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Autumn, Ali Smith
The first in a four-part series of books by the How to Be Both author,
has been described by its publisher as "a stripped-branches take on
popular culture" and a "meditation, in a world growing ever more
bordered and exclusive, on richness and worth".

The four novels from Smith, who won the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize
for Fiction, are expected to be named Autumn, Winter, Spring and
Summer as part of a seasonal motif. Publisher Hamish Hamilton said the
books would be separate yet interconnected and cyclical, "exploring
what time is, how we experience it and the recurring markers in the
shapes our lives take and in our ways with narrative".
Out in August
The Winds of Winter, George RR Martin
The next instalment of George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
series was due out before the sixth season of Game of Thrones hit
television screens on 24 April. However, the author has confessed he
will not be able to finish it in time. "For months now I have wanted
nothing so much as to be able to say, 'I have completed and delivered
The Winds of Winter on or before the last day of 2015.' But the book's
not done," wrote Martin on his blog in January. It is not clear when the
novel will be published, with the author warning he was still "months
away" from finishing it.

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