13 best books to read in April

A new book from Kazuo Ishiguro - his first in over 10 years - has to be one of the literary events of 2015. His two best-loved novels, The Remains Of The Day and Never Let Me Go, are so completely different that he defies categorisation. With his latest, The Buried Giant, he travels back to post-Roman England to tell a thought-provoking story about marriage, memory and getting older.

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Author, lyricist and rock star wife, Polly Samson (she’s married to Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour and wrote some of their songs) has written another sublime slice of prose about love. The Kindness opens with a man despairing at the loss of his wife and daughter and slowly winds back to reveal what went wrong. 

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Belinda Bauer is back with her sixth cracking psychological thriller. In The Shut Eye, a psychic offers hope to a grieving mum. But is he who he claims to be – or does he have a more sinister motive?

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As Suite Française, starring Kristin Scott Thomas is released in cinemas, another book by the author, Irène Némirovsky, is translated into English for the first time. The Fires Of Autumn is a poignant saga about a group of friends whose lives are turned upside down by war. 

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The Girl In The Red Coat is a hotly-tipped debut by Kate Hamer. After her young daughter goes missing at a festival, a mother won't give up hope of finding her.  

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Known for playing dippy Catriona in Absolutely Fabulous, comedian Helen Lederer brings her quirky humour to her first novel. In Losing It, down-on-her-luck TV presenter Millie  becomes entangled in the world of diet commercials.

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Whatever he writes about, journalist Jon Ronson is always insightful and interesting - we’d read his shopping list! In So You've Been Publicly Shamed, he explores the phenomenon of public humiliation and its devastating effects. 

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If you need a helping hand to makeover your bad habits, American self-help author Gretchen Rubin is your woman. Better Than Before is full of practical advice and strategies on how to build healthier and happier ways of living - that last. 

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After The Crash is a suspense novel that’s been on the bestseller list for two years in France, where its author Michel Bussi lives. When a plane goes down in the mountains, the only survivor is a three-month-old baby. Two families come forward to claim her, both swearing she's related to them - and spark an investigation that lasts 18 years. 

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In Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller, a girl who is taken to a remote forest by her survivalist father reappears almost a decade later, alone.

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Hours after Celia shows her neighbour incriminating photos of her husband, she's found murdered. The Pocket Wife is a chillingly good first novel from Susan Crawford.

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AD Miller delivers a captivating look at the strange mix of fierce loyalty and competitiveness in male friendships in his second novel, The Faithful Couple. 

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A group of septuagenarians go on a madcap road trip in Andrea Bennett’s quirky Galina Petrovna’s Three-Legged Dog Story. 

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