March 2008 Highlights

Novels
1. A Prisoner of Birth (Macmillan, 2008) / Jeffrey Archer
2. A Partisan’s Daughter (Harvill Secker, 2008) / Louis de Bernières
3. The Silver Swan (Henry Holt, 2008) / Benjamin Black
4. The Journey Home (University of Texas Press, 2008) (first published in the U.K. in 1990) / Dermot Bolger
5. The Post-War Dream (Nan A. Talese, 2008) / Mitch Cullin
6. The Red Book (Granta, 2008) / Meaghan Delahunt
7. Pravda (published as Self Help in the U.K. in 2007) (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Edward Docx
8. The White King (trans. from the Hungarian by Paul Olchváry) (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / György Dragomán
9. The Room of Lost Things (Virago, 2008) / Stella Duffy
10. The Blue Star (Little, Brown, 2008) / Tony Earley
11. Cathedral of the Sea (trans. from the Spanish, La Catedral del Mar, by Nick Caistor) (Doubleday, 2008) / Ildefonso Falcones
12. Fall of Frost (Penguin, 2008) / Brian Hall
13. The Day She Disappeared (University of Texas Press, 2008) / Ann Harleman
14. Ritual (Bantam, 2008) / Mo Hayder
15. The German Bride (Ballantine, 2008) / Joanna Hershon
16. Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt) (Arcade, 2008) / Mo Yan
17. Something to Tell You (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Hanif Kureishi
18. I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / Toby Litt
19. The Bridge (trans. from the Dutch by Sam Garrett) (Harvill Secker, 2008) / Geert Mak
20. The Language of Others (Sceptre, 2008) / Clare Morrall
21. Daphne (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Justine Picardie
22. Lush Life (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Richard Price
23. Dreamers of the Day (Random House, 2008) / Mary Doria Russell
24. Willing (Ecco, 2008) / Scott Spencer
25. Olive Kitteridge (Random House, 2008) / Elizabeth Strout
26. The Ten-Year Nap (Riverhead, 2008) / Meg Wolitzer

First Novels
1. Dervishes (Picador, 2008) / Beth Helms
2. Wolf Totem (trans. from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt) (Hamish Hamilton, 2008) / Jiang Rong
3. The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam (Virago, 2008) / Lauren Liebenberg
4. Mudbound (Algonquin, 2008) / Hillary Jordan
5. God’s Own Country (Viking, 2008) / Ross Raisin
6. Pavel & I (Bloomsbury, 2008) / Dan Vyleta

Stories

1. The Dream Lover (Bloomsbury, 2008) / William Boyd
2. Taking Pictures (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Anne Enright
3. Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Tobias Wolff

4. Caravan Thieves (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Gerard Woodward

Poetry
1. New Collected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Eavan Boland
2. For All We Know (The Gallery Press, 2008) / Ciaran Carson
3. Full Volume (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Robert Crawford
4. Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (Harper/HarperCollins, 2008) / Mark Doty
5. Everything Else in the World (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Stephen Dunn
6. Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Juan Felipe Herrera
7. Special Orders (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Edward Hirsch
8. Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Michael Hofmann
9. Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful (Picador, 2008) / John Kinsella
10. Fidelity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Grace Paley

11. Yellow Studio (Oxford Poets, 2008) / Stephen Romer
12. A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Mary Jo Salter
13. Old War (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Alan Shapiro
14. The Ghost Soldiers (Ecco, 2008) / James Tate
15. Eternal Enemies (trans. from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Adam Zagajewski

Nonfiction
1. Nothing to be Frightened Of (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Julian Barnes
2. Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World’s Lowliest Language (Hill & Wang, 2008) / Derek Bickerton
3. Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Doubleday, 2008) / Bill Bryson
4. The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul (Picador, 2008) / Patrick French
5. God’s Middle Finger: Into the Lawless State of the Sierra Madre (Free Press, 2008) / Richard Grant
6. The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Pico Iyer
7. The City of Words (Continuum, 2008) / Alberto Manguel
8. The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth (Faber, 2008) / Frances Wilson
9. Living Carelessly in Tokyo and Elsewhere: A Memoir (Free Press, 2008) / John Nathan
10. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood (Penguin Press, 2008) / Robyn Scott
11. The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad (Pantheon, 2008) / John Stape
12. The Secret of Fame: The Literary Encounter in an Age of Distraction (trans. from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer) (Paul Dry Books, 2008) / Gabriel Zaid