6 New Books for Your Inner Rachel Cusk |

11 Apr 2025

This Week’s Lit Fic Fix: 6 New Books for Your Inner Rachel Cusk

Craving crisp prose, quiet tension, and the kind of emotional depth that lingers long after the final page? This week’s literary fiction drop is here to deliver. Whether you’re into introspective narrators, layered relationships, or slow-burn revelations, these six new releases channel serious Rachel Cusk energy—in the best possible way. Prepare to be captivated.

Pawn to King’s End (Secrets of the Republic Book 1)

by Douglas A. Gosselin

Release Date: February 1 2025

As war engulfs 1755 Acadia, Clément Gosselin and his father Gabriel are thrust into a shadow war where loyalty is peril, silence is strategy, and trust can kill. Pursued by enemies and haunted by a man called Mr. Smith, they must navigate betrayal, resistance, and the high cost of becoming patriots.

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Project Chess: The Great British StitchUp, Volume 1

by Graham Wilson

Release Date: March 19 2025

Project Chess, ‘The Great British Stitch Up’ consists of 2 volumes, explaining the history and reasoning behind our world order’s Mental health crisis. With the electronically designed Illnesses & diseases, spreading through our neural networks, it allows Zeus to deliberately preplan, the targeting, of those within our homeland’s boundaries.

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Indelicate Deception

by V.S. Kemanis

Release Date: April 5 2025

Raised by a loving father, Caty creates an idealized vision of her absent mother. As a young adult, she uncovers startling details about her parents’ past, but the facts remain elusive until she can find her mother and demand the truth. “Utterly absorbing, beautifully crafted” (BookView, Five Stars); “Layered, deeply poignant” (BlueInk, Starred).

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Faith Among Friends

by Vera Jane Cook

Release Date: March 15 2025

As five old friends reunite in a familiar old hang-out forty years after they first met secrets are revealed, old wounds resurface and chilling lies reopen resentments that still leave a chill between them.

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Audition

by Katie Kitamura

Release Date: April 8 2025

In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

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The Palms

by Ellie Greene

Release Date: March 31 2025

In at the deep end firefighting a sudden flurry of resort issues, while uncertain who to trust among management, staff or guests, can Erin outsmart the saboteur intent on destroying The Palms’ future – and her own?

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