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[Books &amp; Podcasts](/culture/books-podcasts)

 /  20 November 2023  

#  11 New Books To Read Right Now  


Whether you’re looking for ways to pass the time at home or need a new read over the festive break, there are plenty of recent and forthcoming novels and biographies to get stuck into. From emotionally charged memoirs to immersive fiction, make space on your bedside table for these top releases.  


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## *Antarctica* by Claire Keegan 



 

*Antarctica* is the debut story collection from the author of *Foster* and the Booker Prize shortlisted *Small Things Like These*. The tales features everything from a secret one-night tryst in the city to a sister’s revenge, a love-struck doctor and a missing girl. Short and mysterious, if you loved Claire Keegan’s last novella, *So Late in the Day*, then this is for you.

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## *Good Material* by Dolly Alderton 



 

From the bestselling author of *Ghosts* and *Everything I Know About Love*, comes a sharply funny and super relatable story of heartbreak and friendship – and how to survive both. Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy – and he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is without a home, waiting for his stand-up career to take off and wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking. Heartbroken at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, flat-sharing and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because, if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story.

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## *Held* by Anne Michaels 



 

Held is the latest novel from the author of the international bestsellers *Fugitive Pieces* and *The Winter Vault*. It’s 1917 and, on a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies unable to move or feel his legs in the aftermath of a blast. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls: a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night. By 1920, John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near a different river. He is alive but still not whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and tries to keep on living, but the past erupts insistently into the present. So begins a narrative that spans four generations of connections and consequences that ignite and reignite as the century unfolds.

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## *Water* by John Boyne 



 

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne comes a reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward. The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a solo existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow her to the island – and she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did – and did not do – before she can discover whether she is worthy of finding peace.

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## *The Drift* by C.J. Tudor 



 

This is the chilling new novel from the *Sunday Times* bestselling author of *The Burning Girls*. During a deadly snowstorm, Hannah awakens to a carnage of mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. Meg awakens to a gentle rocking. She's in a cable car stranded high above snowy mountains with five strangers and no memory of how they got on board. Carter is gazing out of the window of an isolated ski chalet that he and his companions call home. As their generator begins to waver in the storm, the threat of something lurking in the chalet's depths looms larger. Outside, the storm rages. Inside one group, a killer lurks. But which one? And who will make it out alive?

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## *Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary* by Nina Stibbe 



 

Twenty years after leaving London, Nina Stibbe is back in town with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in the house of writer Deborah (Debby) Moggach in Camden for 'a year-long sabbatical'. It’s a break from married life back in Cornwall or perhaps a fresh start altogether. Debby does not have many demands – only to water the garden, watch for toads and defrost the odd pie – so Nina is free to explore the city she once called home. Between scrutinising her son’s online dating developments, navigating the politics of the local pool and taking detergent advice at the laundrette, this diary of a 60-year-old runaway reunites us with the inimitable voice of Love, Nina, as the writer becomes, as she puts it, 'a proper adult' at last.

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## *My Name Is Barbra* by Barbra Streisand 



 

Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony) winners and has one of the most recognisable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and became the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in a major motion picture. In *My Name Is Barbra*, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn and her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl and the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed.

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## *Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent* by Judi Dench 



 

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it before in internationally renowned actor Dame Judi Dench's witty, insightful journey through the plays and tales of Shakespeare. For the very first time, Judi opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played throughout her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. In a series of intimate conversations with actor and director Brendan O'Hea, she guides us through Shakespeare's plays with incisive clarity – while revealing the secrets of her rehearsal process, sharing her personal interpretations of Shakespeare’s most famous scenes and inviting readers to share in her triumphs, disasters and backstage shenanigans.

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## *The Premonition* by Banana Yoshimoto 



 

This is the new novel from the bestselling author of the Japanese classic *Kitchen*. Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family – something ‘like you’d see in a Spielberg movie’. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she’s forgotten something important about her past. Deciding to take a break, she goes to stay with her mysterious but beloved aunt Yukino whose strange behaviour includes waking Yayoi at 2am to be her drinking companion, watching *Friday The 13th* repeatedly and throwing away all the things she wants to forget. Living a life without order, Yukino seems to be protecting herself, but beneath this façade Yayoi starts to recover lost memories and everything she knows about her past threatens to change for ever.

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## *A Memoir Of My Former Self* by Hilary Mantel 



 

As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, telling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. *A Memoir of My Former Self* collects the best of this writing over four decades. Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging: she discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels – revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England – and other novelists, such as Jane Austen. There’s also a selection of her film reviews – from *When Harry Met Sally* to *RoboCop* – and, published for the first time, her Reith Lectures, which explore the process of art bringing history and the dead back to life.

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## *The Christmas Appeal* by Janice Hallett 



 

The cast of *Sunday Times* bestselling *The Appeal* return for a festive murder mystery. It’s Christmas in Lower Lockwood and the Fairway Players are busy rehearsing their pantomime, *Jack and the Beanstalk*, to raise money for the church roof appeal. But despite the season, goodwill is distinctly lacking among the am-dram enthusiasts. Sarah-Jane is fending off threats to her new position as chair, the fibreglass beanstalk might be full of asbestos and someone is intent on ruining the panto even before the curtain goes up. Then there’s the matter of the dead body. Join lawyers Femi and Charlotte as they read the round robins, examine the emails and pore over the police transcripts. Will the show go on?

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