I was looking for the release dates for the Waterstones 11 and as there didn’t seem to be a definitive list, I’m posting them here. Someone might find them useful! For those that don’t know, these are 11 debut novels picked by Britain’s national bookstore chain. I have listed the physical editions but all will be available in ebook formats.
05/01/12: The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach (hardback)
01/02/12: The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey (hardback)
02/02/12: Shelter – Frances Greenslade (paperback)
02/02/12: Care of Wooden Floors (hardback)
01/03/12: Absolution – Patrick Flanery (hardback)
01/03/12: The Land of Decoration – Grace McCleen (hardback)
15/03/12: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce (hardback)
29/03/12: The Lifeboat – Charlotte Rogan (hardback)
12/04/12: Signs of Life – Anna Raverat (hardback/paperback)
26/04/12: The Art of Fielding – Chad Harbach (paperback)
03/05/12: The Panopticon – Jenni Fagan (hardback)
05/06/12: Care of Wooden Floors (paperback)
21/06/12: The Age of Miracles – Karen Thompson Walker (hardback)
11/10/12: The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey (paperback)
Two of these made my 2012 books to look forward to list but I will try and read them all over the year.
Black Sun
Today he would become a god. His mother had told him so. The opening line may seem like something any mother would tell her son, but in the case of Serapio, his mother truly believes he will become the Crow God reborn. She blinds him,…
Legendborn
The day Bree gets accepted into an early college placement at UNC, is the day her mother dies. The last words they spoke were of anger. Unable to deal with her dad’s grief on top of her own, Bree goes ahead with the placement. Once…
Ninth House
Alex Stern does not belong at Yale. When she awakes as the sole survivor of a multiple homicide, presumed a drug deal gone wrong, she is given an unlikely offer. Come to Yale, join the House of Lethe and oversee the rituals of the other…
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
Just let me dust off this blog thing, I have a review for you! One of my anticipated reads released during lockdown was the follow-up to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. If you read that, of course will will be dying to know what happened to…