December 2019 Highlights
NOVELS
1. The Lammisters (No Alibis Press, 2019) / Declan Burke
2. Girl, Woman, Other (Grove Press, 2019) / Bernadine Evaristo
3. How the Dead Speak (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2019) / Val McDermid
4. The Story of a Goat (trans. from the Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman) (Black Cat/Grove Press, 2019) / Perumal Murugan
5. The Sacrament (Ecco, 2019) / Olaf Olafsson
6. This Is Happiness (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) / Niall Williams
7. The Honjin Murders (trans. from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai) (Pushkin Vertigo, 2019) / Seishi Yokomizo
FIRST NOVELS
1. Agatha (trans. from the Danish by Caroline Waight) (Sceptre, 2019) / Anne Cathrine Bomann
2. Such a Fun Age (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019) / Kiley Reid
STORIES
1. The Heart is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories (A Public Space Book, 2019) / John L’Heureux
POETRY
1. The Bloomsbury Anthology of Great Indian Poems (Bloomsbury India, 2019) / Abhay K.
NONFICTION
1. The Decline of the Novel (St Augustine’s Press, 2019) / Joseph Bottum
2. How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury USA, 2019) / Frank Dikötter
3. Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul (Chatto & Windus, 2019) / Taran N. Khan
4. An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019) / Owen Matthews
5. H.G. Wells: A Literary Life (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) / Adam Roberts
6. Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer (Scribner, 2019) / Carol Sklenicka