Friday, November 01, 2013

November 2013 Highlights

Novels
1. Shantytown (trans. from the Spanish by Chris Andrews) (New Directions, 2013) / César Aira
2. The Pure Gold Baby (Canongate Books, 2013) / Margaret Drabble
3. Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (Hutchinson, 2013) / Sebastian Faulks
4. Havisham (Picador USA, 2013) / Ronald Frame
5. Back to Back (trans. from the German by Anthea Bell) (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Julia Franck
6. Hild (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Nicola Griffith
7. All Change (Mantle, 2013) / Elizabeth Jane Howard
8. Someone Else’s Love Story (Harper/William Morrow, 2013) / Joshilyn Jackson
9. Road Ends (Knopf Canada, 2013) / Mary Lawson
10. The Two Hotel Francforts (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / David Leavitt

11. Ace, King, Knave (Faber & Faber, 2013) / Maria McCann
12. Someone (Bloomsbury Circus, 2013) / Alice McDermott
13. The Pieces We Keep (Kensington, 2013) / Kristina McMorris
14. Want Not (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Jonathan Miles
15. A Meal in Winter (trans. from the French by Sam Taylor) (Portobello Books, 2013) / Hubert Mingarelli
16. A True Novel (trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter) (Other Press, 2013) / Minae Mizumura
17. Rustication (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Charles Palliser
18. Saints of the Shadow Bible (Orion, 2013) / Ian Rankin
19. Bellman & Black (Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2013) / Diane Setterfield
20. Stella Bain (Little, Brown, 2013) / Anita Shreve

21. Helium (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Jaspreet Singh
22. The Embassy of Cambodia (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Zadie Smith
23. Tatiana (Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Martin Cruz Smith
24. At Break of Day (published as The First of July by Pegasus Books in the U.S.) (Virago, 2013) / Elizabeth Speller
25. Death of the Black-Haired Girl (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Robert Stone
26. The Valley of Amazement (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013) / Amy Tan
27. The New Countess (Head of Zeus, 2013) / Fay Weldon

First Novels
1. Where The Moon Isn’t (St Martin’s Press, 2013) / Nathan Filer
2. Sea of Hooks (McPherson & Company, 2013) / Lindsay Hill
3. Red Sky in Morning (Little, Brown, 2013) / Paul Lynch
4. Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Per Petterson
5. The Last Kings of Sark (Virago, 2013) / Rosa Rankin-Gee
6. The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War: A Novel of Syria (Eyewear Publishing, 2013) / Sumia Sukkar


Stories
1. A Permanent Member of the Family (Ecco/The Clerkenwell Press/Profile Books, 2013) / Russell Banks
2. The Isle of Youth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Laura van den Berg
3. The House on Parkgate Street & Other Dublin Stories (New Island Books, 2013) / Christine Dwyer Hickey
4. Fire Year (Sarabande Books, 2013) / Jason K. Friedman
5. Collected Stories (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Bernard MacLaverty
6. Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes (trans. from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett) (Harvill Secker) / Per Petterson
7. Horse of a Different Color (Small Beer Press, 2013) / Howard Waldrop

Poetry
1. At the Time of Partition (Bloodaxe, 2013) / Moniza Alvi
2. The Invention of Fireworks (Templar Poetry, 2013) / Beatrice Garland
3. Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012 (ed. Kenneth Haynes) (Oxford University Press, 2013) / Geoffrey Hill
4. Correspondences: A Poem and Portraits (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Anne Michaels
5. Collected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2014) / Ron Padgett
6. Ancient Sunlight (Enitharmon Press, 2013) / Stephen Watts


Nonfiction
1. Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach (trans. from the German by Jane O. Newman) (Princeton University Press, 2013) / Erich Auerbach
2. Report from the Interior (Faber & Faber/Henry Holt, 2013) / Paul Auster
3. On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Tim Cope
4. Jonathan Swift: His Life & His World (Yale University Press, 2013) / Leo Damrosch
5. Citizen Emperor: Napoleon in Power, 1799-1815 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013) / Philip Dwyer
6. The Book of Legendary Lands (Rizzoli Ex Libris, 2013) / Umberto Eco
7. How to Read a Novelist: Conversations with Writers (Corsair, 2013) / John Freeman
8. Michelangelo: His Epic Life (Fig Tree, 2013) / Martin Gayford
9. 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning (trans. from the Croatian by Michael Gable) (New York Review Books, 2013) / Slavko Goldstein
10. Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture (Riverhead, 2013) / Dana Goodyear

11. The Seasons: An Elegy for the Passing of the Year (Atlantic Books, 2013) / Nick Groom
12. The Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Rebellious Daughter (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Lucinda Hawksley
13. A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in London, Ireland and New York (Scribner/Simon & Schuster, 2013) / Anjelica Huston
14. The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes (Verso Books, 2013) / Patrick Keiller
15. Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life (Chatto & Windus, 2013) / Hermione Lee
16. Image and Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2013) / C.S. Lewis
17. My Mistake: A Memoir (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013) / Daniel Menaker
18. Cristina and Her Double: Selected Essays (Portobello Books, 2013) / Herta Müller
19. A Prayer Journal (ed. W.A. Sessions) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Flannery O’Connor
20. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage (Harper, 2013) / Ann Patchett

21. One Way and Another: New and Selected Essays (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Adam Phillips
22. The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts (W.W. Norton, 2013) / Graham Robb
23. Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story (John Murray, 2013) / Michael Rosen
24. The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2013) / Roger Rosenblatt
25. Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing (Verso Books, 2013) / Lynne Segal
26. Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France (Harvill Secker, 2013) / Nicholas Shakespeare
27. My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (Spiegel & Graus, 2013) / Ari Shavit
28. Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing (Verso Books, 2013) / Lynne Segal
29. American Smoke: Journeys to the End of the Light (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) / Iain Sinclair
30. American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013) / Deborah Solomon

31. Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life (Viking, 2014) / Nina Stibbe
32. A Little History of Literature (Yale University Press, 2013) / John Sutherland
33. Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen (Jonathan Cape, 2013) / Alison Weir
34. To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Express, the World’s Greatest Railway (Atlantic Books, 2013) / Christian Wolmar

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