Alex Clark looks forward to Ben Lerner’s second novel and the return of Kazuo Ishiguro
This year was, by virtually all accounts, a big one for fiction: new novels by Sarah Waters, Ian McEwan, Martin Amis, Colm Tóibín, Howard Jacobson and Ali Smith, with the final two appearing on the Man Booker shortlist; at the end, the prize was won by Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan in the year that finally allowed American writers into the competition. There were short-story collections by Hilary Mantel and Rose Tremain, and enormously successful debut novels in the shape of Jessie Burton’s bestselling The Miniaturist and Neel Mukherjee’s The Lives of Others, which also found favour with the Booker judges.
So what does 2015 have in store? Among the most eagerly awaited novels of the year are Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant, his first for 10 years, to be published in March, Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border, out in April, and, the following month, Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins, described as a companion piece to the much-loved Life After Life, and Anne Enright’s The Green Road.
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