Best Overlooked Books 2011
Riding The Trains In Japan Travels In The Sacred And Supermodern East
$29.95 – Paperback / Transit Lounge Publishing
Arriving late in Kyoto Patrick Holland cannot find a room for the night. Homeless and disorientated and in a place where loitering is not encouraged his only solution is to ride the trains. The train journey is the starting point... Buy or find out more→
Townie: A Memoir
$32.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him--until he was saved by writing. Buy or find out more→
Zazen
$23.95 – Paperback / Red Lemonade
Somewhere in Della’s consumptive, industrial wasteland of a city, a bomb goes off. It is not the first, and will not be the last. Reactions to the attacks are polarized. Police activity intensifies. Della’s revolutionary... Buy or find out more→
What The World Will Look Like When All The Water Leaves Us
$24.95 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
The stories in Laura van den Berg's rich and inventive debut illuminate the intersection of the mythic and the mundane. Rendered with grace and precision, this breathtaking collection is narrated by women yearning for absolution,... Buy or find out more→
Berlin Syndrome
$29.99 – Paperback / Scribe Publications
Read Melanie Joosten's guest blog post about the story behind Berlin Sydrome Berlin. The... Buy or find out more→
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
$20.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Amos, Mississippi, is a quiet town. Silas Jones is its sole law enforcement officer. The last excitement here was nearly twenty years ago, when a teenage girl disappeared on a date with Larry Ott, Silas' one-time boyhood friend.... Buy or find out more→
How to be a Woman
$29.95 – Paperback / Ebury Press
Part-memoir, part-rant, this title follows the author Caitlin Moran from her terrible 13th birthday ('I am thirteen stone, I have no friends, and boys throw gravel at me when they see me'.) through adolescence, the workplace,... Buy or find out more→