Jul '22 Notable Books: Antonia Angress, Conner Habib, Dhumketu & Seirian Sumner

A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...

Hawk Mountain - Conner Habib (Jul. 5) - An English teacher is gaslit by his charismatic high school bully in this tense story of deception, manipulation, and murder.

Sirens & Muses - Antonia Angress (Jul. 12) - Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this "gripping, provocative, and supremely entertaining" debut. With a canny, critical eye, Sirens & Muses overturns notions of class, money, art, youth, and a generation's fight to own their future.

Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps - Seirian Sumner (Jul. 12) - A leading behavioural ecologist transforms our understanding of wasps, exploring these much-maligned insects' secret world, their incredible diversity and complex social lives, and revealing how they hold our fragile ecosystem in balance.

The Shehnai Virtuoso and Other Stories - Dhumketu aka Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (Jul. 26) - Characterised by a fine sensitivity, deep humanism, perceptive observation, and an intimate knowledge of both rural and urban life, [Dhumketu's] fiction has provided entertainment and edification to generations of Gujarati readers and speakers.

(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)

Comments