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Literature Matters online magazine: October 2004
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Literature Matters Edition 32
The Best of the Rest
Granta revisited, we select our favourites and the ones that Granta missed.
Plat du Jour
Catriona Ferguson, Literature Matters' canny editor, serves up a generous helping of fresh fiction titles
Writers talk Books
Bernardine Evaristo, Lavinia Greenlaw, Niall Griffiths, Val McDermid and Alan Warner discuss which international writers are pressing their literary buttons right now.
new writing anthology
New Writing is the British Council’s annual shop window of new and exciting British writing, including fiction, prose and poetry. Here we are offered an insight into the workings of the latest edition, New Writing 12.
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Adebayo, Diran Some Kind of Black Abacus 1997 £6.99
ISBN 0-349-10872-2 pbk

Adebayo, Diran My Once Upon a Time Abacus 2001 £6.99
ISBN 0-349-11442-0 pbk

Amis, Kingsley Lucky Jim Penguin Books 2002 £5.99
ISBN 0-141-00610-2 pbk

Martin Amis Yellow Dog Jonathan Cape 2003 £16.99
ISBN 0-224-05061-3 pbk

Arnott, Jake He Kills Coppers Sceptre 2002 £7.99
ISBN 0-340-74880-X pbk

Arnott, Jake The Long Firm Hodder & Stoughton General 2000 £6.99 ISBN 0-340-76728-6 pbk

Arnott, Jake truecrime Sceptre 2003 £10.99
ISBN 0-340-81856-5 pbk

Astley, Neil The End of My Tether Scribner 2003 £7.99
ISBN 0-7432-4838-4 pbk

Balasubramanyam, Rajeev In Beautiful Disguise Bloomsbury 2001 £6.99 ISBN 0-7475-5341-6 pbk

Barker, Pat Double Vision Hamish Hamilton 2003 £10.99
ISBN 0-241-14225-3 pbk

Birch, Carol Turn Again Home Virago Press 2003 £17.99
ISBN 1-860-49972-4 hbk

Bobis, Merlinda White Turtle Spinifex Press 1999 £8.95
ISBN 1-875-55989-2 pbk

Chaudhuri, Amit Real Time Picador 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-330-49131-8 pbk

Clark, Candida The Constant Eye Vintage 2001 £6.99
ISBN 0-09-928428-6 pbk

Clark, Candida The Last Look Vintage 1999 £5.99
ISBN 0-09-927256-3 pbk

Clark, Candida The Mariner’s Star Review 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-7553-0101-3 pbk

Coetzee, J. M. Youth Vintage 2003 £6.99 ISBN 0-09-943362-1 pbk

Collishaw, Stephan The Last Girl Sceptre 2003 £7.99
ISBN 0-340-82692-4 pbk

Cooper, William Scenes From a Metropolitan Life Mandarin 1983 £2.25 ISBN 0-413-53100-7 pbk

Cooper, William Scenes From a Provinical Life Macmillan 1982 £15.99 ISBN 0-333-34446-4 hbk

Cornwell, John Powers of Darkness, Powers of Light Viking 1991 £6.99 ISBN 0-670-82103-9 pbk

Craig, Amanda Love in Idleness Little, Brown 2003 £12.99
ISBN 0-316-72485-8 hbk

Darling, Julia The Taxi Driver’s Daughter Viking 2003 £12.99
ISBN 0-670-91419-3 hbk

Dawson, Jill Wild Boy Sceptre 2003 £14.99
ISBN 0-340-82296-1 hbk

Effa, Gaston-Paul (Glasheen, Anne Marie – translator) All That Blue BlackAmber Books 2002 £7.99 ISBN 1-901-96908-8 pbk

Eggars, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Picador 2001 £7.99 ISBN 0-330-48455-9 pbk

Elfyn, Menna and Rowland, John The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry Bloodaxe Books 2003 £10.95 ISBN 1-852-24549-2 pbk

Eliot, George Middlemarch Penguin Books 2003 £4.99
ISBN 0-141-43954-8 pbk

Foden, Giles Ladysmith Faber and Faber 2000 £6.99
ISBN 0-571-20366-3 pbk

Foden, Giles The Last King of Scotland Faber and Faber 1999 £7.99 ISBN 0-571-19564-4 pbk

Foden, Giles Zanzibar; Faber 2003 £6.99 ISBN 0-571-21420-7 pbk

Fforde, Jasper The Eyre Affair New English Library 2002 £6.99
ISBN 0-340-82576-6 pbk

Friedman, Thomas Longitudes and Attitudes; Exploring the World Before and After September 11th Penguin Books 2003 £7.99
ISBN 0-141-01521-7 pbk

Garland, Alex The Beach Penguin Books 1997 £6.99
ISBN 0-140-25841-8 pbk

Garland, Alex The Tesseract Penguin Books 2000 £6.99
ISBN 0-140-25842-6 pbk

Gautreaux, Tim The Clearing Sceptre 2003 £7.99
ISBN 0-340-82889-7 pbk

Girard, Rene (Gregory, Patrick – translator) Violence and the Sacred The Johns Hopkins University Press 1977 £11.95
ISBN 0-801-82218-1 pbk

Griffiths, Niall Kelly + Victor Jonathan Cape 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-09-942205-0 pbk

Griffiths, Niall Sheepshagger Vintage 2002 £6.99
ISBN 0-09-928518-5 pbk

Griffiths, Niall Stump Jonathan Cape 2003 £10.00
ISBN 0-224-06328-6 pbk

Haddon, Mark The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Jonathan Cape 2003 £10.99 ISBN 0-224-06378-2 hbk

Hall, Sarah Haweswater Faber and Faber 2003 £7.99
ISBN 0-571-20930-0 pbk

Heller, Zoe Notes on a Scandal Viking 2003 £14.99
ISBN 0-670-91406-1 pbk

Hill, Tobias The Cryptographer Faber and Faber 2003 £12.00
ISBN 0-571-21836-9 pbk

Hill, Tobias The Love of Stones Faber and Faber 2002 £7.99
ISBN 0-571-20998-X pbk

Hill, Tobias Underground Faber and Faber 1999 £5.99
ISBN 0-571-20109-1 pbk

Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure Penguin Books 1994 £1.25
ISBN 0-140-62060-5 pbk

Hughes, Tristan Tower Parthian Books 2003 £6.99
ISBN 1-902638-36-0 pbk

James, P. D. The Murder Room Faber and Faber 2003 £12.99
ISBN 0-571-21823-7 pbk

Jewell, Lisa A Friend of the Family Michael Joseph 2003
£10.99 ISBN 0-7181-4556-9 pbk

Kelly, Jim The Water Clock Penguin Books 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-141-00933-0 pbk

Kelman, JamesAnd the Judges Said… Vintage 2003 £8.99
ISBN 0-09-942184-4 pbk

Kingsolver, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible Faber and Faber 2000 £7.99 ISBN 0-571-20175-X pbk

Lawrence, D. H. Sons & Lovers Penguin Books 1998 £6.99
ISBN 0-19-283860-1 pbk

Lee, Nancy Dead Girls Faber and Faber 2003 £12.00
ISBN 0-571-21766-4 pbk

Llewelyn, Richard How Green Was My Valley Penguin Books 2001 £8.99 ISBN 0-141-18585-6 pbk

Lycett, Andrew Dylan Thomas: A New Life Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2003 £20.00 ISBN 0-297-60793-6 pbk

Madge, Charles Of Love, Time & Places: Selected Poems Anvil Press Poetry 1994 £18.95 ISBN 0-85646-231-4 hbk

Maxted, Anna Behaving Like Adults Arrow 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-09-943988-3 pbk

Martel, Yann Life of Pi Canongate Books 2003 £7.99
ISBN 1-84195-392-X pbk

McCabe, John Herding Cats Doubleday 2003 £10.99
ISBN 0-385-60444-0 pbk

McCarthy, Karen (ed.) Kin: New Fiction By Black & Asian Women Serpent's Tail 2003 £8.99 ISBN 1-85242-852-X pbk

McIntosh, Matthew Well Faber and Faber 2003 £12.99
ISBN 0-571-22015-0 pbk

Michell, John and Rickard, Bob The Rough Guide to Unexplained Phenomena Rough Guides 2000 £12.99 ISBN 1-85828-589-5 pbk

Mina, Denise Exile Bantam 2001 £5.99 ISBN 0-553-81327-7 pbk

Mina, Denise Garnethill Bantam 1999 £5.99 ISBN 0-553-50694-3 pbk

Mina, Denise Resolution Bantam 2002 £6.99 ISBN 0-553-81328-5 pbk

Mina, Denise Sanctum Bantam 2003 £6.99 ISBN 0-553-81329-3 pbk

Minhinnick, Robert (translator) The Adulterer’s Tongue: An Anthology of Welsh Poetry in Translation Carcanet Press 2003 £9.95
ISBN 1-85754-644-X pbk

Morrall, Clare Astonishing Splashes of Colour Tindal Street Press 2003 £7.99 ISBN 0-9541303-2-4 pbk

Murray, John Jazz Etc. Flambard Press 2003 £8.99
ISBN 1-873226-62-4 pbk

Murray, John Riever Blues Flambard Press 1996 £8.99
ISBN 1-873226-21-7 pbk

Neate, Patrick The London Pigeon Wars Viking 2003 £12.99
ISBN 0-670-91264-6 hbk

Neate, Patrick Twelve Bar Blues Penguin Books 2002 £6.99
ISBN 0-140-28656-X pbk

Nelson, Marilyn Carver: A Life in Poems Front Street Books 2001 £9.99 ISBN 1-8869-1053-7 pbk

Newland, Courttia The Scholar Abacus 1998 £7.99
ISBN 0-349-10876-5 pbk

Newland, Courttia Society Within Abacus 2000 £6.99
ISBN 0-349-11180-4 pbk

O’Farrell, Maggie After You’d Gone Review 2001 £6.99
ISBN 0-7472-6816-9 pbk

O’Farrell, Maggie My Lover’s Lover Headline 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-7472-6817-7 pbk

Parsons, Tony Man & Wife HarperCollins 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-00-715875-0 pbk

Paterson, Don Landing Light Faber and Faber 2003 £12.99
ISBN 0-571-21993-4 hbk

Phillips, Caryl A Distant Shore Secker & Warburg 2003 £15.99
ISBN 0-436-20564-5 hbk

Pierre, D. B. C. Vernon God Little Faber and Faber 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-571-21517-3 pbk

Pryce, Malcolm Aberystwyth Mon Amour Bloomsbury 2002
£6.99 ISBN 0-7475-5786-1 pbk

Pryce, Malcolm Last Tango in Aberystwyth Bloomsbury 2003 £9.99 ISBN 0-7475-6657-7 pbk

Rankin, Ian A Question of Blood Orion 2003 £10.99
ISBN 0-7528-5111-X pbk

Rendell, Ruth The Rottweiler Hutchinson 2003 £16.99
ISBN 0-09-179946-5 hbk

Rhodes, Dan Timolean Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey Canongate Books Ltd 2003 £9.99 ISBN 1-84195-481-0 pbk

Rice, Ben Pobby & Dingan Vintage 2002 £6.99
ISBN 0-09-928562-2 pbk

Riley, Gwendoline Cold Water Vintage 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-09-943715-5 pbk

Roberts, William Owen Paradwys Cyhoeddiadau Barddas
£6.95 ISBN 1-90043-750-3 pbk

Roberts, William Owen Pestillence Seren Books 1997
£6.95 ISBN 1-85411-198-1 pbk

Ross, Leone Orange Laughter Anchor Books 2000 £5.99
ISBN 1-86230-070-4 pbk

Shields, Carol Unless Fourth Estate 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-00-713769-9 pbk

Spark, Muriel The Girl of Slender Means Penguin Books 1975 £6.99 ISBN 0-140-02426-3 pbk

Steele, John War Junkie Corgi Adult 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-552-14984-5 pbk

Storey, David Saville Vintage 1998 £7.99 ISBN 0-09-927408-6 pbk

Strachan, Zoe Negative Space Picador 2003 £6.99
ISBN 0-330-48578-4 pbk

Swift, Graham The Light of Day Hamish Hamilton 2003 £10.99
ISBN 0-241-14203-2 pbk

Swift, Graham Waterland Picador 1992 £6.99 ISBN 0-330-33632-0 pbk

Thirlwell, Adam Politics Jonathan Cape 2003 £12.99
ISBN 0-224-07104-1 pbk

Thomas, R. S. Residues Bloodaxe Books 2002 £14.95
ISBN 1-852-24595-6 pbk

Tyrell, Patricia The Reckoning Weidenfeld & Nicholson 2003 £12.99 ISBN 0-297-84891-7 pbk

Wain, John Hurry on Down Penguin Books 1960 £2.95
ISBN 0-140-18896-7 pbk

Welsh, Louise The Cutting Room Canongate Books 2003
£6.99 ISBN 1-84195-404-7 pbk

Wilkins, Damien Chemistry Granta Books 2003 £6.99
ISBN 1-86207-590-5 pbk

Wilson, Laura A Little Death Orion 2000 £5.99
ISBN 0-7528-3477-0 pbk

Wilson, Laura Dying Voices Bantam Books 2001 £5.99
ISBN 0-7528-4328-1 pbk

Wilson, Laura Hello Bunny Alice Orion 2003 £9.99
ISBN 0-7528-5381-3 pbk

Wilson, Laura My Best Friend Orion 2002 £5.99
ISBN 0-7528-4802-X pbk

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