Upcoming Releases for Summer 2021

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura A bestselling, prizewinning novel of obsession and psychological intrigue about two enigmatic unmarried women, one of whom manipulates the other from afar, by one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers. The story explores envy, loneliness, power dynamics, and the vulnerability of unmarried women in a taut, suspenseful narrative about the sometimes desperate desire to be seen.

Publication Date: June 8, 2021

The Transparency of Time by Leonardo Padura From Leonardo Padura - whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana - The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history

Publication Date: June 15, 2021

People Like Them by Samira Sedira When the flashy Langlois family arrives in the peaceful town of Carmac, stirring up trouble, the Guillot family forms an uneasy, ambiguous friendship with them until financial troubles and racial tensions lead to the unthinkable.

Publication Date: July 6, 2021

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• Niccolo Ammaniti • Stieg Larsson • Sebastian Barry • Morgan Llywelyn Middle East • Gianrico Carofiglio • Ian McEwan • Christopher Castellani • Irène Némirovsky • Elizabeth Von Arnim • Jo Nesbo • Adam Bagdasarian • Soheir Khashoggi • Leslie Forbes • Brendan O’Carroll • Laura Fitzgerald • Marsha Mehran • Robert Harris • Michael Ondaatje • Masha Hamilton • Azar Nafisi • Frank Delaney • Thomas O’Malley • Nadia Hashimi • Atiq Rahimi • Roddy Doyle • Jamie O’Neill • Philip Hensher • Jean-Christophe Rufin • Ake Edwardson • Tatiana de Rosnay • Khaled Hosseini • Kamila Shamsie • Cary Fagan • Jose Saramago • Yasmina Khadra • Suzanne Fisher Staples • Gunter Glass • Bernhard Schlink • Erin Hart • Zadie Smith • Kazuo Ishiguro • Susanna Tamaro Africa • Milan Kundera • William Trevor • Camilla Lackberg • Susan Vreeland • Carlos Ruiz Zafon • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • Laila Lalami • David W. Ball • Najib Mahfuz • J.M. Coetzee • Alexander McCall Smith • Giles Foden • Helen Oyeyemi Russia (Eastern Europe) • Soheir Khashoggi • Alan Paton • Barbara Kingsolver • Ahdaf Soueif • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov • Edward Rutherfurd • Debra Dean • Martin Cruz Smith • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn • Helen Dunmore • Leo Tolstoy • John LeCarre • Iva Turgenev • Andrei Makine • Irene Zabytki