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2024 Translated Fiction

These are primarily literary fiction. Genre fiction I tend to list among others of its kind. Or rather that was the intention. Great Spanish Stories ed. Margaret Jull Costa, trans. Margaret Jull Costa, trans. Thomas Bunstead, trans. Peter Bush, trans. Kathryn Phillips-Miles, trans. Simon Deefholt, trans. Kit Maude | 11 / 01 / 24 – Penguin Classics A riveting selection of short stories in…

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#Blogtour The Detective by Ajay Chowdhury

 It’s a pleasure to take part in the Blogtour The Detective by Ajay Chowdhury. ‘The third Novel in the Award-winning Detective Rahman series – soon to be a major TV series produced by BBC Studios’  About the Author Ajay Chowdhury is the inaugural winner of the Harvill Secker-Bloody Scotland crime fiction award. He is a tech entrepreneur and theatre director who was born in India and now lives…

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The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson

Today I'm delighted to share my thoughts on the debut novel from Brooke Robinson, The Interpreter. @harvillsecker @vintagebooks #books #booktwitter #booktwt #theinterpreter

Today I’m delighted to share my thoughts on The Interpreter by Brooke Robinson. My thanks to publisher Harvill Secker and Graeme Williams for the advance copy for review. Here’s what it’s all about: Source: Advance Reader CopyRelease Date: 08 June 2023Publisher: Vintage Digital / Harvill Secker Continue reading Untitled

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Best crime and thrillers of 2023

Given this year’s headlines, it’s unsurprising that our appetite for cosy crime continues unabated, with the latest title in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, The Last Devil to Die (Viking), topping the bestseller lists. Janice Hallett’s novels The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels, which also features a group of amateur crime-solvers, and The Christmas Appeal (both Viper) have proved phenomenally popular, too.

Hallett’s books, which are constructed as dossiers – transcripts, emails, WhatsApp messages and the like – are part of a growing trend of experimentation with form, ranging from Cara Hunter’s intricate Murder in the Family (HarperCollins), which is structured around the making of a cold case documentary, to Gareth Rubin’s tête-bêche The Turnglass (Simon & Schuster). Books that hark back to the golden age of crime, such as Tom Mead’s splendidly tricksy locked-room mystery Death and the Conjuror (Head of Zeus), are also on the rise. The late Christopher Fowler, author of the wonderful Bryant & May detective series, who often lamented the sacrifice of inventiveness and fun on the altar of realism, would surely have approved. Word Monkey (Doubleday), published posthumously, is his funny and moving memoir of a life spent writing popular fiction.

Notable debuts include Callum McSorley’s Glaswegian gangland thriller Squeaky Clean (Pushkin Vertigo); Jo Callaghan’s In the Blink of an Eye (Simon & Schuster), a police procedural with an AI detective; Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (Pushkin Vertigo), featuring queer punk nun investigator Sister Holiday; and the caustically funny Thirty Days of Darkness (Orenda) by Jenny Lund Madsen (translated from the Danish by Megan E Turney).

There have been welcome additions to series, including a third book, Case Sensitive (Zaffre), for AK Turner’s forensic investigator Cassie Raven, and a second, The Wheel of Doll (Pushkin Vertigo), for Jonathan Ames’s LA private eye Happy Doll, who is shaping up to be the perfect hardboiled 21st-century hero.

Other must-reads for fans of American crime fiction include Ozark Dogs (Headline) by Eli Cranor, a powerful story of feuding Arkansas families; SA Cosby’s Virginia-set police procedural All the Sinners Bleed (Headline); Megan Abbott’s nightmarish Beware the Woman (Virago); and Rebecca Makkai’s foray into very dark academia, I Have Some Questions for You (Fleet). There are shades of James Ellroy in Jordan Harper’s Hollywood-set tour de force Everybody Knows (Faber), while Raymond Chandler’s hero Philip Marlowe gets a timely do-over from Scottish crime doyenne Denise Mina in The Second Murderer (Harvill Secker).

As Mick Herron observed in his Slow Horses origin novel, The Secret Hours (Baskerville), there’s a long list of spy novelists who have been pegged as the heir to John le Carré. Herron must be in pole position for principal legatee, but it’s been a good year for espionage generally: standout novels include Matthew Richardson’s The Scarlet Papers (Michael Joseph), John Lawton’s Moscow Exile (Grove Press) and Harriet Crawley’s The Translator (Bitter Lemon).

Historical crime has also been well served. Highlights include Emma Flint’s excellent Other Women (Picador), based on a real 1924 murder case; Laura Shepherd-Robinson’s story of a fortune teller’s quest for identity in Georgian high society, The Square of Sevens (Mantle); and SG MacLean’s tale of Restoration revenge and retribution, The Winter List (Quercus). There are echoes of Chester Himes in Viper’s Dream (No Exit) by Jake Lamar, which begins in 1930s Harlem, while Palace of Shadows (Mantle) by Ray Celestin, set in the late 19th century, takes the true story of American weapons heiress Sarah Winchester’s San Jose mansion and transports it to Yorkshire, with chillingly gothic results.

The latest novel in Vaseem Khan’s postcolonial India series, Death of a Lesser God (Hodder), is also well worth the read, as are Deepti Kapoor’s present-day organised crime saga Age of Vice (Fleet) and Parini Shroff’s darkly antic feminist revenge drama The Bandit Queens (Atlantic).

While psychological thrillers are thinner on the ground than in previous years, the quality remains high, with Liz Nugent’s complex and heartbreaking tale of abuse, Strange Sally Diamond (Penguin Sandycove), and Sarah Hilary’s disturbing portrait of a family in freefall, Black Thorn (Macmillan), being two of the best.

Penguin Modern Classics has revived its crime series, complete with iconic green livery, with works by Georges Simenon, Dorothy B Hughes and Ross MacDonald. There have been reissues by other publishers, too – forgotten gems including Celia Fremlin’s 1959 holiday‑from-hell novel, Uncle Paul (Faber), and Richard Wright’s The Man Who Lived Underground (Vintage). Finished in 1942 but only now published in its entirety, the latter is an account of an innocent man who takes refuge from racist police officers in the sewers of Chicago – part allegorical, part brutally realistic and, unfortunately, wholly topical.

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Brief Book Review - The Negotiator by Brooke Robinson

A Brief Book Review of The Negotiator by Brooke Robinson.

Released as a hardback in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker on 20th June 2024.

Police officer Tia West has recently failed her exam to be a Police Negotiator but finds herself in a museum where a climate change protest has turned into a siege situation with visitors held hostage . Tia tries to use skills learned in negotiation but fails with the hostage situation ending badly. Three years later , Tia , now working as a private contractor notes that one of the people held hostage has committed suicide and finds out that other people involved in the siege are under threat. Tia is determined not to fail again and decides to find out who is responsible even if it means putting herself in danger. A great summer read from Brooke Robinson!

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Hunted by Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers @HarvillSecker

I was blown away by this emotive, unputdownable thriller which is, without doubt, a must read book. Buy it, you won’t regret it.

Source: Review copyPublication: 9 May 2024 from Harvill SeckerPP: 512ISBN-13: 978-1787302723 My thanks to Harvill Secker for an advance copy for review It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall. In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she’s missing,…

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The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman

Pages: 464 Publisher: Harvill Secker Released: 18th of April 2024 There’s something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness? Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can’t speak the language, belief in myth…

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VERY early test idea for an animation about God and Eve and being so, so guilty. I've encountered some interesting research literature in the Herts library about the public perception of women being tied to their portrayal in art over the centuries. The copies I'm borrowing from the LRC are pretty beat up, because one of them is all the way from the 1980s, but it was a worthwhile read even if some of its language and ideals are now outdated (again, 1980s). I was very enraptured.

Mullins, E. (1985). The Painted Witch. Harvill Secker.

Lène Dresen-Coenders (1987). Saints and She-devils.

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2024 Literary Books

This is a really exciting year for me. I’m looking forward to literary fiction in ways that I haven’t before. The Storm We Made: A Novel by Vanessa Chan | 02 / 01 / 24 – S&S/Marysue Rucci Books Malaya, 1945. Cecily Alcantara’s family is in terrible danger: her fifteen-year-old son, Abel, has disappeared, and her youngest daughter, Jasmin, is confined in a basement to prevent being pressed into…

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Killing Moon by Jo Nesbo

Today I'm sharing my thoughts on Killing Moon, the latest Harry Hole thriller from Jo Nesbo @HarvillSecker @VintageBooks @gray_books #books #booktwitter #booktwt #harryhole #killingmoon

Today I’m sharing my thoughts on the brand new Harry Hole thriller from Jo Nesbo, Killing Moon. My thanks to publisher Harvill Secker and Graeme Williams for the early copy for review. Here’s what it’s all about: Source: Advance Reader CopyRelease Date: 25th May 2023Publisher: Harvill Secker Continue reading Untitled

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My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvill Secker (26 Jan. 2023)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 178730082XISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787300828 Book Blurb September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. An Irish priest, Hugh O’Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, a neutral, independent country…

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Teaser Tuesday - January 24, 2023 #NewBook #WhatJulyKnew @EmilyKoch @HarvillSecker #TeaserTuesday #TuesdayBookBlog @PenguinUKBooks

My Tuesday post where I’ll ‘tease‘ you with the cover, blurb, and first paragraph of one of the titles from my own TBR. This book is a title I received from Harvill Secker / Penguin UK via NetGalley and I’ll be reading it soon. Today, Tuesday January 24, 2023 I want to introduce one of the ARCs on my TBR. This novel will be published on February 9, 2023 Publisher: Harvill Secker (Penguin…

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“I was thirty-eight years old, everything was blown, I had nothing left.” Men in My Situation by Per Petterson

“I was thirty-eight years old, everything was blown, I had nothing left.” Men in My Situation by Per Petterson @HarvillSecker @GraywolfPress #NorwegianLit

There we sat in silence beneath the big wide tall trees behind the station building, breathing, each in our uneven rhythm, as if we’d all been running, but none of us the same distance. Then I said, Vigdis, I guess it’s up to you whether we should say anything about this to Mummy, about what just happened. It was quiet in the back seat, all three of them sat there looking out the windows. Vigdis…

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YOU’RE NOT LISTENING – Kate Murphy

At work, we’re taught to lead the conversation.

On social media, we shape our personal narratives.

At parties, we talk over one another. So do our politicians.

We’re not listening.

And no one is listening to us.

Now more than ever, we need to listen to those around us. New York Times contributor Kate Murphy draws on countless conversations she has had with everyone from priests to CIA interrogators, focus group moderators to bartenders, her great-great aunt to her friend's toddler, to show how only by listening well can we truly connect with others.

Listening has the potential to transform our relationships and our working lives, improve our self-knowledge, and increase our creativity and happiness. While it may take some effort, it's a skill that can be learnt and perfected.

You’re Not Listening is published this month by Harvill Secker

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The Second Murderer by Denise Mina   @HarvillSecker

This is a highly entertaining, dark and fascinating read that really does showcase the essence of Chandler’s Philip Marlowe.

Source: Review copyPublication: 13 July 2023 from Harvill SeckerPP: 256ISBN-13: 978-1787302853 My thanks to Harvill Secker for an advance copy for review “This is Marlowe.” “Mr. Philip Marlowe?” She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been waiting by the phone for an appointed hour, following someone else’s orders to the letter. “What, d’you think we’re a…