30-07-2025
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22 Books Coming in August
The Hounding
In 1700s England, the town of Little Nettlebed is scandalized by a rumor: that the five Mansfield sisters, already considered odd and aloof, are transforming into a pack of dogs at night. Purvis's debut is a wildly inventive riff on the Gothic form, with enough suspense and mounting dread to rival Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery.'
Holt, Aug. 5
Flashout
Soloski, a culture reporter for The New York Times as well as a novelist, returns with a dark dive into the theater world. The book follows a performer, Allison, at two stages in her life: first as a college student in the 1970s who finds herself ensnared in a dangerous, cultlike theater troupe, and later as a jaded, middle-aged drama teacher who is running away from a past that seems to be finally catching up with her.
Flatiron, Aug. 5
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