From Stuart MacBride's 最新の comedy-horror to 村人 by Tom Cox, a freewheeling sci-fi yarn from Emily St John Mandel and Michael Arditti's 最新の, this week's best new fiction
Sea Of Tranquility
Emily St John Mandel? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ??Picador £14.99
Readers will have to be on their toes to follow this freewheeling sci-fi yarn. At different points in the novel, we are in 1912, 2020, 2203 and 2401. A?女性（の） character called Vincent takes some getting used to.
But Mandel is certainly an 遂行するd writer and, whether she is 述べるing the adventures of a young English migrant to Canada or imagining a writer from a moon 植民地 travelling to Earth for a 調書をとる／予約する 小旅行する, she has plenty of fun along the way.
Max Davidson
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The Young Pretender
William Betty was an 事実上の／代理 prodigy who 達成するd 激しく揺する-星／主役にする status in the 早期に 19th Century, fawned on by aristocrats and 政治家，政治屋s alike. Then, in his 中央の-teens, he fell spectacularly out of fashion. What went wrong?
Arditti’s 井戸／弁護士席-wrought novel imagines him 老年の 20, trying to make a 復帰; as he does so, he 格闘するs with the gaps that 外傷／ショック has left in his memory. Above all it’s a vivid, 高度に 詳細（に述べる）d portrait of life in rumbustious Regency London.
Anthony Gardner
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村人
Tom Cox? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Unbound £16.99
Cox’s wonderful first novel hopscotches through two centuries in a moorland village in the West Country.
From teenage shenanigans in the 1990s to the memories of a widower living in a doomy 近づく-未来, the 調書をとる／予約する’s threads gather around the 遺産／遺物 of a Californian folk singer who visited after the Summer of Love
?One 一時期／支部 広げるs as 対話 with a search engine; others are narrated by the moor itself. A rich potpourri that keeps us busy enough not to worry about what it 追加するs up to.
Anthony Cummins
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No いっそう少なく The Devil
Stuart MacBride? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Bantam £20
MacBride’s Scottish 罪，犯罪 novels pull the genre in two seemingly 相いれない directions at once ? bringing both comedy and horror into play. No いっそう少なく The Devil is no exception.
His 最新の protagonist, a traumatised 巡査 called Lucy McVeigh, is 調査／捜査するing a 一連の 特に 恐ろしい serial 殺人s. She manages to keep the nightmare at bay with the blackest of humour, until the 事例／患者 takes a やめる 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の turn.
Certainly this year’s most bizarre thriller.
John Williams
