Thursday, July 03, 2008

What I Found at ... Kinokuniya KLCC

Novels
1. Sea of Poppies (John Murray, 2008) / Amitav Ghosh
2. Helpless (Little, Brown, 2007; Abacus, 2008) / Barbara Gowdy
3. Sorry (Harvill Secker, 2007; Vintage, 2008) / Gail Jones
4. Dreams of Speaking (Harvill Secker, 2006; Vintage, 2007) / Gail Jones
5. Let It Be Morning (trans. from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger) (Black Cat, 2006; Atlantic Books, 2007) / Sayed Kashua
6. The Lost Dog (first published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in November 2007) (Chatto and Windus, 2008) / Michelle de Kretser
7. Beijing Coma (trans. from the Chinese by Flora Drew) (Chatto & Windus, 2008) / Ma Jian
8. Children of the Revolution (Jonathan Cape, 2007; Vintage, 2008) / Dinaw Mengestu
9. Evening Is the Whole Day (4th Estate/HarperCollins, 2008) / Preeta Samarasan
10. The Size of the World (W.W. Norton, 2008) / Joan Silber
11. More Than It Hurts You (Dutton, 2008) / Darin Strauss
12. Little Hut of Leaping Fishes (Picador, 2008) / Chiew-Siah Tei
13. If Today Be Sweet (Harper Perennial, 2008; first published in hardcover in 2007 by William Morrow) / Thrity Umrigar
14. Breath (Picador, 2008) / Tim Winton

Nonfiction
1. By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English (Harper Press, 2007; HarperPerennial, 2008; Overlook, 2008) / David Crystal
2. Travels with Herodotus (trans. from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska) (Penguin Books, 2008; first published in the U.K. by Allan Lane in 2007) / Ryszard Kapuściński

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Sunday, June 08, 2008

What I Found at ... Kinokuniya KLCC

A BOUNTIFUL HARVEST of books old and new, hardbacks and paperbacks, fiction and nonfiction, prizewinners and otherwise for people who enjoy literary fiction.

Fiction
1. The Secret Scripture (Faber and Faber, 2008) / Sebastian Barry
2. The Law of Dreams (Canongate, 2008) / Peter Behrens
3. The Plague of Doves (Harper Perennial, 2008) / Louise Erdrich
4. The Master Bedroom (Jonathan Cape , 2007/Picador USA, 2008) / Tessa Hadley
5. Inglorious (Faber and Faber, 2007/Faber and Faber, 2008) / Joanna Kavenna
6. Matters of Life and Death (Jonathan Cape, 2006/Vintage, 2007) / Bernard MacLaverty
7. The Razor’s Edge (first published in Great Britain in 1944 by William Heinemann) (Vintage, 2000) / W. Somerset Maugham
8. The Opposite House (Bloomsbury, 2007/Bloomsbury, 2008) / Helen Oyeyemi
9. Olive Kitteridge (Pocket, 2008) / Elizabeth Strout
10. Mosquito (HarperPress, 2007/Harper Perennial, 2008) / Roma Tearne
11. Revolutionary Road (first published in the U.S. in 1961 by Little, Brown) (Vintage, 2007) / Richard Yates

Nonfiction
1. The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir (trans. from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden) (Fourth Estate/HarperCollins, 2008) / Isabel Allende
2. The World Is What It Is (Picador, 2008) / Patrick French
3. Points of View (first published in Great Britain in 1958 by William Heinemann) (Vintage, 2000) / W. Somerset Maugham
4. How Novels Work (Oxford University Press, 2006/OUP, 2008) / John Mullan
5. Step Across this Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002 (Jonathan Cape, 2002/Random House, 2003) / Salman Rushdie

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