Sexually abused by his piano teacher, a boy struggles to reclaim his life in Ian McEwan's new novel "Lessons." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-09-20 15:52:11 UTC ]
Uwem Akpan’s novel follows Ekong — whose name means war — as he travels to the United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-11-02 17:31:46 UTC ]
In a country that has suffered so much, it turns out to be the women in this novel who suffer the most. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-09-11 22:29:40 UTC ]
“History casts a long shadow here,” says Brunonia Barry of Salem, Mass., the town where her family has lived since the 1630s and the place where she has set all three of her novels, the New York Times bestselling The Lace Reader, The Map of True Places, and The Fifth Petal (Crown, Jan. 2017). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
It was the talk of the London Book Fair. Then it was the talk of the summer. Then it became the book news story of the year. The Fifty Shades series—an originally self-published erotica written as Twilight fan fiction—was too new a phenomenon in April, when the London Book Fair was underway, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]