Welcome book lovers! It\u2019s that time of year to cosy up and feast your eyes on the luscious literary offerings for the year ahead.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve rounded up a select few of 2023\u2019s major titles (apologies to those who missed the cut but this article may otherwise have ended up longer than War and Peace).<\/p>\n
First up, it\u2019s memoirs and we kick off the year with a certain\u00a0Prince Harry<\/strong>\u2018s autobiography, Spare, a reference to the phrase\u00a0\u201cthe heir and the spare\u201d, one assumes.<\/p>\n It\u2019s expected to include the Prince\u2019s full account behind his decision to give up royal duties and move to the US (although after Oprah and a six-hour Netflix documentary, how much more can be left to reveal?)<\/p>\n While it promises \u201craw, unflinching honesty\u201d, we\u2019ll have to wait and see just how many bridges it will burn back in the UK when it\u2019s published.\u00a0Released 10 January, Penguin.<\/em><\/p>\n Other biographies of note include that of renowned children\u2019s author and poet\u00a0Michael Rosen,<\/strong>\u00a0who shares his story and life lessons in Getting Better. If anyone knows how to build resilience, it\u2019s Rosen, who here explores both his grief at losing a child and his long battle against Covid-19.\u00a02 February, Penguin.<\/em><\/p>\n Blake Morrison<\/strong>\u2018s groundbreaking confessional memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father? was published nearly 30 years ago and his latest book comes out on its anniversary.<\/p>\n Two Sisters tackles the guilt and shame familiar to many who have a family member with an addiction \u2013 Blake\u2019s sister Gill struggled with alcoholism \u2013 while he also unearths the story behind his half-sister Josie.\u00a016 February, HarperCollins.<\/em><\/p>\n On a lighter note, from Studio 54 to Sex and the City, fashion stylist\u00a0Patricia Field\u00a0<\/strong>tells all in her memoir Pat in the City \u2013 get it?\u00a0HarperCollins, 14 February.<\/em><\/p>\n Actor and trans advocate\u00a0Elliot Page<\/strong>\u00a0will also release a coming-of-age memoir.\u00a06 June, Penguin<\/em>.<\/p>\n Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the most talked about forthcoming books in literary circles is\u00a0Kevin Jared Hosain<\/strong>\u2018s Hungry Ghosts, an epic saga about two contrasting families living in 1940s Trinidad who become embroiled in a number of mysterious and disturbing events.<\/p>\n The late, great Hilary Mantel described it as \u201cdeeply impressive\u201d while fellow Booker winner Bernadine Evaristo said it is an \u201castonishing novel\u201d.\u00a0Bloomsbury, 16 February.<\/em><\/p>\n There\u2019s more historical fiction from\u00a0Kate Morton<\/strong>\u00a0in Homecoming, which is set in her native Australia. An unsolved murder case dating back to the 1950s is thrust back into the spotlight when journalist Jess starts digging around in her nan\u2019s Sydney home 60 years later.\u00a0PanMacmillan, 13 April.<\/em><\/p>\n If contemporary fiction is more your thing, you could do worse than pick up a copy of\u00a0RF Kuang<\/strong>\u2018s Yellow Face, a shocking satirical thriller set in the cut-throat world of publishing. It tackles identity politics, toxic friendships and cultural appropriation with razor-sharp humour and pace.\u00a0HarperCollins, 25 May.<\/em><\/p>\n For fantasy fans, Hell Bent is the highly anticipated sequel to\u00a0Leigh Bardugo<\/strong>\u2018s Ninth House. It sees the return of high school dropout Alex Stern in another fantastical tale of magic, monsters and violence with plenty of twists to keep you guessing.\u00a010 January, Gollancz Publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n Balli Kaur Jaswal<\/strong>\u2018s Now You See Us is also enjoying a lot of chatter \u2013 it\u2019s about the lives of three migrant women who are domestic workers for rich families in Singapore and has been described as The Help meets Crazy Rich Asians.\u00a025 May, HarperCollins.<\/em><\/p>\n Max Porter,<\/strong>\u00a0the bestselling author of Grief is the Thing With Feathers and Lanny, returns with Shy, which documents a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.\u00a06 April, Faber & Faber.<\/em><\/p>\n Several of the literary scene\u2019s most revered authors have books out this year, including one of our greatest living writers,\u00a0Salman Rushdie.<\/strong><\/p>\n Many will celebrate the publication of his fantastical epic tale Victory City with perhaps more fervour than usual as he continues his rehabilitation after being\u00a0attacked earlier this year.<\/p>\n Set in 14th Century southern India, it features a nine-year-old girl who has a divine encounter that will change the course of history.\u00a07 February, Random House.<\/em><\/p>\n The Shards by\u00a0Bret Easton Ellis<\/strong>\u00a0is the latest novel from the author who brought you Less Than Zero and American Psycho. It tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city.\u00a017 January, Penguin Random House.<\/em><\/p>\n If you want to feel well-read in double-quick time, try Fourteen Days: An Unauthorized Gathering, which is set in a New York city tenement in the early days of the pandemic. It has a novel twist (pardon the pun) \u2013 each character has been secretly written by a different author from\u00a0Margaret Atwood<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0John Grisham<\/strong>\u00a0to\u00a0Dave Eggers<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Celeste Ng.<\/strong>\u00a030 May, Penguin.<\/em><\/p>\n Eleanor Catton<\/strong>\u00a0won the Booker prize for her 2013 novel The Luminaries. She returns 10 years on with Birnam Wood, a psychological thriller based around a guerrilla gardening group who join forces with an unlikely collaborator in the shape of an enigmatic billionaire, in order to take over an abandoned farm.\u00a02 March, Granta.<\/em><\/p>\n Deborah Levy<\/strong>\u2018s 2019 novel The Man Who Saw Everything was longlisted for the Booker and now she\u2019s back with August Blue. Levy takes us on a mesmerising journey across Europe when classical pianist Elsa stumbles upon her double in an Athens flea market, setting them both on a search for identity.\u00a04 May, Penguin.<\/em><\/p>\n The queen of magic realism,\u00a0Isabelle Allende,<\/strong>\u00a0follows two parallel stories of war and immigration in The Wind Knows My Name. One Jewish child\u2019s mother is desperate for him to escape Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, while eight decades later, a child and her mother escape danger in El Salvador only to be separated once they reach the United States.\u00a06 June, Random House.<\/em><\/p>\n From the bestselling author of The Wonder (recently adapted for Netflix starring Florence Pugh) and Oscar-winning film Room,\u00a0Emma Donoghue<\/strong>\u2018s Learned by Heart tells the real-life love story of Eliza Raine and Anne Lister, whose diaries were the inspiration for the BBC series Gentleman Jack.\u00a015 August, Little Brown.<\/em><\/p>\n Writer and podcast host\u00a0Elizabeth Day<\/strong>\u00a0also returns with her non-fiction title, Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict, in which she discusses her own relationship journeys while analysing the significance and evolution of friendship.\u00a030 March, Fourth Estate.<\/em><\/p>\n Joanne Harris<\/strong>\u00a0is back with her first standalone novel for more than 10 years. Broken Light examines how women can feel invisible as they grow older and what happens when they decide to take back control. It\u2019s set against the backdrop of the murder of a woman in the local park.\u00a011 May, Orion.<\/em><\/p>\n Speaking of murder, Lady Macbethad by actor, former bookseller and now debut author\u00a0Isabelle Schuler<\/strong>\u00a0is the suspense-filled origin story of one of Shakespeare\u2019s best-known characters.\u00a02 March, Bloomsbury.<\/em><\/p>\n Stephen Buoro<\/strong>\u00a0is also one to watch \u2013 his debut, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, is a coming of age novel set in north Nigeria and has been hailed by Ian Rankin as \u201cwonderfully vivid\u2026 instantly engaging\u201d.\u00a013 April, Bloomsbury.<\/em><\/p>\n One of this year\u2019s big US debuts comes courtesy of\u00a0Cecilia Rabess.<\/strong>\u00a0Everything\u2019s Fine is about a dark romance between a liberal black woman and is set in the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump.\u00a08 June, Picador.<\/em><\/p>\n On our side of the pond is the first novel from\u00a0Sarah May.<\/strong>\u00a0Set against the 90s tabloid era, Becky is the story of Becky Sharpe (ring any bells Vanity Fair fans?), a young woman determined to make a place for herself in high society and get to the top of the ladder at the newspaper where she works, no matter how many lives she ruins in the process.\u00a026 January, Picador.<\/em><\/p>\n Another novel on our radar is Really Good Actually, the witty debut by Schitt\u2019s Creek screenwriter\u00a0Monica Heisy,<\/strong>\u00a0about a woman navigating her first year as a young divorcee.\u00a017 January, Fourth Estate.<\/em><\/p>\n Emily Henry<\/strong>\u00a0enjoyed a big boost to her career thanks to BookTok with romcom novels such as Beach Read and You and Me on Vacation.<\/p>\n Influencer Payten Jewell\u00a0tells me Henry\u2019s upcoming novel, Happy Place\u00a0(27 April, Penguin)<\/em>, is one of the most anticipated among the BookTok community. It features a couple who have recently split up but pretend they are still together for the sake of a group holiday with old friends. What could possibly go wrong?!<\/p>\n Jewell\u2019s other picks for 2023 include Taste Like Shakkar by\u00a0Nisha Sharma,<\/strong>\u00a0Secretly Yours by\u00a0Tessa Bailey<\/strong>\u00a0and an as yet untitled release by her all-time favourite\u00a0Tia Williams,<\/strong>\u00a0author of Seven Days in June, which will be published in June.<\/p>\n Celebrity Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n Cosy crime continues to trend into 2023, with the\u00a0Rev Richard Coles<\/strong>\u00a0releasing A Death in the Parish, the sequel to his 2022 novel, Murder Before Evensong.\u00a08 June, Orion<\/em><\/p>\n Many fans of the genre will be looking forward to\u00a0Stig Abell<\/strong>\u2018s debut, Death Under a Little Sky. The Times Radio presenter has written several non-fiction books but this rural whodunnit is his first foray into fiction.\u00a013 April, HarperCollins.<\/em><\/p>\n And the publishing juggernaut that is\u00a0Richard Osman<\/strong>\u00a0is back later this year with his latest Thursday Murder Club book, the fourth in the series (as yet untitled).\u00a014 September, Penguin.<\/em><\/p>\n Moving away from murder mysteries, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by\u00a0Tom Hanks<\/strong>\u00a0is the first full-length novel from the A-list star. It offers an insider\u2019s take on the momentous effort required to make a fictional superhero film, spanning 80 years of US history.\u00a09 May, Penguin Random House.<\/em><\/p>\n Actress and writer\u00a0Carrie Hope Fletcher<\/strong>\u00a0also returns with The Double Trouble Society 2.\u00a07 July, Penguin Random House.<\/em><\/p>\n And if you\u2019re looking for something for the little people in your life, chef and campaigner\u00a0Jamie Oliver<\/strong>\u00a0has turned his hand to children\u2019s fiction with his debut Billy and the Giant Adventure about a group of friends who go on a quest in the forbidden Waterfall Woods.\u00a013 April, Penguin Random House.<\/em>\u00a0Which brings us to\u2026<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome book lovers! 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