We began to publish a new series of fiction
encompassing suchdistinctive titles as Almost Moon by Alice Sebold, A Mercy by a Nobel laureate, Toni Morrison, orre-editions of novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Doris Lessing. We published a debut-fantasy novel Dziecko Gwiazd. Atlantyda of a remarkably talented sixteen-year-old Michalina Olszańska. Apart from writing, she was also playing violin, composing and singing. She is now regarded as a shooting star of Polish cinematography.

Beyond commercial fiction (best-sellers by Harlan Coben, Nicholas Sparks, Lauren Weisberger), Albatros published some distinguished writers, among others, Doris Lessing, awarded with a Nobel Prize in Literature the preceding year, and Khaled Hosseini, A thousand splendid suns. Legendary Robert Ludlum joined our bevy of thrillers and crime fiction writers. We also published Poczekajka, by Katarzyna Michalak, a debut novelist. Yet, the most note-worthy book of the year happened to be Anticancer: A New Way of Life by dr David Servan-Schreiber, which brought hope to millions of patients fighting with cancer or at risk of developing the disease. In 2008 we ceased to publish the popular π series.

And the Book of the Year goes to…
…Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones, the greatest Spanish bestseller since Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind. Other distinguished titles of the year include Mao by Jung Chang, the author of Wild Swans, and The Island by Victoria Hislop. We also introduced our readers to a re-edition of the fantasy trilogy by Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials, as its Book 1 film adaptation, The Golden Compass, opened in theatres in December that year. As for another good note, we published all novels by J.D. Salinger for the first time in Albatros.