February 2008 Highlights

LOTS OF NEW BOOKS for the glorious month of February 2008:

Novels
1. The Palace of Illusions (Doubleday, 2008) / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
2. Split Estate (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) / Charlotte Bacon
3. The Soul Thief (Pantheon, 2008) / Charles Baxter
4. His Illegal Self (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Peter Carey
5. A Person of Interest (Viking, 2008) / Susan Choi
6. The Flowers (Grove/Atlantic, 2008) / Gilb Dagoberto
7. Gardens of Water (Random House, 2008) / Alan Drew
8. Counting the Stars (Fig Tree, 2008) / Helen Dunmore
9. The Clothes on Their Backs (Virago/Little, Brown, 2008) / Linda Grant
10. The Invention of Everything Else (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Samantha Hunt

11. Song Yet Sung (Riverhead, 2008) / James McBride
12. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (Canongate, 2008) / James Meek
13. Out of Breath (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Julie Myerson
14. The Truth Commissioner (Bloomsbury, 2008) / David Park
15. My Favourite Wife (HarperCollins, 2008) / Tony Parsons
16. Death at Intervals (trans. from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa) (Harvill Secker, 2008) / José Saramago
17. Unforgiving Years (trans. from the French by Richard Greeman) (NYRB Classics, 2008) / Victor Serge
18. The Age of Shiva (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Manil Suri
19. Friday Nights (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Joanna Trollope
20. John (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Niall Williams

First Novels
1. Submarine (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / Joe Dunthorne
2. The Monsters of Templeton (Hyperion, 2008) / Lauren Groff
3. The Outcast (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Sadie Jones
4. A Fraction of the Whole (Spiegel & Grau, 2008) / Steve Toltz

Stories
1. The Fantastic Book of Everybody’s Secrets (Sort Of Books, 2008) / Sophie Hannah
2. Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Steven Millhauser
3. Breathless in Bombay (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008) / Murzban F. Shroff

Poetry
1. Pure Lizard (Carcanet, 2008) / Sujata Bhatt
2. Another Country: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2008) / Jane Griffiths
3. Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe, 2008) / Jen Hadfield
4. Valentines (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) / Ted Kooser
5. Selected Poems (ed. Mark Ford) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Frank O’Hara

Nonfiction
1. Poe: A Life Cut Short (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Peter Ackroyd
2. Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography (Fourth Estate, 2008) / J.G. Ballard
3. The Collected Prose of Robert Frost (ed. Mark Richardson) (Harvard University Press, 2008) / Robert Frost
4. Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawai’i (Grove Press, 2008) / Susanna Moore
5. The Messenger: The Meanings of the Life of Muhammad (Allen Lane, 2008) / Tariq Ramadan

6. The Craftsman (Allen Lane, 2008) / Richard Sennett
7. The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / David Shields
8. A Step from Death: A Memoir (Counterpoint, 2008) / Larry Woiwode
9. How Fiction Works (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / James Wood
10. Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death (Jossey-Bass, 2008) / Irvin D. Yalom