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BOOKS
THE NINE BOOKS YOU
NEED TO READ THIS YEAR
Intelligent, shocking, funny and thought-provoking – we’ve rounded up the
year’s must-read books from big-name authors and rising stars
THE AUTHOR TO WATCH THE ONE EVERYONE WILL BE READINg THE CONTROVERSIAL RELEASE
Night Waking by
Sarah Moss Granta,
£12.99, out February
Moss’s second novel
is set to cement her
reputation as one
of contemporary
fiction’s brightest
stars. Set on an
isolated Hebridian
island, Anna is torn
between her work
and children. Bleak
but darkly funny, it’s
an essential read.
Rosie’s War by
Rosemary Say
and Noel Holland
Michael O’Mara
Books, £17.99,
out April The
extraordinary true
story of Rosemary
Say, a 19-year-old
Englishwoman who
was imprisoned in,
and escaped from, a
Nazi camp in France
during World War II.
An unsentimental
account of survival.
The Particular
Sadness Of Lemon
Cake by Aimee
Bender Windmill
Books, £11.99, out
February On her 9th
birthday, Rose bites
into her apparently
happy mother’s
lemon cake only to
discover that she
can taste her hidden
sadness. A huge hit
in the US (Oprah
loved it), this is going
to be everywhere.
THE TRUE-LIFE TALE THE NEW ‘STIEG LARSSON’ THE HOLIDAY PICK
Babysitting George
by Celia Walden
Bloomsbury, £16.99,
out May In 2003,
Stylist columnist
Celia Walden
formed an unlikely
friendship with
George Best. This
funny and moving
account of fame
includes drunken
brawls, life inside
a rehab clinic and
Best’s relationships
with women.
The Hypnotist by
Lars Kepler Blue
Door, £16.99, out
May When a family
is murdered in
Stockholm, DI Joona
Linna calls on retired
hypnotist Erik Maria
Bark. Can he unblock
the mind of Josef Ek,
a 15-year-old boy who
witnessed the brutal
murder of his family?
You’ll be engrossed
way past bedtime.
Wish You Were
Here by Graham
Swift Picador,
£16.99, out June The
1996 Booker Prize
winner is back with
a novel of loss,
memory and the
personal impact of
war. Jack Luxton
receives news that
his brother, Tom,
has died in Iraq,
unlocking past
secrets. An emotional
contemporary story.
Tiger, Tiger by
Margaux Fragoso
Penguin, £9.99, out
March This is the
horrifying real-life
story of Fragoso’s
relationship with a
51-year-old man she
met when she was
just seven. Their
affair lasted until he
took his life when she
was 22. Described
as a “non-fiction
Lolita from Lolita’s
point of view”.
Gillespie And I by
Jane Harris Faber
& Faber, £16.99, out
May The second
novel from a rising
star in British fiction,
an elderly Harriet
Baxter looks back
on her acquaintance
with Ned Gillespie
whom she met in
Glasgow during the
1888 International
Exhibition.
Mysterious and
utterly engaging.
THE UNLIKELY BIOgRAPHY THE BOOKCASE ESSENTIAL THE CHILLINg READ OF THE YEAR
The Possessions Of
Doctor Forrest by
Richard T Kelly
Faber & Faber,
£12.99, out June
This modern Gothic
novel centres around
three doctors who’ve
been friends since
childhood. When
one goes missing,
the remaining
pair resolve
to investigate
the mystery.
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