We have an exciting line-up of new releases ahead of us this week! Here are my Top picks of the books being released this week, internationally. Just to note, that the release date may be different in your country, but fear not, you can still add it to your TBR List.
Book of Night: Holly Black
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Penguin Books

Image Credit: Penguin Books South Africa
About this book (from Penguin Books South Africa)
#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus
In Charlie Hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence. You can alter someone’s feelings-and memories-but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden-a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms.
And sometimes, it has a life of its own.
Charlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires.
But when a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear-and at worst, non-existent. Determined to survive, Charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister-all desperate to control the magic of the shadows.
With sharp angles and prose, and a sinister bent, Holly Black is a master of shadow and story stitching. Remember while you read, light isn’t playing tricks in Book of Night, the people are.
Extract: Book of Night – Holly Black (Penguin SA)
Breathless: Amy McCulloch
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: Penguin Books
South African Release Date: June 2022

Image Credit: Penguin Books South Africa
About this book (from Penguin Books South Africa)
When you’re this high up, no one can hear you scream: an ice-cold thriller from an expert mountaineer turned bestselling author
At the top of the world’s tallest mountains, there literally isn’t enough oxygen to breathe. In the space of hours your body will begin to shut down. Any longer, and death is inevitable.
What better place for a serial killer to find their next victim?
Struggling journalist Cecily Wong is delighted to be invited to interview famed mountaineer Charles McVeigh, conditional on joining his team on one of the Himalayas’ toughest peaks.
But on the mountain, it’s clear something is wrong. It begins small – a theft, an accidental fall. And then a note, pinned to her tent in the night: there’s a murderer on the mountain…
Extract: Breathless – Amy McCulloch (Penguin Books Australia)
Does any of these two books grab your attention? Tell me what you think!