11 New Books To Read Right Now

Antarctica is the debut story collection from the author of Foster and the Booker Prize shortlisted Small Things Like These. The tales features everything from a secret one-night tryst in the city to a sister’s revenge, a love-struck doctor and a missing girl. Short and mysterious, if you loved Claire Keegan’s last novella, So Late in the Day, then this is for you.

Visit Amazon.co.uk

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love, comes a sharply funny and super relatable story of heartbreak and friendship – and how to survive both. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy – and he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is without a home, waiting for his stand-up career to take off and wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking. Heartbroken at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, flat-sharing and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because, if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story.

Visit Amazon.co.uk

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne comes a reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward. The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a solo existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow her to the island – and she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did – and did not do – before she can discover whether she is worthy of finding peace.

Visit Amazon.co.uk

This is the chilling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Burning Girls. During a deadly snowstorm, Hannah awakens to a carnage of mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She's in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains with five strangers and no memory of how they got on board. Carter is gazing out of the window of an isolated ski chalet that he and his companions call home. As their generator begins to waver in the storm, the threat of something lurking in the chalet's depths looms larger. Outside, the storm rages. Inside one group, a killer lurks. But which one? And who will make it out alive?

Visit Amazon.co.uk

Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners and has one of the most recognisable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and became the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn and her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl and the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.

Visit Amazon.co.uk

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before in internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of Shakespeare. For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. In a series of intimate conversations with actor and director Brendan O'Hea, she guides us through Shakespeare's plays with incisive clarity – while revealing the secrets of her rehearsal process, sharing her personal interpretations of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes and inviting readers to share in her triumphs, disasters and backstage shenanigans.

Visit Amazon.co.uk

As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, telling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. A Memoir of My Former Self collects the best of this writing over four decades. Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging: she discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels – revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England – and other novelists, such as Jane Austen. There’s also a selection of her film reviews – from When Harry Met Sally to RoboCop – and, published for the first time, her Reith Lectures, which explore the process of art bringing history and the dead back to life. 

Visit Amazon.co.uk