John le Carré’s son to write new George Smiley novel

For fans of family dramas, following two women’s lives, and Celeste Ng!

In a rural village in China, Jasmine has been married since she was 14, having been told by her husband that her first child died after birth. She now learns that was a lie, and the baby girl was given up for adoption to a couple in New York because her husband wanted a boy. Jasmine flees her husband for NY to try to find her child, who is being raised by Rebecca and Brandon, and take her back. The adoptive parent’s lives aren’t perfect: Rebecca works in publishing but is threatened by a scandal, her husband is hiding something, and Rebecca appears to begrudge the nanny…

For fans of true crime that doesn’t involve serial killers!

Could people’s love and over-collecting, mixed with climate change, be leading to a plant being threatened with extinction? That’s what professor at the University of Alabama Jared D. Margulies dives into in this book. From theories of psychoanalysts to interviewers with collectors, you’ll learn what drives collectors to need more succulents and how poachers have created an illegal cactus trade.