I reviewed Lev Grossman’s The Magicians when it was launched in 2009, with amazing timing: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book, was out in paperback, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was at last onscreen. Fans were bemoaning the coming Harry Potter vacuum. Grossman, at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-07-23 08:55:43 UTC ]
Peter Schjeldahl’s final book collects the essays and reviews he wrote in the years after a cancer diagnosis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-07-15 09:03:01 UTC ]
“No one should be surprised by a writer’s library,” says the author of the Maisie Dobbs series, about a World War I battlefield nurse turned private investigator. The series’ 18th and final book is “The Comfort of Ghosts.” Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-06-06 09:00:13 UTC ]
Sisters Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti will rerelease their self-published Zodiac Academy romantasy series in paperback under their newly-formed company, Dark Ink Publishing. On April 23, Dark Ink released 'Restless Stars,' the ninth and final book in the series, with an announced print... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-04-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
With El Niño slated to drop a warm, wet winter on most of the US in the coming months, everybody’s going to need something good to read while the weather outside is frightful. Engadget’s well-read staff have some suggestions: our favorite books of 2023! We’ve got a phenomenal assortment of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-12-25 16:30:28 UTC ]
The book shares secrets – Mantel’s own alongside those of the writers, historical figures and places she describes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2023-10-19 14:40:38 UTC ]
Scandal and despair hit the romance community when Susan Meachen was purportedly bullied into suicide. Was it a hoax?In 2020 the tightly knit and passionate world of self-published romance literature was shocked by the news that the novelist Susan Meachen, following bullying by other writers,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-01-14 10:00:06 UTC ]
Two years after her apparent suicide, the novelist has announced she is still very much alive. Is this what it takes to sell books nowadays?‘All publicity is good publicity,” Susan Meachen thought to herself as she prepared to stage her suicide. In September 2020, Meachen, the self-published... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-01-11 07:00:12 UTC ]
“In all creation there is nothing constant,” says Pythagoras in the final book of the Metamorphoses. All things are subject to the power of change: bodies, landscapes, cities, nations—even the cosmos. Ovid announces his epic’s main theme as metamorphosis in its first two lines: “My spirit moves... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-11-08 09:53:56 UTC ]
The columnist and podcaster’s How to Live When You Could Be Dead is out in August heads the bestsellers listPre-orders of Deborah James’s second book have soared within days of it becoming available. The podcast host’s memoir-cum-self-help volume is topping the Amazon UK bestsellers list, ahead... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-19 11:47:24 UTC ]
An essay on Welsh identity from Allegorizings, the final book from the late Jan Morris. The post Invisible Loyalty appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2021-11-03 06:11:31 UTC ]
In his final book, published two years after his death, Andrea Camilleri inserts himself into the narrative Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
Author of Fire and Fury’s final book on Trump, Landslide, will cover his ‘tumultuous last months at the helm of the country’Michael Wolff’s third book about Donald Trump, focusing on the final days of his presidency, will be published in July under a provocative title: Landslide. Related: Trump... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-06-17 14:56:19 UTC ]
Puffin has announced the final book in Jacqueline Wilson’s and Nick Sharratt’s 30-year-partnership, The Runaway Girls. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-29 00:56:46 UTC ]
The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2020-09-03 13:13:15 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel’s conclusion to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy sold more than 95,000 copies in three daysHilary Mantel’s much-anticipated The Mirror and the Light has been selling a copy every 2.7 seconds since its release last Thursday, with the final book in the two-time Booker winner’s trilogy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-10 18:55:55 UTC ]
Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel discussed the final book in her trilogy with the BBC's Rebecca Jones. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2020-03-02 17:51:43 UTC ]
Abruptly-shuttered Pacific Standard is, in its final breaths, recommending some fall reading material in a list from contributing editor Maris Kreizman along with other contributors to the magazine. Senior editor Ted Scheinman writes, “While Pacific Standard won’t be around in the fall, these... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-14 18:09:20 UTC ]
David Walliams has narrated the audiobook of The Curse of the School Rabbit (HarperCollins), written and illustrated by Judith Kerr. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-10 12:22:15 UTC ]
Henry Holt will publish 'The Mirror & the Light,' the final book in Hilary Mantel’s bestselling and prize-winning series about Thomas Cromwell, on March 10, 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-05-22 04:00:00 UTC ]