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Spring 2021 Catalogue

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Found some new titles to read in 2021

I was really interested in reading 'mother for dinner' and,'luster'

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Looks like I'm adding way too much to my TBR again :0)

Some great books that I'm excited to read in 2021

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This was a very helpful guide. Got me excited for some new reads this year! I’ve now added so many books to my tbr pile!

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Great preview of books for 2021. Quite a few have been added to my wish list from nonfiction and fiction. Looking forward to my reading in 2021.

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An awesome preview of the great selection of books coming up in 2021. Can't wait till I get the chance to read some of them!

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A great selection of books releasing soon. Some of these sound fantastic, I can't wait to read them.

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A great way to find out about the upcoming books from a publisher. I’ve added a few to my to read list and will keep an eye out for them on NetGalley. Particularly looking forward to the next Jeffrey Archer, Turn a blind eye, and A Gambling Man, Baldacci

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Great 2021 preview. So many great books to look forward to in the coming year. Thrillers, YA, science fiction and fantasy a really great selection coming from Pan Macmillan.

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Very excited to read some of these books next year!
Some familiar authors with new books, and some fun looking debuts.
Highlighted many books that I'll need to add to the ever growing tbr pile!

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I'm always excited to see what publications are coming out of PanMac! Highlights for me will be When I Was Ten and The Lamplighters.

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Excellent, detailed catalogue, a great way of finding out about interesting new books which otherwise might easily have passed me by.

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So many great titles to look forward to! Really excited about some of these releases, and definitely added more than a few to my TBR.

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Really good to read about books being published next year and add some to me reading list. Gives me something to look forward to.

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There are so many exciting books to be looking forward to next year, I have added a couple to my to be read list.

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Brilliant! I love finding new books and new authors to try so these book catalogues are ideal for me.

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Really useful catalogue detailing all the Spring releases. This is so helpful for all booksellers to be ablet o access in digital form. REally looking forward to a lot of the titles in here - particularly new Elizabeth Macneal!

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Some exciting and interesting book to come next year! This has greatly increased by TBR with both fictions and non-fiction titles.

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I've added one book on my wishlist and that's by Neema Shah. Overall a good concept released onto Net Galley.

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A great insight into the Pan Macmillan books from eight of their imprints that are coming up for Spring 2021. There are over 150 pages of fiction and non-fiction books, new and reprinted, and plenty of exciting titles to add to the wanted list. Can't wait to read some of them!

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I'm always excited by seeing the next season's catalogues appear - more so, perhaps, given current disheartening and dreary news, and the chaos of publication dates being put back.

So I was pleased to see the Pan MacMillan catalogue appear. Apart from Pan and MacMillan themselves, it also covers Picador, MacMillan Collector's Library, Mantle, Tor, Bluebird and One Boat.

The only way I can think of to review a catalogue is to pick out some gems that attract my attention. That isn't saying the book I don't mention are less worthy, only that these are one which appeal to me. Others will spot different highlights. I'd urge you to dip in and see what you find. So let's get started!

Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander (Picador, 4 Feb) is described as "An outrageously tasty comedy about identity, tribalism and mothers." Seventh Seltzer is a member of a declining ethnic group - Cannibal-Americans. His mother's last words to him are 'eat me'. How to revive the ancient customs in a modern world....?

Nightshift by Kiare Ladner (Picador, 18 Feb) is a story of night working - "a dark, compelling story of obsession and compulsion: one woman's decision to shrug off her normal life and join the other-worlds existence of London's night workers". I love reading about the night, about the lives of those who are awake and doing, lit by harsh neon and fluorescent bulbs, while the rest of snooze in our beds, This story of Meggie meeting night worker Sabine and giving up the familiar for that dark world looks just the kind of thing I love.

Jenny Lawson may be familiar from her previous books and from her blog. Described as "Hilarious, heart-warming and honest", her new book Broken is "about living, surviving and thriving with anxiety". It's out from Picador on 29 April.

Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga (Picador, 27 May) is an updated edition of Olusoga's book telling "the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean". That's a history that is more relevant and important than ever, but which is also above all, interesting - and Olusoga has a knack for bringing the past to life.

Sixteen Horses by Greg Buchanan (Mantle, 13 May) sees sixteen horses' heads discovered in a farmers' field near a decaying seaside town. Featuring a forensic vet (surely a first in crime novels?) and a detective, this book uncovers a chain of crimes and is "a story of enduring guilt, trauma and punishment".

Sistersong by Such Holland (15 April) is a story of a magical ancient Britain, surving after the loss of links to Rome, but before the conquest of the Saxons. Three sisters, wanting different things, inherit their father's kingdom. The book "retells the folk ballad 'The Two Sisters' through the eyes of the one the tale forgot".

I'm VERY excited to see Black Water Girl by Zen Cho (10 June) coming. I enjoy her books so much. This one follows Jess Tech, "broke and newly homesick in Malaysia" into a world of "gods and ghost, family secrets and dangerous dealings" where the least of her problems is her dead grandmother, who is disturbingly active, considering everything... a must-read for me.

The Library of the Dead by TL Huchu (18 March) is set in Edinburgh, where Ropa works as a ghost talker - carrying messages from Edinburgh's dead to her living. Until she finds whispers of a monstrous supernatural crime which she sets about investigating with a mixture of "Zimbabwean magic and Scottish pragmatism".

Finally (for now) - in Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky (27 May) the war is fifty years over. The enemy that could have destroyed humanity has been silent all that time. But now they're back. Idris, remade during the war as an enhanced human, has been scratching a living on a salvage vessel, keeping a low profile. But then he finds something that may make that impossible...

This is only a selection from the catalogue - I could have mentioned many, many more: it looks like being a great Spring for books.

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