We take a look at two of the newest releases from Bonnier Books and their impressions Hot Key Books and Big Picture Press.
Ancient Love Stories (Emily Hauser)
Hauser and illustrator Sander Berg have created a visually impressive collection, even if, at 96 pages, it only contains a handful of stories. Said stories do, it has to be noted, run the spectrum of love, delving into heterosexual love, homosexual love, platonic intimacy, truly giving an impressive range, whether that’s Sappho or the Sacred Band of Thebes, or Antony and Cleopatra themselves.
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Perfect for an afternoon’s examination, Ancient Love Stories is a lightweight, sweet examination of the history of love in the classical world, and what it lacks in depth, it more than makes up for scope and breadth, ensuring a universal treatise to the power of the human heart.
Ancient Love Stories is out on 28th September from Big Picture Press/Bonnier Books.
I Loved You in Another Life (David Arnold)
I Loved You in Another Life follows two souls – traumatised teen Evan and aspiring performer Shosh – as they find themselves linked by a mysterious song and drawn to one another as part of a mysterious time-spanning cycle. Arnold is clearly a master of his craft, and while the characterisation of the two leads isn’t the strongest nor most original one could hope for, the scale and scope of Arnold’s imagination can’t be faulted.
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Evoking recent explorations into wrenching, emotive YA fiction (here’s looking at you, Dustin Thao’s You’ve Reached Sam), I Loved You in Another Life blends together a simple yet effective premise with poignant emotion. In the hands of the right reader, it’ll be a story that will be revisited aplenty, as if for the first time all over again.
I Loved You in Another Life is out on 10th October from Hot Key Books/Bonnier Books.