Let’s talk about more 2018 releases I am excited about
because apparently there are lots.
I am Thunder by
Muhammad Khan is a January YA release about a fifteen year girl who knows
exactly what she wants her life to look like – but her parents, who plan for
her become a doctor and marry her cousin from Pakistan have other ideas. It’s a
debut novel about standing up for what you believe and it sounds like it might
be a book that’s needed.
A Girl Like That
by Tanaz Bhathena is out in March and is described as a study of gender
discrimination and double standards through the eyes of a teenage girl in Saudi
Arabia. I am totally here for that.
Cross Her Heart by
Sarah Pinborough isn’t out til May but I am already so excited about it. I’ve
loved Sarah’s other recent release: The
Death House, 13 Minutes and last year’s Behind
Her Eyes and I think she might be an auto-buy author for me.
Exit West by
Mohsin Hamid was published last year, but is out in paperback this year as is Lincoln in the Bardo – both are books I
want to read and would quite like to have on the shelf and not on the Kindle
hence my looking forward to paperback release. I love hardback books,
aesthetically, but they take up so much room
and they’re so so heavy. Ha.
Everything I Know
About Love by Dolly Alderton is a
rare non-fiction pick from me. I know. Can you even believe it. I always mean
to read more of the not made up stuff, and then somehow never quite do. I’m
really looking forward to this one though, published in Feb. A Memoir about
growing up and successfully adulting that promises to make me laugh. Here’s hoping
it does.
A New Kate Atkinson. SOS. A NEW KATE ATKINSON. It’s called Transcription and it’s out in September
and it’s about a young woman who joins the wartime Secret Service and I WANT
IT. Kate Atkinson has been an autobuy for so so long and I am still not over Life After Life, just FYI.
Circe by Madeline
Miller is out in April and is one of the books I am the most excited about I
think. It’s about mythological witch Circe, is inspired by Homer’s Odyssey and it sounds AMAZING.
Goodbye, Perfect by
Sara Barnard is out in February and is anyone else thinking I should perhaps
have done this whole thing in chronological order? Oh well. Too late now.
Anyhow. Another YA offering, a contemporary coming of age story this time,
about friendship.
Three Things About
Elsie is the new novel from Joanna Cannon who wrote the wonderful The Trouble With Goats and Sheep. This
was published at the beginning of January. I've just read it, so watch this space for my review; it's coming soon.
