Asha Thanki

Aug 6, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Carolyn Kuebler |Asha Thanki |Andres Neuman |Louise Erdrich

Alan Hollinghurst. Random House, $30 (496p) ISBN 978-0-5932-4306-0Booker winner Hollinghurst (The Line of Beauty) traces the divisions of post-Brexit London in this elegant tale of two men’s divergent paths across decades. Dave Win, an aging gay actor, fondly remembers Mark Hadlow, the philanthropist who sponsored his education, after Mark’s death at 94.

Aug 5, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Virginie Despentes |Pedro Almodóvar |Carolyn Kuebler |Asha Thanki

Virginie Despentes, trans. from the French by Frank Wynne. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-61161-3A movie star and a disgruntled writer engage in an epic war of words in the brash and provocative latest from Despentes (Apocalypse Baby), set during the Covid-19 lockdown in France.