
September 2008
| Fiction | |
|---|---|
| Title | Author |
| The Garden of Last Days | Andre Dubus |
| The Spies of Warsaw | Alan Furst |
| The Book of Air and Shadows | Michael Gruber |
| The Outcast | Sadie Jones |
| Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith |
| The Gift of Rain | Eng Tan Twan |
| Breath | Tim Winton |
| The Ten-Year Nap | Meg Wolitzer |
| Life and Death are Wearing me Out | Mo Yan |
| Mystery / Thriller | |
| Pelagia and the Black Monk | Boris Akunin |
| Curse of the Pogo Stick | Colin Cotterill |
| The Pure in Heart: A Simon Serrailler Crime Novel | Susan Hill |
| The House at Riverton | Kate Morton |
| Vita Nuova | Magdalen Nabb |
| Illegal Action | Stella Rimington |
| Non-Fiction | |
| No Way Home: A Dancer's Journey from the Streets of Havana to the Stages of the World | Carlos Acosta |
| A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father | Augusten Burroughs |
| The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century | Steve Coll |
| The Romanovs: Ruling Russia 1613-1917 | Lindsey Hughes |
| Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance | Giles Milton |
| A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling | V.S. Naipaul |
| The Bolter: Idina Sackville | Frances Osbourne |
| The Monster of Florence | Douglas Preston |
| Dawn, Dusk or Night: A Year with Nicolas Sarkozy | Yasmina Reza |
| The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece | Simon Winchester |