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How you can help out on Super Thursday, 3rd September

3rd September 2020

Mini-Super Thursday, 3rd September.

Publishers are preparing for a “total bun fight” for shelf space and media attention owing to a number of key spring/summer 2020 books shifting into the autumn, though there will be less of an overwhelming glut of Covid-19-affected titles released during the industry’s key trading period than previously feared.

On the 27 and 30 July, The Bookseller reported: The autumn bookselling season’s already crowded first big release date has become even more packed, with over 150 extra trade titles piling into the 3rd September slot in recent weeks as publishers continue to scramble and adjust coronavirus-affected schedules.  Earlier this summer, The Bookseller called 3rd September a “mini-Super Thursday”, with 236 top hardbacks from trade publishers scheduled to be released that day… Publicists say they need to be smart with their new titles, using online events and broadcast media, amid the possibility many books could get lost in a “mad” avalanche of new September releases. After coronavirus pushed back publication dates, 3rd September is more packed than ever with new releases….

Mini-Super Thursday

September is the month publishers release masses of books on a single day. This is a small delivery from just two publishers ©Portobello Books

Then, The Guardian on 13 August estimated there will be nearly 600 delayed titles vying for Christmas success. The Sunday Times Literary Editor, Andrew Holgate writing on Twitter last month, said: “I haven’t finished counting yet, but there are at least – at least – 105 books being published on 1 or 3 September, and all competing for about 10 or 11 review slots … September is always difficult for literary editors, but this is quite mad.”

So, how can you help? You can order books, publicise them and generally offer support to the authors and their books!

Use #3rdSeptembers #Fictiononthethird #3Septembernovels

We are flagging top titles, with a strong sense of place, in no particular order:

THE SEA GATE by Jane Johnson, published by Head of Zeus – CORNWALL

One house, two women, a lifetime of secrets… Following the death of her mother, Becky answers the desperate plea from her elderly cousin, Olivia, to help save her beloved home. The beautiful old house, in remote West Cornwall is crumbling, and Olivia stuck in hospital with no hope of being discharged until her home is made habitable. As Becky sets to work she uncovers secrets buried for more than seventy years. Secrets from a time when Olivia was young, the Second World War was raging, and danger and romance lurked round every corner. A sweeping tale of a young woman’s courage in the face of war and the lengths to which she’ll go to protect those she loves against the most unexpected of enemies @JaneJohnsonBakr

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The Night of the Flood by Zoe Somerville, published by Head of Zeus – NORFOLK

Her heart beat hard. There was a crazed beauty to the storm. It was almost miraculous, the way it took away the mess of life, sweeping all in its path…

No-one could have foreseen the changes the summer of 1952 would bring. Cramming for her final exams on her family’s farm on the Norfolk coast, Verity Frost feels trapped between past and present: the devotion of her childhood friend Arthur, just returned from National Service, and her strange new desire to escape.

When Verity meets Jack, a charismatic American pilot, he seems to offer the glamour and adventure she so craves, and Arthur becomes determined to uncover the dirt beneath his rival’s glossy sheen.

As summer turns to winter, a devastating storm hits the coast, flooding the land and altering everything in its path. In this new, watery landscape, Verity’s tangled web of secrets, lies and passion will bring about a crime that will change all their lives forever.

See Zoë’s piece on the anticipation of being a debut author on this day here

FB:@zoesomervillewriter Tw: zessomerville In: @zoesomervillewrites

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Mini-Super ThursdayThe Girl from the Hermitage by Molly Gartland, published by Lightning Books

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina’s artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could now provide a safe haven, provided Mikhail can navigate the perils of a portrait commission from one of Stalin’s colonels. Nearly forty years later, Galina herself is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Institute. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she embarks upon that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and Galina’s familiar world changes out of all recognition. Warm, wise and utterly enthralling, Molly Gartland’s debut novel guides us from the old communist world, with its obvious terrors and its more surprising comforts, into the glitz and bling of 21st-century St Petersburg. Galina’s story is at once a compelling page-turner and an insightful meditation on ageing and nostalgia.

Tw: @molbobolly  FB: @mollygartlandauthor   i: @mollygartland_author

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You Can Trust Me by Emma Rowley – Cheshire

Olivia is the domestic goddess who has won millions of followers by sharing her picture-perfect life online. And now she’s releasing her tell-all autobiography. For professional ghostwriter Nicky it’s the biggest job of her career. But as she delves deeper into Olivia’s life, cracks begin to appear in the glamorous façade. From the strained relationship with her handsome husband, to murky details of a tragic family death in her childhood, the truth belies Olivia’s perfect public image. But why is Olivia so desperate to leave an old tragedy well alone? And how far will she go to keep Nicky from the truth?

Tw: @emma_rowley

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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman – Kent

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Tw: @richardosman

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Mini-Super ThursdayThe Sound Mirror by Heidi James, set in India and Kent

‘Tamara is going to kill her mother, but she isn’t the villain. Tamara just has to finish what began at her birth and put an end to the damage encoded in her blood. Quitting her job in Communications, Tamara dresses carefully and hires a car, making the trip from London to her hometown in Kent, to visit her mother for the last time. Accompanied by a chorus of ancestors, Tamara is harried by voices from the past and the future that reveal the struggles, joys and secrets of these women’s lives that continue to echo through and impact her own.’ The Sound Mirror spans three familial generations from British Occupied India to Southern England, through intimately rendered characters, Heidi James has crafted a haunting and moving examination of class, war, violence, family and shame from the rich details of ordinary lives.

Tw: @heidipearljames

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The Silent Daughter by Emma Christie – Portobello, Edinburgh

Deceit runs in the family . . .

Chris Morrison is facing his worst nightmare.

His wife is in a coma.

His daughter is missing.

And the only thing more unsettling than these two events . . . is what might connect them.

Some secrets can change a family for ever.

Tw: @theemmachristie

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An Inconvenient Woman by Stephanie Buelens – Los Angeles

When Claire Fontaine learns that her ex-husband Simon is marrying again, to a woman with a teenage daughter, her blood runs cold. She is sure that years ago Simon molested her own daughter and was responsible for her mysterious death. She can’t let him get away with it a second time. Vandalism, harassment; whatever it takes, Claire will expose him.

Simon doesn’t know where Claire got this delusion from; her daughter’s death was ruled a suicide, but she has always blamed herself – is she just lashing out? Wanting to protect his new fiancee, he hires Sloane Wilson, an ex-cop turned ‘sin-eater’, whose job it is to handle delicate cases without getting the police involved, to get Claire off his back.

Sloane must navigate the wreckage of Claire and Simon’s marriage to discover the truth. Two people with conflicting stories and a whole lot of reasons to want to hurt each other. Is she crazy or is he manipulative? And can Sloane stay clear-headed enough to figure it out?

Tw: @buelenswrites

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Mini-Super ThursdayLove Orange by Natasha Randall

While Hank struggles with his lack of professional success, his wife Jenny, feeling stuck and beset by an urge to do good, becomes ensnared in a dangerous correspondence with a prison inmate called John. Letter by letter, John pinches Jenny awake from the “marshmallow numbness” of her life. The children, meanwhile, unwittingly disturb the foundations of their home life with forays into the dark net and strange geological experiments.

Jenny’s bid for freedom takes a sour turn when she becomes the go-between for John and his wife, and develops an unnatural obsession for the orange glue that seals his letters…

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