Trending 12th November 2024 by Bronwyn O'Neill
7 New Books To Curl Up With This November
Time to get cosy!
Happy November! It’s safe to say that we want to spend the rest of the year indoors, cuddled up by the fire.
Thankfully we have a lot of books coming out this month that have us so excited.
Here’s what we’ll be reading…
The Outsider – Jane Casey
As an undercover police officer, Rob Langton is used to terrifying situations. But his new assignment is the most dangerous yet – to infiltrate the notorious Carter family and bring its patriarch Geraint to justice.
Out Now
The Opposite of Murder – Sophie Hannah
Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder. She is the police’s lead suspect. She couldn’t have committed the crime. She has an unshakeable alibi: at the time of Marianne Cass’s brutal murder, Jemma was at the police station, confessing to a murderous obsession with Marianne.
Is Jemma Stelling innocent? Or is she an ingenious, cold-blooded killer? Can you be guilty of the opposite of murder?
Out November 14th
Cher The Memoir – Cher
The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person . . . Cher herself.
After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir.
Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who has been lauded by the Kennedy Center.
Out November 19th
Vagina Uncensored: A Memoir of Missing Parts – Ally Hensley
At age 16, a doctor told Ally Hensley that she had been born without a vagina… and that she would need to use dilators to ‘build’ her own.
Now, the author and women’s health advocate is telling her story for the first time in a memoir that’s uncensored, honest, and incredibly important.
Out now
Time of the Child – Niall Williams
Time of the Child follows Doctor Jack Troy and his daughter Ronnie in the village of Faha in 1962, when their lives are turned upside down when an abandoned baby is left in their care.
Doctor Jack Troy has dedicated his life to caring for the sick and comforting the dying. A doctor’s visit in Faha always brings a sense of foreboding, setting Jack apart from the community he serves.
Living in her father’s shadow, Jack’s youngest daughter, Ronnie, has watched her chance at true love slip away, passing up an ill-suited marriage proposal and resigning herself to a quiet life.
Out Now
Power to the People – Michael D. Higgins
Michael D. Higgins is one of the most brilliant and influential voices in Irish culture and political life over the past 40 years.
This collection, featuring a carefully chosen selection of our current President’s powerful work for Hot Press, is packed with penetrating insights and wonderfully vivid writing – on women’s liberation, Gaza, US foreign policy, war and peace in Africa, the democratic deficit, sustainability and LGBTQI+ rights.
Way ahead of its time in so many ways – and often very funny – it made radical and inspiring reading then. Even more so now, as it underlines the exhilarating reality that it really is possible to make positive changes, even in the most monolithic, conservative societies.
Out November 22nd
Weird Ireland – Brinsley McNamara
In a journey across the island, Brinsley McNamara – curator of the popular social media channel Weird Ireland – shares his oddity obsession to bring you an off-the-beaten-track account of unique Irish wonders.
From UFOs and fairy forts to lake monsters and healing rocks, from standing stones and moving statues to fizzy drinks and fast food, Weird Ireland is a book to be cherished by all seekers of the strange, rare and peculiar.
Out Now