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It's about that time when we start to look forward to what's coming up next year, and I've just read this Guardian article about the most eagerly awaited fiction of 2015.  I'm particularly pleased to see Lucy Wood has a first novel coming out, as I loved her collection of short stories, Diving Belles, last year.

 

What books are you looking forward to next year?

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I've just found the companion piece for non-fiction books coming out next year.
 
I like the sound of a few of these:

  • A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing by Anna Thomasson
  • London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line by Iain Sinclair
  • Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer by Ann Morgan (which those doing the Around The World challenge may find interesting)
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One of my favourites threads of the year. :)

 

Here is the Sydney Morning Herald's list, which, as always, is very extensive. It lists both domestic and international publications.

 

There are many books that look interesting, but I can't say that any jump out as 'I must get this the day it is published'.

 

I immediately thought of Janet and Talisman when I saw the memoir about the woman who read a book from every country. :)

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Of 2015 releases that I can think of at the moment:

 

Holly Smale - Geek Girl 3: Picture Perfect (has been posted to me so it might get here before January 1rst, though that is its release date)

Susan Hatler - Better Date Than Never 9: Deja Date

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic 7: Shopaholic to the Stars

Scott Meyer - Magic 2.0 3: An Unwelcome Quest

Penny Vincenzi - A Perfect Heritage

Rainbow Rowell - Landline

(I have all of these preordered)

 

I'm sure more will pop up throughout the year, though, or when I think of them.

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Brandon Sanderson has Firefight (Reckoners book 2) coming out January 6th, which I have been looking forward to almost all of 2014, since I read Steelheart.  Also, Lee Child will be out with Jack Reacher #20, Make Me in September.

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I went through the books in the links provided by both chesilbeach and Kylie but couldn't find anything to interest me in any big way :o I'm really bad at keeping track of my favorite authors and if they have any books coming out. Maybe I should google Augusten Burroughs! 

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I've just found out about a new book called Dead Wake by Erik Larson, due out in March. Having read his Devil in the White City earlier this year, I'm absolutely going to read everything he has ever written, so it'll probably be a while before I get to this new one. The advance reviews on Goodreads are already very promising. It appears that Larson is able to take any real-life event and make it both very informative and entertaining. :)

 

Here's the synopsis from the Book Depository.

 

On 1 May 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. The passengers - including a record number of children and infants - were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, its submarines had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania's captain, William Thomas Turner, had faith in the gentlemanly terms of warfare that had, for a century, kept civilian ships safe from attack. He also knew that his ship - the fastest then in service - could outrun any threat. But Germany was intent on changing the rules, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit were tracking Schwieger's U-boat ...but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way towards Liverpool, forces both grand and achingly small - hubris, a chance fog, a closely-guarded secret and more - converged to produce one of the great disasters of 20th century history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don't, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted. Full of glamour, mystery, and real-life suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, including the US President Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster that helped place America on the road to war.

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Alexander McCall Smith has a new Isabel Dalhouise book out next year, and I always look forward to those, so The Novel Habits of Happiness is on my wish list for February.

 

I'm also looking forward to a couple of children's books - In Darkling Wood by Emma Carroll and Perijee & Me by Ross Montgomery.

 

I loved Emma Kennedy's children's books, so I'm really looking forward to her first adult novel, Shoes for Anthony.

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I've just found the companion piece for non-fiction books coming out next year.

 

I like the sound of a few of these:

  • A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing by Anna Thomasson
  • London Overground: A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line by Iain Sinclair
  • Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer by Ann Morgan (which those doing the Around The World challenge may find interesting)

 

 

I've just seen this review of Reading The World and I'm definitely adding it to my wish list!

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Matt Haig will be out with Reasons to Stay Alive on March 5th.  Non fiction.

 

(Amazon)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?

Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.

A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.

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I've just seen this review of Reading The World and I'm definitely adding it to my wish list!

 

Interesting review! I'd like to read this one day.

 

I love this quote from the bottom of the article:

 

'I’m reminded of an Oxford don, who on being asked if he had read all the books in his study, replied: “Well, I know what’s in them.”'

 

I'll have to remember that for the next time someone asks me if I've read all of the books I own. :D

 

Matt Haig will be out with Reasons to Stay Alive on March 5th.  Non fiction.

 

(Amazon)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?

 

Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.

 

A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.

Ooh, this sounds great! I mean it sounds sad, but ultimately good. Sounds like the type of book I need in my life right now.

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Matt Haig will be out with Reasons to Stay Alive on March 5th.  Non fiction.

 

(Amazon)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE?

 

Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on living. This is the true story of how he came through crisis, triumphed over an illness that almost destroyed him and learned to live again.

 

A moving, funny and joyous exploration of how to live better, love better and feel more alive, Reasons to Stay Alive is more than a memoir. It is a book about making the most of your time on earth.

This sounds interesting :)!

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I've just remembered that Gail Carriger has the first of a new steampunk series published this year called Prudence.  It's based on the character from her earlier series The Parasol Protectorate.  I've just pre-ordered Prudence but it's not out until March, so I'll just have to wait patiently.

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Ransom Riggs' third book in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, called Library of Souls (great title!), is coming out on 22 September. I'm so excited! And it's only referred to as the 'third book', not a trilogy like I thought, so it looks like there will be more to come!

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Jon Ronson has another interesting-looking book coming out on 12 March: So You've Been Publicly Shamed. From the Book Depository:

 

From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'It's about the terror, isn't it?' 'The terror of what?' I said. 'The terror of being found out.' For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job. A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control. Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it.

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^ That sounds interesting, so it has gone straight on my wishlist. I read an article a few days ago (can't remember why or where :blush2: ) about shame, and how it is only a western concept. Or actually it may have been about 'guilt'....but either way, it was about how closely the two are intertwined, and in some cultures there doesn't even exist a word for 'shame' (or 'guilt'). Agree with the comment that shame is being used as a form of social control, with a lot of people developing a 'holier than thou attitude' and finger-pointing to divert from their own 'behaviour'.

 

I still haven't read The Psychopath Test but it is on my TBR pile.

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That's really interesting, Bobbly. I keep telling myself that I should avoid reading comment sections on websites (and Facebook etc.), because everyone is full of such hatred towards each other --> :fight:  And yet I keep reading more.  :roll: This forum is such a different place because it's full of kindness and love. :)

 

I should have posted a link in my original post to the article where I found out about Ronson's new book. He discusses one case in particular and the Internet culture of shaming in general.

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Patrick Ness has a new book coming out on 27 August (man, I wish authors would take a break from writing for a while so I can catch up!) It's called The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and it sounds interesting.

 

I follow him on twitter, and he's already talking about the book he's writing for after this one is published!  I've read quite a few of his now, and I think he'll be an author I eventually work my way through his entire work, but I've got a few more to go before I get there. :)

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I don't know that I am looking forward to it or not, but Stephen King will have a new book out June 2nd, called Finders Keepers.

 

From Amazon:

“Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel.

Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ever-more deranged and vengeful Morris when he’s released from prison after thirty-five years.

Not since Misery has King played with the notion of a reader whose obsession with a writer gets dangerous. Finders Keepers is spectacular, heart-pounding suspense, but it is also King writing about how literature shapes a life—for good, for bad, forever.

 

Interesting that the US version has a cover that resembles Mr. Mercedes... if it is a sequel, it certainly doesn't seem like it is about how Mr. Mercedes ends... or was even about.

 

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I've just seen that co-author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Annie Barrows, has a new book out in the summer, called The Truth According To Us.  Will be interested to read this one. :)

 

http://www.transworldbooks.co.uk/editions/the-truth-according-to-us/9780857523273

Definitely interested. I loved TGLaPPPS :) But I have always thought of Mary Ann Shaffer as the author .. I didn't realise there were two authors? Goodness knows how or why this passed me by  :blush2: 

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