Publishing This Week: In the Time of Our History & 10 Other Notable Books

Publishing This Week

Happy New Year!

In this, the first 2023 issue of Publishing This Week, we've found 11 books to bring to your attention including In the Time of Our History by Susanne Pari. 40 BookBrowse members reviewed Pari's sophomore novel for our First Impressions Program rating it a very impressive 4.7-star average. Click the links below for their reviews and an extensive excerpt.

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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.

In the Time of Our History
by Susanne Pari

On sale Jan 3 from Kensington Publishing
Genre: Historical Fiction. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.7/5

The prodigal daughter of Iranian immigrants returns to her family home for her sister's One Year – the Persian tradition of marking the first anniversary of someone's death – in an intimate story of identity and duty set in late-1990s San Francisco and New Jersey.

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16 & Pregnant: A Novel
by LaLa Thomas

On sale Jan 3 from MTV Books
Genre: Literary Fiction (Young Adult). 320 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The bond between two best friends is put to the test when one of them gets pregnant in this contemporary teen novel inspired by MTV's iconic reality show.

The Bandit Queens: A Novel
by Parini Shroff

Debut Author
On sale Jan 3 from Ballantine Books
Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion:

A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.

The Villa: A Novel
by Rachel Hawkins

On sale Jan 3 from St. Martin's Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 288 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, set at an Italian villa with a dark history, for fans of Lucy Foley and Ruth Ware.

Night Wherever We Go: A Novel
by Tracey Rose Peyton

Debut Author
On sale Jan 3 from Ecco
Genre: Historical Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion:

A gripping, radically intimate debut novel about a group of enslaved women staging a covert rebellion against their owners

Picture in the Sand: A Novel
by Peter Blauner

On sale Jan 3 from Minotaur Books
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Peter Blauner's epic Picture in the Sand is a sweeping intergenerational saga told through a grandfather's passionate letters to his grandson, passing on the story of his political rebellion in 1950s Egypt in order to save his grandson's life in a post-9/11 world.

The New Life: A Novel
by Tom Crewe

On sale Jan 3 from Scribner
Genre: Historical Fiction. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A brilliant and captivating debut, in the tradition of Alan Hollinghurst and Colm Tóibín, about two marriages, two forbidden love affairs, and the passionate search for social and sexual freedom in late 19th-century London.

Age of Vice: A Novel
by Deepti Kapoor

On sale Jan 3 from Riverhead Books
Genre: Thrillers. 560 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill.

The Blackhouse: A Novel
by Carole Johnstone

On sale Jan 3 from Scribner
Genre: Thrillers. 336 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

From the author of the "dark and devious...beautifully written" (Stephen King) Mirrorland comes a richly atmospheric thriller set on an isolated Scottish island where nothing is as it seems and shocking twists lie around every corner.

Local: A Memoir
by Jessica Machado

Debut Author
On sale Jan 1 from Little A
Genre: Biography/Memoir. 236 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs.

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
by Martha C. Nussbaum

On sale Jan 3 from Simon & Schuster
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.

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