May 2012 Highlights

Novels
1. The Undertow (published as The Picture Book in the UK) (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Jo Baker
2. In the Kingdom of Men (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012) / Kim Barnes
3. The Yellow Emperor’s Cure (Overlook Press, 2012) / Kunal Basu
4. HHhH (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Harvill Secker, 2012) / Laurent Binet
5. The Knot (HarperCollins, 2012) / Jane Borodale
6. The Chemistry of Tears (Knopf, 2012) / Peter Carey
7. The Invitation (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Anne Cherian
8. Origins of Love (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Kishwar Desai
9. A Greyhound of a Girl (Amulet, 2012) / Roddy Doyle
10. An Inventory of Heaven (Corsair, 2012) / Jane Feaver
11. The Meaning of Grace (Vintage Australia, 2012) / Deborah Forster

11. Skios (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Michael Frayn
12. The Newlyweds (Knopf, 2012) / Nell Freudenberger
13. The Red House (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Mark Haddon
14. Peaches for Monsieur le Curé (published as Peaches for Father Francis in the US) (Doubleday, 2012) / Joanne Harris
15. In One Person (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / John Irving
16. The Boy Who Could See Demons (Piatkus, 2012) / Carolyn Jess-Cooke
17. The Uninvited Guests (Harper, 2012) / Sadie Jones
18. The Stonecutter (trans. from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray) (Pegasus, 2012) / Camilla Lackberg
19. The Colour of Money (Fig Tree, 2012) / Nell Leyshon
20. Bring Up the Bodies (Fourth Estate/Henry Holt, 2012) / Hilary Mantel

21. The Last of the Vostyachs (trans. from the Italian by Judith Landry) (Dedalus, 2012) / Diego Marani
22. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (published as Trapeze in the US) (Little, Brown, 2012) / Simon Mawer
23. Autumn Laing (Allen & Unwin, 2012) / Alex Miller
24. Pure (Europa Editions, 2012) / Andrew Miller
25. Between Clay and Dust (Aleph Book Company, 2012) / Musharraf Ali Farooqi
26. Last Days (Macmillan, 2012) / Adam Nevill
27. The Server (Harvill Secker, 2012) / Tim Parks
28. The Forrests (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) / Emily Perkins
29. Opposed Positions (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Gwendoline Riley
30. Ignorance (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Michèle Roberts

31. Ménage (Other Press, 2012) / Alix Kates Shulman
32. The Lola Quartet (Unbridled Books, 2012) / Emily St. John Mandel
33. The Lower River (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) / Paul Theroux
34. Flight (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Adam Thorpe
35. The Deadman’s Pedal (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Alan Warner
36. Skeleton Women (Kensington Publishing, 2012) / Mingmei Yip

Novella
1. Home (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012)/ Toni Morrison

First Novels
1. Drowned (trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy) (Other Press, 2012) / Therese Bohman
2. Heart-Shaped Bruise (Headline, 2012) / Tanya Byrne
3. The Language of Men (Hudson Whitman, 2012) / Anthony D’Aries
4. A Small Fortune (Riverhead Books, 2012) / Rosie Dastgir
5. The Panopticon (William Heinemann, 2012) / Jenni Gagan
6. Shelter (Free Press, 2012) / Frances Greenslade
7. All Woman and Springtime (Algonquin Books, 2012) / Brandon W. Jones
8. The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (published as Chinaman in the UK) (Graywolf Press, 2012) / Shehan Karunatilaka
9. Ru (trans. from the French by Sheila Fischman) (Clerkenwell Press, 2012) / Kim Thúy
10. Faces in the Crowd (Granta Books, 2012) / Valeria Luiselli

11. This Is How It Ends (Sphere, 2012) / Kathleen MacMahon
12. The Other Half Of Me (Headline Review, 2012) / Morgan McCarthy
13. Running Dogs (Scribe, 2012) / Ruby J. Murray
14. An Uncommon Education (Harper, 2012) / Elizabeth Percer
15. Snake Ropes (Sceptre, 2012) / Jess Richards
16. The Innocents (Chatto & Windus, 2012) / Francesca Segal
17. The Painted Bridge (Simon & Schuster, 2012) / Wendy Wallace

Stories
1. The China Factory (Stinging Fly Press, 2012) / Mary Costello
2. Reality, Reality (Picador, 2012) / Jackie Kay
3. Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Lucia Perillo
4. A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (Vintage, 2012) / Helen Simpson

Poetry
1. The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass (Bloodaxe Books, 2012) / Harry Clifton
2. Everything Begins Elsewhere (Bloodaxe Books, 2012) / Tishani Doshi
3. Pity the Beautiful (Graywolf Press, 2012) / Dana Gioia
4. Pelt (Bloodaxe, 2012) / Sarah Jackson
5. Dear Life (Anvil Press Poetry, 2012) / Dennis O’Driscoll
6. Engine Empire (W.W. Norton, 2012) / Cathy Park Hong
7. Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2012) / Don Paterson
8. The Ground (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2012) / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
9. Constellations (Carcanet Press, 2012) / Ian Pindar

Nonfiction
1. The Event of Literature (Yale University Press, 2012) / Terry Eagleton
2. Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag (Allen Lane, 2012) / Orlando Figes
3. The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) / Pico Iyer
4. The Woman Reader (Yale University Press, 2012) / Belinda Jack
5. Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography (University of California Press, 2012) / Lisa Jarnot
6. The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England (HarperPress, 2012) / Dan Jones
7. Death (Yale University Press, 2012) / Shelly Kagan
8. The Art of Robert Frost (Yale University Press, 2012) / Tim Kendall
9. A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage for the Restless and the Hopeful (Riverhead Books, 2012) / Gideon Lewis-Kraus
10. On Poetry (Oberon Masters, 2012) / Glyn Maxwell

11. How England Made the English: From Hedgerows to Heathrow (Viking, 2012) / Harry Mount
12. Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir (Scribner, 2012) / Reynolds Price
13. Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake (Random House, 2012) / Anna Quindlen
14. Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature (Harvard University Press, 2012) / Charles Rosen
15. The Face of God (Continuum, 2012) / Roger Scruton
16. Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach (Jonathan Cape, 2012) / Jean Sprackland
17. Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) / Rebecca Stott
18. Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorial Lady (Bloomsbury, 2012) / Kate Summerscale
19. On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War (Profile Books, 2012) / Bernard Wasserstein