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One thing I did get around to reading in the last few weeks was the Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2015 Fall/Winter guide and, boy am I glad I took the time. It’s a guide to forthcoming books from various publishers and I’m excited to see that some of my favourite authors have new books on the way. Two well-known Irish authors feature in Fall/Winter catalogue —John Banville has a new novel called The Blue Guitar and Colum McCann has a novella and three short stories on the way in a work entitled Thirteen Ways of Looking.
The Fall Winter 2015 books catalogue mentions works by a number of debut authors and one that caught my eye, based on an excerpt of her forthcoming book is Susan Barker. I can’t wait to get my hands on The Incarnations which is about a Beijing taxi driver haunted by his previous incarnations.
I’m also looking forward to Umberto Eco’s new historical thriller. It’s a long time since I last read Eco but I remember enjoying The Name of the Rose so Numero Zero is near the top of my TBR list.
Crime fiction is an interest I share with my sister and a couple of her favourite authors whose new works will make their way into our family Kindle collection are Ian Rankin’s short story collection, The Beat Goes On, Tess Gerritsen’s Playing with Fire, Ruth Rendell’s Dark Corners and the David Lagercrantz title The Girl in the Spider’s Web which continues Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series. There’s also a new Elizabeth George Inspector Lynley mystery on the way called A Banquet of Consequences.
On the non-fiction side, I’ll be keeping an eye out for Sonia Purnell’s biography of Winston Churchill’s wife, Clementine and I’ll take a look at Amy Cuddy’s book . Presence, which is about developing confidence — something that may be helpful for me in my new venture.
Thanks to netgalley.com for the opportunity to preview so many forthcoming titles. I can’t wait to get my hands on the books!