
This year’s summer flurry of debut novels appears to tick all the booksellers’ boxes.
This year’s summer flurry of debut novels appears to tick all the booksellers’ boxes. There’s the headline grabber, the European bestseller, the wartime melodrama and the quirky romancer.

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