Looking for more books lik e The Thursday Murder Club? Our editor Sophie Roell has some suggestions!) The Man Who Died Twice looks set to charm all those who loved Osman’s earlier book I’m told the second outing of the Thursday Murder Club is even more fun than the first (Sept 28/Sept 16). This new murder mystery returns to the sleepy retirement village of Coopers Chase, where our septuagenarian sleuths have returned to the jigsaw room-only to find their peace shattered again when a ghost from the past sends one of their number a letter, many years after his supposed violent end. Richard Osman is about to release a follow-up to his likeable and funny first book The Thursday Murder Club, which has been a fixture on bestseller lists since its 2020 release. The Guardian has declared it “a return to form” after Hawkin’s slightly underwhelming last novel, Into the Water.
There’s a large cast of complicated characters, a book within a book, and a murder on a houseboat. A Slow Fire Burning offers a twisting, turning, cerebral mystery featuring-unusually-a male victim and several women suspects (Aug 31).
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Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train-which sold 20m copies and was made into a Hollywood movie starring Emily Blunt-is shortly to publish a new thriller. You mentioned genre fiction-are there any notable sci fi, fantasy, romance or crime novels to look out for in fall 2021?
And Gary Shteyngart (author of the oft-recommended Super Sad True Love Story) will release Our Country Friends, in which eight friends shelter together in the Hudson Valley during the first months of the Covid-19 lockdown (Nov 2). It’s garnered advance praise from such luminaries as Hilary Mantel, Anne Patchett, Zadie Smith and Maggie O’Farrell. I should also note that Elizabeth Strout is due to publish Oh William!, in which the title character of My Name is Lucy Barton reconnects with her ex-husband (Oct 19/Oct 21). “I love the meticulous planning ” he has said, “the way the heisters try to outwit destiny and fate by exercising their own will.” The “complicated jigsaw” cover by Oliver Munday is, he says, a good clue as to what readers can expect inside. For Harlem Shuffle, Whitehead turned for inspiration to caper films, crafting his comedic, intricately complex plot in their image. Whitehead’s high concept novels have often leaned on the conventions of genre fiction-and subverted them to glorious effect.
Other big hitters bringing out new books in fall 2021 include fellow Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, whose The Magician is a vivid fictional biography of Thomas Mann, the Nobel laureate and author of The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice (23 Sept) Lauren Groff, who found huge success in 2015 with her two-headed story of a marriage Fates and Furies, and now returns with Matrix, about a nun exiled from the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine (Sept 7) and Karl Ove Knausgård, who steps away from autofiction with The Morning Star, a traditional novel about strange celestial happenings, which has received critical acclaim in his native Norway (Sept 28 in the US Sept 30 in the UK).Ĭolson Whitehead, twice-winner of the Pulitzer Prize (for The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys), is to publish Harlem Shuffle, a 1960s-set heist billed as “a family saga masquerading as a crime novel” (Sept 14). What other dates should I have in my diary? Needless to say, I pre-ordered my own copy months ago.
And I find it a little sad that Rooney’s books are more often discussed as an ultimate expression of millennial culture, than the smart, entertaining, thought-provoking, tear-jerking novels that they are. Personally, I feel these criticisms to be slightly unfair, given that Rooney has never positioned herself as a ‘voice of a generation’ (and indeed, often insists on her own dullness and insignificance when interviewed-albeit not wholly believably).
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