Gems to keep an eye on during 2025

Marjorie Brennan reveals the coming releases worthy of your attention and time this year

Hope: The Autobiography by Pope Francis is believed to be the first ever papal autobiography. Picture: Gregorio Borgia/AP

Readers can anticipate some gems in 2025, with plenty to look forward to in the first half of the year alone.

February sees the publication of Adam Haslett’s Mothers and Sons (Hamish Hamilton), which recounts the experiences of Peter, a crusading lawyer in New York, while good news for fans of Michelle de Kretser, she returns with Theory & Practice (sort of): Typically entertaining, all we can say is that Virginia Woolf is involved.