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Books & Press: 2012 Highlights
Mrs Robinson's Disgrace, by Kate Summerscale
From the bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal. On a mild winter's evening in 1850, Isabella Robinson set out for a party. Her carriage bumped across the wide cobbled streets of Edinburgh's Georgian New Town and drew up at 8 Royal Circus, a grand sandstone house lit by gas lamps. This was the home of the rich widow Lady Drysdale, a vivacious hostess whose soirees were the centre of an energetic intellectual scene. Lady Drysdale's guests were gathered in the high, airy drawing rooms on the first floor, the ladies in dresses of glinting silk and satin, bodices pulled tight over boned corsets; the gentlemen in tailcoats, waistcoats, neckties and pleated shirt fronts, dark narrow trousers and shining shoes. When Mrs Robinson joined the throng she was introduced tho Lady Drysdale's daughter and son-in-law, Mary and Edward Lane. See Details »Books & Press: 2012 Highlights
Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel
In 'Bring up the Bodies', sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning 'Wolf Hall', Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. This new novel is a speaking picture, an audacious vision of Tudor England that sheds its light on the modern world. It is the work of one of our great writers at the height of her powers. See Details »
Books & Press: 2012 Highlight
Capital, by John Lanchester
Pepys Road is an ordinary street in the Capital. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message - 'We want what you have'. 'Capital' is a post-crash, state of the nation novel told with compassion and humour. See Details »Books & Press: 2012 Highlight
The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice. In The Art of Fielding, we see sport played in its purest form: by young men who know that their four years on the baseball diamond at Westish College, "a little school in the crook of the thumb of the baseball glove that is Wisconsin," are all they have left. Only their preternaturally gifted fielder, Henry Skrimshander, seems to have the chance to keep his dream - and theirs, vicariously - alive, until a routine throw goes astray. See Details »Books & Press: 2012 Highlight
The Beginner's Goodbye, by Anne Tyler
When Dorothy came back from the dead, Aaron noticed that some people simply ignored the fact; some seemed to have forgotten she'd died in the first place; and, others just walked straight on by. The accident that killed Dorothy - involving an oak tree, a sun porch and some elusive biscuits - leaves Aaron bereft and the house a wreck. See Details »Books & Press: 2012 Highlight
The Chemistry of Tears, by Peter Carey
An early contender for the 2012 Man Booker. An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, a secret love story, and the fate of the world are all brought to life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man she has to grieve in private. One other person knows their secret, the director of the museum, who arranges for Catherine to be given a special project away from prying eyes. See Details »Books & Press: 2012 Highlight
The Bellwether Revivals, by Benjamin Wood
Bright, bookish Oscar Lowe has grown to love the quiet routine of his life as a care assistant at a local nursing home amid the colleges and spires of Cambridge. But when he meets and falls in love with Iris Bellwether, a student at King's College, Oscar is drawn into her world of scholarship and privilege. See Details »Books & Press: 2012 Highlight
Various Pets Alive and Dead, by Marina Lewycka
Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches, poodles, a chicken and multiplying rabbits, told by Marina Lewycka in her unique and brilliant combination of irony, farce and wit. See Details »Current Book Reviews
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Hemingway's boat: everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961
Paul Hendrickson
Scotsman / 21 Jan 2012 / review -
American dervish
Ayad Akhtar
Guardian / 28 Jan 2012 / review -
India: a portrait
Patrick French
Independent / 27 Jan 2012 / review
Other Coverage This Week
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The satanic verses
Observer / 29 Jan 2012 / news
Headline: Rushdie can finally put the terror behind him. Now he... [read more]
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Pure
Andrew Miller
Daily Mail / 27 Jan 2012 / interviewInterview: What book...
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Secrets and lies
Christine Keeler
Sunday Times / 29 Jan 2012 / serialisation/adaptation/extractMagazine cover + 6 page extract - extracts week 4_2012