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These are five of the biggest releases of the year and deserve to be on your reading list

THE FURY

BY ALEX MICHAELIDES Michael Joseph “There were seven of us in all, trapped on the island. One of us was a murderer . . .”

Former movie star Lana Farrar invites a select group of friends and family to holiday with her on her private island in Greece. It’s all sounds idyllic, but there are so many toxic secrets among the seven that it’s not long before someone winds up dead.

You’ll think you know who did it, but things are much more complicated than they seem.

Alex Michaelides earned himself a loyal following with his multimillion-copy bestseller, The Silent Patient, and some early reviews are hyping this latest offering as being even better. Hits the shelves in February

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BY AJ FINN HarperCollins Knowing that he has only a few months left to live, reclusive mystery novelist Sebastian Trapp invites Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction, to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help write his life story. While weaving together the strands of Sebastian’s life, Nicky becomes obsessed with discovering the truth about what happened on New Year’s Eve 20 years ago when the author’s first wife and teenage son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again.

And when a corpse appears in the family’s koi pond, it becomes clear that the past isn’t gone – it’s just waiting. Another gripping read from the author of The Woman in the Window. Hits the shelves in March

THE WOMEN

BY KRISTIN HANNAH Macmillan

A novel about female friendship and the heartbreak that love can cause. Growing up in California, Frances “Frankie” McGrath has led a sheltered life and has been raised by her conservative parents to do the right thing. She studies nursing and when her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam in 1965, Frankie impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps. Surrounded by the horror of war, she has to grow up fast – and then she has to deal with returning home to an America that is vastly different to the one she remembers.

Another unforgettable, epic read from the author of The Four Winds and Firefly Lane.

Hits the shelves in February

UNTIL AUGUST

BY GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ Viking

Before his death almost a decade ago, Gabriel García Márquez told his family that he did not want his final novel, which he wrote while living with dementia, published.

But his sons have decided to disregard the Nobel Prize winner’s wishes. They insist it’s not money that’s motivating them, but rather the desire to honour his legacy. “Until August was the result of our father’s last effort to continue creating against all odds,” they say.

It focuses on a married woman who every year travels to a Caribbean island and for one night takes a new lover. It’s a story about love and freedom with a dollop of magical realism. Hits the shelves in March

KNIFE

BY SALMAN RUSHDIE Jonathan Cape

In 2022 Rushdie was participating in a literary event in New York when a man rushed onto stage and stabbed him repeatedly.

Although The Satanic Verses author survived the horrific attack, he lost sight in one eye and the use of one of his hands, which he is working on regaining.

In this memoir, which is subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, the 76-year-old revisits the incident and reveals why it made him even more determined to carry on writing even if he offends people.

“This was a necessary book for me to write: a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art,” he says.

Hits the shelves in April