April 2012 Highlights

Novels
1. Tell Me a Story (Picador India/Pan Macmillan India, 2012) / Rupa Bajwa
2. Stonemouth (Little, Brown, 2012) / Iain Banks
3. HHhH (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Laurent Binet
4. The Chemistry of Tears (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Peter Carey
5. When the Night (trans. from the Italian by Marina Harss) (Other Press, 2012) / Cristina Comencini
6. Talulla Rising (Canongate, 2012) / Glen Duncan
7. Arcadia (William Heinemann, 2012) / Lauren Groff
8. Scenes from Early Life (Fourth Estate, 2012) / Philip Hensher
9. The House of Velvet and Glass (Voice, 2012) / Katherine Howe
10. Second Person Singular (trans. from the Hebrew by Mitch Ginsburg) (Grove Press/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012) / Sayed Kashua

11. The Briefcase (trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell) (Counterpoint, 2012) / Hiromi Kawakami
12. Beastly Things (William Heinemann/Atlantic Monthly Press, 2012) / Donna Leon
13. Truth Like the Sun (Knopf/Bloomsbury, 2012) / Jim Lynch
14. Thunder and Rain (Center Street, 2012) / Charles Martin
15. Pure (Turnaround Books, 2012) / Timothy Mo
16. Silver (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Andrew Motion
17. The Hunger Angel (trans. from the German by Philip Boehm) (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt/Portobello Books, 2012) / Herta Müller
18. Three Strong Women (trans. from the French, Trois femmes puissantes, by John Fletcher) (MacLehose Press, 2012) / Marie NDiaye
19. Traveler of the Century (trans. from the Spanish, El Viajero Del Siglo, by Nick Caistor
& Lorenza Garcia) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux/Pushkin Press, 2012) / Andrés Neuman
20. The Coldest Night (Algonquin, 2012) / Robert Olmstead

21. The Cove (Ecco, 2012) / Ron Rash
22. Honour (Viking, 2012) / Elif Shafak
23. Wish You Were Here (Knopf, 2012) / Graham Swift
24. Derby Day (Pegasus, 2012) / D.J. Taylor
25. The Road to Urbino (HarperPress, 2012) / Roma Tearne
26. The Right-Hand Shore (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Christopher Tilghman
27. The Shoemaker’s Wife (Harper, 2012) / Adriana Trigiani
28. The Beginner’s Goodbye (Knopf/Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Anne Tyler
29. Fear in the Sunlight (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Nicola Upson
30. Dirt (Harper, 2012) / David Vann

31. Skagboys (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Irvine Welsh
32. The Hanging Garden (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Patrick White

First Novels
1. The Apartment (Penguin, 2012) / Greg Baxter
2. Miss Fuller (Steerforth, 2012) / April Bernard
3. A Land More Kind Than Home (William Morrow, 2012) / Wiley Cash
6. A Naked Singularity (University of Chicago Press, 2012) / Sergio De la Pava
4. Every Contact Leaves a Trace (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Elanor Dymott
5. An Unexpected Guest (Little, Brown, 2012) / Anne Korkeakivi
6. The Headmaster’s Wager (Doubleday Canada, 2012) / Vincent Lam
7. The Incident (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012)/ Kenneth Macleod
8. The Book of Life (Picador, 2012) / Stuart Nadler
9. Signs of Life (Macmillan, 2012) / Anna Raverat
10. Secrets of the Tides (Orion, 2012) / Hannah Richell

11. The Lifeboat (Reagan Arthur Books, 2012) / Charlotte Rogan
12. The Light Between Oceans (Doubleday, 2012) / M.L. Stedman
13. Hand Me Down (Dutton, 2012) / Melanie Thorne

Stories
1. Dark Lies the Island (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Kevin Barry
2. The Likes of Us (Parthian Books, 2012) / Stan Barstow
3. The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 (Anchor, 2012) / Laura Furman (ed.)
4. Difficult Pleasures (Penguin India, 2012) / Anjum Hasan
5. My Mother Was An Upright Piano (Tangent Books, 2012) / Tania Hershman
6. Aerogrammes (Knopf, 2012) / Tania James
7. I Am an Executioner: Love Stories (Knopf, 2012) / Rajesh Parameswaran
8. The Best British Short Stories 2012 (Salt Publishing, 2012) / Nicholas Royle (ed.)
9. Favorite Monster (Autumn House Press, 2015) / Sharma Shields
10. Once You Break a Knuckle (Bloomsbury, 2012) / D.W. Wilson

Poetry
1. Lightning Beneath the Sea (Seren, 2012) / Grahame Davies
2. Clueless Days (Seren, 2012) / Rhian Edwards
3. The Dark Film (Picador, 2012) / Paul Farley
4. Place: New Poems (Ecco Press/Carcanet Press, 2012) / Jorie Graham
5. Stalker (Shearsman Books, 2012) / Lucy Hamilton
6. Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2012) / W.N. Herbert
& Yang Lian, with Brian Holton (eds.)
7. Nefertiti in the Flak Tower (Picador, 2012) / Clive James
8. Love’s Bonfire (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Tom Paulin

Nonfiction
1. Promiscuous: “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness (Yale University Press, 2012) / Bernard Avishai
2. Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation (McSweeney’s, 2012) / Tom Bissell
3. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) / Mark Dery
4. India: A Sacred Geography (Harmony, 2012) / Diana L. Eck
5. Farther Away: Essays (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Jonathan Franzen
6. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (Penguin, 2012) / Paul French
7. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Jonathan Gottschall
8. Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Lindsey Hilsum
9. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World (Little, Brown, 2012) / Tom Holland
10. Paris in Love: A Memoir (Random House, 2012) / Eloisa James

11. Sightlines (Sort Of Books, 2012) / Kathleen Jamie
12. A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman (Bloomsbury USA, 2012) / Alice Kessler-Harris
13. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (Viking, 2012) / Keith Lowe
14. Until Further Notice, I Am Alive (Granta Books, 2012) / Tom Lubbock
15. Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed (Other Press, 2012) / Leslie Maitland
16. The New Few: Or a Very British Oligarchy (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Ferdinand Mount
17. Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 (Allen Lane, 2012) / Dominic Sandbrook
18. Nightwalk: A Journey to the Heart of Nature (Collins, 2012) / Chris Yates