Publishing This Week: 40 New Books, including novels from Kristin Hannah, Paul Theroux, Margot Livesey, and Francis Spufford

Publishing This Week

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Among this week's 40 new and notable books are debuts from a dozen new authors, including The Adversary by Michael Crummey, which gets starred reviews from Publishers Weekly ("Spellbinding") and Kirkus Reviews ("An enthralling masterpiece"). Daniel Lefferts is also publishing his debut novel, Ways and Means, a novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era.

You'll find brief information on 10 titles below, and descriptions and reviews for all of them in our New This Week section. For more soon to publish books, check out BookBrowse's "What's New" section.

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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.

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The Adversary: A Novel
by Michael Crummey

On sale Feb 6 from Doubleday
Genre: Literary Fiction. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents ("Extraordinary"—Wall Street Journal) a dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption.

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Bright Red Fruit
by Safia Elhillo

On sale Feb 6 from Make Me a World
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An unflinching, honest novel in verse about a teenager's journey into the slam poetry scene and the dangerous new relationship that could threaten all her dreams. From the award-winning poet and author of Home Is Not a Country.

Ordinary Human Failings: A Novel
by Megan Nolan

On sale Feb 6 from Little Brown & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 224 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about their past in this haunting, propulsive, psychologically keen story about class, trauma, and family secrets from "huge literary talent" (Karl Ove Knausgaard) and internationally bestselling author Megan Nolan.

Praiseworthy
by Alexis Wright

On sale Feb 6 from New Directions Publishing
Genre: Literary Fiction. 672 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose "words explode from the page" (The Monthly)

Ways and Means: A Novel
by Daniel Lefferts

Debut Author
On sale Feb 6 from The Overlook Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A searing debut novel about a striving finance student, the line between ambition and greed, and the disordered politics of our era.

Burma Sahib: A Novel
by Paul Theroux

On sale Feb 6 from Mariner Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From the acclaimed author of The Mosquito Coast and The Bad Angel Brothers comes a riveting new novel exploring one of English literature's most beloved and controversial figures—George Orwell—and the early years as an officer in colonial Burma that transformed him from Eric Blair, the British Raj policeman, into Orwell the anticolonial writer.

Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
by Tania De Rozario

On sale Feb 6 from Harper Perennial
Genre: Essays. 192 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir with elements of history, pop culture, horror films, and current events to explore the nature of monsters and what it means to be different.

The End of Love: Sex and Desire in the Twenty-First Century
by Tamara Tenenbaum

Debut Author
On sale Feb 6 from Europa Editions
Genre: Essays. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Told as a series of reflections on her personal experiences, this is a bold manifesto by a brilliant young mind on our contemporary understanding of romantic love and how the contradictions of inherited traditions and technology affect the way we build relationships.

Last Seen in Havana: Havana Mysteries
by Teresa Dovalpage

On sale Feb 6 from Soho Crime
Genre: Mysteries. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A Cuban American woman searches for her long-lost mother and fights to restore a beautiful but crumbling Art Deco home in the heart of Havana in this moving, immersive new mystery, perfect for fans of Of Women and Salt.

The Tainted Cup
by Robert Jackson Bennett

On sale Feb 6 from Del Rey
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History. 432 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett

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