The beginning of 2006 sees a rush of new fiction worth reading from writers both old and new.
One of the highlights is Fallen (St Martin's Press/Canongate $23.95/£10.99), the second novel by US writer David Maine, which hits the UK in March (it's already available in America). As in his debut, The Flood, which reinvented Noah and his ark, Maine constructs a modern novel around Old Testament narrative - this time retelling the story of Adam and Eve and their expulsion from Eden.
