There’s also a new book from the brilliant Malaysian novelist Tash Aw — the first in a planned quartet — and a new novel from the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Abdulrazak Gurnah.
She also takes the logbooks from calls made to a lesbian helpline between 1993 and 1998 as inspiration for writing her own versions — this sidesteps the ethics of publishing calls to an anonymous service while giving us an insight into queer life at the time.
One of Britain’s foremost writers, and a driver of the revival in nature writing, Robert Macfarlane, has a new book out, his first since 2019’s spooky Underland.
We can’t promise you blue skies and cherry blossom from now on in, but below are the new titles currently giving us life, from a landmark record of queer existence to a cautionary novel about the perils of having a cleaner.
Abdulrazak Gurnah was the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2021 and this is his first novel since.
