Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger, Daniel Handler’s And Then? and Then? What Else?, and Kathleen Hanna’s Rebel Girl all feature among the best reviewed fiction titles of the month. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home for book reviews. * 1. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-05-31 08:57:50 UTC ]
A true story of a Nazi resistor, life in 1950s New Orleans, one cunning heroine out for answers, and more of today's best YA book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-03-23 10:30:00 UTC ]
In the audiobook oral history “Surely You Can’t Be Serious: The True Story of ‘Airplane!,’” a cast of dozens fondly revisits a now-classic film. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-01 14:12:30 UTC ]
Book review of Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and his Daring Quest for a Free Cuba by David E. Hoffman Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-07-01 12:00:49 UTC ]
Pulitzer winner Geraldine Brooks’s latest book is a sweeping tale that uses the true story of a famous 19th-century racehorse to explore the roots and legacy of enslavement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-06-17 13:11:51 UTC ]
Leila Mottley’s debut novel about a teenager’s serial abuse is based on a true story. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-06-07 09:00:12 UTC ]
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Suad Amiry’s new novel, Mother of Strangers, which will be published by Penguin Random House this August. Mother of Strangers, based on a true story, follows the lives of 15-year-old mechanic Subhi and 13-year-old Shams, the girl he hopes to marry one... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-07 15:36:20 UTC ]
“‘High-Risk.’ Was I that? What did those words even mean?” Edgar Gomez on sex, desire, and going on PrEP. | Lit Hub Memoir David Hollander considers how fiction can save us from despair. | Lit Hub “The true story of the diary’s composition reveals how much thought and effort Anne put into... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-01-13 11:30:16 UTC ]
The author of The Fortune Men will now compete with five other novelists from South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US for the 2021 awardAlex Clark explores how the Booker shortlist tunes in to the worries of our ageJust one British author has made the shortlist for this year’s Booker prize: Nadifa... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-09-14 15:25:06 UTC ]
Based on a true story, Karin Tanabe’s new book is a mid-20th-century period piece, but oh, how familiar it seems. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-07-15 07:00:00 UTC ]
"I had a physical reaction. It literally made the hairs on my arm stand up.” Phil Earle is talking about the moment he heard the true story which inspired his new children’s book When the Sky Falls. The story was “gifted” to him by a family member, whose father was part of the Manchester home... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-19 20:44:59 UTC ]
Before I spotted Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia on the shelves of a Borders bookstore near my Pennsylvania college, I had never seen a book about a Saudi woman before. Princess, according to its book jacket, which featured a fully veiled woman in high heels, was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-25 09:48:19 UTC ]
Puffin has announced it is publishing A Different Sort of Normal, written and illustrated by debut talent Abigail Balfe – the true story of one girl's journey growing up with autism. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 08:28:31 UTC ]
The Borough Press has bought The Aerialists by Katie Munnik, a “haunting” novel based on the true story of teenage girl who fell to her death during the Great Exhibition of 1896. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-22 19:21:41 UTC ]
Sphere will publish A Plot to Kill: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal and Murder in a Quiet English Town, from criminologist David Wilson. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-22 17:27:16 UTC ]
Skyhorse has set a September 8 publication date for Michael Cohen’s 'Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump.' The publisher calls the tell-all "the most devastating business and political horror story of the century." Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury's Green Tree is to publish Liz Fraser's memoir Coming Clean: A True Story of Love, Addiction and Recovery next year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-31 11:02:40 UTC ]
Faber has acquired When Stars are Scattered, a "heart-wrenching" graphic novel set in a refugee camp, based on the true story of Omar Mohamed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 21:44:16 UTC ]
Inspired by a true story, Amity Gaige’s new novel is a gripping tale of a marriage on the brink Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-05-08 13:00:00 UTC ]
'Banned Book Club' by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada is the true story of Hyun Sook’s years as a South Korean college student under the brutal military regime of the early 1980s. In this 11-page excerpt a naive and apolitical Hyun Sook meets the fearless student members of a book... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-02-19 05:00:00 UTC ]