5 Exciting New Releases for April

Spring is well and truly in the air now in the Northern Hemisphere and if you’re starting to think about your summer reads, or the books you might like to pack in the holiday case then there are some brilliant new books out this April that may just catch your eye.

Whatever you like to read, fiction or nonfiction, April is promising some exciting new reading material. Here we’re going to take a look at what we think are the best new releases for April, with release dates and pre-order details.

I Still Dream – James Smythe

Fiction (5^th April)

I Still Dream is out next week and is promising to be an exciting work of speculative fiction in which a 17-year old girl builds herself an AI in her bedroom, and the AI grows with her. A fascinating look into technology, artificial and human intelligence, and the future as it may well be.

I Still Dream US
I Still Dream UK

Never Greener – Ruth Jones

Fiction (5^th April)

Never Greener is Ruth Jones’ debut novel and if you loved Gavin and Stacy (yes, that’s where you know her name from), then you’re probably going to love this touching and funny novel about second chances.

Never Greener US
Never Greener UK

Macbeth – Jo Nesbo

Fiction (17^th April)

Shakespeare has been retold so many times, and this version of Macbeth is part of a project to novelise Shakespeare. Here the Norwegian crime writer imagines the anti-hero of the Scottish place as a drug addict turned cop.

Macbeth US
Macbeth UK

The Cost of Living – Deborah Levy

Nonfiction (5^th April)

Deborah Levy is already a seasoned novelist, and author to Things I don’t Want to Know, described as a “living autobiography on writing and womanhood”, to which the Cost of Living is the second instalment.

The Cost of Living US
The Cost of Living UK

Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty – Jacqueline Rose

Nonfiction (17^th April)

Renowned feminist critic Jacqueline Rose looks at the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings and how it’s ‘always the mother’s fault’.

Mothers US
Mothers UK