I found The God Is Not Willing in a Canberra bookstore while looking for holiday reading and it perfectly fit the bill - a return to the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, and picking up reasonably directly after the events of the previous main 10-book sequence. It's much more contained in scope and I had to remind myself who the carry-over characters were - apart from Karsa Orlong of course, who doesn't appear 'on stage' but whose presence looms large over all the book's events - but very well crafted and satisfying.
Also led me to revisit the original series, mostly through the re-read archive on Tor.com but also actually re-reading, with varying levels of line-by-lineness, Reaper's Gale, Dust of Dreams and The Crippled God, and recalling how actually awe-inspiring they are.
