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CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STRANGERS de Krista Diamond

A modern literary noir in the tradition of Bret Easton Ellis for fans of A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan, the LA stories of Emma Cline, and Uncut Gems.

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STRANGERS
by Krista Diamond
Simon & Schuster, Fall 2026
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STRANGERS follows a Las Vegas wildlife photographer who, while moving to Los Angeles to become a paparazzo, loses his relationships, his morals, and eventually his tether to reality.

A Los Vegan itching for LA, Ben is an amateur wild-life photographer and busser in a diner where tourists come to recreate a movie scene starring Jack Whitlock, “the last real movie star.” He meets a man who promises money as a paparazzo, which he likens to wildlife photography, inciting Ben to move to LA. The job is a thrill; high that he chases to increasingly damaging ends.

A year and a half later, Ben—broke, single, and receiving increasingly credible death threats from a pop star’s stans—is desperate for a win. And when scandalous photos of Jack Whitlock leak, and Ben becomes obsessed with being the first photographer to break new photos of Jack. He follows leads through the absurd horrors of celebrity LA, dodging close encounters with fans, weaving his way back to Las Vegas and the desert of his redemption or demise.

Krista Diamond is a Black Mountain Institute PhD fellow in creative writing at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Her writing has been supported by Bread Loaf, Tin House, the Nevada Arts Council, and has appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Slate, Longreads, Hazlitt, Catapult, Joyland, and elsewhere. The opening of CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH STRANGERS was longlisted for both the First Pages Prize and the Stockholm Writers Festival First Pages Prize.

UNTITLED NEW NOVEL de Patrick deWitt

A new gripping, literary tour-de-force from Patrick deWitt takes on a journey where a young man is forced to decide between his moral principles, his family, and his country.

UNTITLED NEW NOVEL
by Patrick deWitt
Ecco, Spring 2027
(via Sterling Lord Literistic)

It’s the 1960s, and our protagonist Max—a straight-laced young man from a blue-collar background who has unfortunately just been kicked out of school because of a fight—is living in California, but is a citizen of both Canada and the USA. Max very much considers the United States his home, but when he receives a draft notice, he decides that it’s time for him to leave the country he loves and head north. As Max travels across the land to bid farewell to his various family members, he struggles with whether it’s the right thing to say goodbye to the people he loves forever in order to remain true to his beliefs.

A moving, funny, emotional tour de force from one of our most creative and talented living novelists.

Patrick deWitt is the author of the critically acclaimed The Librarianist, French Exit, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, as well as the novels Undermajordomo Minor and The Sisters Brothers, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. deWitt has won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Stephen Leacock Medal, an Oregon Book Award, and he was shortlisted twice for the Giller Prize. Born in British Columbia, Canada, he has also lived in California and Washington, and now resides in Portland, Oregon.

NERVE DAMAGE d’Annakeara Stinson

A riotous revenge novel about a woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stalking him herself.

NERVE DAMAGE
by Annakeara Stinson
Knopf, May 2026
(via Neon Literary)

Credit: Greg Wonder

Clarice’s breakup with P.T. began the usual way—she discovered he was cheating. Then came the constant texts, the nonstop emails from burner accounts, hundreds of phone calls from dozens of different numbers. He showed up outside her house and her office. He sent her flowers and poems, and, perhaps most sinister of all, a link to the music video for Dido’s “White Flag.” Relief only arrived when Clarice finally obtained a restraining order and one-way ticket from New York to L.A.

Just as the restraining order expires—and three years to the day since she left him—Clarice spots a man who looks suspiciously like P.T. at a nightclub. Could it be him? Her best friend thinks she’s imagining things. Her therapist wants her to focus on healing her inner child. Her mother is busy planning her wedding to her fourth husband. A psychic medium can only reveal that P.T.’s energy is too volatile to locate on the spiritual plane. As painful memories resurface, Clarice is convinced her ex has returned to ruin her life. . . But with scant evidence to prove it, she takes increasingly unhinged steps to uncover the truth, ultimately leading to a place where paranoia and reality begin to blur.

A profane and poignant debut novel, Nerve Damage is a different kind of survivor narrative, about how far one woman will go to wrest back control of her life in a world determined to send her spiraling.

Annakeara Stinson is a writer whose work has appeared in Bustle, Brooklyn Magazine, The Inquisitive Eater, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Marie Claire, and more. She has an M.F.A. in fiction from The New School and currently lives in L.A.

MIDNIGHT AT THE CINEMA PALACE de Christopher Tradowsky

This tender, exuberant novel about a young man navigating coming of age in’90s San Francisco is perfect for readers of Garth Greenwell and André Aciman.

MIDNIGHT AT THE CINEMA PALACE
by Christopher Tradowsky
Simon & Schuster, June 2025
(via Neon Literary)

Walter Simmering is searching for love and purpose in a city he doesn’t realize is fading away—San Francisco in 1993, at the height of the AIDS epidemic and the dawn of the tech revolution. Out of college, out of the closet, and transplanted from the Midwest, Walter is irresistibly drawn from his shell when he meets Cary Menuhin and Sasha Stravinsky, a dynamic couple who live blithely beyond the boundaries of gender and sexuality. Witty and ultra-stylish, Cary and Sasha seem to have stepped straight out of a sultry film noir, captivating Walter through a shared obsession with cinema and Hollywood’s golden age.

As the three embark on adventures across the city, filled with joie de vivre, their lively friendship evolves in unexpected ways. When Walter befriends Lawrence, a filmmaker and former child actor living with HIV, they pursue a film project of their own, with hilarious and tragic results.

MIDNIGHT AT THE CINEMA PALACE is a vibrant and nostalgic exploration of young souls discovering themselves amidst the backdrop of a disappearing city. Christopher Tradowsky’s astonishing debut captures the essence of ’90s queer culture and the complex lives of friends seeking an aesthetically beautiful and fulfilling way of life.

Christopher Tradowsky is a writer, artist, and art historian. He was awarded the 2023 J. Michael Samuel Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. MIDNIGHT AT THE CINEMA PALACE is his debut novel.

THE NEW NEIGHBOURS de Claire Douglas

You know your neighbours are plotting a crime but no one believes you . . .

THE NEW NEIGHBOURS
by Claire Douglas
Penguin UK, March 2025
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Do you trust the couple next door?

When Lena overhears a conversation between her next-door neighbours, she thinks she must have misheard.

After all, the Morgans are a kind, retired couple who have moved to a suburban street in Bristol where nothing ever happens.

But it sounded like they were planning a crime.

Her family and friends tell her she’s made a mistake.

Yet the more Lena looks into the Morgans, the darker things seem.

And the more she fears it might be linked to a secret from her own past.

Because, if her suspicions are true, then someone is in real danger.

And it might just be her…

Claire Douglas worked as a journalist for fifteen years, but had dreamed of being a novelist since the age of seven. She finally got her wish after winning the Marie Claire Debut Novel Award with her first novel, The Sisters. She is a Sunday Times bestseller and a frequent Richard & Judy Book Club pick. Her books have sold nearly two million copies in the UK alone. She lives in Bath with her husband and two children.