February 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. A Spell of Good Things (Canongate, 2023) / Ayòbámi Adébáyò

2. The Porcelain Moon (William Morrow, 2023) / Janie Chang

3. Eastbound (trans. from the French by Jessica Moore) (Archipelago Books, 2023) / Maylis de Kerangal

4. Iron Curtain: A Love Story (W.W. Norton, 2023) / Vesna Goldsworthy

5. This Other Eden (Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023) / Paul Harding

6. Stone Blind (Harper, 2023) / Natalie Haynes

7. To Battersea Park (4th Estate, 2023) / Philip Hensher

8. The Sun Walks Down (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Sceptre, 2023) / Fiona McFarlane

9. Scene of the Crime (trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti) (Yale University Press, 2023) / Patrick Modiano

10. God’s Country (Salt Publishing, 2023) / Kerry Hadley-Pryce

11. The Queen of Dirt Island (Viking, 2023) / Donal Ryan

FIRST NOVELS

1. One Small Voice (Fig Tree, 2023) / Santanu Bhattacharya

2. Our Share of Night (trans. from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) (Hogarth, 2022) / Mariana Enríquez

3. Hungry Ghosts (Bloomsbury Publishing/Ecco, 2023) / Kevin Jared Hosein

4. Stolen (trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles) (Bloomsbury Circus, 2023) / Ann-Helén Laestadius

5. The Garnett Girls (HQ, 2023) / Georgina Moore

6. Queen K (Serpents Tail, 2023) / Sarah Thomas

7. Owlish (trans. from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce) (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023) / Dorothy Tse

8. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm (Doubleday, 2023) / Laura Warrell

STORIES

1. If I Survive You (4th Estate, 2023) / Jonathan Escoffery

2. Welcome Me to the Kingdom (Random House, 2023) / Mai Nardone

POETRY

1. Quiet (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Victoria Adukwei Bulley

2. Material Properties (Picador, 2023) / Jacob Polley

3. The Hopeful Hat (Bloodaxe, 2023) / Carole Satyamurti

4. Collected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2023) / Ellen Bryant Voigt

NONFICTION

1. Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China’s Cultural Revolution (Faber & Faber, 2023) / Tania Branigan

2. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future (Granta Books, 2023) / Tom Bullough

3. Affinities (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2023) / Brian Dillon

4. Migrants: The Story of Us All (Abacus, 2023) / Sam Miller

5. Two Sisters (The Borough Press, 2023) / Blake Morrison

6. Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop (W.W. Norton, 2023) / Martin Puchner

7. Between the Chalk and the Sea: A Journey on Foot Into the Past (Headline, 2023) / Gail Simmons

8. Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property and Power in the Original Modern City (Manchester University Press, 2023) / Andy Spinoza

9. Sink: A Memoir (Grand Central Publishing, 2023) / Joseph Earl Thomas