Release Week: 27 December 2022
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Release Week: 27 December 2022
Posted on 2022-12-27 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
Pretty quiet release week to close out 2022.
PICKS:
Grime: A Novel By: Sibylle Berg, translated by Tim Mohr, read by Kwame Augustine for Random House -- "Rochdale is a town in post-industrial Britain, but it could be anywhere on the digitalized, environmentally-decimated planet: a place devoid of hope, where poverty, violence, and squalor are the near-future consequences of decisions being made at this very moment. Grime is the dazzling multi-voice story of four teenagers haphazardly brought together by individual tragedy and a collective love of grime, the music genre that replaced punk as the sound of the angry and the dispossessed: martial-arts-obsessed Don(atella); Peter, a traumatized Polish boy; Karen, a tech-savvy girl with albinism; and Hannah, an orphan from Liverpool. Despite the increasingly sophisticated workings of an authoritarian surveillance state, the four set out to exact revenge on the people they hold responsible for their misery. But what starts out as a teen hit squad evolves into a makeshift family as the four kids attempt to create a home on the fringes – both physically and mentally – of society. In this stylistically innovative epic, acclaimed novelist Sibylle Berg addresses the question currently being debated around the world: where will climate change, artificial intelligence, the rise of right-wing populism, and the inexorable expansion of surveillance lead? This masterful dystopian satire is a merciless and surgically-precise evisceration of neoliberalism, and beneath its rage and brutality beats a deeply human heart."
Saturnalia: A Novel By: Stephanie Feldman, read by Courtney Patterson for HighBridge -- "The Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia's elite Saturn Club--with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, and winking interest in alchemy and the occult. In doing so, she abandoned her closest friends and her chance to climb the social ladder. Since then, she's eked out a living by telling fortunes with her Saturn Club tarot deck, a solemn initiation gift that Nina always considered a gag but has turned out to be more useful than she could have ever imagined."
BACKLIST WATCH:
- House of Sundering Flames: Dominion of the Fallen Series, Book 3 By: Aliette de Bodard (2019), read by Peter Kenny for Tantor -- "The Great Houses of Paris-headed by Fallen angels and magicians-have coexisted in fragile peace. When a powerful explosion razes House Harrier, old alliances are torn apart, and a race begins to fill the power void."
SERIES WATCH:
Santa Grint: The Time Police By: Jodi Taylor, read by Zara Ramm for Headline -- "Expect Christmas chaos in this year's festive short story from Jodi Taylor, set in the world of the Time Police for the first time."
Nine Liars: Truly Devious, Book 4 By: Maureen Johnson, read by Kate Rudd for Harper -- "Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she’s taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England."