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• Two set-in-the-1940s mysteries featuring his PI Jack LeVine, Andrew Bergman's The Big Kiss-Off of 1944 and Hollywood and LeVine
  
  
• Two by Yamazaki Nao-Cola -- Beautiful Distance and Don't Laugh at Other People's Sex Lives -- already out in the UK, from Daunt, and coming in September from SJP Lit in the US
  
  
• John Gregory Dunne's year-in-the-life of/at The Studio (Twentieth Century Fox), from 1969
  
  
• Anna Arno's biography of Paul Celan, now in English
  
  
• Matthew Head's 1955 novel, Murder at The Flea Club
  
  
• Lawrence Block's 1998 novel, Tanner on Ice, the eighth in his sleepless Evan Tanner series
  
  
• Clarence Petersen on Twenty-Five Years of Paperback Publishing, as he tells The Bantam Story
  
  
• Keith Laumer's Raymond Chandleresque 1971 novel, Deadfall (also published as: Fat Chance)
  
  
• Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's latest, Unter Tieren -- premiering at the Salzburg Festival on 16 August
  
  
• Michael Crichton's (writing as Jeffery Hudson) 1968 Edgar Award-winning abortion-themed thriller, A Case of Need
  
  
• Egon Erwin Kisch's 1937 account of making Australian Landfall
  
  
• Agatha Christie's 1970 stand-alone, Passenger to Frankfurt
  
  
• Sandy Wilson's hit 1920s/1950s musical, The Boy Friend
  
  
• Klaus Modick's Moss
  
  
• A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer, The West End Horror
  
  
• A Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers by Janet Hitchman from 1975, Such a Strange Lady
  
  
• Cho Yeeun's novel, Shift, now in English, from Honford Star
  
  
• Margit Schreiner, finding Kein Platz mehr
  
  
• Norishiro Yusuke's prize-winning novel, Traveling Practice
  
  
• Edgar Hilsenrath's 1980 novel, F**k America: Bronsky's Confession
  
  
• Andrea Bajani's Premio Strega-winning novel, The Anniversary, due out shortly in the UK and at the end of August in the US
  
  
• Mark Haber's 2022 novel, Saint Sebastian's Abyss
  
  
• Richard Condon's 1974 thriller, Winter Kills
  
  
• Mishima Yukio's 1950 novel, Thirst for Love
  
  
• James Bailey on The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark, in Like a Cat Loves a Bird
  
  
• Amélie Nothomb's (briefly-)back-to-Japan novel, L'impossible retour
  
  
• Len Deighton's 1974 novel, Spy Story
  
  
• Joanna Kavenna's latest novel, Seven or, How to Play a Game Without Rules
  
  
• Samantha Harvey's Booker Prize-winning novel, Orbital
  
  
• Stig Sæterbakken's Self-Control, soon to be re-issued by Dalkey Archive Press
  
  
• Laura B. McGrath on Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction, in Middlemen

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