April 2009 Highlights

Novels
1. The House of Bilqis (first published as Twilight in Australia in 2008) (Penguin, 2009) / Azhar Abidi
2. A Retelling of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics, 2009) / Peter Ackroyd
3. The Enemy of the Good (Arcadia, 2009) / Michael Arditti
4. Map of the Invisible World (HarperCollins India, 2009) / Tash Aw
5. Waveland (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Frederick Barthelme
6. Leaving Tangier (trans. from the French by Linda Coverdale) (Penguin, 2009) / Tahar Ben Jelloun
7. Home Safe (Random House, 2009) / Elizabeth Berg
8. The Lost Life (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins Australia, 2009) / Steven Carroll
9. Hearts and Minds (Little, Brown, 2009) / Amanda Craig
10. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (Canongate, 2009) / Geoff Dyer

11. Wanting (first published in Australia in 2008) (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009) / Richard Flanagan
12. The Servants’ Quarters (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) / Lynn Freed
13. The Twisted Heart (Canongate, 2009) / Rebecca Gowers
14. Laura Rider’s Masterpiece (Grand Central Publishing, 2009) / Jane Hamilton
15. The Spy Game (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Georgina Harding
16. All Other Nights (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Dara Horn
17. Nobody Move (Picador, 2009) / Denis Johnson
18. Glover’s Mistake (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Nick Laird
19. Ransom (Random House Australia, 2009) / David Malouf
20. Fall (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Colin McAdam

21. Lake Overturn (HarperCollins, 2009) / Vestal McIntyre
22. The Last Secret (Crown Publishing, 2009) / Mary McGarry Morris
23. The Song Is You (Random House, 2009) / Arthur Phillips
24. East Fortune (Bloomsbury, 2009) / James Runcie
25. Chowringhee (trans. from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha) (Atlantic Books, 2009) / Sankar (first published in Bengali in 1962; first English translation published by Penguin India in 2007)
26. Follow Me (Little, Brown, 2009) / Joanna Scott
27. Burnt Shadows (Picador USA, 2009) / Kamila Shamsie
28. Ask Alice (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / D.J. Taylor
29. The Weight of Heaven (Harper/HarperCollins Publishers, 2009) / Thrity Umrigar
30. English (trans. from the Chinese by Martin Merz and Jane Weizhen Pan) (Viking, 2009) / Wang Gang

31. The Little Stranger (Riverhead, 2009) / Sarah Waters
32. Sag Harbor (Doubleday, 2009) / Colson Whitehead

Novella
1. The Song of Lunch (CB Editions, 2009) / Christopher Reid

First Novels
1. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Random House, 2009) / Alan Bradley
2. Hold Love Strong (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Matthew Aaron Goodman
3. Atlas of Unknowns (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Tania James
4. Secret Son (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2009) / Laila Lalami
5. The Bellini Madonna (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / Elizabeth Lowry
6. American Rust (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Philipp Meyer
7. Woodsburner (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009) / John Pipkin
8. Little Gods (Picador, 2009) / Anna Richards
9. Handpicked (HarperCollins Australia, 2009) / Siew Siang Tay

Stories
1. The Thing Around Your Neck (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (Graywolf Press, 2009) / Robert Boswell
3. Love Stories in this Town (Random House, 2009) / Amanda Eyre Ward
4. The English Stories (Bibioasis/Northwestern University Press, 2009) / Cynthia Flood
5. Going Ashore (Douglas Gibson Books/McClelland & Stewart, 2009) / Mavis Gallant
6. An Elegy for Easterly (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Petina Gappah
7. It’s Beginning to Hurt (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / James Lasdun
8. How It Ended: New and Collected Stories (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Jay McInerney
9. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Daniyal Mueenuddin
10. Dear Husband, (HarperCollins/Ecco, 2009) / Joyce Carol Oates

11. Once the Shore (Sarabande, 2009) / Paul Yoon

Poetry
1. Face (Hanging Loose Press, 2009) / Sherman Alexie
2. Recipe for Water (Carcanet, 2009) / Gillian Clarke
3. In Search of Small Gods (Copper Canyon, 2009) / Jim Harrison
4. Stonepicker & The Book of Mirrors (HarperCollins, 2009) / Frieda Hughes
5. The Cinder Path (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Andrew Motion
6. Tales of Freedom (Rider, 2009) / Ben Okri
7. A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Alice Oswald
8. Substrate (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Jim Powell
9. Hovering at a Low Altitude: The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch (trans. from the Hebrew by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld) (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Dahlia Ravikovitch
10. Pigeon (House of Anansi, 2009) / Karen Solie

11. Endpoint and Other Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / John Updike
12. Sestets (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / Charles Wright

Nonfiction
1. Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare (Random House, 2009) / Jonathan Bate
2. A Shadow Falls: In the Heart of Java (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Andrew Beatty
3. The Other Elizabeth Taylor (Persephone Books, 2009) / Nicola Beauman
4. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton, 2009) / Alain de Botton
5. Frances Partridge: The Biography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009) / Anne Chisholm
6. A Single Swallow (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Horatio Clare
7. Rebel Land: Among Turkey’s Forgotten Peoples (Bloomsbury, April 2009) / Christopher de Bellaigue
8. My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist (first published in Australia by Text Publishing in 2008) (Skyhorse Publishing, 2009) / Sadanand Dhume
9. The Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws (Atlantic, 2009) / Margaret Drabble
10. The Music Room (Picador, 2009) / William Fiennes

11. My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in the Palestinian Century (Yale University Press, 2009) / Adina Hoffman
12. The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Allen Lane, 2009) / Tristram Hunt
13. Love Child: A Memoir of Family Lost and Found (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Allegra Huston
14. From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy (Atlantic Books, 2009) / Kenan Malik
15. Closing Time: A Memoir (Viking Penguin, 2009) / Joe Queenan
16. A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1996-2008 (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Adrienne Rich
17. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / T.J. Stiles
18. Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde (first published in the U.K. as Oscar’s Books by Chatto & Windus in 2008) (Henry Holt, 2009) / Thomas Wright