November 2007 Highlights

Novels
1. Scapegallows (Virago, 2007) / Carol Birch
2. The Silver Swan (Picador, 2007) / Benjamin Black
3. The Persimmon Tree (Viking/Penguin Australia, 2007) / Bryce Courtenay
4. Tipperary (Random House, 2007) / Frank Delaney
5. The Hearts of Horses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007) / Molly Gloss
6. Someone Knows My Name (W.W. Norton, 2007) / Lawrence Hill
7. The Quiet Girl (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) / Peter Høeg (trans. from the Danish by Nadia Christensen)
8. The Lost Dog (Allen & Unwin, 2007) / Michelle de Kretser
9. The Rowing Lesson (Soho Press, 2007) / Anne Landsman
10. Landscape of Farewell (Allen & Unwin, 2007) / Alex Miller
11. Last Night at the Lobster (Viking, 2007) / Stewart O’Nan
12. Absolution (Pegasus, 2007) / Caro Ramsay
13. The Lost Highway (Doubleday Canada, 2007) / David Adams Richards
14. The Journal of Dora Damage (Bloomsbury, 2007) / Belinda Starling

15. Where Three Roads Meet: The Myth of Oedipus (Canongate, 2007) / Salley Vickers

First Novels
1. The Moon Opera (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin) (Telegram Books, 2007) / Bi Feiyu

Stories
1. The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (Granta, 2007) / Richard Ford (ed.)
2. The People on Privilege Hill (Chatto & Windus, 2007) / Jane Gardam
3. Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black and Other Stories (Bloomsbury/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007) / Nadine Gordimer
4. The Book of Other People (Hamish Hamilton, 2007) / Zadie Smith (ed.)

Poetry
1. Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2007) / John Ashbery
2. Pessimism for Beginners (Carcanet Press, 2007) / Sophie Hannah
3. Public Dream (Picador, 2007) / Frances Leviston
4. Crocodiles and Obelisks (Faber & Faber, 2007) / Jamie McKendrick

Nonfiction
1. Charm City: A Walk Through Baltimore (Crown Journeys/Crown Publishers, 2007) / Madison Smartt Bell
2. Classics for Pleasure (Harcourt, 2007 / Michael Dirda
3. Modernism: The Lure of Heresy, From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2007) / Peter Gay
4. Letters of Ted Hughes (ed. Christopher Reid) (Faber & Faber, 2007) / Ted Hughes
5. My Family and Other Saints (University of Chicago Press, 2007) / Kirin Narayan
6. The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street (Allen Lane, 2007) / Charles Nicholl
7. Henry James: The Mature Master (Random House, 2007) / Sheldon M. Novick
8. John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic, 2007) / Richard Reeves
9. A Life of Picasso: Volume III: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Alfred A. Knopf/Jonathan Cape, 2007) / John Richardson
10. The Emergence of Memory: Conversations with W.G. Sebald (Seven Stories, 2007) / Lynne Sharon Shwarz (ed.)
11. Touch and Go: A Memoir (The New Press, 2007) / Studs Terkel