March 2023 Highlights

NOVELS

1. River Spirit (Saqi Books, 2023) / Leila Aboulela

2. The Mill House Murders (trans. from the Japanese by Ho-Ling Wong) (Pushkin Press, 2023) / Yukito Ayatsuji

3. Old God’s Time (Faber & Faber/Viking, 2023) / Sebastian Barry

4. Birnam Wood (Granta Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) / Eleanor Catton

5. The Gospel According to the New World (trans. from the French by Richard Philcox) (World Editions, 2023) / Maryse Condé

6. The Great Reclamation (Riverhead/Tinder Press, 2023) / Rachel Heng

7. Love at Six Thousand Degrees (trans. from the Japanese by Haydn Trowell) (Europa Editions, 2023) / Maki Kashimada

8. Cursed Bread (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) / Sophie Mackintosh

9. Tomás Nevinson (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa) (Hamish Hamilton, 2023) / Javier Marías

10. The Sun Walks Down (Sceptre, 2023) / Fiona McFarlane

11. Siblings (trans. from the German by Lucy Jones) (Transit Books, 2023 / Brigitte Reimann

12. The New Earth (Ecco, 2023) / Jess Row

13. Commitment (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023) / Mona Simpson

14. Hang the Moon (Scribner, 2023) / Jeannette Walls

15. Heart Sutra (trans. from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas) (Grove Press, 2023) / Yan Lianke

FIRST NOVELS

1. Fire Rush (Jonathan Cape, 2023) / Jacqueline Crooks

2. Nothing Special (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) / Nicole Flattery

3. All the Little Bird-Hearts (Tinder Press, 2023) / Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

4. Wandering Souls (4th Estate, 2023) / Cecile Pin

5. Deep Down (Fleet, 2023) / Imogen West-Knights

6. In Memoriam (Viking, 2023) / Alice Winn

STORIES

1. Old Babes in the Wood (Chatto & Windus, 2023) / Margaret Atwood

2. I’d Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You and Other Stories (Blackstone, 2023) / Julianna Baggott

3. From Far Around They Saw Us Burn (Unbound, 2023) / Alice Jolly

4. Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories (Sort Of Books, 2023) / Lore Segal

POETRY

1. Self-Portrait As Othello (Carcanet Press, 2023) / Jason Allen-Paisant

2. Brother Poem (Granta, 2023) / Will Harris

NONFICTION

1. A Stranger In Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East’s Long War (Hutchinson Heinemann, 2023) / Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

2. Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (Bodley Head, 2023) / Timothy Garton Ash

3. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope (Chatto & Windus, 2023) / Sarah Bakewell

4. Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages (Harper, 2023) / Carmela Ciuraru

5. Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023) / Nandini Das

6. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History (Bloomsbury, 2023) / Peter Frankopan

7. Culture: A New World History (Ithaka, 2023) / Martin Puchner

8. The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule (Weidenfled & Nicolson, 2023) / Angela Saini

9. Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion (Oneworld Publications, 2023) / Nicholas Spencer

10. The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare (Atlantic, 2023) / Paul Strathern