the girl he loves from the corner shop – but the path he's on only leads one way.

*Released on 17th April*

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## *Another Man in the Street* by Caryl Phillips 



 

In the early 60s, Victor 'Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work at an Irish pub in Notting Hill, then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman. Shadowing Lucky from his early struggles in London to the present day, Caryl Phillips paints a portrait of a flawed but vividly alive man grappling with the lifelong disillusionments of exile – and the uniquely complicated identity of the Windrush generation. It’s a timely portrait of immigrant London, and a moving story about displacement and belonging.

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## *We Do Not Part* by Han Kang 



 

Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize, Han Kang’s powerful book *The Vegetarian* was translated into English by Deborah Smith last year. Now, we have Han’s latest to enjoy. Beginning one morning in December, *We Do Not Part* traces the path of Kyungha as she travels from the city of Seoul into the forests of Jeju Island, to the home of her old friend Inseon. Hospitalised following an accident, Inseon has begged Kyungha to rush to feed her beloved pet bird, who will otherwise die. Kyungha takes the first plane to Jeju, but a snowstorm hits the island the moment she arrives. Beset by icy wind and snow, she wonders if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold herself. As night falls, she struggles up to Inseon’s house, unaware of the descent into darkness which awaits her. There, the long-buried story of Inseon’s family comes to the fore…

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## *Twist* by Colum McCann 



 

Journalist Anthony Fennell is in pursuit of a story buried at the bottom of the sea: the network of tiny fibre-optic tubes that carry the world's information across the ocean floor – and what happens when they break. He travels to Cape Town to board the George Lecointe, a cable repair vessel captained by John Conway. Conway is a talented engineer and fearless freediver – and Fennell is quickly captivated by this mysterious, unnerving man and his beautiful partner, Zanele. As the boat embarks along the west coast of Africa, Fennell learns the rhythms of life at sea, and finds his place among the band of drifters who make up the crew. Then Conway disappears; and Fennell must set out to find him.

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## *Theft* by Abdulrazak Gurnah 



 

Abdulrazak Gurnah was one of the unsung heroes in contemporary African literature, until he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021. His works focus on displacement and colonialism, drawing from his upbringing in Tanzania. *Theft* is set at the turn of the 21st century, when three young people are coming of age in Tanzania. Karim returns to his sleepy hometown after university with new swagger and ambition, while Fauzia glimpses in him a chance to escape from a smothering upbringing. The two of them offer a haven to Badar, a poor boy still unsure if the future holds anything for him at all. As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands.

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## *Albion* by Anna Hope 



 

When several family members fight over the legacy of their inherited country estate, all hell breaks loose in this *Succession*-meets-*Saltburn* novel from British writer Anna Hope. The Brookes gather in their ancestral home to bury Philip, the head of the family. Frannie, who will inherit the land, dreams of rewilding it to combat climate change, while Milo envisions a luxury retreat for the wealthy under the influence of psychedelics. Both believe their father gave them his blessing to carry out their ambition plans, setting them on a collision course. Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and only hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover what her marriage is lacking. And then there’s Claram who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will shatter all their hopes and dreams.

*Released on 1st May*

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## *Flesh* by David Szalay 



 

Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – his only companion. These encounters shift into a secret relationship that István himself can barely understand, and his life soon spirals out of control. As the years pass, he is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the 21st century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own impulses for intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches. That is, until they threaten to undo him completely.

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