Filled with unforgettable characters, razor-sharp wit, and Whitehead's signature social insight, Cool Machine is a thrilling portrait of a city—and its people.

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

About: In the exhilarating conclusion to Colson Whitehead's Harlem Trilogy, furniture dealer Ray Carney is once again tempted back into New York City's criminal underworld when financial pressures make one final score impossible to resist. Meanwhile, his formidable associate Pepper becomes entangled in the chaotic downtown art scene, as the city transforms in the early 1980s from gritty survival to glossy ambition.&nbsp;Release date: 21 July, 2026

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About: Following the collapse of her marriage, a mother travels with her twelve-year-old daughter to Catania, Sicily, where they seek refuge in an apartment borrowed from a lover. As her own mother begins to lose her memories to dementia, she confronts profound questions about family, home, memory, and the stories that define us.&nbsp;Release date: 28 July, 2026

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Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli

About: Raj Ladlani is an unemployed actor convinced he's destined for greatness—even if the rest of Hollywood disagrees. Desperate for a break, he lands a job as the personal assistant to an eccentric and dysfunctional Hollywood power family, entering a world of absurd privilege, petty rivalries, and carefully guarded secrets. As Raj becomes entangled in the lives of celebrated director Jim H and his ambitious wife Anna, the lies that got him the job threaten to unravel spectacularly.&nbsp;Release date: 7 July, 2026

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The Simp by Roshan Sethi

About: When a California family relocates to the fictional college town of Greensbury, Vermont, for a year, each member finds themselves drawn into a world where folklore, imagination, and reality begin to blur. Miles, a scholar of Russian folktales, struggles to finish his dissertation, while his wife Kate, an English professor, grapples with illness. Their children, Olive and Wesley, forge unexpected connections with the natural world and their eccentric new community.&nbsp;Release date: 7 July, 2026

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Country People by Daniel Mason

With ‘Villa Coco’, the author of ‘Less’ takes us to Tuscany

About: Broke and directionless, our young man takes a job in the Italian countryside as the all-purpose assistant to Lisabetta, known to her friends as Coco - a strong-willed, wealthy widow of great local renown.Trained as an archivist, he thinks he's been hired to catalogue the contents of the beautiful, crumbling mansion nestled in the green Tuscan hills... but what are his actual duties? Days are spent ridding the house of a marten - whatever that is - locating the antediluvian septic system, entertaining an endless carousel of guests (from bohemian painters to elderly princesses to unnervingly handsome nephews), attending a funeral in order to make off with the urn, and not inadvertently sabotaging Coco's great and final plan-to locate the lost love of her life and be reunited before it's too late.As summer turns into autumn and the Italian countryside begins to work its magic on our protagonist, the secrets of Villa Coco and its inhabitants are slowly brought to light - and with them, an unforgettable story of the enduring power of friendship.

Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

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