February 2021 Highlights

NOVELS

1. Voices of the Lost (trans. from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth) (Oneworld, 2021) / Hoda Barakat

2. The Faces (trans. from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally) (Penguin Classics, 2021) / Tove Ditlevsen

3. Lullaby Beach (Virago, 2021) / Stella Duffy

4. The Four Winds (St Martin’s Press/Macmillan, 2021) / Kristin Hannah

5. Slough House (John Murray, 2021) / Mick Herron

5. The Removed (Ecco, 2021) / Brandon Hobson

6. Zorrie (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Laird Hunt

7. The Slaughterman’s Daughter (trans. from the Hebrew by Orr Scharf) (Schocken, 2021) / Yaniv Iczkovits

8. The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small (The Lilliput Press, 2021) / Neil Jordan

9. Khalil (trans. from the French by John Cullen) (Nan A. Talese, 2021) / Yasmina Khadra

10. A Town Called Solace (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Mary Lawson

11. Untraceable (trans. from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis) (New Vessel Press, 2021) / Sergei Lebedev

12. My Year Abroad (Riverhead Books, 2021) / Chang-rae Lee

13. The Blizzard Party (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2021) / Jack Livings

14. The Sunken Road (Harvill Secker, 2021) / Ciarán McMenamin

15. Daughters of Night (Mantle, 2021) / Laura Shepherd-Robinson

16. The Strays of Paris (Mantle, 2021) / Jane Smiley

17. Light Perpetual (Faber & Faber, 2021) / Francis Spufford

18. The Performance (Hatchette Australia, 2021) / Claire Thomas

19. The Cold Millions (Viking, 2021) / Jess Walter

20. The Art of Losing (trans. from the French by Frank Wynne (Picador, 2021) / Alice Zeniter

FIRST NOVELS

1. Here Comes the Miracle (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021) / Anna Beecher

2. A Net for Small Fishes (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) / Lucy Jago

3. The Art of Falling (John Murray, 2021) / Danielle McLaughlin

4. Empty Houses (trans. from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes) (Daunt Books, 2021) / Brenda Navarro

5. Open Water (Viking, 2021) / Caleb Azumah Nelson

STORIES

1. Land of Big Numbers (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) / Te-Ping Chen

2. The Low Desert: Gangster Stories (Counterpoint, 2021) / Tod Goldberg
3. Pure Gold (New Island Books, 2021) / John Patrick McHugh

4. Milk Blood Heat (Grove Press, 2021) / Dantiel M. Moniz

POETRY
1. The Mermaid’s Purse (Bloodaxe, 2021) / Fleur Adcock
2. American Melancholy (Ecco, 2021) / Joyce Carol Oates
3. Comic Timing (Granta, 2021) / Holly Pester

NONFICTION

1. The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World (Allen Lane, 2021) / Kehinde Andrews

2. Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald (William Collins, 2021) / Jonathan Bate

3. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 (Oneworld, 2021) / Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain (eds.)

4. Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Elizabeth Miki Brina

5. The Emperor’s Feast: A History of China in Twelve Meals (Hodder & Stoughton, 2021) / Jonathan Clements

6. In Search of Lost Glory: Sindhi Nationalism in Pakistan (Hurst, 2021) / Asma Faiz

7. The Border: A Journey Around Russia: Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway and the Northeast Passage (trans. from the Norwegian by Kari Dickson) (Pegasus Books, 2021) / Erika Fatland

8. Destination Peking (Blacksmith Books, 2021) / Paul French

9. Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press, 2021) / Mark Harris

10. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads (William Collins, 2021) / Cat Jarman

11. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Crown, 2021) / Elizabeth Kolbert

12. Sea State (4th Estate, 2021) / Tabitha Lasley

13. Tom Stoppard: A Life (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) / Hermione Lee

14. London and the 17th Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City (Yale University, 2021) / Margarette Lincoln

15. Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph (Jonathan Cape, 2021) / Lucasta Miller

16. Frostquake: The Frozen Winter of 1962 and How Britain Emerged a Different Country (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Juliet Nicolson
17. Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity (Sceptre, 2021) / Nadia Owusu

18. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell (Viking, 2021) / John Preston

19. The Shadows of Empire: How Imperial History Shapes Our World (Pegasus Books, 2021) / Samir Puri

20. The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (Harper, 2021) / Ritchie Robinson

21. Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Profile Books, 2020) / Fiona Sampson

22. Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City (Granta, 2021) / Samira Shackle

23. Brown Baby: A Memoir of Race, Family and Home (Bluebird, 2021) / Nikesh Shukla

24. Snakes & Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth (Chatto & Windus, 2021) / Selina Todd