The Disappearers, from Booker Prize-nominated author Marlon James, will be published by Hamish Hamilton on 3 September. After a detour into mythic fantasy, the author of Booker Prize-winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings returns to Jamaica.
The novel recounts a brutal homophobic attack against a group of gay actors in Kingston during the nineteen-eighties. It has already been included on the longlist for this year's prize.
Also among the highlights of the forthcoming season are meditations on maturity from Barbara Kingsolver, musical portraits from Jonathan Coe and Yiyun Li, and memoirs from Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench.
