Congrats to Lavie Tidhar, who has garnered award nominations for foreign editions of CENTRAL STATION (Chinese Xingyun Award for Best Translated Fiction) and A Man Lies Dreaming (Japanese Seiun Award for Best Translated Novel).

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY praises Lauren Beukes forthcoming novel Afterland.

In this intriguing and all too timely near-future thriller from South African author Beukes (The Shining Girls), human culgoa virus, “a highly contagious flu that turns into an aggressive prostate cancer in men and boys,” kills more than 99% of the world’s male population within six months of its outbreak.