Dazzling books from the literary world’s rising stars
From a very modern romantic entanglement to an epic tale of power and class in Pakistan, here are some of the most exciting debut novels of the year so far.
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Eight new novels explore themes from crime and family dysfunction to forbidden love and generational conflict, offering…
A Pulitzer finalist is among the first-time novelists, in tales of love, a surreal prison, teen murder and a tradwife
They tell stories of pumas, prisoners and lost poems
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The London 2012 Olympian picks works by Rupi Kaur, Charlie Mackesy and Madeline Miller
Many of our selections explore family secrets
