Happy Sunday! Our weekly round up of new releases is here. ✨ Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters. She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives merely to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the moment of desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. In Josephine Tey’s To Love and Be Wise, when Hollywood-star photographer Leslie Searle disappears from a remote English village, gifted inspector Alan Grant is called in to investigate. But what would bring such a successful individual to the village? And was his vanishing his own doing, or did something eerie occur at the hands of an unsuspected culprit? Written by critic Emily Ogden while her children were small, On Not Knowing forays into a rich, ambivalent space. Each of her sharply observed essays invites the reader to think with her about questions she can’t set aside: not knowing how to give birth, to listen, to hold it together, to love. On Not Knowing celebrates the defencelessness of not knowing yet – which, Ogden suggests, may be a form of love. Is there a better time to pick up Donna Tartt’s The Secret History than the autumnal season? Whether you’ve read and loved the book or are yet to pick it up, this 30th anniversary edition is a beautiful treat with stunning endpapers.