January 12, 2025 · 4:30 pm
Despite my ever-growing TBR list, I’m always looking ahead at new books due to be published soon, even if I won’t necessarily get round to reading them all this year. All publication dates where known apply to the UK.
The fiction highlight this spring has got to be Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which is the author’s first novel in ten years since Americanah. Ripeness by Sarah Moss will be published in May and is set in 1960s Italy and 2020s Ireland. Havoc by Rebecca Wait will be out in July and is set in a girls boarding school in the 1980s, and I hope it’s as psychologically astute as I’m Sorry You Feel That Way and Our Fathers.
Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld is a collection of short stories by the author of Romantic Comedy due in February. I have heard lots of good things about Confessions by Catherine Airey which is a debut novel published this month about three generations of women between Ireland and New York.
In non-fiction, Bookish by Lucy Mangan is a follow up to Bookworm which celebrated childhood reading and moves on to books for teenagers and adults. Also due in March, Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold examines the story of Dr Crippen. Once again, Rubenhold will give a voice to the women involved, just as she did so effectively in The Five.
There is no date confirmed yet for The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith but the eighth book in the Cormoran Strike series should be out some time in the autumn. Non-fiction to look forward to this autumn includes The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn, the follow up to the excellent Islands of Abandoment, and Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith which is the author’s latest collection of essays.
Which books are you looking forward to reading in 2025?
