ECat 61.                                                                                                        April/May2008. 

 

 

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Part One – New Acquisitions and Selections from Stock.

 

Unless stated otherwise, all books are hardback, in fine condition and are first impression xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />UK editions. A fuller description will gladly be supplied on request. Most titles in this section are on view at timkcbooks.com.

 

Adiga, Aravind: The White Tiger. Atlantic 2008. A first novel set in 21st century India. A warts and all view seen from the view of a child labourer who works his way up to a new life (with a murder or two to ease his passage). The book was bought by its publisher for a high price after a bidding war and great things are expected of it. £18.00

 

Amis, Martin: The Second Plane. Jonathan Cape  2008. A collection of essays, articles and a bit of fiction focusing on 9/11 and the state of the world since. The book was reprinted at least twice within a month of publication and is now in its sixth printing. First printings are scarce, but signed firsts should be available late next month. £30.00

 

Armitage, Simon: The Twilight Readings. YSP 2008. An exquisitely produced book to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Only 1000 copies were printed.  Simon Armitage lives locally and as an artist in residence gave a number of open air dusk recitals in autumn 2007. The book contains some of these poems, numerous photographs and images of the poet's notes. There is also a CD of readings of some of the poems. Signed by the author. Fine in pastel blue boards as published. £25.00

 

Armitage, Simon: Gig. A life in music and poetry. Viking 2008. Signed and dated by the author. Simon Armitage, one of the UK’s best poets is also a passionate music fan (not to mention musician). Here he recalls all manner of gigs. £16.99

 

Banville, John: Conversation in the Mountains. A limited edition of 400 copies of which 350 are for sale. Signed by the author. Printed on Rives Artist paper and hardbound in linen. Illustrated with specially commissioned watercolours by Daniel Teskey. Copies available in mid May. £150.00

 

Barnes, Julian: Nothing to be Frightened Of. Jonathan Cape 2008. A kind of memoir covering such trivia as religion, mortality and family. Signed by the author. £16.99

 

Two limited signed, dated and numbered editions of “Nothing to be Frightened Of” are available:

 

A quarter leather bound edition of 100 with patterned boards by Enid Marx bound in a cloth covered slipcase. £185.00 (nett)

 

A full leather edition of 25 bound in full leather and contained in a solander box. The chances are that this edition has already sold out. £330.00 (nett)

 

Barry, Sebastian: The Secret Scripture: Faber 2008. A 100 year old patient of a mental hospital comes to terms with her life as the mental hospital prepares to close down. Signed copies should be available in early May. £16.99

 

Burn, Gordon: Born Yesterday - The News as a Novel. Faber 2008. Scarcer hardback edition (less than 1000 copies). A look at how the news today is managed and mismanaged. Signed by the author. £25.00

 

Carey, Peter: His Illegal Self. Faber 2008. Signed by the author. Che, a son of radical activists and born in the 1960's, is raised by his grandmother far away from the world into which he was born. £16.99 

 

            Signed Limited Slipcased Editions of His Illegal Self are available as follows:

 

A quarter cloth bound numbered edition at £100 (nett)

A quarter leather numbered edition at £175 (nett)

            A quarter leather un-numbered edition (out of series) at £160 (nett)

           

Crumey, Andrew: Sputnik Caledonia. Picador 2008. A young boy dreams of being the first Scot in space. £20.00 hardback. (This is one of the first books to be published under the new Picador initiative of releasing most new titles directly into trade paperback, but with a limited number of hardback copies being published at the same time)

 

De Bernieres, Louis: A Partisan’s Daughter. Harvill Secker 2008. Signed by the author. A novel set in London in the winter of 1978/9 - the so called Winter of Discontent. “Louis de Bernieres delights in taking peripheral episodes of European history and viewing them on a human scale, moulding political events to the shape of ordinary lives.” (Stephanie Merritt, The observer 24/02/08). £16.99

 

            A nicely produced cloth-bound signed and slipcased limited edition of 100 copies is also available at £120.

 

Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Faber 2008.  Appearing over 10 years after his previous collection of short stories, the novel has received glowing reviews and was reprinted on publication. Winner of the Pulitzer prize. Paperback original that was rapidly reprinted. £25.00

 

Dunthorne, Joe: Submarine. Hamish Hamilton 2008. A first novel from a gifted young Welsh author. A first novel that is generating a real buzz; Set in the author’s home town of Swansea, the narrator’s teenage frustrations coincide with his father’s depression and his mother’s midlife crisis. Sounds like a bundle of fun, but the book is very well written and brings to mind, The Catcher in the Rye, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Adrian Mole. Tipped to be one of the big books of the year. Recommended by the Observer in their preview of the year’s fiction. Signed and dated by the author at his first public reading. Very favourably reviewed. £20.00

 

Enright, Anne: The Gathering. Jonathan Cape 2007. Signed by the author. Winner of the 2007 MAN Booker Prize. £145.00

Foulds, Adam: The Broken World. Jonathan Cape 2008.  A collection of poetic sequences. Exceptionally reviewed “A superlative achievement” – Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times.  Signed copies due in shortly. £16.00

 

Gardam, Jane: The People on Privilege Hill. Chatto & Windus 2007. Signed by the author. A collection of short stories. £18.00

 

Gray, Simon: The Last Cigarette (Smoking Diaries Vol. III). Granta 2008. Signed copies due in. £22.00

 

Hensher, Philip: The Northern Clemency. Fourth Estate 2008. Signed by the author. A study of life in the late twentieth century as experienced by families in Sheffield. £20.00

 

Jian, Ma: Bejing Coma. Chatto & Windus 2008. 10 years after the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, Dai Wei is still in a coma. Ma Jian draws on his own experiences for this novel. Copies signed in Chinese on loose bookplates should be available soon. "Once in a while - perhaps every 10 years, or even every generation - a novel appears that profoundly questions the way we look at the world, and at ourselves. Beijing Coma is a poetic examination not just of a country at a defining moment in its history, but of the universal right to remember and to hope. It is, in every sense, a landmark work of fiction" Tash Aw, The Daily Telegraph 26/04/08). £16.99

 

Kay, Jackie. Darling. Bloomsbury 2007. A collection of the poet’s favourite poems plus some new ones. Signed by the author. Paperback. £15.00

 

Kelly, Richard. Crusaders. Faber 2008. A young clergyman returns to his native North-East to build a new church in a deprived community. The novel is a state-of-the-nation navel gaze of recent English history. Some reviewers have dared to suggest that the story line provides a description of what could have happened if Tony Blair decided to become a clergyman rather than a politician. The book has received several favourable reviews. Recommended by the Sunday Times in their preview of the year’s fiction. Signed and dated by the author. Paperback original, reprinted quickly after publication. £16.00

 

Kelman, James: Kieron Smith, boy. Hamish Hamilton. 2008. A new novel from the radical Booker Prize winner. Signed copies should be available soon. £22.00

 

Kureishi, Hanif. Something to Tell You.  Faber 2008. Signed by the author. A successful psychoanalyst looks back to his youth in the 1970's, an era which shaped his life. The author revisits the 1970’s of his first novel (The Buddha of Suburbia). “If Hanif Kureishi’s new novel has a fault, it is that its secondary characters are often so full of life that they upstage the principals and this is a fault for which most writers would cheerfully kill” (Adam Mars-Jones, The Observer 24/02/08). Omar, the young launderette manager from “My Beautiful Launderette” puts in a cameo appearance – he is now a Labour peer with media interests.  Tipped for prizes later in the year. Signed copies are fairly scarce due to illness. £18.00

 

Leon, Donna: The Girl of his Dreams. William Heinemann 2008. Signed by the author. £16.99

 

Lodge, David: Deaf Sentence. A recently retired professor is missing the academic life sand tries to come to terms with advancing deafness. Signed copies have been ordered. £17.99

 

An edition of 100 copies of Deaf Sentence will also be published later in May. Each copy will be signed and numbered, and bound in cloth and enclosed in a slipcase. £120.00 (nett)

 

Meek, James: We are Now Beginning Our Descent. Canongate 2008. Signed by the author. An assignment to Afghanistan represents a new start for journalist Adam Kellas. £16.99

 

Monaghan, Nicola: Starfishing. Chatto & Windus 2008. The author draws on her own experiences in this novel about banking in the 1990's. Paperback original. £11.99

 

Myerson, Julie: Out of Breath. Jonathan Cape 2008. A mysterious child appears one summer holiday. The characters in this novel are children, but it is not necessarily a book for children. £16.00

 

Pullman, Philip: Once upon a Time in the North. A follow up to Lyra’s Oxford, published in the same format and again containing illustrations from John Lawrence. £9.99. Copies signed by Philip Pullman and John Lawrence may be available at a higher price.

 

Waterstone’s also issued a slipcased edition signed by author and illustrator, but this was recalled after it turned out that many copies were in fact unsigned. When copies do become available again, the price will be £28.00.

 

Raisin, Ross: God’s own Country. A first novel from a new young talent. The novel is set on the Yorkshire Moors where a young local farmer (compared as a narrator to Francie Bradie  in Patrick McCabe’s the Butcher Boy) sees the changes and threats brought about by new money coming into the rural community. Signed copies should be available after the Hay Festival. £14.99

 

Rob Smith, Tom: Child 44. Simon & Schuster 2008. Signed by the author. A first novel, snapped up by Steven Spielberg. £18.00

 

Rushdie, Salman: The Enchantress of Florence. Jonathan Cape 2008. Signed by the author. West meets East in this tale of how two medieval worlds come together. £18.99

 

A limited edition of 100 copies of The Enchantress of Florence is also available. Each copy is signed and numbered, and bound in cloth and enclosed in a slipcase. £120.00 (nett)

 

Waterstone’s have produced an edition of 1000 signed and numbered copies. This is the standard trade edition with a tipped in limitation page but without a dustjacket contained in a card slipcase. £40.00

 

Self, Will: The Butt. Bloomsbury 2008. Signed by the author. £14.99

 

Stretch, Joe: Friction. Vintage 2008. A first novel from a young North English author who has been dubbed Manchester's Houellebecq. Signed and dated by the author.  Paperback original. £15.00

 

Summerscale, Kate: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Bloomsbury 2008. A re-examination of a notorious Victorian murder, a case that inspired Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle. £14.99

 

Suri, Manil: The Age of Shiva. Bloomsbury 2008. A young couple try to come to terms with love, their relationship and parenthood at the time of Partition. Signed by the author. £14.99

 

Thubron, Colin: Shadow of the Silk Road. Chatto & Windus 2006. Signed by the author. £32.00

 

Torday, Paul: The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008. One small detour on his way home changes Wilberforce's life. Signed copies should be available later in May. £12.99

 

Walker, Jacqueline: Pilgrim State. Sceptre 2008. A daughter’s view of her Caribbean mother’s fight against mental illness in the USA, Jamaica and the UK and the struggle to keep her family together. Doesn’t sound like a bundle of fun or an easy book to read, but it has had considerable praise. Signed by the author. £14.99

 

Walsh, Helen: Canongate 2008. Once Upon a Time in England. Signed by the author. £20.00

 

 

Whitehouse, Lucie: The House at Midnight. Bloomsbury 2008. A close-knit group of friends spend weekends together at a newly inherited country house, but the sinister and gothic house affects them all as it becomes the dominant character in the novel. The author, a former literary agent, is being compared to Donna Tartt and Barbara Vine. Recommended by the Observer in their preview of the year’s fiction. Signed by the author. £12.99

 

Winton, Tim: Breath: Picador 2008.  A coming of age novel set in a small Australian coastal town. Expected to be one of the most significant novels of the year. Signed copies should be available after the Hay Festival. £16.99. Details of the limited edition imminent.

 

Woodward, Gerard: Caravan Thieves. Chatto & Windus 2008. Signed by the author at a reading on publication day. A new collection of short stories. “beautifully manipulating language which veers and soars from the vernacular to the high-flown and summoning characters that are at once believable and sympathetic” (Alastair Cooke, The Daily Telegraph 23/02/08). £22.00

 

 

Part Two – Soon to Appear Books.

 

 

The following list is a round up of the main titles to be published in the UK in the coming months. Orders for these titles are now being taken. The books will be signed (if available) and sold at cover price where possible and will be first editions. However, I often have to buy signed books in at full price from reputable sources including book tents at literary festivals. For this reason please bear in mind that the prices shown below are for guidance and are subject to confirmation and that there may be a delay in obtaining signed copies of some titles. Postage will be charged at cost.

 

Hay time is nearly with us again. The following authors are included in the line up for the end of May and I will endeavour where possible to get signed copies of their books

 

Martin Amis, Simon Armitage, Sebastian Barry, Alan Bennett, Gillian Clarke, Louis de Bernieres, Ed Docx, Joe Dunthorne, Jasper Fforde, Isabel Fonseca, Mohammed Hanif, Nick Harkaway, Philip Hensher, Frieda Hughes, Siri Hustvedt, John Irving, Ismail Kadare, A L Kennedy, Hanif Kureishi, Philip Kerr, Jhumpa Lahiri, David Lodge, Glyn Maxwell, Ian McEwan, Lorrie Moore, Les Murray, Julie Myerson, Andrew O’Hagan, Joseph O’Neill, Ross Raisin, Salman Rushdie, Will Self, Owen Sheers, Manil Suri, Steve Toltz, Paul Torday, Gore Vidal and Tim Winton.

 

 

MAY BOOKS

 

Armitage, Simon: Out of the Blue. A collection of poetry written in response to 3 anniversaries of twentieth century atrocities (the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the thirtieth anniversary of the wars in Cambodia and the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War). Paperback original. £10.00 (signed copies may be available at a higher price). A limited edition is planned – please ask me for details.

 

Banks, Russell: The Reserve. A novel set in the troubling era of the Great Depression and fascism in Europe. £12.99

 

Block, Stefan Merrill. The Story of Forgetting. Several characters search for family truths. £14.99

 

Bonnot, Xavier Marie: The First Fingerprint. An archaeologist come detective tries to understand the significance of pre-historic cave paintings. £12.99

 

Burnside, John: Glister. Every year or so, a young boy disappears in the run down post industrial town of Innertown. Are they killed or are they escaping? £12.99

 

Clanchy, Kate: What is she Doing Here? A novel based on the experiences of Antigona, a Kosovan refugee. £14.99

 

Cooke, Sophie: Under the Mountain. The summer holidays of 1981 continue to haunt the characters of this novel. £12.99

 

Diamond, Elizabeth: An Accidental Light. A car accident changes the lives of two families. £12.99

 

Donovan, Anne: Being Emily: A middle child's fight to survive the highs and lows of family life. £11.99

 

Faulks, Sebastian: Devil May Care. A new James Bond novel to celebrate the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth. Commissioned by the Fleming Estate, this is Sebastian Faulks's first Bond novel. The author is signing only a few copies. but I will attempt to get hold of as many copies as possible. £18.99 (signed copies will be more expensive).

 

Galloway, Steven: The Cellist of Sarajevo. During the height of the recent war, a cellist defies death from snipers by playing the cello in the dangerous streets. £12.99

 

Harkaway, Nick: The Gone Away World. A first novel set against the backdrop of saving the world from the Apocalypse, "an inter-apocalyptic" book suggests the author. The author has a good pedigree - his mother is a respected book editor and his father is John Le Carre.

The book was chased at auction by seven publishers and defies categorisation. It has been described variously as "fantasy for non-fantasy readers", "Dickens writing about a post-apocalyptic world" and "equal parts raucous adventure, comic odyssey, geek nirvana and cool epic" by his agent and publisher. £17.99. A limited edition will also be available.

 

Harwood, John: The Séance. A dark mystery set in Victorian England. £12.99

 

Hughes, Tristan. Revenant. 3 young people revisit the scene of a dramatic incident that changed their childhoods for ever. £12.99

 

Hustvedt, Siri: The Sorrows of an American. A novel of family secrets passing from one generation to the next. £16.99

 

Lahiri, Jhumpa: Unaccustomed Earth. A new set of stories from the Pulitzer winning writer. £14.99

 

Mason, Richard: The Lighted Rooms. A novel covering Europe and South Africa from colonial expansion in the nineteenth century to contemporary issues. £12.99

 

McEwan, Ian: For You. The libretto for Michael Berkeley’s opera. £10.00 (signed edition)

 

Moore, Lorrie: The Collected Stories. A collection of the author’s stories, including some new ones. £20.00

 

O’Hagan, Andrew: The Atlantic Ocean. A collection of essays with the common theme of Britain's decline and America's rise in the late twentieth century. £20.00

 

O’Neill, Joseph: Netherland. A sumptuous new novel from an Irish-American writer. £14.99 (signed copies will be more expensive).

 

Powell, Neil. Amis & Son. A joint biography of Kingsley and Martin Amis. £20.00

 

Sutcliffe, William: Whatever Makes you Happy. Three 30 something men prepare for an attack on their lifestyles by their own mothers. £10.99

 

Thorpe, Adam: The Standing Pool. A new novel from the writer who can claim to be one of Britain's most underrated authors. £16.99

 

Toltz, Steve: A Fraction of the Whole. Jasper's father Martin was an obsessive analyser. After his father's death, Jasper delves into his father's history. £17.99

 

Vasquez, Juan Gabriel :The Informers. A new novel from a growing Latin American star. £15.99

 

 

JUNE BOOKS

 

 

Alameddine, Rabin: The Hakawati. A contemporary collection of Middle Eastern myths and stories. £16.99

 

Bruen, Ken. The Last Rites. A new Jack Taylor crime mystery. £17.99

 

Cumming, Charles: Typhoon. A spy thriller set in the last days of Britain's control of Hong Kong. £17.99

 

Fitzgerald, Helen: Dead Lovely. An unexpected pregnancy leads to tensions between two best friends. £10.99

 

Fonseca, Isabel: Attachment. A first novel (a long time coming, and it may yet be postponed) that explores the role of a woman in a contemporary marriage, with everything positive and negative that that entails. £15.99

 

Glass, Rodge: Hope for Newborns. A novel set in the Victory barber shop, aptly named in 1945, but in contemporary Britain, the name isn't so appropriate. £12.99

 

Hanif, Mohammed: A Case of Exploding Mangoes. A comic look at the plane crash involving General Zia ul Haq of Pakistan. The author is a former Pakistani airman who now heads the BBC World Service's Urdu section. Great things are expected of the novel. £12.99

 

Hogg, Nicholas: Show me the Sky. The hunt for the missing singer Billy K leads Inspector Jim Dent onto a voyage of discovery to Cornwall, Australia, Kenya and himself. £12.00

 

King, Daren: Manual. An intriguing plot in which the world of high finance blends with sexual deviance. £10.99

 

Morrison, Ewan: Distance. A new relationship has to stand the test of an enforced 8 week separation. £11.99

 

Roy, Anuradha: An Atlas of Impossible Longing. A history of an Indian family covering 100 years of recent history. £12.99

 

Terekhov, Alexander: The Rat-Killer. A political intrigue of post-communist Russian society. The young author is being compared to Bulgakov. £7.99 (though there may be a special signed edition).

 

Troyanov, Iliya: The Collector of Worlds. A novel describing the life and travels of the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton. £16.99

 

Wynne-Rhydderch, Samantha: Not in These Shoes. A new collection of poems from a poet previously published by smaller publishers. £8.99

 

Yassin-Kassab, Robin: The Road from Damascus. A novel set in contemporary Britain exploring our multi-ethnic and multi-faith times. £16.99

 

 

 

JULY BOOKS

 

Addonia, Sulaiman: The Consequences of Love. A first novel from an Eritrean refugee living in London. £12.99

 

Cartwright, Jim: Supermodel Supermarket. A first novel from an established playwright. £12.99

 

di Rollo, Elaine: The Peachgrower’s Almanac. A first novel set in Victorian India as seen by a pair of powerful twin sisters. £16.99

 

Drayson, Nicholas: A Guide to the Birds of East Africa. Despite the title, this is a love story set in contemporary Kenya. £12.99

 

Edric, Robert: In Zodiac Light. The story of First World War poet and composer Ivor Gurney. £16.99

 

Evaristo, Bernadine: Blonde Roots. A family saga set against the backdrop of slavery. £16.99

 

Fish, Laura: Strange Music. A look at slavery 150 years ago as seen through the eyes of three women, each with different view points. £16.99

 

Garner, Helen: The Spare Room. The author’s first novel for 15 years. £12.99

 

Goodwin, Jason: The Bellini Card. The third book in the Ottoman detective series. £12.99

 

Hamilton-Paterson, James: Rancid Pansies. A black farce featuring a camp ghost-writer who returns to his Tuscan home to find it place of pilgrimage following an apparition. £12.99

 

Miller, James: Lost Boys. Privileged boys go missing from their affluent families. £12.99

 

Ralph, Anna: Before I Knew Him. The author’s second novel.  £14.99

 

Robinson, Ray: The Man Without. A second novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Electricity. Limited hardback edition. £20.00

 

Welsh, Irvine: Crime. A Scottish detective finds a holiday in Florida far from restful. £18.99

 

AUGUST BOOKS

 

Atkinson, Kate: When will there be good News? Jackson Brodie returns.  £17.99

 

Auster, Paul: Man in the Dark. A book of how America might be now following a civil war in the year 2000. £14.99

 

Billingham, Mark: In the Dark. A stand alone crime novel. £14.99

 

Brookmyre, Christopher: A Snowball in Hell. B-List celebrities are being murdered.  £16.99

 

Cleave, Chris: The Other Hand. A second novel from the author of Incendiary. £12.99

 

Connery, Sean: Being a Scot. Not quite an autobiography, more a study of what is has meant to be a Scot, and specifically Sean Connery, in the twentieth century. £20.00

 

Cox, Michael: The Glass of Time. A sequel to the author’s “The Meaning of Night”. £17.99

 

Dean, Louisa: The Idea of Love. A family novel set in France and Africa. £16.99

 

Donovan, Gerard: Country of the Grand. A short story collection from a writer with two acclaimed novels to his name. £9.99

 

Flynn, Leontia: Drives. A new collection of poetry. £9.00

 

Hawes, James: My Little Armalite. All John Goode wants is a quiet life. Some chance. £11.99

 

Hemon, Aleksandar: The Lazarus Project. A young Bosnian sets out to find what happened to Lazarus Averbuch, an immigrant to Chicago in 1908.  £20.00 (this is the limited print run hardback – there is also a simultaneous paperback edition at £7.99)

 

Knight, Afsaneh: Slaughterhouse Heart. A man dying in a hospice receives visitors, imagined and real, from his past. £16.99

 

Laird, Nick: Flover’s Mistake. A second novel from the award winning novelist and poet. £14.99

 

Murakami, Haruki: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. A biographical piece including the author’s preparation for the New York Marathon. £9.99

 

Murakami, Haruki: Murakami Diary 2009. A diary illustrated by Murakami’s regular motifs and including appropriate quotations and extracts  from the author’s work on most pages. £9.99

 

Palahniuk, Chuck: Snuff. A typically forceful novel. £12.99

 

Parks, Tim: Dreams of Rivers and Seas. A novel set in India, rather than the author’s usual setting of Italy. £16.99

 

Rooney, Jennie: Inside the Whale. Two stories converge bringing together one narrator’s past and another’s future. £12.99

 

Smith, Joseph: The Wolf. A novella  of the hunt as seen through the eyes of a wolf. £10.00

 

Vine, Barbara: The Birthday Present. A crime novel set in the sleazy world of 1990’s British politics. £18.99

 

 

 

LATER IN THE YEAR

 

Ackroyd, Peter: The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein. A novel written in the voice of Frankenstein himself. £16.99 (September)

 

Aslam, Nadeem: The Wasted Vigil. A new novel set in modern day Afghanistan. A quiet novelist who surely has a big future ahead of him. £17.99 (September)

 

Binchy, Chris: Open-handed. Contemporary multi-cultural Ireland featuring five success-seeking characters. £12.99 (September)

 

Binding, Tim (writing as T.J. Middleton): Cliffhanger. A farcical  tour through small town England. £12.99 (October)

 

Black, Benjamin: The Lemur. Originally commissioned as a serial for the New York Times. £12.99 (October)

 

Bryce, Colette: Self-Portrait in the Dark. A new collection from a young Irish poet. £8.99 (September)

 

Davidson, Andrew: The Gargoyle. A first novel attracting significant attention. £16.99 (September)

 

Faber, Michel: The Fire Gospel. The myth of Prometheus reinterpreted. £12.99 (September)

 

Fischer, Tibor: Good to be God. A professional failure arrives in Florida determined to recognised as God. £14.99 (September)

 

Galloway, Janice: This Is Not About Me. Despite the title, an autobiographical novel. £16.99 (September)

 

Gray, Alasdair: A Life in Pictures. The author’s illustrated autobiography. £30.00 (September)

 

Harris, Robert: Conspiracy. The author’s second novel in his Roman trilogy. £18.99 (October)

 

Heller, Zoe: The Believers. A New York lawyer falls seriously ill and his wife discovers a terrible secret that causes her to re-evaluate everything she believes. £16.99 (September)

 

Jacobson, Howard: The Act of Love. Infidelity in the antiquarian book trade. £18.99 (September)

 

James, P.D: The Private Patient. A notorious investigative journalist fails to recover from a routine operation. Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. £18.99 (September)

 

Le Carre, John: A Most Wanted Man. The master thriller writer’s 21^st novel.  £18.99 (October)

 

Maxwell, Glyn: Hide Now. A new collection of poetry. £8.99 (October)

 

Miller, Andrew: One Morning like a Bird. A novel set in Japan in 1941.  £16.99 (September)

 

Robinson, Marilynne: Home. A novel set against the same backdrop as the author’s Pulitzer winning Gilead. £16.99 (September)

 

Scudamore, James: Heliopolis. A second novel from an acclaimed young author.  £11.99 (January 2009)

 

Self, Will: Liver. A collection of short stories, linked by the common element of liver. £16.99 (October)

 

Sigie, Dai: Once on a Moonless Night. A new novel from the author of Balzac and the Chinese Seamstress. £12.99 (January 2009)

 

Slovo, Gillian: Black Orchids. Immigration in 1950’s Britain. £14.99 (November)

 

Smith, Ali: The First Person and Other Stories. A new collection from one of Britain’s greatest cutting edge writers. £16.99 (October)

 

Symmons Roberts, Michael: The Half-Healed.  The poet’s fifth collection. £9.00 (September)