Publishing This Week: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Publishing This Week View as Webpage Hello, Among this week's 18 new and notable books is Prophet Song by Paul Lynch which was due to publish next week but, due to its win at last week's Booker Awards, Atlantic Monthly Press have brought the on sale date forward. You'll find brief information on ten of this week's books below and more about all of them in our New This Week section. This week marks the publishing world's last hurrah of 2023. Next week's issue will have just a handful of titles, and then all will be quiet until January. Enjoy! The BookBrowse Team 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. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch On sale Dec 5 from Atlantic Monthly Press Genre: Speculative. 320 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together. Read More All the Little Bird-Hearts: A Novel by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow Debut Author On sale Dec 5 from Algonquin Books Genre: Literary Fiction. 304 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, this poetic and often funny debut — "a motherhood story unlike any other" (Booklist) — by an author with autism is written from the point of view of an autistic woman as she and her headstrong adolescent daughter are befriended by a glamorous, charismatic couple with dark ulterior motives. Read More Dazzling by Chikodili Emelumadu Debut Author On sale Dec 5 from The Overlook Press Genre: Literary Fiction. 352 pages Critics' Opinion: 4/5 The Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ's magical, award-winning literary debut, Dazzling, offering a new take on West African mythology. Read More The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories by Louise Kennedy On sale Dec 5 from Riverhead Books Genre: Short Stories. 304 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times) Read More Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes by Anthony Veasna So On sale Dec 5 from Ecco Genre: Essays. 240 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Afterparties comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring family, queer desire, pop culture, and race Read More The Frozen River: A Novel by Ariel Lawhon On sale Dec 5 from Doubleday Genre: Mysteries. 448 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community. Read More The Other Mothers by Katherine Faulkner On sale Dec 5 from Gallery Books Genre: Thrillers. 384 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 The author of the "twisty, fast-paced" (The Sunday Times, London) Greenwich Park returns with a fresh and deftly paced thriller about murder, class, and motherhood in an exclusive London community. Read More Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel by Shahnaz Habib On sale Dec 5 from Catapult Genre: Memoir. 288 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 This witty personal and cultural history of travel from the perspective of a Third World-raised woman of color, Airplane Mode, asks: what does it mean to be a joyous traveler when we live in the ruins of colonialism, capitalism and climate change? Read More Becoming Ella Fitzgerald: The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song by Judith Tick On sale Dec 5 from W.W. Norton & Company Genre: Biography. 592 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 A landmark biography that reclaims Ella Fitzgerald as a major American artist and modernist innovator. Read More A Republic of Scoundrels: The Schemers, Intriguers, and Adventurers Who Created a New American Nation by David Head On sale Dec 5 from Pegasus Books Genre: History. 368 pages Critics' Opinion: 5/5 The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation's Read More View all 19 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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