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Geoff Dyer - Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Released: 02/02/2012
Canongate Books
The commentator and novelist Geoff Dyer has been obsessed with one sci-fi film for years. Star Wars it isn't, rather the stark, unfathomable Stalker by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky is the object of his love. Dyer's equally intriguing book is a journey into filmic preoccupation - nearly film criticism but not quite.
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Madeleine Thien - Dogs at the Perimeter
Released: 02/02/2012
Granta
For Janie, her Cambodian past is bound to her Canadian present, as a friend's unexpected disappearance draws her - and us - back to 1970s Phnom Penh. Canadian author Madeleine Thien's second novel faces the effects of the Khmer Rouge's brutal regime through Janie's eyes and follows her escape from Cambodia to reconcile turbulent events in the present.
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Kate Grenville - Sarah Thornhill
Released: 02/02/2012
Canongate Books
Having won the Orange Prize for fiction and a place on the Man Booker shortlist, Grenville returns with her third book set in colonial Australia. A sequel to 2005's celebrated The Secret River and a stand-alone novel, this takes us back to a world of romantic drama and tangled histories.
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Helen Dunmore - The Greatcoat
Released: 02/02/2012
Hammer
The first ever winner of the Orange prize for fiction in 1996 returns with her eleventh novel and her first ghost story. Having circled the realms of the gothic with previous titles Dunmore goes for a full on haunting in her new post-war tale.
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Julie Otsuka - The Buddha in the Attic
Released: 26/01/2012
Fig Tree
After her bleak but evocative debut on the wartime internment of a Japanese American family, Otsuka ventures into equally alarming territory with a story about Japanese mail-order brides; women enticed to a new life by the promise of a photograph. Yet more skilful unpacking of the American dream.
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Edmund White - Jack Holmes and His Friend
Released: 16/01/2012
Bloomsbury
The prolific Edmund White returns with a moving account of love and friendship. Jack is besotted with a man he can never be with: his heterosexual best friend, Will. Beginning in 1960s New York, before gay liberation, and reaching to the 1980s, White charts their lifelong friendship to beautiful effect.
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Chad Harbach - The Art of Fielding
Released: 13/01/2012
4th Estate
After receiving a cascade of rave reviews and riding the bestseller charts in America, Harbach's home-run debut arrives this side of the pond. Revolving around the inhabitants of Westish College and, of course, its baseball diamond, this is a warm-hearted novel you won't want to put down.
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Roberto Bolaño - The Third Reich
Released: 05/01/2012
Picador
War-games champion Uda Berger's benign holiday on the Costa Brava soon descends into chaos following the disappearance of a fellow German holidaymaker. Another disturbing and brilliant posthumous publication, following 2008's 2666, from the Chilean-born Bolaño, whose literary renegade (and possible drug addict) reputation fuel a status akin to mythic.
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Tom Benn - The Doll Princess
Released: 05/01/2012
Jonathan Cape
Tom Benn's gritty debut sees Henry Bane – a cog in Manchester's underground gang machine – uncover some unlikely connections between two apparently disparate murders and himself. Trawling through a broken Manchester, post 1996 IRA bombing, Bane becomes mired deeper in the illicit actions of the city's underbelly.
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Samantha Harvey - All is Song
Released: 05/01/2012
Jonathan Cape
Harvey's last novel was considered un-trendy but brilliant, and was listed for the Man Booker. This follow-up concerns a modern-day Socrates figure, William, who learns the danger of placing philosophical inquiry above all else, receiving his own metaphorical dose of hemlock when a student takes him a bit too seriously...
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