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By March, spring is firmly in my sights with hopes for fine weather and outdoor get togethers although I know we\u2019re a long way from that. In the meantime, \"Cover\"Coverthere\u2019s lots of interesting fiction to look out for.<\/p>\n

Natasha Brown\u2019s debut, Assembly<\/em><\/a>, was one of my books of 2021: a brief, astonishingly powerful novella about a young woman of colour reassessing her place in the world. Her new one, Universality<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, sees a journalist solve a mystery surrounding the bludgeoning of a man on a Yorkshire farm with a solid gold bar, a solution which throws up more questions than it answers. \u2018Universality <\/em>is a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power. Through a voyeuristic lens, it focuses on words: what we say, how we say it, and what we really mean\u2019 says the blurb promisingly.<\/p>\n

Claire Baglin\u2019s\"Cover\"Cover On the Clock <\/em><\/strong><\/a>follows a young working class family, struggling with money and time but still managing to find joy and laughter in a trip to the seaside or playing games with each other, and a woman working in a burger joint, her days dominated by a demanding but repetitive routine, difficult customers and demanding managers. \u2018What emerges, alive with eloquent detail, is a compelling exploration of social inequality. Writing with nimble nuance, a sly, subtle wit, and a sharp ear, Claire Baglin marks her debut in On the Clock<\/em> as a blazingly original talent\u2019 says the blurb. This one\u2019s published by Daunt Books<\/a> whose list is well worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n

\"Cover\"CoverI\u2019m in two minds about Sameer Pandya\u2019s Our Beautiful Boys<\/em><\/strong><\/a> which explores the fallout from a party to celebrate a high school football win that leaves the school bully in hospital and three of the team\u2019s stars suspended. As their families begin to assess the effects on the boys\u2019 futures and how their reputations may have been damaged, secrets leak out posing uncomfortable questions. \u2018Our Beautiful Boys<\/em> is a page-turning and incisive novel about masculinity, race, education and privilege, and the conflict that arises when all these collide\u2019 according to the blurb. We\u2019ll see\"Cover\"Cover<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not entirely sure about Xiaolu Guo\u2019s Call Me Ishmaelle<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, either, but I was impressed enough with I am China <\/em><\/a>back in 2014 to give this one a try. As you can guess from the title, it\u2019s a reworking of Herman Melville\u2019s Moby Dick<\/em> which sees Ishmaelle, born in Kent in 1843, disguising herself as a cabin boy and working a passage to New York, then later aboard the whaling ship Nimrod under the obsessive Captain Seneca. \u2018Xiaolu Guo has crafted a dramatically different, feminist narrative that stands alongside the original while offering a powerful exploration of nature, gender and human purpose\u2019 promises the blurb which sounds extraordinarily ambitious but then so was I am China<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Cover\"CoverBilled appealingly as a road novel, Benjamin Markovit\u2019s The Rest of Our Lives<\/em><\/strong><\/a> follows fifty-five-year-old Tom Layward whose daughter is about to start college leaving behind her parents unsure of their own future. Tom\u2019s health seems to be a concern to everyone, but his doctor and he\u2019s been suspended from his professorship for his political stance. After driving his daughter to Pittsburgh, he sets off on an odyssey not quite knowing where he\u2019s going. We\u2019re in classic mid-life crisis territory as Tom remembers his youth, wonders about resurrecting the idea he had for a novel, broods on his wife\u2019s affair and what their future life together might be if there is to be one. I enjoyed this one for its structure and have read several novels by Markovits, including The Sidekick<\/em><\/a>, but I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll be reading another. Review soon\u2026<\/p>\n

Madeleine Watt\u2019s Elegy, Southwest<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is also a road novel which I spotted on social media thanks to a passionately enthusiastic \"Cover\"Coverpost from its editor. It follows Eloise and Lewis over two weeks they spend tracing the course of the Colorado River, central to Eloise\u2019s dissertation, beginning with Thanksgiving with Lewis\u2019s father. The death of his mother in the spring has hit Lewis hard. Eloise is worried about his self-medicating, hoping that the trip might help but it\u2019s clear that he\u2019s in trouble leaving her at a loss to know what to do. As they drive through the spectacular desert scenery, beset by wildfires, Eloise contemplates what was once the mighty Colorado River, now a trickle. Watts\u2019s novel is an engrossing and engaging love story for both Eloise and Lewis and for the planet, each reflecting the other. I loved it. Review shortly\u2026<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for March\u2019s first batch of new fiction. As ever, a click on a title will take you to a more detailed synopsis for any that take you fancy. Part two when I get back from Stockholm where I\u2019m nipping off to with H tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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