We break down the most anticipated forthcoming book releases from March 2021, including anticipated reads from Yaa Gyasi and Kazuo Ishiguro.Â
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (4th March)
Yaa Gyasi’s stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama.
Bright Burning Things by Lisa Harding (4th March)
Being Tommy’s mother is too much for Sonya. Too much love, too much fear, too much longing for the cool wine she gulps from the bottle each night. Because Sonya is burning the fish fingers, and driving too fast, and swimming too far from the shore, and Tommy’s life is in her hands. Once there was the thrill of a London stage, a glowing acting career, fast cars, handsome men. But now there are blackouts and bare cupboards, and her estranged father showing up uninvited. There is Mrs O’Malley spying from across the road. There is the risk of losing Tommy – forever.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (2th March)
Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro–author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (4th March)
Both literary thriller and brilliant novel of ideas, The Committed is a blistering portrayal of commitment and betrayal that will cement Viet Thanh Nguyen’s position in the firmament of American letters.
The Completed Pints by Roddy Doyle (4th March)
Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub…Â In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the way, they chased the ebb and flow and stupidity of the year right to the bottom of their pints.
Today, they’re still at it – even over Zoom, if needs be. Collected for the first time, here is almost a decade’s worth of elections and referendums, births and deaths, football, financial crashes, pandemics and the philosophical questions of life, as told through the wit and warmth of Roddy Doyle’s comic genius.
Yolk by Mary Choi (4th March)
From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities.
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman (30th March)
Amanda Gorman wowed the world with her poem ‘The Hill We Climb’ at the inauguration of President Joe Biden. This special gift edition of the poem, coming ahead of the release of the poet’s first collection in September, includes a foreword by Oprah Winfrey.
Coming to Paperback:
Becoming by Michelle Obama (2nd March)
Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan (4th March)
