July 2007 You Don't Love Me Yet

The blurb on the inside cover tells you this is:

A comedy of mismatched lovers, with delicious echoes of Jane Austen's Emma, You Don't Love Me Yet is another exhibition of Jonathan Lethem's prodigious range and talent.

Faber and Faber's website:

A comedy of plagiarism, usurpation, and sex, with delicious echoes of A Midsummer Night's Dream, You Don't Love Me Yet is another exhibition of Jonathan Lethem's prodigious range and talent.

Reviews:

'Steal this band' Zach Baron The Village Voice 01/03/07
'With the Band' David Kemp The New York Times 18/03/07
'Who Wrote the Book of Love?' Joe Heim The Washington Post 18/03/07
'Walls Tumbling Down' Edward Nawotka Houston Chronicle 20/04/07
'An anatomy of Californian manners' Alistair Sooke Daily Telegraph 17/05/07
'Songwriter's block? Call the complainer' James Urquhart Independent on Sunday 20/05/07
Henry Hitchings Financial Times 25/05/07
'Brooklyn Dodger' Jackie McGlone Scotsman 26/05/07
'The borrower' Aida Edemariam Guardian 02/06/07

June 2007 so many ways to begin

David Carter cannot help but wish for more: that his wife Eleanor could be the sparkling girl he once found so irresistible; that his job as a museum curator could live up to the promise it once held; that his daughter's arrival could have brought him closer to Eleanor. But a few careless words spoken by his mother's friend have left David restless with the knowledge that his whole life has been constructed around a lie. Bloomsbury.

Reviews:

'Lost souls in a tangled quest for roots' Carol Birch The Independent on Sunday 28/07/06
'Quiet acts of preservation' Tom Gatti Times 29/07/06
'Starting over' Lucy Hughes-Hallett Times 06/08/06
'Local Hero' Alfred Hickling Guardian 12/08/06
'Working back from a sorry end' Lesley McDowell Scotsman 12/08/06
'The wind cries Mary' Stephanie Merritt Observer 20/08/06

Suite française

Irène Némirovsky died of typhus in Auschwitz in 1942. The book she left behind was preserved in manuscript form by her daughter and is the first two parts of an epic account of the fall of France and the start of the Nazi occupation. When it was finally published in France in 2004, Suite Française was ecstatically received by French critics, and reawakened the controversy around wartime collaboration.


Reviews:

'The road away from freedom' Carmel Callil Times 04/03/06
'The Secrets of the Notebook' Peter Kemp Times 05/03/06
'History as a novel : the novel as history' Tom Payne Daily Telegraph 19/03/06
Andrew Riemer Sydney Morning Herald 23/03/06
'Generosity in the Face of Death' Anne Chisolm Daily Telegraph 26/03/06
'A Personal History in the Making' Jane Stevenson Observer 26/03/06
'Love in the Ruins' Alica Kaplan The Nation 29/05/06
'Unfinished Symphony' Cathleen McGuigan Newsweek 13/07/06
Complete Review

Journey By Moonlight

ANXIOUS TO PLEASE his bourgeois father, Mihály has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihály "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose. Pushkin Press.

Reviews:

'Just Devine' Nicholas Lezard Guardian 20/07/01
'Bohemian Rhapsody' Daily Telegraph 18/08/01
Megan Stefan Daily Telegraph 28/02/03
The Complete Review

A Winter Book

Following the widely acclaimed and besteselling The Summer Book, here is a Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famous stories. Drawn from youth and older age, and spanning most of the twentieth century, this newly translated selection provides a thrilling showcase of the great Finnish writer's prose, scattered with insights and home truths. It has been selected and introduced by Ali Smith.

Reviews:

From the publisher Sort of Books
'Alone with the Squirrel' Josh Lacey Guardian 18/11/06

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton

'The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton' Lucy Hughes-Hallett Times 02/10/05
'The First Domestic Goddess' Rachel Cooke Observer 09/10/05
'My Week as Mrs Beeton' Kathryn Hughes Daily Telegraph 18/12/05
'Household Mismanagement' Ian Pindar Guardian 15/07/06
'Mrs Beeton - a perfect gift for mothers' Well, Kathryn Hughes would be saying that! Guardian 17/03/07

Dan Leno and The Limehouse Golem

'Set in a pea-soup foggy Victorian London in the world of music hall and pantomime, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem begins with the death-by-hanging of Elizabeth Cree for the murder of her husband. But was she guilty? What terrible secret was she hiding? And what are we to make of the late Mr Cree whose journal begins: "It was a fine bright morning and I could feel a murder coming on?" I could feel those goosebumps coming on from page one...this brilliant novel pervades the midnight movies of the mind and makes the blood run chilly' Daily Mail.

Snow

As the snow begins to fall, a journalist arrives in the remote city of Kars on the Turkish border. Kars is a troubled place - there's a suicide epidemic among its young women, Islamists are poised to win the local elections, and the head of the intelligence service is viciously effective. When the growing blizzard cuts off the outside world, the stage is set for a terrible and desperate act...

ORHAN PAMUK'S magnificent and bestselling new novel evokes the spiritual fragility of the non-Western world, its ambivalence about the godless West, and its fury.

Reviews:

'A taste of Turkish Despair' David Robson. Daily Telegraph. 31/05/04
'Frozen Assets' James Buchan Guardian 29/05/04
'A Blizzard of Contradictions in Modern Turkey' Richard Eder New York Times 10/08/04
'Headscarves to Die For' Margaret Attwood New York Times 15/08/04
'More Than A Winter's Tale' Sarah Emily Miano Observer 30/05/04

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Ten Sorry Tales