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2010 in preview

Reading list

Fiction

Homer and Langley by EL Doctorow (Little, Brown, January)
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis (Jonathan Cape, February)
Solar by Ian McEwan (Jonathan Cape, March)
In-Flight Entertainment by Helen Simpson (Jonathan Cape, May)
The News Where You Are by Catherine O'Flynn, (Viking, July)
Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador, autumn)

First novels

Blacklands by Belinda Bauer (Bantam, January)
The Temple-goers, by Atish Taseer (Viking, March)

Non-fiction

Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester (Granta, January)
The War that Killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander (Faber, February)
A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford (Hamish Hamilton, March)
The New Capitalism: How and Why the Economic World Has Changed Forever - and How it Affects Us All by Robert Peston (Hodder & Stoughton, March)
The Big Short by Michael Lewis (Allen Lane, March)
At the Loch of the Green Corrie, Andrew Greig (Quercus, April)
Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto (Jonathan Cape, April)
This Party's Got to Stop by Rupert Thomson (Granta, April)
Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us by Ferdinand Mount (Simon & Schuster, May)
Bugs Britannica by Richard Mabey and Peter Marren (Chatto & Windus, May)
Both Sides Now: Some Confessions of a Divided Self by Christopher Hitchens (Atlantic, May)

Poetry

Love Poems by Carol Ann Duffy (Picador, January)
The Wrecking Light by Robin Robertson (Picador, February)
White Egrets by Derek Walcott (Faber, March)
Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock (Bloodaxe, May)

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