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A choice of first novels | 20 April 2017

Danger lurks in New York, rural Picardie and deep in the Idaho woods — and makes for dark, thrilling reading

  • Idaho

    Emily Ruskovich

    Chatto, pp. 308

  • Darke

    Rick Gekoski

    Canongate, pp. 299

  • Behold the Dreamers

    Imbolo Mbue

    4th Estate, pp. 382

  • The End of Eddy

    Édouard Louis

    Penguin, pp. 192

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