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Chuck Palahniuk isn’t the only big name from across the pond with a new book out. Brian Donaldson looks at the top US titles due to be published between now and Independence Day

Jonathan Lethem You Don't Love Me Yet The New Yorker is perhaps best know for his Tourette's cop drama fvtother/ess Brook/yn (the meme of which is in Ed Norton's hands) and now he is back with the warped tale of an LA rock band. Faber. 3

Gene Wilder My French Whore Willy Wonka follows up his recent memoir With a debut novel set in the First World War about a French train conductor who passes himself off as a notorious German spy With. perhaps. hilarious results. Old Street. 4 May.

Lionel Shriver The Post— Birthday World The writer of books as varied as the Columbine styled We Need to Ia/k About Key/n and the tennis romance drama Double Fault pokes around a parallel universe in tracking the life of a kids” book illustrator and the men

Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope The Democratic Senator brings us his vision of how the USA can overcome its dwisions to tackle the real problems it faces at home and abroad. Canongate. I 0 May.

Ian Jack (ed) Best of Young American Novel/sts 2 The fresh faced future is represented by the familiar likes of Jonathan Safran l'oer, .72 Packer and Nicole Krat ss along side the next generation such as Daniel Alarcon. Gabe Hudson and Yiyun l.i. Granta. 10 May.

Walter Mosley Fear of the Dark Another in the fearless Jones senes as he and his sidekick encounter a series of monsters. madames and misdemeanours. Serpents Tail, 7 7 May.

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