A selection of upcoming 2023 book releases, including thrillers, autobiographies, and poetry collections.
It’s a new year and loads of new books are heading our way. Here is a varied selection of only 12 of the many titles that will be in the bookshops during January.If you’re not familiar with the name Caroline Darian, you would certainly know of her mother, the courageous French womanwho was drugged and raped by her husband and scores of other men and then confronted them in a successful prosecution.about how in November 2020 the police told the family of her father’s crimes.
But when pictures were also discovered of Darian sleeping, naked and possibly drugged, she wondered whether she too had been raped. As she asked in court, “How do you rebuild from the ashes?”, her fourth, was originally released as an audiobook by Audible last February; now it’s in print. It’s a thriller set in Sri Lanka towards the end of the island’s ghastly civil war that had led to many thousands of deaths. A CIA agent returns to the country to investigate the murder of a journalist. Ellie’s previous mission went pear-shaped, and now it seems she’s not being encouraged to discover the truth. It’s only a couple of years since Shankari Chandran won the Miles Franklin award for her second novel. Now her fourth is outHere comes the prolific Percival Everett − more than 20 novels since the early ’80s − again. Last year he gave usbounces off Chopin’s Preludes and the piano work of Art Tatum. Each poem is titled by a key such as D Major or B Minor. This is from A Minor: “Even the plants die only/ after death, brittleness and brown, clinging to that former condition.”Ronni Salt is a pen name for a witty and incisive political and environmental commentator on various social media sites. She is based in rural Australia and so it’s not surprising that heris set in an eponymous town in the Riverina where local farm girl Adelaide Hoffman has joined the local newspape
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