‘Mother Tongue’ is an essay by Amy Tan, an American author who was born to Chinese immigrants in 1952. Tan wrote ‘Mother Tongue’ in 1990, a year after her novel The Joy Luck Club was a runaway success. In the essay, Tan discusses her relationship with language, and how her […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-01-20 15:00:27 UTC ]
Turtles All the Way Down is best-selling author John Green's first novel since 2012's runaway success, The Fault in Our Stars. While that book tackled the issue of teens with cancer, this book centres on a protagonist suffering from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive thoughts and behaviour. Green,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new instalment – this time written from Christian Grey’s perspective and published on 18 June – is set to dominate the publishing world once againIn July 2012, as the irresistible cultural tidal wave that was the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy was still swelling to its extraordinary peak, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2015-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Icon Books has apologised to indie booksellers who could not get copies of The Etymologicon in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Thu, 13/10/2011 - 15:15 Yet more rights deals announced at Frankfurt Book Fair today, including Piatkus' foreign rights team is having a runaway success with début novel The Guilty One by Lisa Ballantynewhich they are likening to Nicci French and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 29/09/2011 - 14:30 Bookmakers William Hill have made Jamie Oliver the hot favourite to be the bestselling Christmas title. Given the runaway success of last year's 30-Minute Meals, it is no surprise that the bookmaker has given Oliver short odds... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]