Ordinary Human Failings: The heart-breaking, unflinching, compulsive new novel from the author of Acts of Desperation

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From a trench in the Atlantic to alien intervention, inner worlds to outer space, fiction full of discovery and wonder. Set in an alternative America, an ambitious, genre-busting investigation of creativity told through the life of an iconoclastic artist, as written by her grieving widow. A sweeping exploration of the meaning and mechanics of money, from the Silk Road to Wall Street, written by the Irish economist and author of The Pope’s Children. The Green family emigrated from Ireland to the UK amid a scandal but their quiet, reclusive existence is interrupted when a child goes missing on a council estate and the Green’s are instantly suspected. As Tom Hargreaves, a determined tabloid reporter who is trying to make a name for himself, happens upon the story as it is unfolding, he sweeps the naïve and impressionable family up and sequesters them away at the expense of the paper, all to ensure he gets the exclusive.

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Average-looking men get to date beautiful women – why is the reverse never true? A comedy scriptwriter tests out this social rule in the follow-up to Rodham. Two young Sarajevans are caught up in the first world war and beyond, in a novel about history’s revolutions and the enduring power of love. Michal Shavit, publishing director at Jonathan Cape, acquired UK & Commonwealth rights from Harriet Moore at David Higham.The Booker winner follows three generations of an Irish family, from the 70s to the present day, in a “meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic”, combining poetry, adventure and the resilience of women. An incisive critique of the current dominant economic model, “technofeudalism”, written in the form of a letter from Greece’s ex-minister of finance to his late father. I zipped through Acts of Desperation in a day so was really anticipating reading Ordinary Human Failings and wow, what an incredibly different book. That I also zipped through in a day!