Danielle Steel’s latest novel, THE CHALLENGE, made its debut on The New York Times Bestsellers list for the week of September 4, 2022, appearing at #2 on Print Hardcover Fiction and #8 on Combined Print & E-Book Fiction. Delacorte Press published the book on August 16th, 2022.

THE FURROWS was featured on the AV Club’s roundup of September must-reads. Cat Auer writes: “Novelist Namwali Serpell follows her spectacular sci-fi/historical fiction THE OLD DRIFT with an undulating, enthralling tale of death and rebirth…An unexpected perspective and plot twist near the halfway point reinvigorate the story with fresh tension and direction, with Serpell utterly unafraid to fuse and forge genres, turning up the levels of suspense, mystery, and even romance.” Hogarth will publish the novel on September 27, 2022.

Rachel Aviv’s highly anticipated debut STRANGERS TO OURSELVES continues to be lauded ahead of its publication. BookPage featured the book on their Fall 2022 Preview, writing: “Rachel Aviv’s first book explores questions of self-knowledge and mental health, subjects she’s previously examined in her award-winning journalism for The New Yorker. STRANGERS TO OURSELVES offers sensitive case histories of people whose experiences of mental illness exceed the limits of psychiatric terminology, diagnosis and treatment—including the author’s own experience of being the youngest child in the U.S. to receive a diagnosis of anorexia. After being hospitalized for a failure to eat or drink, she met anorexic girls twice her age and learned to mimic their strategies for losing weight. But which came first: the diagnosis or her symptoms? This contradiction between psychiatric terminology and lived experience is the core issue driving Aviv’s book, which also examines Western psychiatry’s long history of ignoring the link between racial violence and mental illness. It’s a sharp, compassionate and necessary investigation, not to be missed.” STRANGERS TO OURSELVES was also featured on most-anticipated lists from Goodreads and Kirkus. Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish the book on September 13, 2022.

Elliot Ackerman’s THE FIFTH ACT was featured in The Sunday Telegraph. Matthew Leeming writes: “Elliot Ackerman, a former US marine who served in Afghanistan for eight years and the author of some acclaimed novels, is interesting because he is both an intellectual and a man of action. In his new book, THE FIFTH ACT, he tells the story of the ‘clusterf---‘ unfolding as he holidays in Venice with his children. This conjunction of banality and evil is very striking.” Penguin Press published the book on August 9, 2022.

Namwali Serpell’s highly anticipated THE FURROWS is garnering amazing press and reviews ahead of its September release. Serpell was featured on the cover of Poets & Writers’ September issue, with an incredible profile on the author about her stellar literary and academic career. Renée H. Shea writes: “Namwali Serpell conjures the roiling nature of grief in a powerful narrative that explores memory, loss, and black identity without resting on what she calls the ‘meaningless platitude’ that art promotes empathy...Resisting knee-jerk empathy that is an end in itself and refusing to presume she has the answers to big questions of loss and injustice, Serpell offers that satisfying difficulty in THE FURROWS that unsettles readers as it draws them in. If it’s disquieting, all to the good.” GQ, Kirkus, and Goodreads also featured the novel on their must-read roundups. Hogarth will publish the novel on September 27, 2022.

BLACK DOG, the 62nd book in the Stone Barrington series, will make its debut on The New York Times Bestseller list for the week of August 21, 2022. It will debut at #15 on the Hardcover Fiction list, and #10 on the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction list. G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the book on August 2, 2022.