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Read a very good <a href="/arts-entertainment/books">novel</a> at the end of every day. Thank goodness, then, that the coming year is full of gems, from thrilling debuts to the return of big-name authors. Here’s our guide to the best fiction to read in 2024.</p><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 ieYfzw"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/17/252815-FCT%20%284%29.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/17/252815-FCT%20%284%29.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/17/252815-FCT%20%284%29.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="Michael Cunningham’s novel ‘Day’ is about the battle to remain sane in a world gone mad" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25531"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25531","index":1}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">Michael Cunningham’s novel ‘Day’ is about the battle to remain sane in a world gone mad<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> (source)</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Day by Michael Cunningham</strong></h3></div><div id="article-im-prompt"></div><p>It’s been almost a decade since <em>The Hours </em>author <a href="/arts-entertainment/books/features/michael-cunningham-interview-shining-a-light-on-ageing-love-and-innocence-9424673.html">Michael Cunningham</a> published a novel, and according to him, the helter-skelter world events during that period have hardly been a boon for writerly productivity. At least it’s infomed <em>Day, </em>his latest, which is set on the same day over a three-year period from 2019 to 2021. He says it’s “about the battle to remain sane in a world gone mad”. <em>18 Jan, Fourth Estate</em></p><div data-mpu1="true" class="sc-1048kfq-0 ddbwjn"><div class="sc-1y9ieyw-0 joBdHo mobile-only"><div class="sc-1pfx6hk-0 lgUbTS mobile-only"><div data-mpu="true" data-is-video="false" data-tile-name="mpu1" data-ad-unit-path="/71347885/_main_independent/in_arts-entertainment/in_books/image/mpu1" data-size-key="DOUBLE_OR_SINGLE_MPU" data-refresh-check="false" data-refresh-ms="13000"></div></div></div></div><p>Buy the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £9.99 <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fday%2Fid6449590700%3Fitsct%3Dindependent_books%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DBooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobook:<a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fday%2Fid1690550836%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html"> books.apple.com </a></li><li>Amazon: £21.98, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FDay-Michael-Cunningham%2Fdp%2F0399591346%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0399591346">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez</strong></h3></div><p>Here’s the chic new hardback to have on your New Year reading pile. The American author Sigrid Nunez had already published several novels when <em>The Friend</em>, about a writer who inherits a friend’s dog after he takes his own life, made her a literary star in 2018. Now she counts Laura Marling and Natalie Portman as fans, meaning we can overlook the fact that <em>The Vulnerables</em> is a pandemic novel (make them stop!), in which a writer befriends strangers in her apartment block during lockdown. <em>25 Jan, Virago</em></p><div id="taboola-mid-article-thumbnails-ii" class="sc-looa6c-0 jiCqOZ"></div><p>Buy the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £9.99 <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fthe-vulnerables%2Fid6445699326%3Fitsct%3Dindependent_books%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DBooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobook:<a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fthe-vulnerables%2Fid1688937970%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html"> books.apple.com </a></li><li>Amazon: £15.63, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FVulnerables-funny-painfully-honest-Hawkins%2Fdp%2F0349018111%2Fref%3Dasc_df_0349018111%2F%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0349018111">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Come and Get It by Kiley Reid</strong></h3></div><p>Kiley Reid made the Booker longlist in 2020 with her debut, <em>Such a Fun Age</em>, an incisive page-turner about class, race and status in which a Black woman is accused of kidnapping the white child she is babysitting. Her second novel follows a similar theme, namely: “what on earth are millennials supposed to do with their lives in this economy?” Set on a university campus, it follows a research assistant looking for stability, who is offered what looks like an easy opportunity by a visiting professor. <em>30 Jan, Bloomsbury</em></p><p>Buy the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £1.99 <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fcome-and-get-it%2Fid6445612385%3Fitsct%3Dindependent_books%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DBooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £14.19, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FCome-Get-Kiley-Reid%2Fdp%2F1526632543%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C1526632543">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 iIooRA"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/17/Change.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/17/Change.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/17/Change.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="The French literary star Edouard Louis’s new book ‘Change’ looks at his attempts to transcend his past via education" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25532"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25532","index":2}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">The French literary star Edouard Louis’s new book ‘Change’ looks at his attempts to transcend his past via education<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> (source)</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Change by Edouard Louis</strong></h3></div><p>At just 31, <a href="/arts-entertainment/books/features/edouard-louis-interview-who-killed-my-father-book-harry-potter-series-a8796091.html">Edouard Louis</a>’s shocking brand of autofiction has made him one of the biggest literary stars in his native France. <em>The End of Eddy</em>, his debut, was his account of enduring poverty and homophobia in rural France; <em>The History of Violence </em>describes his alleged rape. <em>Change</em> looks at his attempts to transcend his past via education. <em>8 Feb, Vintage</em></p><p>Buy the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £9.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fchange%2Fid6459060514%3Fitsct%3Dindependent_books%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DBooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com </a></li><li>Amazon: £17.47, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FChange-Method-Edouard-Louis%2Fdp%2F178730325X%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C178730325X">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Pity by Andrew McMillan</strong></h3></div><p>Few poets in the last 10 years have made as much of an impact with their first collection as <a href="/arts-entertainment/books/features/poet-andrew-mcmillan-growing-up-gay-and-the-books-that-helped-me-10393584.html">Andrew McMillan</a> did with <em>Physical. </em>Spare in language and dazzlingly intimate, it won him a Somerset Maugham Award and has meant his debut novel, set over three generations of one South Yorkshire mining family, is one of the year’s most anticipated new books. <em>8 Feb, Canongate</em></p><p>Buy the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £8.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fpity%2Fid6447424413%3Fitsct%3Dindependent_books%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DApplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobook, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fpity-unabridged%2Fid1727169390%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £13.25, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FPity-Andrew-McMillan%2Fdp%2F1838858954%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C1838858954">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin</strong></h3></div><p>There are shades of Nancy Mitford to Armistead Maupin’s tenth instalment of <a href="/arts-entertainment/books/features/california-dreaming-armistead-maupin-s-tales-of-the-city-9091799.html"><em>Tales of the City</em></a><em>,</em> which leaves San Francisco behind for the Cotswolds. Readers will get to find out what happened when Mona Ramsey moved to post-Thatcher Britain in the 1990s, marrying Lord Teddy Roughton in order to secure his visa, and inheriting a manor house in the process. <em>7 March, Doubleday</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £7.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fmona-of-the-manor%2Fid6463472673%3Fitsct%3Dindependent_books%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DApplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobook, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fmona-of-the-manor%2Fid1708193825%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £18.05, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FMona-Manor-Tales-City-10%2Fdp%2F085752707X%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C085752707X">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 iFFRvH"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/anoushka.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/anoushka.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/anoushka.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="This debut novel from Anoushka Warden charts one woman’s quest to fulfil her sexual appetites" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25533"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25533","index":3}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">This debut novel from Anoushka Warden charts one woman’s quest to fulfil her sexual appetites<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> ( )</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>I’m F*cking Amazing by Anouskha Warden</strong></h3></div><p>Funny, feminist and radically frank, this debut novel from Anoushka Warden charts one woman’s quest to fulfil her sexual appetites in a world that doesn’t seem to accommodate or understand them. And if you think the title is good, you’ve not seen her plays: <em>My Mum’s a Twat</em> and <em>My Dad’s a C***. 21 March</em>, <em>Trapeze</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Amazon: £18.40, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FIm-cking-Amazing-Anoushka-Warden%2Fdp%2F1398714097%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C1398714097">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</strong></h3></div><p>Undoubtedly one of the literary events of the year: a final, “lost” novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez will be released a decade after his death. The author of <em>Love in the Time of Cholera </em>and <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude </em>was suffering from dementia as he put the final touches to this story about a woman visiting a different island every year on the anniversary of her mother’s death; he ultimately decided it should not be published and it was locked away in an archive. Now, <a href="/arts-entertainment/books/news/gabriel-garcia-marquez-until-august-book-b2431745.html">his sons have reconsidered</a>, and Marquez’s last work will be shared with the world. <em>12 March, Viking</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books, £8.99<a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Funtil-august%2Fid6469694444%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DApplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html"> books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobook, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Funtil-august%2Fid1712470138%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £14.29, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FUntil-August-Gabriel-Garcia-Marquez%2Fdp%2F0241686350%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0241686350">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel</strong></h3></div><p>The publishing arm of sophisticated bookshop Daunt Books has done a stellar job republishing some lost gems, from two early novels of Barbara Comyns to Phyllis Rose’s addictive study of Victorian marriage, <em>Parallel Lives</em>. But their championing of new voices is also very impressive. Look out for this debut novel, recommended by Lorrie Moore, about best teenage girl boxers in the United States. <em>28 March, Daunt Books Originals</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £7.49 <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fheadshot%2Fid6480231992%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Dapplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Daunt Books: £9.99, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/headshot/">Dauntbooks.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 cHkqLA"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/caledonian%20road.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/caledonian%20road.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/caledonian%20road.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘Caledonian Road’ is a state-of-the-nation doorstopper" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25534"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25534","index":4}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘Caledonian Road’ is a state-of-the-nation doorstopper<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> ( )</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan</strong></h3></div><p>Every year, someone must step up and write a state-of-the-nation doorstopper, and this year, the duty falls to <em>Mayflies </em>author Andrew O’Hagan. Will it be an unputdownable read, or will it just be a posh soap opera where people talk about Brexit and cancel culture? We’re yet to find out, but the premise is certainly fun – among its hefty cast of characters, a celebrity intellectual crosses paths with a provocative student. <em>4 April, Faber</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £11.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fcaledonian-road%2Fid6467678933%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Dapplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Audiobook:<a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fcaledonian-road%2Fid1724843142%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html"> books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £18.40, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FCaledonian-Road-Andrew-OHagan%2Fdp%2F0571381359%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0571381359">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>As Young as This by Roxy Dunn</strong></h3></div><p>Early word says that this debut novel about womanhood and expectations will be one of the most exciting of the year. Told in the second person, it charts Margot’s quest to work out what to do when she finds that, at 34, things haven’t gone how she planned. It’s the latest accomplishment author Roxy Dunn is adding to her list: she’s also had sellout shows at the Soho Theatre, written poems and acted in sitcoms.</p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £7.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fas-young-as-this%2Fid6478234974%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Dapplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobook: <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fas-young-as-this%2Fid1717035744%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £15.63, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FAs-Young-This-Roxy-Dunn%2Fdp%2F0241632692%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0241632692">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>You are Here by David Nicholls</strong></h3></div><p>Think doing your Duke of Edinburgh Award, with all the teenage flirting and uncomfortable footwear, but with 25 years of life’s disappointments heaped on top. This, basically, is the premise for David Nicholls’ new novel, in which the friends of thirtysomething divorcees Michael and Marnie are very worried about them, and therefore organise a big walk around the Lake District in very rainy weather. It’s Nicholls’ best since the Booker-longlisted <em>Us</em>, and I’m already dream-casting the BBC adaptation. <em>23 April, Hodder</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books, £11.99: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://books.apple.comApple">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobook: <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fyou-are-here%2Fid1733895911%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £18.40, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FYou-Are-Here-number-bestselling%2Fdp%2F1444715445%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C1444715445">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 iFFRvH"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/Funny.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/Funny.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/Funny.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="Emily Henry’s new book ‘Funny Story’ is about an ex who moves in with her ex’s ex" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25535"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25535","index":5}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">Emily Henry’s new book ‘Funny Story’ is about an ex who moves in with her ex’s ex<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> (source)</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Funny Story by Emily Henry</strong></h3></div><p><a href="/arts-entertainment/books/features/emily-henry-interview-happy-place-b2325621.html">Emily Henry</a> is a sheer publishing phenomenon, selling millions of copies for her inhalable romcoms that smartly play with tropes of the genre. A sign of her growing popularity is that 2023 saw the first of her books – <em>Happy Place – </em>to be published in hardback in the UK. Hot on its heels comes <em>Funny Story,</em> about an ex who moves in with her ex’s ex. <em>25 April, Viking</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books,<a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Ffunny-story%2Fid6452948244%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Dapplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html"> books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobooks,<a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Ffunny-story%2Fid1699200708%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html"> books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £9.49, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FFunny-Story-shimmering-opposites-bestselling%2Fdp%2F0241624126%2Fref%3Dasc_df_0241624126%2F%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0241624126">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya</strong></h3></div><p>Jo Hamya’s <em>Three Rooms</em> was one of the most underrated debuts of recent years, telling the story of a woman living in London in precarious employment and housing, as she tried to find her footing in the world. Her second sounds even more enticing: it tells the story of a father and daughter on holiday, where she types up his latest novel. Ten years later, he watches her first play, set during that week, and laying bare all the things he did wrong. <em>25 April, W&N</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple books: £10.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fthe-hypocrite%2Fid6448672181%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Dapplebooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Apple Audiobooks, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fthe-hypocrite%2Fid1712450115%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £17.47, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FHypocrite-Jo-Hamya-ebook%2Fdp%2FB0C3YLZG99%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7CB0C3YLZG99">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers</strong></h3></div><p>After many years of quietly publishing well-received but not-so-well-read novels, Clare Chambers became a publishing sensation with <em>Small Pleasures</em>, a word-of-mouth lockdown hit about suppressed desires in suburbia. Expect a similar mood in <em>Shy Creatures</em>, set in 1960s Croydon, in which an art therapist has an affair with a married doctor – until they discover a troubled man living in a derelict house down the road. <em>29 Aug, W&N</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £11.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fshy-creatures%2Fid6471896260%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html"> books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £20, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FShy-Creatures-Clare-Chambers%2Fdp%2F1399602551%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C1399602551">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 bVkxtS"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/darker.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/darker.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/darker.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="The king of horror publishes his latest collection of short stories" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25536"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25536","index":6}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">The king of horror publishes his latest collection of short stories<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> (source)</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>You Like it Darker by Stephen King</strong></h3></div><p>2024 marks 50 years since the publication of <em>Carrie, </em>the book that Stephen King’s wife retrieved from a bin, thus beginning one of the most enviable careers in modern publishing. Now, 400 million copies sold later, the king of horror publishes his latest collection of short stories. <em>21 May, Hodder</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £12.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fyou-like-it-darker%2Fid6471335421%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Debook&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Audiobooks, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Faudiobook%2Fyou-like-it-darker%2Fid1715026933%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3DAudiobooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £12.50, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FYou-Like-Darker-Stephen-King%2Fdp%2F1399725092%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C1399725092">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors</strong></h3></div><p>After <em>Cleopatra and Frankenstein,</em> her archly cool age-gap romance set in the lofts of Brooklyn, comes Coco Mellors’ second novel, <em>Blue Sisters</em>. The sisters are blue because a) that is their surname and also b) they are sad. Set in London, Paris, LA and New York, it follows the three Blue sisters as they grieve the unexpected death of Nicky, their fourth. Expect enviable interiors and big emotions. <em>23 May, Fourth Estate</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £8.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fblue-sisters%2Fid6445714974%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Debooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £14.99,<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FBlue-Sisters-bestselling-Cleopatra-Frankenstein%2Fdp%2F000862299X%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C000862299X"> Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden</strong></h3></div><p>Acquired in a nine-way auction, Dutch author Yael van der Wouden’s debut novel has been compared to Ian McEwan’s <em>Atonement </em>and the novels of Sarah Waters and Patricia Highsmith. Set in a rural Dutch province in 1961, as the aftershocks of the war are beginning to quiet, it sees life disrupted when a woman has her brother and graceless girlfriend come to stay in her house. <em>30 May, Viking</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £8.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fthe-safekeep%2Fid6462593561%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Debook&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £16.99, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FSafekeep-Yael-van-Wouden%2Fdp%2F0241652308%2Fref%3Dtmm_hrd_swatch_0%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0241652308">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 dZzBay"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/sameasiteverwas.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/sameasiteverwas.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/20/13/sameasiteverwas.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="Claire Lombardo’s second book is a family saga about a teenage daughter about to set off for college" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25537"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25537","index":7}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">Claire Lombardo’s second book is a family saga about a teenage daughter about to set off for college<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> ( )</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo</strong></h3></div><p>So accomplished was Claire Lombardo’s 2019 novel <em>The Most Fun We Ever Had</em> that it was hard to believe it was her first; the <em>Guardian </em>described her as the “literary lovechild of Jonathan Franzen and Anne Tyler”. Now comes her second book, another family saga to save as a treat and devour when you should be doing something else, in which events past and present upset a long marriage.</p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £11.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fsame-as-it-ever-was%2Fid6467380555%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Debooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £20, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FSame-Ever-Was-Claire-Lombardo%2Fdp%2F1399608215%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C1399608215">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Parade by Rachel Cusk</strong></h3></div><p>Rachel Cusk’s triumphant <em>Outline </em>trilogy saw her move from derided author of motherhood memoir <em>A Life’s Work</em> to celebrated literary trailblazer. Now comes <em>Parade, </em>described as a novel about art, womanhood and violence, its pages filled with “a loose carousel of lives”. <em>6 June, Faber</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £8.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fparade%2Fid6478886006%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Debooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £16.99, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FParade-Rachel-Cusk%2Fdp%2F0571377947%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0571377947">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Gliff by Ali Smith</strong></h3></div><p>Ali Smith, concept queen. After her seasonal quartet of novels, which captured events as they unfolded and tracked autumn, winter, spring and summer, comes a two-book project. 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Worlds collide when publicity assistant Rose meets a world-famous international pop star – but the next day, she can’t remember what happened the night before. Following her non-fiction debut <em>Millennial Love</em>, we know this will be a brilliant foray into fiction – journalist Petter (who is also the host of the <em>Indy</em>’s <em>Love Lives</em> podcast) asks incisive, fascinating questions about sex, desire and feminism. <em>18 July, Fourth Estate</em></p><p>Pre-order the book now:</p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 sc-w27hnf-1 coQFhJ egSkID"><ul><li>Apple Books: £7.99, <a rel="nofollow" data-affiliate="true" target="_blank" href="http://go.redirectingat.com/?id=44681X1458326&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.apple.com%2Fgb%2Fbook%2Fgold-rush%2Fid6476805430%3Fitsct%3Dbooks_box_link%26itscg%3D30200%26ls%3D1%26at%3D1000l3akK%26ct%3Debooks&sref=/arts-entertainment/books/features/2024-best-books-fiction-b2466627.html">books.apple.com</a></li><li>Amazon: £15.63, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://buy.geni.us/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FGold-Rush-Olivia-Petter%2Fdp%2F0008606412%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2466627%7C0008606412">Amazon.co.uk</a></li></ul></div><div class="sc-482ou5-2 eOHevC image align-none"><figure class="sc-1cbdeug-0 cpcmmN"><div data-gallery-length="9" class="sc-482ou5-0 bVkxtS"><img src="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/Cleavage.jpg" srcSet="https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/Cleavage.jpg?quality=75&width=320&auto=webp 320w, https://static.independent.co.uk/2023/12/19/18/Cleavage.jpg?quality=75&width=640&auto=webp 640w" loading="lazy" alt="More red hot Westminster scandal from the former advisor to Boris Johnson, whose debut, ‘Whips’, set pulses racing" class="sc-1mc30lb-0 iSVhwZ inline-gallery-btn"><div class="hydrate-root sc-482ou5-1 dPBwGF" data-component="AutoGalleryButton" data-theme-name="base"><button class="sc-ohzviw-0 gdZNrl inline-gallery-btn" id="trigger-autogallery-25538"><span class="sc-ohzviw-1 ewSUe">open image in gallery</span></button></div><script type="application/json">{"id":"trigger-autogallery-25538","index":8}</script></div><figcaption class="sc-1cbdeug-1 sc-1cbdeug-3 hiCdLa liXvvg">More red hot Westminster scandal from the former advisor to Boris Johnson, whose debut, ‘Whips’, set pulses racing<span class="sc-1cbdeug-7 izyooE"> (source)</span></figcaption></figure></div><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>Cleavage by Cleo Watson</strong></h3></div><p>More red hot Westminster scandal from the former advisor to Boris Johnson, whose debut, <em>Whips</em>, set pulses racing. This one might get them going again in government, but for quite different reasons: it’s about a general election that the Tories are predicted to lose catastrophically (ring any bells?), leaving them no choice but to desperately call in a maverick advisor to try and change their fortunes. 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Peace will explore the lasting impact it had on football and Britain itself. <em>29 Aug, Faber</em></p><div class="sc-kk992l-0 coQFhJ"><h3><strong>A new George Smiley novel</strong></h3></div><p>Three years after the death of John le Carre, aka David Cornwell, the spy novelist’s most famous character is returning. 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