Ordinary Human Failings: The heart-breaking, unflinching, compulsive new novel from the author of Acts of Desperation

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This subversive fairytale debut set in an alternative Hong Kong interrogates life under oppressive regimes.

One of Britain’s foremost conductors lifts the lid on what they actually do and how you become one. Michal Shavit, publishing director at Jonathan Cape, acquired UK & Commonwealth rights from Harriet Moore at David Higham.

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A memoir told through the stories of Grant’s mother, sister, uncle and others. It also covers his short-lived medical career and time at the BBC. Two young Sarajevans are caught up in the first world war and beyond, in a novel about history’s revolutions and the enduring power of love. An enslaved man becomes a star witness in the Tichborne trial, in a novel about deception and hypocrisy inspired by real events in Victorian London and Jamaica. A sweeping history of the Roman emperors, from the brilliant to the debauched, by Britain’s best-known classicist. The Irish author follows her comic debut, Exciting Times, with an ensemble novel about commitment and betrayal set around a wedding.

I adored Megan Nolan's first book - so much so, I read it twice. I was so excited to read her new offering and was delighted to receive an early copy. The Sister: The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, the Most Powerful Woman in North Korea by Sung-Yoon Lee, Macmillan What makes some games world-beating, while others simply don’t travel? The mathematician and professor of the public understanding of science goes in search of answers. From a difficult upbringing in Baltimore to her tumultuous marriage to Will Smith, the actor and talkshow host shares lessons learned.The Irish short story writer’s debut novel focuses on two teens coming of age in 60s New York, in the orbit of Andy Warhol’s Factory. When a reporter, Tom Hargreaves, with a fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the ‘peasants’ – ordinary people, his readers – stumbles across this scoop, a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents loved across the neighbourhood and the finger of suspicion pointing at one reclusive family of Irish immigrants and ‘bad apples’, he persuades his paper to put them up in a hotel with all bar expenses paid. The poet and painter (daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes) writes of her unlikely love for a magpie that she rescues and rears by hand in the Welsh countryside. Presented as the translation of an ancient epic, Rushdie’s latest explores the rise and fall of a magical Indian city, along with the spinning of stories and the quest for women’s agency. In this book, a young girl is murdered at a London housing estate, and another young girl in the complex, Lucy, is suspected of having committed the crime. Lucy is taken into questioning, and her family members - her young mother Carmel, her alcoholic uncle Richie, and her detached grandfather John - wait over a stretch of 24 hours in a hotel while she's being detained. During this time, Tom, a reporter, is on a mission to break this story, and speaks with the family members one-on-one to learn more about the events that unfolded, but also about the dynamics of their family. What we get, then, are long sections in the past, giving us pieces to understand how this poor, Irish family ended up in this situation in London.