FICTION
FICTION
WILL THERE EVER BE ANOTHER YOU
Patricia Lockwood
PB $ 32.99
The world might be in disarray, but for one young woman, the very weave of herself seems to have loosened. Time and memories pass straight through her body. Tearing through the slippery terrains of fiction and reality, the possibility for human connection seems to beckon from the other side. From one of our most original, inventive and prodigiously funny writers, Will There Ever Be Another You is a phosphorescent, wild and profound investigation into what keeps us alive in unprecedented times.
HEART THE LOVER
Lily King
PB $ 32.99
Our narrator understands good love stories – their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, Heart the Lover is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love. This is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today. From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers.
THE ELEVENTH HOUR
Salman Rushdie
PB $ 34.99
due nov 4
These five dazzling works of fiction move between the three countries that Salman Rushdie has called home – India, England and America – and explore what it means to approach the eleventh hour of life. They are the reckoning with mortality that we all must one day make, and speak deeply to what the author has come from and through. The Eleventh Hour ponders legacy and identity with the penetrating insight that has made Salman Rushdie one of the most celebrated writers of our time.
BENBECULA Graeme Macrae Burnet
PB $ 32.99
due nov 4
From Graeme
Macrae Burnet, the Booker-shortlisted author of His Bloody Project, comes a tale of darkness, violence and madness, leavened by moments of black humour and absurdity. On the 9th of July 1857, a 25-year-old labourer named Angus MacPhee bludgeoned to death his parents and aunt in the crofting community on the remote Hebridean island of Benbecula. Five years later, Angus’ older brother Malcolm recounts the events leading up to the murders while trying to keep a grip on his own sanity. Malcolm is haunted by this gruesome episode in his past, but is he as innocent as he seems?
THE SILVER BOOK
Olivia Laing
PB $ 34.99
due nov 11
It is September 1974. Two men meet by chance in Venice. One is a young English artist, in panicked flight from London. The other is Danilo Donati, the magician of Italian cinema. Nicholas becomes Danilo’ s apprentice and then lover, but Nicholas has a secret and in this world of constant illusion, his real nature passes unseen. Amidst the rising tensions of Italy’ s‘ Years of Lead’, he acts as an accelerant, setting in motion a tragedy he didn’ t intend. At once a queer love story and a noirish thriller, set in the dream factory of cinema, The Silver Book is an investigation into the difficult relationship between artifice and truth, illusion and reality, love and power.
ON THE CALCUL- ATION OF VOLUME( BOOK III)
Solvej Balle, Sophia Hersi Smith( trans.), Jennifer
Russell( trans.)
PB $ 26.99 due nov 18
Tara Selter has lived the 18th of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern: a man has changed his shirt. The man is Henry Dale, and he remembers all the days that have come before. He knows that time has fallen out of joint. Now they are two of a kind – trapped on the 18th of November, but no longer alone. On the Calculation of Volume is the third volume in Solvej Balle’ s landmark European masterpiece about a woman lost in time.
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