August 2008 Highlights

Novels
1. Twilight (Text Publishing, 2008) / Azhar Abidi
2. When Will There Be Good News? (Doubleday, 2008) / Kate Atkinson
3. Man in the Dark (Henry Holt, 2008) / Paul Auster
4. Exit Lines (Knopf Canada/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) / Joan Barfoot
5. From A to X: A Story in Letters (Verso Press, 2008) / John Berger
6. The Other Hand (Sceptre, 2008) / Chris Cleave
7. The Idea of Love (Fig Tree, 2008) / Louise Dean
8. Everything I Knew (Penguin, 2008) / Peter Goldsworthy
9. People of the Whale (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Linda Hogan
10. The Private Patient (Faber & Faber, 2008) / P.D. James
11. Her Three Wise Men (Hutchinson, 2008) / Stanley Middleton
12. Dreams of Rivers and Seas (Harvill Secker, 2008) / Tim Parks
13. The Good Thief (Dell, 2008) / Hannah Tinti
14. The Road Home (Little, Brown, 2008) / Rose Tremain
15. A Blessed Child [trans. from the Norwegian, Et Velsignet Barn (2005), by Sarah Death] (Picador, 2008) / Linn Ullmann
16. The Birthday Present (Viking, 2008) / Barbara Vine

First Novels
1. A Girl Made of Dust (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Nathalie Abi-Ezzi
2. Girl in a Blue Dress (Tindal Street Press, 2008) / Gaynor Arnold
3. The Story of a Widow (Knopf Canada/Random House Canada, 2008) / Musharraf Ali Farooqi
4. Train to Trieste (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) / Domnica Radulescu

Stories
1. A Better Angel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Chris Adrian
2. Country of the Grand (Faber & Faber, 2008) / Gerard Donovan
3. One More Year: Stories (Spiegel & Grau, 2008) / Sana Krasikov
4. The Boat (Canongate, 2008) / Nam Le

Poetry
1. Drives (Jonathan Cape, 2008) / Leontia Flynn

Nonfiction
1. Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection (W.W. Norton, 2008) / John T. Cacioppo and William Patrick
2. So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald (ed. Terence Dooley) (Fourth Estate, 2008) / Penelope Fitzgerald
3. How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken (Harper, 2008) / Daniel Mendelsohn
4. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Railway Bazaar (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) / Paul Theroux
5. Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante (Harper, 2008) / Lily Tuck