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I\u2019ve read just one from the second part of January\u2019s preview but I\u2019m kicking off with another I\u2019m eagerly anticipating. You might think I\u2019d had enough of \"CoverAmerican politics but it\u2019s the political thread that attracts me to Elizabeth Harris\u2019s How to Sleep at Night<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>Ethan and Gabe are happily raising their daughter together despite drifting to very different ends of the political spectrum. When Ethan announces he plans to run for Congress as a Republican, it\u2019s not only Gabe\u2019s world that\u2019s upended. Ethan\u2019s sister is a jaded political reporter for a national newspaper dallying with an affair with her ex when Ethan\u2019s decision threatens to derail her career. \u2018A sharply observed comedy of manners about public image versus private life, How to Sleep at Night<\/em> is a witty and whip-smart novel that dissects family ties stretched thin by politics\u2019 says the blurb. Very much like the sound of that.\"Cover<\/p>\n

Richard Price\u2019s Lazarus Man<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a bit outside my usual neck of the literary woods but Price was one of the writers on The Wire<\/em>, still one of the best things I\u2019ve seen on TV. His novel is set in east Harlem in 2008 when a five-storey apartment block collapses killing six tenants. By the end of the day many others are missing. Price follows several characters whose lives are irreversibly changed by the tragedy, from the young photographer who records the ensuing chaos to a survivor who was buried for days. \u2018Rich with indelible characters and high drama, Lazarus Man<\/em> is a riveting work of suspense and social vision by one of our major writers\u2019 says the blurb.<\/p>\n

\"Cover\"CoverIt\u2019s some time since I read anything by Caryl Phillips and I\u2019ve a feeling I didn\u2019t take to his writing style very well but the premise of Another Man in the Street<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>is a very attractive one. Victor \u2018Lucky\u2019 Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts in the early \u201860s, hoping for a career in journalism but eventually becoming a rent collector for a slum landlord. Phillips\u2019s novel explores the experience of the Windrush generation through Victor\u2019s story, following him from his arrival to the present day. \u2018Another Man in the Street <\/em>is an unforgettable story of loss, displacement, belonging, and the triumph of Black resilience \u2013 epic in scope and yet profoundly intimate, and a radical and timely portrait of immigrant London\u2019 says the blurb making me keen to read it.\"Cover\"Cover<\/p>\n

Published by Daunt Originals who seem to have a sharp editorial eye, Angelo Tijssens\u2019 debut novel, The Edges<\/a>,<\/em><\/strong> sees a man returning to his hometown after the death of his mother, unable to resist visiting his former lover. \u2018As we are drawn into the narrator\u2019s past, we see how a childhood marked by abuse and a life lived on the edges can shape someone \u2013 and what respite and beauty can be found in love and trust\u2019 says the blurb suggesting a hopeful resolution.<\/p>\n

\"Cover\"CoverI was a big fan of Adrian Duncan\u2019s Love Notes from a German Building Site<\/a><\/em>, The Geometer Lobachevsky<\/em> not so much but I\u2019m keen to read his new one, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. An Irish restorative painter falls in love with an Italian sociologist, reawakening memories of an incident that has overshadowed his life. Years later, he\u2019s asked to pray for a dying friend and spends a day roaming the streets of Bologna, contemplating his own life, past and present, and its foundations. \u2018A delicately crafted novel of two halves, a decade apart, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth<\/em> is a masterful excavation of human desires, inhibitions, and the patterns of habit to which we unwittingly fall prey\u2019 says the blurb promisingly\"Cover\"Cover<\/p>\n

Lucy Steeds\u2019s The Artist<\/em><\/strong><\/a> begins in 1957 with a woman gazing at a painting she knows intimately in London\u2019s National Gallery before winding back to the summer of 1920 when a young art journalist travels to Provence, hoping to interview the renowned and notoriously reclusive Edouard Tartuffe who agrees only on the basis that Joseph will model for him. Tata\u2019s every need is attended to by Ettie who has hardly left the remote farmhouse where she and her uncle live. As the summer wears on, Joseph unravels a perplexing mystery, and Ettie sees a way for her own artistic talent to be recognised. Steeds\u2019s debut is gorgeously immersive, the summer Provencal landscape vividly evoked and her descriptions of art arresting. \u00a0Highly recommend this one. Review shortly\u2026<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it for January\u2019s new fiction. As ever, a click on a title will take you to a more detailed synopsis should you want to know more, and if you\u2019d like to catch up with part one it\u2019s here<\/strong><\/a>. Paperbacks soon\u2026<\/p>\n

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