New in paper: 'The Bone Clocks'
This month's critic's pick is The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (Random House, fiction, reprint)
"When they arrive at the end, I predict with confidence that many readers will want to begin the journey all over again," reviewer Kevin Nance said of this novel about a runaway teenage girl targeted by dangerous mystics. ***1/2 out of four stars.
Also recently released:
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Vintage, fiction, reprint)
A troupe of actors and musicians is threatened in a post-plague world.
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, non-fiction, reprint)
This study of political and cultural change in China won the 2014 National Book Award for Non-Fiction.
Us by David Nicholls (Harper, fiction, reprint)
Can a family vacation through Europe save a marriage?; from the author of One Day.
Daring by Gail Sheehy (William Morrow, non-fiction, reprint)
Sheehy (Passages) writes about her romance with magazine editor Clay Felker.
Some Luck by Jane Smiley (Anchor, fiction, reprint)
The first volume in a century-spanning trilogy about an Iowa farm family begins in 1920.
I Said Yes to Everything by Lee Grant (Plume, non-fiction, reprint)
The actress looks back at her life, including being blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes (Mulholland, fiction, reprint)
A single-mom detective hunts a particularly creepy killer in Detroit.
The World According to Bob by James Bowen (Thomas Dunne Books, non-fiction, reprint)
"Further adventures" of a London street cat named Bob and his musician companion.
Saving Grace by Jane Green (St. Martin's Griffin, fiction, reprint)
A wife with a seemingly perfect life is threatened by her husband's new assistant.
Brutal Youth by Anthony Breznican (Thomas Dunne Books, fiction, reprint)
A coming-of-age tale set at a troubled Catholic high school.
But Enough About You by Christopher Buckley (Simon & Schuster, non-fiction, reprint)
Essays by the humorist (Thank You for Smoking).