Publishing This Week: Including a New Novel from Philip Gray and Short Stories from Megan Mayhew Bergman

Publishing This Week

Hello,

This week's new and notable roundup includes Two Storm Wood, a fantastic mystery by Philip Gray, set in the Somme in the immediate aftermath of World War I. Our members who reviewed it for our early reader program First Impressions rated it a glowing 4.5 stars and I think it would make a great choice for book clubs as there are many avenues rich for discussion.

You'll find 10 of the week's books below, and all thirteen on BookBrowse.

Enjoy!

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. For more about our process, see “Picking Books” and “Rating Books”.

Two Storm Wood: A Novel
by Philip Gray

On sale Mar 29 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Mystery. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5
Members' Rating: 4.5/5

In this thriller set on the battlefields of the Somme after the end of World War I, a woman investigates the disappearance of her fiancé.

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The Most Dazzling Girl In Berlin
by Kip Wilson

On sale Mar 29 from Versify
Genre: Historical Fiction (Young Adult). 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A fascinating historical novel about Hilde, a former orphan, who experiences Berlin on the cusp of World War II and discovers her own voice and sexuality and finds a family when she gets a job at a cabaret, by award-winning author Kip Wilson.

How Strange a Season: Fiction
by Megan Mayhew Bergman

On sale Mar 29 from Scribner
Genre: Short Stories. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An evocative and engrossing collection of new stories and a novella about women experiencing life's challenges and beauty from the award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.

Out There: Stories
by Kate Folk

Debut Author
On sale Mar 29 from Random House
Genre: Short Stories. 256 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, "[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror" (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad).

Cleopatra's Dagger
by Carole Lawrence

On sale Apr 1 from Thomas & Mercer
Genre: Mysteries. 364 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of the Ian Hamilton Mysteries.

Sweep of Stars: Astra Black #1
by Maurice Broaddus

On sale Mar 29 from Tor Books
Genre: Sci-Fi. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the struggles of an empire. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire – a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. (original earth) to Titan – as it faces an escalating series of threats.

Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
by Maud Newton

Debut Author
On sale Mar 29 from Random House
Genre: Memoir. 384 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her wildly unconventional Southern family - and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves.

Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
by Caroline Elkins

On sale Mar 29 from Knopf
Genre: History. 896 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

From Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe.

My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route
by Sally Hayden

Debut Author
On sale Mar 29 from Melville House
Genre: Current Affairs. 448 pages
Critics' Opinion: 4/5

The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devastating humanitarian crises in history.

The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
by Scott Carney

On sale Mar 29 from Ecco
Genre: History. 528 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal.

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