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Between April showers and sunshine, you’re sure to be craving some fresh reads. Here, we present a murky story of literary suspense, a novel of historical England, an African Gothic tale, and a book about a woman with an abiding interest in airplanes. Read them with your book club safely indoors while weathering spring storms, or take them to the park to enjoy amid the gradually warming breezes. And look out for upcoming coverage in our digital magazine!
Apr 8, 2025. 208 pages
Published by Riverhead Books
Kirkus calls Katie Kitamura’s latest novel an “elegant knife of a story.” Opening on a meeting between two characters whose relationship is not entirely clear to the reader, Audition seems likely to be a masterpiece of interpersonal suspense in the vein of her previous Intimacies and A Separation. Those whose tastes veer towards literary fiction but who still love a book that keeps them riveted and guessing may want to check out this exploration of secrets, performance, and family.
Apr 22, 2025. 496 pages
Published by Knopf
Fans of Hilary Mantel and Maggie O’Farrell, take note. Jo Harkin’s latest novel is a rags-to-riches romp based on the true story of a pretender to the throne in 15th-century England, Lambert Simnel. The creatively crafted universe of the book — praised by Publishers Weekly as “the rowdy world in which he lived," imagined "via the novel’s intriguing plot and exquisitely profane language” — is what has us thinking this may be more than your average British historical.
Apr 8, 2025. 384 pages
Published by House of Anansi Press
Winner of Yale’s Windham–Campbell Prize, Ndolovu presents a dark, electrifying African Gothic novel about a Zimbabwean university student’s complicated relationship with her homeland and its colonizers. The unnamed narrator is an intern at the “Good Museum of African artifacts” — a repository of items pillaged from Africa owned by the Good family (based on the legacy of Cecil Rhodes). When the narrator has a mental breakdown, she experiences hallucinations focused on the lives of three women, each of whom represents a different aspect and period of British colonization of what is now Zimbabwe. Publishers Weekly’s starred review calls The Creation of Half-Broken People “astonishing,” and “a revelation,” highlighting in particular Ndolovu’s “unflinching commentary on the abuses of British colonialism.”
Apr 8, 2025. 368 pages
Published by Random House
In Kate Folk’s debut novel Sky Daddy, first-person narrator Linda knows that her romantic and sexual attraction to commercial airplanes would be considered abnormal, so she lives a solitary life keeping her predilections to herself. But as she finds herself increasingly drawn to her first real friend, she must reevaluate her priorities, especially her relentless pursuit of what she believes to be her destiny: to have a plane recognize her as its soul mate while she is aboard and plummet to the earth in a fiery crash. In a starred review, Kirkus applauds Folk’s “masterful command” of her main character’s voice. Publishers Weekly’s review, also starred, declares, “The allure of an inanimate object has seldom been so touchingly rendered than in Folk’s wry, tender, and sweetly odd narrative.” It sounds like a wonderfully strange exploration of desire and the life-changing power of friendship.
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