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Zadie Smith dances into Swing Time. [View email online]( [Waterstones Weekly]( [FICTION]( | [NON-FICTION]( | [CHILDREN'S]( | [SIGNED]( | [SHOPS]( Dear Reader, With weary publishers heading off to their Tuscany retreats, it’s our cue to start capturing the very best the summer’s reading has to offer. We’re already underway with our [select choice for younger readers]( and this week, the bounty of last year’s hardback releases are really starting to roll in now in their paperback incarnation, including the rapture of Zadie Smith’s [Swing Time](. Smith is a one-of-a-kind talent, every novel skewering the moment and making it absolutely hers. New and Reviewed [Swing Time]( Time]( Zadie Smith “[Swing Time]( is Zadie Smith’s fifth novel and for my money her finest,” remarked the Observer. “What makes [this novel] so extraordinary are the layers on which it operates; beneath its virtuosic plotting lies the keenest social commentary.” [White Teeth]( author Zadie Smith excels all expectations in her dazzling tale of a childhood friendship – a friendship forged around music, laughter and identity – ultimately driven apart by the very elements that so drew them together. [A State of Freedom]( State of Freedom]( Neel Mukherjee "Brings to life the colours and sounds of a place where modern life is constantly crashing against tradition,” recorded the Observer. In his third novel, Mukherjee presents a quintet of shifting, interlinked tales, describing five lives on the very fringes of modern Indian society: sometimes challenging, often deeply transcendent. [The Sport of Kings]( Sport of Kings]( C. E. Morgan brutal family dynasty will stop at nothing for glory in a sweeping Southern Gothic epic of greed and atonement. “My English cynicism at the spectacle of another author setting out to write the Great American Novel had dissolved into wonder and delight: C.E. Morgan has come close to realising that very thing.” – The Financial Times [The Idiot]( Idiot]( Elif Batuman Funny, whip-smart and instantly recognisable for the truth it tells, [The Idiot]( is a nuanced coming-of-age for a bright Harvard freshman, a girl of books stumbling toward the light of the real world. "I loved it and could have read a thousand more pages of it.” - Emma Cline, author of our recent Fiction Book of the Month, [The Girls]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Theft by Finding]( By Finding]( David Sedaris “Could there be a more delightful American import than the memoirist David Sedaris?” asked the Times. “So sweet and comforting, yet so wickedly naughty?” Master of self-depreciation Sedaris is on a roll with his account of rags-to-near-riches success in the writing game, from the cult author of [When You are Engulfed in Flames](. Appearing this week at [Waterstones across the UK](. [I Found My Tribe]( Found My Tribe]( Ruth Fitzmaurice darting eyes are the only windows left. I won't stop searching. My soul demands it and so does his.” Fitzmaurice's husband is diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease; wild swimming – and a collective of all-weather, Irish Sea-braving women that goes with it – becomes her release. Brimming with tenderness and spirit. [Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8]( Down 7 Times Get Up 8]( Naoki Higashida “Once again, the invitation to step inside Higashida's mind is irresistible,” said London’s Evening Standard. The author of the remarkable [The Reason I Jump]( returns with further insight to the condition of autism; [Cloud Atlas]( David Mitchell and wife K.A. Yoshida provide the translation. [Your Life in My Hands]( Life In My Hands]( Rachel Clarke “Eloquent and moving,” noted [Admissions]( Henry Marsh. “Anybody who wants to understand what is happening in the NHS should read this book.” Rachel Clarke drives home the sometimes desperate truth of battling as a junior doctor against a healthcare system in collapse. [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Everything Under The Sun...]( Pre-Order Now [Tell Tale]( Tale]( Jeffrey Archer His first short story collection in a decade; sharp, tense and urbane, this is Archer at his honed and much-anticipated best. [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]( [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]( J.K. Rowling & Jim Kay Master-illustrator Jim Kay delivers the third volume in one of publishing’s most glorious and ambitious projects. [Sleeping Beauties]( [Sleeping Beauties]( Stephen King & Owen King Men confront a world without women in Stephen King and son’s audacious, high-concept fantasy. [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( [Buy the book]( Bookseller Review [Fever Dream]( [Fever Dream]( Samanta Schweblin “I hardly breathed the whole time I read this… some parts are so unsettling I almost didn't want to continue, but I couldn't help but race through it.” – Lindsay at Chester [The Tidal Zone]( Tidal Zone]( Sarah moss “First time reading Moss, and it won't be the last… so stripped down and simple but so captivating.” – Gaby at Piccadilly [Not Working]( Working]( Lisa Owens “A comedy genius… extremely funny and tender. 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