What books are you looking forward to in 2015?

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The Guardian has helpfully compiled a list of the new releases:

www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/02/books-2015-calendar-year-kazuo-ishiguro-jonathan-franzen-toni-morrison

I'm particularly excited about new books from Jon Ronson, Kate Atkinson (a companion volume to Life after Life), Jonathan Franzen and Sebastian Faulks. And David Lodge has a memoir out - am a big Lodge fan so really looking forward to that.

What about everyone else?

Yes to the Jon Ronson book.

Also looking forward to the new book from Matt Haig about depression, the Tracey Thorn book about singing, the Pam St Clement autobio, and the David Hare memoir. Next week the new novel by Anthony Quinn is published - Curtain Call - and that's already had some great reviews so I'll be reading that later this month.

Very excited about new novels by Jonathan Franzen and Margaret Atwood, both being published in September!

I'm looking forward to Scarlett Thomas's new novel out in June.

Five Wounds, by Katharine Edgar. It's out in March, but I admit, I know the author so I've read an early draft - it's set in the sixteenth century, with a love story playing out against what happened in the Pilgrimage of Grace.

It's more or less the historical period I work on, plus I like good historical fiction, so I am looking forward to seeing the finished thing.

Oops! And a link to her announcement about it: katharineedgar.com/2014/06/07/introducing-five-wounds-2/

Not new releases, but I'm looking forward to reading, Robert Macfarlane's, 'The Old Ways' and, 'The Wild Places.'

Other than that, I'm looking for recommendations.

I see RM has a new one coming too, having just looked at the link!

I'm hoping the new Hilary Mantel Cromwell book and the new Game of Thrones book will be out this year but AFAIK neither has a confirmed release date yet.

Also looking forward to reading the new book by Zoë Heller.

New Anne Tyler in February.

Oh, it HAS to be Hausfrau by newcomer Jill Alexander Essbaum. Modern day take on Madame Bovary set in Switzerland. Amazing us of language and prose! Out in March.

The Mime Order. Second part of The Bone Season out this month.

And Justin Cronin's third part of The Passage trilogy is out in Oct!

Thanks, VB. Will certainly be reading that.

The final part of the Wolf Hall trilogy.

PLEASE!

TYPE FASTER, HILARY!

SkaterGrrl, do you think if we stand outside her flat and shout 'Faster! Faster!' it'll help?

Top idea.

I'll bring the thermos of Irish coffee.

Oh - and have reordered on Kindle teh new Rosie Project book. Its called the Rosie Effect.

preordered

I'm unreasonably excited about the next Gentleman Bastards book by Scott Lynch, but dubious that it'll be released on time. Also the next Song of Ice & Fire, but there's even less chance of that being out this year

The Hilary Mantel book isn't on the Guardian's list, so you do wonder. Maybe she has writer's block? Or has been spending too much time advising on the tv production of Wolf Hall (which I am so looking forward to).

She has health problems and that kind of writing takes a lot of research, so it doesn't have to be writer's block.
IIRC the list is all books that are coming out in the first half of the year, so we might still be able to hope for Cromwell some time before Christmas.

Ooh! I didn't know Scott Lynch had one due out. I try not to look at dates for him, because he's such a slow writer.

I'm stunned Hilary Mantel got Bring Up The Bodies written in the time she did, TBH. Although I don't know if she had written some of it before Wolf Hall was out? They are not short books.

I think Hilary Mantel got very involved in the RSC productions of WH and BUTB - I'm sure I read somewhere that she felt it had given her a new lease of life. Then she wrote that Assassination of Margaret Thatcher book. I do hope she gets on with the next instalment too!

When is the TV version coming out?