The best novels to read this year

There will be many great new novels published this year, but, sadly, even in lockdown, not enough time to read them all. Here are just a few that might be worth adding to the reading pile: 

Mother for Dinner by Shalom Auslander 

This is the novel I’m most looking forward to this year. Shalom Auslander’s Hope: A Tragedy is one of the funniest books I’ve ever read, telling the story of a frazzled family man living in a rural US town whose life is made even more stressful when he discovers an elderly Anne Frank hiding in his attic. The premise for this long-awaited new novel, which comes just the nine years after Hope: A Tragedy, is equally as delicious – or perhaps not, as it’s about a man whose mother’s dying wish is for him to eat her. Published on 04/02/2021 

Monument Maker by David Keenan 

David Keenan is one of the wildest and most invigorating British writers currently putting word to page.