The Booksellers Association spoke to staff who also highlighted James by Percival Everett, and everything from Chris Hoy’s autobiography to a book about fishing by a dogThis year’s Booker prize winner will be the Christmas No 1 bestseller, predict UK booksellers.The Booksellers Association (BA)... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-12-20 15:52:28 UTC ]
The short novel narrating a day in the life of six astronauts on the International Space Station becomes the first book to top the charts in the week of its winSamantha Harvey’s Booker-winning Orbital has rocketed to the top of the UK bestseller chart, becoming the first Booker novel to hit... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-11-20 15:01:38 UTC ]
Katy Waldman reviews “The Shapeless Unease,” by Samantha Harvey, a memoir about the author’s yearlong battle with chronic insomnia. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2020-06-04 18:55:26 UTC ]
Harvey’s struggles, clearly the result of anxiety, may feel especially resonant at the moment. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-14 08:38:39 UTC ]
Samantha Harvey’s The Western Wind (Vintage) has won the £1000 2019 Staunch Book Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-24 19:26:29 UTC ]
Samantha Harvey's novel 'The Western Wind' is set in 1491 in England. She needed for there to be a private confession box; her plot hinged on it. One problem: private confession boxes didn't exist. Here's how she solved the puzzle. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Samantha Harvey's fourth novel is, broadly speaking, a medieval murder mystery - but one with one important, and defining, difference. Alice O'Keeffe reports. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]