May 2009 Highlights

IN THIS SEASON of publishing gloom, the months of May and June see a spring shower of new novels and short-story collections from some of the more established award-winning writers of literary fiction: Aravind Adiga, Tash Aw, A.S. Byatt, Sarah Dunant, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hilary Mantel, Anne Michaels, Iain Pears, Caryl Phillips, Colm Tóibín and Sarah Waters.

Novels
1. In the Kitchen (Transworld/Doubleday, 2009) / Monica Ali
2. The Devil’s Paintbrush (Sceptre, 2009) / Jake Arnott
3. Map of the Invisible World (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Tash Aw
4. The House of Special Purpose (Doubleday, 2009) / John Boyne
5. The Children’s Book (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / A.S. Byatt
6. Heartland (Tindal Street Press, 2009) / Anthony Cartwright
7. The Gathering Night (Canongate, 2009) / Margaret Elphinstone
8. The Quickening Maze (Jonathan Cape, 2009) / Adam Foulds
9. The Whole Day Through (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Patrick Gale
10. Sunnyside (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009) / Glen David Gold

11. The Lost Child (Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press, 2009) / John Hart
12. Appassionata (Other Press, 2009) / Eva Hoffman
13. A Good Land (HarperCollins, 2009) / Nada Awar Jarrar
14. All Names Have Been Changed (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Claire Kilroy
15. The Family Man (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) / Elinor Lipman
16. The Stalin Epigram (Simon & Schuster, 2009) / Robert Littell
17. The Four Corners of the Sky (Sourcebooks, 2009) / Michael Malone
18. Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Hilary Mantel
19. The Winter Vault (Alfred A. Knopf/Bloomsbury, 2009) / Anne Michaels
20. The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life (Quercus, 2009) / William Nicholson

21. White is for Witching (Picador, 2009) / Helen Oyeyemi
22. Stone’s Fall (Jonathan Cape/Spiegel and Grau, 2009) / Iain Pears
23. In the Falling Snow (Harvill Secker/Random House, 2009) / Caryl Phillips
24. Shanghai Girls (Random House, 2009) / Lisa See
25. Brixton Beach (HarperPress, 2009) / Roma Tearne
26. Brooklyn (Viking, 2009) / Colm Tóibín
27. Into the Beautiful North (Little, Brown, 2009) / Luis Alberto Urrea
28. The Little Stranger (Virago Press, 2009) / Sarah Waters

Novella
1. Another Gulmohar Tree (Telegram Books, 2009) / Aamer Hussein

First Novels
1. The Hungry Ghosts (Blue Door, 2009) / Anne Berry
2. The Book of Fires (HarperPress, 2009) / Jane Borodale
3. Inspector Singh Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder (Piatkus/Little, Brown, 2009) / Shamini Flint
4. The Walking People (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) / Mary Beth Keane
5. I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Hyperion, 2009) / Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
6. The Jump Artist (Bellevue Literary Press, 2009) / Austin Ratner
7. Vanessa & Virginia (Houghton Mifflin, 2009) / Susan Sellers
8. The Girl with Glass Feet (Atlantic Books, 2009) / Ali Shaw

Stories
1. Friendly Fire (trans. from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies) (Fourth Estate, 2009) / Alaa al Aswany
2. Love Me Tender (Harvill Secker, 2009) / Jane Feaver
3. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 (Anchor, 2009) / Laura Furman (ed.)
4. Love and Obstacles (Riverhead, 2009) / Aleksandar Hemon
5. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Love Begins in Winter (HarperCollins US, 2009) / Simon Van Booy

Poetry
1. Collected Poems (ed. Alan Jenkins) (Faber & Faber, 2009) / Ian Hamilton
2. Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960-2008 (Louisiana State University Press, 2009) / Eleanor Ross Taylor

Nonfiction
1. On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction (Harvard University Press, 2009) / Brian Boyd
2. The End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism (Zed Books, 2009) / Stephen Chan
3. Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever (Doubleday, 2009) / Walter Kirn
4. Paul Newman: A Life (Random House, 2009) / Shawn Levy
5. Death: The Art of Living (Acumen, 2009) / Todd May
6. Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word (HarperCollins, 2009) / Toni Morrison (ed.)
7. The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2009) / Richard Overy
8. On Kindness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) / Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
9. Thousands of Broadways: Dreams and Nightmares of the American Small Town (The University of Chicago Press, 2009) / Robert Pinsky
10. The Blue Hour: A Portrait of Jean Rhys (Bloomsbury, 2009) / Lilian Pizzichini
11. Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Stanley Plumly
12. Ardent Spirits: Leaving Home, Coming Back (Scribner, 2009) / Reynolds Price
13. American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier (ISI Books, 2009) / Agnes Repplier (ed. John Lukacs)
14. Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood (W.W. Norton, 2009) / Maria Tatar
15. Footprints in Paris: A Few Streets, A Few Lives (Chatto & Windus, 2009) / Gillian Tindall