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Books preview of the year 2012

Gaby Wood selects the key dates in the books year 2012 from January to the end of March.

Charles Dickens, photographed at the age of 49 by the London portrait photographer George Herbert Watkins. Watkins took several portraits of Dickens between 1858 and 1861 and they have helped define the enduring image of Dickens as a melancholy,  care-worn personality.
Charles Dickens, photographed at the age of 49 by the London portrait photographer George Herbert Watkins. Watkins took several portraits of Dickens between 1858 and 1861 and they have helped define the enduring image of Dickens as a melancholy, care-worn personality. Photo: HULTON-DEUTSCH COLLECTION

JANUARY

5

Richard Davenport-Hines: Titanic Lives HarperPress

The eminent historian’s masterly exploration of the lives of the passengers on the world’s most (in)famous ship.

16

Winner of the T S Eliot Prize for poetry announced

16-29

Hay Festival Cartagena

Jonathan Franzen tops the bill in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Until Jan 29 (hayfestival.com)

FEBRUARY

1

Susan Orlean: Rin Tin Tin – the Life and the Legend

The author of The Orchid Thief returns with the biography of a dog who was found on a First World War battlefield and made it big in Hollywood.

7

Bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens

MARCH

1

John Lanchester: Capital Faber

Whoops!, Lanchester’s analysis of the financial collapse, made him the thinking person’s guide to thoughtlessness. Now he has turned his imagination to a single fictional street, and written a state-of-the-nation novel about the crash.

Jo Nesbø: Phantom Harvill

According to his publisher, one Jo Nesbø novel is sold every 23 seconds in the UK. Well, here’s one more: the Norwegian writer’s seventh thriller.

Rachel Cusk: Aftermath: on Marriage and Separation Faber

When an extract from Cusk’s book about her separation was published in Granta this year, it sparked a debate that hadn’t been as heated since the release of Kramer vs Kramer. Expect the full-length version to make her one of the most lionised and reviled figures of the season.

Marilynne Robinson: When I was a Child I Read Books Virago

A series of autobiographical essays from the American Orange Prize-winning novelist.

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