Every month we break down our most excitedly awaited new book releases. Here are our picks for August....
Release date: August 24th
Genre: Mythology/Historical Fiction
Available on Amazon
Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But when the wind never comes in the empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. A feminist retelling of The Iliad from the perspective of the women of Troy who endured it -a follow up to the extraordinary The Silence of the Girls from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Regeneration Trilogy.
Release date: August 3rd
Genre: Fiction
Available on Amazon
Working as a consultant for Kamala Harris’s attorney general campaign in Obama-era San Francisco, Seema has constructed a successful life for herself in the West, despite still struggling with her father’s long-ago decision to exile her from the family after she came out as lesbian. Told from the point of view of Seema’s child at the moment of his birth and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth, Keats, and the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is an operatic debut from a bold new voice, exploring the tensions between ideology and practicality, hope and tradition, forgiveness and retribution for one family navigating a shifting political landscape.
Release date: August 31st
Genre: Fiction
Available on Amazon
Set in one year, Three Rooms follows a young woman as she moves from a rented room at Oxford, where she’s working as a research assistant; to a stranger’s sofa, all she can afford as a copyediting temp at a society magazine; to her childhood home, where she’s been forced to return, jobless, even a room of her own out of reach. As politics shift to nationalism, the streets fill with protestors, and news drip-feeds into her phone, she struggles to live a meaningful life on her own terms, unsure if she’ll ever be able to afford to do so.
Release date: August 3rd
Genre: Fiction
Available on Amazon
This book follows Agatha, a Sister of a Catholic Church who has spent the last nine years working, laughing and praying in the little house they share under Mother Roberta. Content with the sameness and familiarity of their living situation, all their lives are uprooted when they are transferred to Woonsocket, a little town in Rhode Island where they are assigned to a halfway home Little Neon. Disarming, delightfully deadpan, and full of searching, Claire Luchette's Agatha of Little Neon offers a view into the lives of women and the choices they make. It is a novel about female friendship and devotion, the roles made available to us, and
how we become ourselves.
Release date: August 3rd
Genre: Fiction
Available on Amazon
Damnation Spring is the deeply human story of a Pacific Northwest logging town wrenched in two by a mystery that threatens to derail its way of life. Told from the perspectives of Rich, his wife Colleen, and their son Chub, in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, this intimate, compassionate portrait of a community clinging to a vanishing way of life amid the perils of environmental degradation makes Damnation Spring an essential novel for our time.
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