Publishing This Week: Kristina McMorris, Maggie O'Farrell, Christopher Buckley, Ann Cleeves, Lucy Worsley and many more!

Publishing This Week

Hello,

September marks the start of the publishing industry’s fall season, and with most publishers front-weighting their catalogs, we readers are going to be spoiled for choice over the coming weeks. Just as a taster, this week’s 25 notable books include new works from Kristina McMorris, Maggie O'Farrell, Christopher Buckley, Ann Cleeves, Lucy Worsley; plus nine debuts including The Family Izquierdo by Rubén Degollado which BookBrowse members reviewed favorably for our First Impressions Program.

We’re going to be reviewing a number of these over the coming weeks but, as usual, we’ve already gathered together all the prepub reviews on BookBrowse for you to look through. You’ll find 10 books listed below and all of them in our New This Week section.

We’ll be discussing The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris in our book club forum starting Sept 6. This is her first novel since her 2018 bestseller Sold On a Monday; you are most welcome to join us to discuss this or any of our fall season book club books.

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. You can see them all in our “What’s New” section.

More about how we pick and rate books.

The Family Izquierdo: A Novel
by Rubén Degollado

Debut Author
On sale Sep 6 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5
Members' Rating: 3.9/5

A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse.

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The Ways We Hide: A Novel
by Kristina McMorris

On sale Sep 6 from Sourcebooks
Genre: Historical Fiction. 496 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sold On A Monday―over a million copies sold!―comes a sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path.

Sacrificio
by Ernesto Mestre-Reed

On sale Sep 6 from Soho Press
Genre: Literary Fiction. 456 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

Set in Cuba in 1998, Sacrificio is a triumphant and mesmeric work of violence, loss, and identity, following a group of young HIV-positive counterrevolutionaries who seek to overthrow the Castro government.

The Marriage Portrait: A novel
by Maggie O'Farrell

On sale Sep 6 from Knopf
Genre: Historical Fiction. 352 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

The author of Hamnet - New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner - brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a troubled court.

If I Survive You
by Jonathan Escoffery

Debut Author
On sale Sep 6 from MCD
Genre: Short Stories. 272 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.

What We Fed to the Manticore
by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Debut Author
On sale Sep 6 from Tin House Books
Genre: Short Stories. 200 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

In nine stories that span the globe, What We Fed to the Manticore takes readers inside the minds of a full cast of animal narrators to understand the triumphs, heartbreaks, and complexities of the creatures that share our world.

Killers of a Certain Age
by Deanna Raybourn

On sale Sep 6 from Berkley Books
Genre: Thrillers. 368 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire – it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn.

The Weight of Blood
by Tiffany D Jackson

On sale Sep 6 from Katherine Tegan Books
Genre: Thrillers (Young Adult). 416 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!

Solito: A Memoir
by Javier Zamora

On sale Sep 6 from Hogarth Books
Genre: Memoir. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this moving, page-turning memoir hailed as "the mythic journey of our era" (Sandra Cisneros).

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
by Dipo Faloyin

Debut Author
On sale Sep 6 from W.W. Norton & Company
Genre: Travel. 400 pages
Critics' Opinion: 5/5

An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers.

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