Carpentaria is 'simply the best' and coming to the UK soon
While I'm really not crazy about the whole BEST BEST BEST thing, I would like to share some news I picked up at a recent book launch, from no less a person than Miles Franklin winner Alexis Wright herself. It's official - Constable and Robinson will publish Carpentaria in the UK next year. Here's my earlier review of my Book of the Year.
Others of note, cheerfully disregarding dates of publication, were (including non-fiction):
Adamson, Robert. The Goldfinches of Baghdad
Cheever, John. The World of Apples
Farmer, Beverley. Body Of Water (writer's journal and stories, my review notes here)
Goldsworthy, Kerryn. North of the Moonlight Sonata
Jach, Antoni. Napoleon's Double
Lofthouse, Jacqui. Bluethroat Morning
Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow (HA! Finished.)
Stow, Randolph. Visitants
(here's the non-fiction, now:)
Farmer, Beverley. The Bone House
Garner, Helen. The Feel of Steel.
Glendinning, Victoria. Leonard Woolf: A Life.
Koch, C.J. Crossing The Gap: A Novelist's Essays.
Knowlson, James and Elizabeth (Eds.) Beckett Remembering:Remembering Beckett
Moretti, Franco (ed.) The Novel (vol 2.)
Nehamas, Alexander, Only A Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty In A World of Art.
Ryan, Marie-Laure (ed.) Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling
I did read a bunch of other stuff, some quite new, and all listed here, if it interests you. Also if it interests you, I have just subscribed to Publisher's Lunch, where I followed my nose to this news regarding Helen Garner's latest (due 2008). Apologies if you already knew, but it is news to me.
If you're more interested in what the English think about the French, however, then over at Figaro, Bruno Corty is keeping an eye on the TLS's review of best books for 2007 and noting that French writers are on the Brit critics' lists.
And if you're still greedy for lists, (you absolute glutton, you), there's an exhaustive list of best US books (and others) of 2007, over at the Millions book blog.
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