International books to look forward to in 2020

A new year brings us more books to look forward to. 2020 brings a few series to a close, a lot of stand alones by popular authors and some celebrity debuts that are bound to be interesting. Here are some international releases to look forward to this year:

‘Grown Ups’ is another domestic drama by Marian Keys. Her books have won the Irish Book Awards, sold millions of copies and been translated into 33 languages. This book follows three brothers and their wives who are close and they seem to get along happily on the surface, but after one wife, Cara, gets a concussion, she shares a lot of secrets at a family gathering. The book follows the fallout from those revelations and how that event helped everyone grow up.
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Katherine May has written many novels and memoirs and this book is one of the latter. She recounts her year-long journey into winter and what she learned from it, encouraging us to ponder on the healing and growth our hardest times can bring in us.
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This book is the much-awaited final installment of Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Both the prequels of the book, 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies' won a Booker Prize. The series is a fictional account of how Thomas Cromwell rose to power in the court of Henry VIII and 'The Mirror and the Light' will bring the story to a close, telling of the last few years of Cromwell's life.
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This book will undoubtedly delight any Shakespeare fan. Set 1596 in Stratford-upon-Avon we follow a boy Hamnet, whose name inspired one of the most famous plays, and other stories woven into his own tale. The author has won the Betty Trask Award and the Costa Novel Award for her work.
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'Summer' brings Ali Smith's Seasonal quartet to an end. The first book 'Autumn', was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and all of the books in the series have recieved great reviews.
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This book is a sort of prequel to the immensely popular Hunger Games Series. The series was an international bestseller and had a hugely successful movie franchise as well. This book is set in the same dystopian world but set sixty-four years before the events of the bestselling trilogy. The book will start on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games.
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James McBride won the National Book Award for 'The Good Lord Bird' and this is his first book since then. It starts with an old church deacon shooting a drug dealer. As we follow the aftermath of shooting, we find the reasons that caused it in a complex and moving story.
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Also by a National Book Award-winning author, this book is about Bassam Aramin and Rami Elhanan, a Palestinian and an Israeli for whom every day involves violence. When they share their stories, they realise the similarities and try to use their shared grief for good.
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One of the most celebrated Grammy Award-winning musicians, Alicia Augello Cook Dean, popularly known as Alicia Keys has captivated the world with her profound lyrics and soul-stirring piano compositions. Her upcoming book, 'More Myself: A Journey' is part autobiography that unfolds Alicia’s intimate journey from her girlhood in Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem to the process of growth and self-discovery through her own candid recounting.
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From the author of the clever 'Station Eleven', we can look forward to a novel that explores love, greed and delusion. 'The Glass Hotel' follows the running and collapse of an elaborate Ponzi scheme in a story that takes readers to many every corner of the business, from luxury hotels to homeless camps to prison.
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Anne Tyler has always written books that touch one's heart and her upcoming one seems like it's bound to delight us as well. It follows Micah, a man who always plays it safe and enjoys things being perfectly in place, have his orderly life shaken. A teen shows up at his door claiming to be his son and the woman he's romantically involved with gets evicted from her home around the same time and suddenly his life seems far from the routine he lived with.
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This book follows a woman with whose content life is suddenly uprooted and we follow her journey through Mexico as she tries to get into the United States. It's an eye-opening action-filled tale of what those who show up at America's borders go through and why they might be fleeing.
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The powerhouse trio Joe Jonas, Kevin Jonas, and Nick Jonas are all set to unfold their incredible tale in the upcoming book, 'Blood'. These three siblings make up the Grammy-nominated Pop-rock band The Jonas Brothers. The book chronicles the origins of the Jonas Brothers, traces their swift and phenomenal rise from Disney idols to genuine pop stars, their break up at the height of their fame, and now their reunification.
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Author of the worldwide bestseller 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up', Marie Kondo, is a Japanese organising consultant who has written four books on organising. Her books have been translated from Japanese into several languages and have collectively sold millions of copies. Kondo’s upcoming nonfiction, 'Joy at Work', offers stories, studies and strategies to help you eliminate clutter and make space for work that matters.
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