December 2007 Highlights

DECEMBER is traditionally not a great month when it comes to new fiction and other things literary. This is the month for celebrity memoirs, cookbooks by celebrity chefs, interior decor, humour and other such stuff which make wonderful Christmas gifts. However, this is a great month to catch up on your reading.

Novels
1. Wolves of the Crescent Moon (trans. from the Arabic by Anthony Calderbank) (Penguin, 2007) / Yousef Al-Mohaimeed
2. Remembering the Bones (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007/Sceptre, 2007) / Frances Itani
3. Night Train to Lisbon (Grove Press, 2007) / Pascal Mercier (trans. from the German by Barbara Harshav)

Poetry
1. Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo (W.W. Norton, 2007) / Richard Hugo

Nonfiction
1. A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century (Allen Lane, 2007) / John Burrow
2. The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again (Graywolf Press, 2007) / Sven Birkerts
3. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (Hudson Street Press, December 2007) / Dan Koeppel
4. The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (The Free Press, 2007) / Andrew Lycett
5. Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography (Atlantic Monthly, 2007) / Alberto Manguel
6. In Arabian Nights: A Caravan of Moroccan Dreams (Bantam, 2007) / Tahir Shah