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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 one woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stalking him herself.

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

Clarice’s breakup with P.T. began the usual way—she discovered he was cheating—and ended with a restraining order and a one-way ticket from New York to L.A.

Years later, on the day the restraining order is set to expire, though, Clarice spots a man who looks suspiciously like P.T. at a nightclub near her new apartment, flirting with the bartender. Clarice is certain her ex has returned to ruin her life, but with scant evidence pointing one way or another she takes increasingly unhinged steps to find the truth.

Profane and poignant, brash and deeply empathetic, NERVE DAMAGE is a different kind of survivor narrative—a novel about how far one woman will go as she tries to wrest back control of her life in a world that seems determined to send her spiraling.

Annakeara Stinson is a writer whose work has appeared in Bustle, Brooklyn Magazine, Eater, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Marie Claire, and more. She has an MFA in Fiction from The New School and 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.

THE GREAT WHEREVER de Shannon Sanders

A multigenerational story—a dazzling portrait of a family and its history in the American South, from Reconstruction through the 1930s to the present day.

THE GREAT WHEREVER
by Shannon Sanders
Holt, Spring 2026
(via DeFiore and Company)

THE GREAT WHEREVER is a multigenerational story—a dazzling portrait of a family and its history in the American South, from Reconstruction through the 1930s to the present day. As she’s done in her previous short story work, Sanders sends the reader on a kind of intellectual treasure hunt through generations. She is especially brilliant about invisible legacies—not only family secrets, but also lineages hidden in plain sight; aspects of a family tree that are consciously and unconsciously shaped, especially by women; and inheritances that are interrupted or thwarted, sometimes violently.

The novel is about a family, but it also breaks open the idea of what a family is, how a family interacts with land, history, time. Sanders conveys this all while being so attentive to the life and character and thoughts and feelings of one very specific and very relatable millennial.

In the tradition of expansive family sagas The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Memphis by Tara M. Stringfellow, and with the thoroughly modern anxieties and crackling social commentary of novels like Such a Fun Age. The Great Wherever is a story of race and generational wealth, family and ambition, and a young woman’s coming-to-terms with her legacy.

Exploring the many people, places, and events that can shape our inheritances without our knowing Sanders puts forth the notion that each generation exerts an influence on the ones to follow, even when that influence isn’t consciously felt and people are challenged to find their own emotional truths. This is an intricate meditation on the ways we learn to define ourselves in—and out of—our loved ones’ orbits, how we carry forward after loss, and what is choice and what is fate in the tumultuous conveyance of an ancestral home across generations.

Shannon Sanders lives and works near Washington, DC. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in One Story, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Electric Literature, Joyland, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere, and was a 2020 winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Sanders’ debut story collection Company won the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction, was named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly, was an Indie Next Pick, and was shortlisted for the 2024 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.