July 2008 Highlights

“Then followed that beautiful season,
Called by the pious Acadian peasants the Summer of All-Saints!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new-created in all the freshness of childhood.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Novels
1. The Pages (Text, 2008) / Murray Bail
2. Morality Tale (Picador, 2008) / Sylvia Brownrigg
3. Stand the Storm (Little Brown, 2008) / Breena Clarke
4. Tiger, Tiger (Grove/Atlantic, 2008) / Galaxy Craze
5. In Zodiac Light (Doubleday, 2008) / Robert Edric
6. Towards Another Summer (Virago, 2008) / Janet Frame
7. The Likeness (Viking Penguin, 2008) / Tana French
8. The Spare Room (Canongate, 2008) / Helen Garner
9. The Bellini Card (Faber and Faber, 2008) / Jason Goodwin
10. Good-bye and Amen (William Morrow, 2008) / Beth Gutcheon
11. The Condition (Harper/HarperCollins, 2008) / Jennifer Haigh
12. Disguise (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2008) / Hugo Hamilton
13. Molly Fox’s Birthday (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Deirdre Madden
14. Crime (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Irvine Welsh

First Novels
1. Keeping the House (Random House, 2008) / Ellen Baker
2. Telex from Cuba (Scribner, 2008) / Rachel Kushner
3. The Bellini Madonna (Quercus, 2008) / Elizabeth Lowry
4. Little Hut of Leaping Fishes (Picador, 2008) / Chiew-Siah Tei

Stories
1. Lost in Uttar Pradesh: New and Selected Stories (Counterpoint, 2008) / Evan S. Connell
2. The Nightingales of Troy (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Alice Fulton
3. Walk the Blue Fields (Grove/Black Cat, 2008) / Claire Keegan

Nonfiction
1. The Three of Us: A Family Story (Pantheon, 2008) / Julia Blackburn
2. Fishing In Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared (Granta, 2008) / Andrew Brown
3. Books: A Memoir (Simon and Schuster, 2008) / Larry McMurtry
4. The Bottom of the Harbor (originally published in 1959 by Little, Brown) (Pantheon, 2008) / Joseph Mitchell
5. John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Overlook, 2008) / Richard Reeves
6. The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors, Forgotten Histories, and a Sense of Home (Penguin, 2008) / Sadia Shepard
7. How Fiction Works (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / James Wood