Born in 1882 in a fisherman's cottage in Viareggio, Lorenzo Viani rises from poverty to become Italy’s first Expressionist, painting at a barber’s counter, along the Seine, in First World War trenches and in exile—all while selling nothing and painting only the outcast in black. Ninety years later, Enrico roams Viareggio seeking Viani’s work; not a dealer or critic, he is a solitary custodian whose devotion draws him toward the painter’s fate. Marco Amerighi tells a compact, lyrical portrait of a city and a century, and of art that preserves the forgotten. 

Marco Amerighi was born in Pisa in 1982. His debut, Le nostre ore contante (Mondadori, 2018), won the Premio Bagutta opera prima, was longlisted for Prix Marco Polo Venise (2019), and shortlisted for Prix Paul Valéry du roman européen; Randagi (Bollati Boringhieri, 2021) was shortlisted for the Premio Strega. 

At their annual garden‑visiting weekend, five women in their seventies confront age, grief, memory and long‑held disappointments. Bridget, the bossy organizer, cares for her husband Jim, who has dementia; anxious Paula lives with a small dog; stylish Libby is single after decades of poor choices; Cynthia, a tall, acerbic former lawyer, teeters on the brink of divorce; and peaceable Marg is still adjusting to life after her husband Dave’s death. Absent friends and spouses—Penny and Geoff touring Europe, Trish stuck at home with Covid, and the late Shona—cast long shadows, while widower Maurice has swiftly remarried a younger woman from Southeast Asia. Linda Burgess’s taut, humane novel captures the irritations and intimacies of old friendship and the unexpected clarity that can arrive late in life. 

Linda Burgess is the author of three novels, three non‑fiction titles and a short‑story collection; her 2019 essay collection Someone’s Wife was highly acclaimed. She lives in Wellington.

Hal Jansen, the sensitive youngest son of a department‑store magnate, abandons college for folk music and encounters blues prodigy Rudy Amos; they begin composing songs as letters to one another and, over decades, transform personal and political upheaval into art. Through addiction, mental and physical illness, failed marriages and profound loss, their creative partnership and friendship endure as they risk everything to pursue their music. 

Nicole Cuffy is the author of O Sinners! 

Mild-mannered software engineer Hetty is unexpectedly left her absentee father’s house, a dysfunctional detective agency and a backyard corpse. With only her best friend Alex, the suspiciously handsome Harry and an obese, kidnapped cat for help, she must untangle her father’s secrets and a string of escalating murders before she becomes the next victim. Sharp, comedic and propulsive, Murder Is Cheaper Than Therapy blends classic whodunit beats with modern domestic irony. 

Kate Emery lives in Perth and is a senior reporter for The West Australian. She is the author of three YA novels

Marie Jones moonlights as a PI named Luella van Horn and solves the strangest cases.

MURDER ON SEX ISLAND (Ballantine, 2025) confronts Luella with a case from her past.

SEX ON MURDER ISLAND (Ballantine, 2026) has Luella investigate among the super rich on a private island.

MURDER OF A GRUMPY OLD WOMAN (Ballantine, 2027) is set in a pastoral retreat where two participants die under mysterious cirumstances.

 Jo Firestone is a comedian and scriptwriter whose work has appeared on The Tonight Show, and more.

December 1999: Becca, Andy, Cian and ‘Dreamy’ are nineteen and drunk when their car hits a man in the freezing darkness. Three make a split-second decision to drive on; the fourth, unconscious, is later deceived into believing he was the driver. 

A body is found in a ditch, and the friends agree to cover it up. Over the following years they scatter—some become public figures, others are blighted by guilt—but anonymous emails prove the past is not buried. This debut novel tracks how loyalty, ambition and shame unravel a provincial Irish friendship. 

Conor Griffin’s short fiction has appeared in the Irish Independent (New Irish Writing), the Irish Times, and he was shortlisted for the 2025 Mairtín Crawford and Wild Atlantic Words short-story prizes.

In the fictional town of Vale, Indiana, in the early '90s, a Black community's prosperity depends on its status as a tourist destination when a mother-daughter pair arrives.

The mother, a cabaret singer, soon leaves her 15-year-old daughter for a more exciting life. Over the course of her adolescence, Camille strives for acceptance and becomes a solid member of the town: taking a job, seeking family, friendship, and love while hiding the fact that she is a minor on her own.

But her pursuit is imperiled when Solomon Hart, her boss and the town's leader, draws her into a confusing, sexualized relationship. Camille must confront her shifting feelings of gratitude and disgust toward the older man and face the cost of belonging to a community whose continued survival depends on her silence.

Carrie R. Moore was named one of 5 under 35 by the National Book Foundation. She lives in Texas and has published numerous short stories. This is her first novel. 

Robbie has long wondered about his father Mike, who abandoned the family amid visions and mistrust of the modern world. After rescuing his mother from encroaching wildfires, Robbie’s uncle admits he last dropped Mike off at a glacier; they climb to the ice to look for him. On Omega’s slopes Robbie hears the glacier speaking, and must decide if this bond is spiritual kinship or the same affliction that haunted his father. A contemporary story about identity, belonging, loss and healing, A Glacier’s Guide to Dying probes family legacy and our relationship with the land. 

Michelle Porter is a descendant of Métis storytellers and a member of the Manitoba Métis Federation. She lives in St. John’s, teaches creative writing and Métis Literature at Memorial University. Her debut novel A Grandmother Begins the Story won several awards; her books include the memoir Scratching River and Approaching Fire (shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award).

He could never forget her. Not in any lifetime. Not even after a thousand years.

Grace is desperate to escape the future planned for her - a forced engagement to a vile English lord an ocean away - when a mysterious stranger who looks at her like he's known her for lifetimes catches her eye.

Aris is bound by a past he cannot escape. Haunted by a woman with eyes the same gray-blue as a raging sea, he is determined to have her back. No matter the cost.

But in the shadows of Napoleonic Europe, Grace finds herself caught between a love she is only beginning to understand and a darkness that has been waiting for her, setting off a millennia-old conflict between two powerful gods.

A.T. Rainach is a displaced Southerner with a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing. As well as writing fiction, she is a published poet with a love for lyrical language and dark, fantastical worlds.

The book will be a novelistic retelling of the myths about the Trojan War, retold in linear narrative divided into a series of short semi-self-contained chapters, each focused on a different episode, such as the abduction of Ganymede, the building of the walls, the sea monster, the first war against Troy by Heracles, the plan of Zeus to reduce the human population, the marriage of Peleus and Thetis, the conception and birth of Helen from the egg, the oath of the suitors, the Apple of Discord, the Judgment of Paris, and so on, through the Wooden Horse and the sack of the city, the rape and enslavement of the surviving women, and the stories of the warriors' mostly disastrous homecomings.

Norton has signed two future books of non-fiction: MYTH and TROY (2029)

Have you read all the self-help books, tried every mental health hack, and thought your way in circles around your pain, only to end up right where you started? You may be "too smart to heal." 

Meredith Arthur knows this mindset intimately. Her problem-solving brain built her successful career, wrote books, and won awards, but for years it couldn't solve the migraines, nausea, and chronic stress that plagued her. Her new book will help you chart that path yourself.

Pairing simple prose with evocative, hand-drawn art, this visually soothing and approachable guide distills current mind-body science, including the vagus nerve, trauma theory, and somatics, and helps you begin the internal journey of healing. 

Meredith Arthur founded the popular mental health platform Beautiful Voyager and is a founding member of the award-winning emotional wellbeing app How We Feel.

This superbly argued historical roller coaster is a wholly unwhitewashed version of human history, presenting tales of humanity's triumphs alongside its tragedies. It deals with humanity's early instincts to be kind and altruistic (and also violent and xenophobic), the rising power of monotheistic religions that steered the course of history (and also helped create the concept of racism), and how capitalism assisted in creating greater freedoms (and also bought off the masses to better exploit them)

James Fell is the author of On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down. Previously, he spent a decade writing columns for the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. His profanity-filled daily column on social media has a massive following, with millions of readers each month.

Gladwell uses original interviews, archival and social‑science research, and his signature narrative to trace America’s gun‑violence “peculiarity.” From a Washington, D.C., survivor’s recovery to the seventeenth‑century English legal history that shaped U.S. gun law, from a North Carolina shooting range to Chicago’s South Side and an Alabama plantation house, he assembles surprising threads that explain why the country misunderstands its most pressing social problem—and how it might change course. 

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers, including BLINK.

This book traces Earth’s transformation from an inhospitable planet 4.4 billion years ago to its present riot of life. It shows how life forms became a new force of nature. 

It divides planetary history into five successive expansions — rock, light, oxygen, flesh, fire — each unlocked by lifeforms that accessed a new energy source and, in turn, reshaped the planet. 

From microscopic processes to cosmic change, this book is written in clear, lively prose and concludes with a fresh perspective on humanity’s place on a living planet. 

Olivia Judson is an evolutionary biologist with a doctorate from the University of Oxford; a former science journalist for The Economist, she has written for National Geographic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times.

Drawing on research on how we perceive and learn, Langer shows that intuition comes from what we have learned to notice. The better our inputs, the better our hunches.

With the intellectual appeal of Malcolm Gladwell's BLINK and Daniel Kahneman's THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, this book transforms a familiar debate into a practical guide to sharpening perception, improving judgment, and making better decisions.

Told with memorable examples and surprising insights, this crossover of psychology, popular science, and self-improvement comes from one of the field's most influential voices.

Ellen Langer is the first woman to be tenured in Harvard's Department of Psychology. She has written five books, including MINDFULNESS. The Langer Lab researches health, happiness, decision-making, education, business, and culture through the lens of mindfulness.

Patricia McCormick's husband hasn't left her side in months. After a long, eventful marriage, she feels closer to him than ever. "Oh, it's you", she thinks. "You're the man I fell in love with". Then she receives an ominous text message hinting at a marital secret, and a barrage of mysterious phone calls that lead her on a devastating investigation into the man she loved and thought she knew.

This riveting depiction of McCormick's pain examines a narrative imposed on many women: How trauma can haunt a life and how a woman's trust can be used against her.

This is an account of heartbreak and an inspiring story of a woman who emerges stronger and more alive than ever.

Patricia McCormick is the bestselling author of multiple young adult novels. She was a National Book Award finalist and co-authored the young readers' edition of I Am Malala.

This quick handbook presents how real-life censorship operates differently from what we imagine. It shows that history's censoring movements have not been top-down operations but began as well-intentioned grassroots movements. 

This handbook warns of putting sweeping censorial tools in the hands of governments and institutions.

Norton has signed up the author's future book about Norse Mythology.

Ada Palmer is a historian, science fiction novelist, and futurist. Her most recent history book, Inventing the Renaissance, was listed as one of the best books of 2025 by The New Yorker and Scientific American.

The Hero’s Brain explains how the Brain Care Score—developed at Harvard and now used in hundreds of hospitals, health systems, and academic institutions—quantifies risk for dementia, stroke, depression, and other chronic neurological conditions, and maps clear, evidence-based steps to reduce that risk and reverse symptoms regardless of age or genetic risk. Version 2.0, slated to form the book’s backbone, promises higher patient success rates, expanded disease coverage and additional publicity opportunities. 

Jonathan Rosand is Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, an Associate Member of the Broad Institute, founder of the Global Brain Care Coalition and the International Stroke Genomics Consortium, founding Chief of Neurocritical Care at Mass General Hospital, and author of more than 600 peer-reviewed papers.

Spanning from the late 19th to the early 20th century, this narrative account of world history shifts our focus from Enlightenment in Paris and Berlin to the Eastern capitals of Vienna, Prague, Kiev, Budapest, Riga, Bratislava, St. Petersberg, and Moscow. 

With leading characters like Edmund Husserl, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hannah Arendt, Edith Stein, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Adam Michnik, Vaclav Havel, and Leszek Kolakowski, the book traces the history of the long twentieth century through the relationships between these philosophers. It is an intellectual history of modern Europe.

Marci Shore is a National Jewish Book Award-winning author, and her most recent book, The Ukrainian Night was featured in The New York Times as a must-read, and was translated into multiple languages. She lives in Canada with her partner, the historian Timothy Snyder.