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Posted by Free Word on 21/10/11

Every year thousands of books are published in the UK. Booktrust’s monthly selection of books picks some of the great titles you might have missed. This month’s haul includes second novels by Joe Dunthorne and Ross Raisin, Rahul Bhattacharya’s “mysterious, hypnotic” The Sly Company of People Who Care and debuts by Ben Brooks and Gemma Seltzer.

Supergods
By Grant Morrison

...this is the nerds’ bible and the essential riposte for anyone who says comics are for nerds
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Wild Abandon
By Joe Dunthorne

Set on a commune in Wales, Wild Abandon follows a family on the brink of falling apart
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Gods Without Men
By Hari Kunzru

Gods Without Men is as gloriously bizarre as his debut and as politically paradoxical as his last
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Waterline
By Ross Raisin

Ross Raisin’s sophomore effort is as jaw-droppingly brilliant as his award-winning debut
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Speak to Strangers
By Gemma Seltzer

What started as a web project for London Word Festival’s ‘100 Days to Make Me a Better Person’ project that Josie Long started in 2010 is now a beautifully-package collection of microfiction pieces from Gemma Seltzer
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Open City
By Teju Cole

Part psycho-geographic study of New York and its inhabitants, architecture and intellectual history, part study of the immigrant experience
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Grow Up
By Ben Brooks

Grow Up is at turns funny and sad, filled with heart as much as it is with sex, drugs and rock’n’roll
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The Sly Company of People Who Care
By Rahul Bhattacharya

...a feast of language and speech; mysterious, hypnotic and celebratory
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Beautiful Thing
By Sonia Faleiro

Faleiro’s writing is so visceral that this reads like a piece of semi-narrative fiction in places
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Comedy and Error
By Simon Day

Simon Day is probably best remembered for his part(s) in The Fast Show... This is his memoir
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Memoirs of Porcupine
By Alain Mabanckou

In Memoirs of a Porcupine, oral story telling and African traditions mix with European literary references to create a highly imaginative, dark and funny meditation on human spite and the nature of guilt
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All Yours
By Claudia Pineiro

Darkly funny and very likeable
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