Mario Reading

First-rate firsts

The trials of married life and the revenge of a spurned mistress are among the themes of promising debut novels from Michela Wrong, Natasha Pulley, Benjamin Johncock and Julia Pierpont

  • Borderlines

    Michela Wrong

    Fourth Estate, pp. 352

  • The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

    Natasha Pulley

    Bloombury Circus, pp. 336

  • The Last Pilot

    Benjamin Johncock

    Myriad, pp. 320

  • Among The Ten Thousand Things

    Julia Pierpont

    Oneworld, pp. 336

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