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Critical Mass reports on upcoming books from the London Book Fair:

…a graze through the catalogs gives a somewhat advance glimpse at what’s definitely coming out here in London this fall, which is sort of useful since England’s publishing schedules tend to be a bit ahead of America’s — and they’re packed.

Here’s what caught my eye (I’ve added Amazon links where I could find them):

“Diary of a Bad Year,” new fiction by J.M. Coetzee

a new novel by Booker winner Pat Barker (”Life is Class”)

Also look for novels by … A.N Wilson, … Matthew Kneale, Jane Gardam, and Fay Weldon.

Here’s a puzzler:

Yasmina Khadra keeps up the alliterative titles with “The Sirens of Baghdad” (this summer)

Huh?

John Banville has another Benjamin Black book

Umberto Eco has not one but two collections of essays (”On Ugliness” and “Turning Back the Clock“)

Noam Chomsky delivers a collection of essays, “Interventions,” which brings together his columns for the New York Times syndicate since 2002.

Memoir(ish) books: Steve Martin tells his life story with “Born Standing Up“

Neil Boorman tells of how he learned to live without brands in “Bonfire of the Brands.”

That’s just a selection. You can check out the whole big list at Critical Mass.