Yahoo Movies 10 essential new books to read in 2024
Argylle by Elly Conway
This Bond-esque spy caper speeds from Thailand to Monaco, and comes with a blockbuster film (next month) and a real-life enigma: who’s its mysterious unknown writer, Elly Conway?
Bantam; Jan 4
Judgement at Tokyo by Gary J Bass
A decade in the making, this account of the 1946-48 Tokyo war crimes trials shows how the Japanese reckoned with the brutal legacy of the Second World War.
Picador; Jan 25
What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson
The Booker winner returns with a lushly emotional tale of midlife desire and infidelity, in which a filmmaker and playwright collaborate, then begin a secret affair.
Vintage; Feb 1
The Lodgers by Holly Pester
In the crafty debut novel by one of Britain’s best young poets, a woman moving into a sublet flat is preoccupied by thoughts of the one she’s left, and who’s living there now.
Granta; Feb 1
Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
A funny experiment: the idiosyncratic Canadian novelist has re-shuffled 10 years of her selected journal entries, so that the sentences all start in alphabetical order.
Fitzcarraldo; Feb 6
Dear Oliver by Susan R Barry
The author once wrote to her fellow neuroscientist Oliver Sachs out of the blue; it led to a close friendship, preserved here in 10 years of their warm letters to one another.
Bonnier; Feb 16
Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux
George Orwell branded his 1920s stint in the Burmese police “five boring years within the sound of bugles”. But as this novel shows, it may have been the political making of him.
Hamish Hamilton; Feb 22
How to Win an Information War by Peter Pomerantsev
The extraordinary life of Sefton Delmer – essentially the Allies’ answer to Lord Haw Haw – who as “Der Chef” undermined Hitler with his secret radio broadcasts to Germany.
Faber; Mar 7
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The literary event of the spring: a rediscovered novel by the great Colombian writer. A married woman makes a strange annual pilgrimage, during which she always has a one-night stand.
Viking; Mar 12
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
The Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient makes a long-overdue return to his original love – verse – with his first new poetry collection in 18 years.
Cape; Mar 21
