Exclusive Books Recommends: Fiction to Look out for in May #News

Here is a brief introduction of what #EBRecommends is all about!  Here are some #Fiction books to look out for this month!

There are 13 fiction titles for May.

Booth is a triumph! No one writes like Karen Joy Fowler. With wit, heart, and revelatory insight, she teases ghosts from their shadows, transforming the way we see the past, shedding new light on our troubled present.

In Robert Gold’s Twelve Secrets Ben Harper’s life changed forever the day his older brother Nick was murdered by two classmates. Twenty years on, Ben is one of the best true crime journalists in the country and happily settled back in Haddley, thanks to the support of its close-knit community. But when a fresh murder case shines new light on his brother’s death and throws suspicion on those closest to him, Ben’s world is turn upside down once more.

Andy and Laura are good parents. They tell their son Connor that he can go out with friends to celebrate completing his exams, but he must be home by midnight. When Connor misses his curfew, it sets off a series of events that will change the lives of five families forever. The truth? Because five teenagers went into the woods that night, but only four came out. The Curfew is gripping tale by T.M Logan.

Author Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breath-taking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern in Moon Witch Spider King. And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.

Uju is a woman trying to be modern in a country that wants her to be traditional. Inspired by the lives of real women – and with the theme of female friendship as a source of hope, laughter and empowerment throughout – Tomorrow I Become a Woman by Aiwanose Odafen is a feminist novel that gently educates.

In Mike Nicol’s latest novel Hammerman: A Walking Shadow children find a body in the Strandfontein sand dunes. A populist politician is gunned down outside parliament. His number two executed in bed with a high-class escort. A cabinet minister shot leaving a security estate. A cop assassinated in his car. Another in his beach house. And it all ties back to the murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme in 1986 – as private investigator Fish Pescado is about to discover.

The Match by Harlan Coben portrays the main protagonist as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Discovered living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey, he has grown up knowing nothing of his parents, and even less about his own identity. Until now. When a match on a DNA database puts him on the trail of a  close relative – the only family member he has ever known -Wilde thinks he might be about to solve the mystery of who he really is.

In Galatea by Madeline Miller a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece – the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen – the gift of life. Now as his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence.

Impossible by Sarah Lotz is the tale of Nick a failed writer, failed husband and dog owner and Bee a serial dater, dress maker and pringles enthusiast. One day, their paths cross over a misdirected email. The connection is instant, electric. They feel like they’ve known each other all their lives. Nick buys a new suit, gets on a train. Bee steps away from her desk, sets off to meet him under the clock at Euston station. Think you know how the rest of the story goes? They did too . . . But this is a story with more twists than most.

Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall is a beautifully written meditation on the lengths mothers will go to for their children as well as an eye-opening history of women.

Lucy Vine writes: ”The No-Show by Beth O’Leary is a truly brilliant book. It’s clever and so intriguing. I loved the depth, warmth and humanity of the characters, I loved the writing, I loved the twists. I loved how much I thought about this novel when I was away from it and after I finished. It’s basically the perfect book.”

Lucy Foley’s The Paris Apartment is brimming with intrigue. Welcome to No.12 rue des Amants. A beautiful old apartment block, far from the glittering lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine. Where nothing goes unseen, and everyone has a story to unlock. The watchful concierge. The scorned lover. The prying journalist. The naive student. The unwanted guest. There was a murder here last night.

White Chalk is a collection of short stories set in Eldorado Park, the site of author Terry-Ann Adams inspiration. Her sentences positively glow as she documents the wonders and sadnesses of everyday life. These rich and powerful stories confirm Terry-Ann Adams’s place as one of the brightest stars of new South African writing.

In Zanzibar Zen deur Marnus Hattingh ‘n nuuskierige toeris aan Zanzibar se kus vermoor word, die bou van Giorgio Comaneti se blinknuwe Zanzibar Zen Casino gaan die helfte van die Jozani-woud uitwis. Toast le Roux, omgewingsjoernalis, moet die stootskrapers betyds stop. Maar Comaneti se gevaarlike handlangers, Tjokkie en Bozo, is reeds op Toast se spoor.

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