Publishing This Week: The Continental Affair

Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello, There's just seven books in this week's list of new and notable titles. One in particular to look out for is The Continental Affair, a captivating crime caper by Christine Mangan (author of Tangerine and Palace of the Drowned) set on a train traveling from Belgrade to Istanbul in the 1960s. To quote BookBrowse member Claire M., it's "moody and atmospheric, seething with repressed rage and the trauma of a 'dirty' war...a great choice for book groups." We have brief information on all books below and more in our New This Week section (under the "New" tab in our main menu). The New section is also home to our Publishing by Month lists, where you can look ahead to see what's publishing soon and back to previous months; debuts are indicated by a yellow highlight. 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 Continental Affair: A Novel by Christine Mangan On sale Aug 22 from Flatiron Books Genre: Historical Fiction. 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a daring literary caper that is quick on its feet and delightfully surprising. Read More Reader Reviews Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel by Brendan Shay Basham Debut Author On sale Aug 22 from Harper Genre: Literary Fiction. 240 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 "Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic." —Tommy Orange, author of There, There Read More Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang On sale Aug 22 from Liveright/W.W. Norton Genre: Biography/Memoir. 400 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Read More Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust On sale Aug 22 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux Genre: Biography/Memoir. 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A memoir of coming of age in a conservative Southern family in postwar America. Read More Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by Kyo Maclear On sale Aug 22 from Scribner Genre: Biography/Memoir. 416 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 An unforgettable memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test, the lessons learned in its aftermath, and the indelible power of love—for readers of Dani Shapiro's Inheritance and Katherine May's Wintering. Read More Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Anna Funder On sale Aug 22 from Knopf Genre: Biography/Memoir. 464 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century - and a probing consideration of what it means to be a wife and a writer in the modern world. Read More Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty by Nikhil Goyal On sale Aug 22 from Metropolitan Books Genre: History, Current Affairs and Religion. 352 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 An indelible portrait of three children struggling to survive in the poorest neighborhood of the poorest large city in America Read More View all 7 new and notable books publishing this week Publishing This Week is one of BookBrowse's four free newsletters. We also publish BookBrowse Highlights every Thursday; and Book Club News and Librarian News monthly. Change settings and/or update your email address BookBrowse 1-408-867-6500 1-800-745-5306 info@bookbrowse.com ‌ ‌ ‌ Copyright 2023

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