books
Latest reads for the bookworm in you
Stephen King’s ‘Finders Keepers’ is one of the books to look forward to in the coming months. – AFP pic, May 16, 2015.Harper Lee, Stephen King, Sophie Kinsella... whatever your desire, from tackling a new classic to cracking open a guilty pleasure, we've got suggestions for a few soon-to-release novels for your reading pleasure.
Literary events
Harper Lee – "Go Set a Watchman"
July 14
This much-awaited book was written before Lee's only published novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird," and follows the latter's Scout Finch as an adult on a trip to visit her father, Atticus Finch.
Milan Kundera – "The Festival of Insignificance"
June 23
The latest novel from the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" is coming in English translation. The book has been a top ten bestseller in its Italian, Spanish and French translations.
Thrills and mystery
Stephen King – "Finders Keepers"
June 2
The second volume in King's trilogy focusing on Detective Bill Hodges after "Mr. Mercedes" will tell of the murder of a reclusive writer and his killer's release from prison 35 years later.
Don Winslow – "The Cartel"
June 23
The author of "Savages" (and its Oliver Stone-directed screenplay) follows up his epic 2005 novel "The Power of the Dog" with this tale of a DEA agent in the midst of the Mexican-American drug wars.
Beach-ready storytelling
Sophie Kinsella – "Finding Audrey"
June 4
The author of the "Shopaholic" books has written her first young adult novel. Audrey, 14, is dealing with an anxiety disorder when she meets Linus. Friendship, recovery and a romantic connection follow.
Judy Blume – "In the Unlikely Event"
June 2
Settle in for a tale of three generations of families, friends and strangers whose lives are changed by a major event in the 1950s. The author of many young adult classics has written this book for adults.
To squeeze in
Alexandra Kleeman – "You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine"
August 25
Kleeman's debut novel, which Publishers Weekly calls "a blend of the nightmarish disassociation of DeLillo's 'White Noise' and the phantasmagoria of Bergman's 'Persona.'"
Jonathan Franzen - "Purity"
September 1
The "Freedom" author's latest, which focuses on a young woman who takes an internship at a whistleblowing organisation with a charismatic leader. – AFP, May 16, 2015.
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