Robert Galbraith, who is really J.K. Rowling, caps his debut mystery novel, which is really her ninth book, by channeling Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “I am become a name,” thinks the private eye Cormoran Strike to himself when the case is solved, quoting Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” Strike’s right—he is likely to become a “name,” especially now that the Sunday Times of London has unmasked his creator as the author of the stratospherically popular Harry Potter series. But what is Rowling up to, ending like that, with her main character musing about fame and “becoming” a name? Is it part of the act, a seemingly first-time writer anticipating his literary success with a metagesture? Or is Rowling teasing us with this name business, since the name on the book jacket is yet another disguise? Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2013-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Robert Galbraith's Troubled Blood (Sphere) and Brian Masters' Dennis Nielsen biography Killing for Company (Cornerstone) have rocketed to the top of the Amazon Charts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The moment they hit the press, the reviews for The Mirror And The Light were glowing. A “shoo-in for the Booker Prize” said the Guardian. “A masterpiece of historical fiction” according to the Independent. “Does it merit another Booker?” asks the Evening Standard, before concluding “yes it... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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The title and publication date of the new Robert Galbraith novel, featuring Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott, has been revealed by Sphere. The fifth book is Troubled Blood and will come out in hardback on 29th September 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Boris Pasternak’s great-niece Anna claims Lara Prescott’s The Secrets We Kept copied her biography of Pasternak’s loverPublisher Penguin Random House has dismissed claims that Lara Prescott, a debut novelist who received a $2m (£1.6m) advance for her novel about the publication of Boris... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Blackwell's will celebrate its 140th anniversary with books signed by Michelle Obama and Robert Galbraith up for auction for Book Aid International throughout June. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Robert Galbraith and Nikesh Shukla were amongst the winners of the CrimeFest awards in Bristol. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Robert Galbraith’s Lethal White boomeranged back to the Weekly E-Book Ranking number one, leapfrogging previous top spot holder Ian Rankin’s In a House of Lies, which fell to sixth place. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kyle Mills's 'Red War' took to the top of the Apple Books bestseller list this week, knocking 'Lethal White' by Robert Galbraith (a.k.a. J.K. Rowling) clean out of the top five. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Galbraith’s third Cormoran Strike title Lethal White has bagged the ebook number one straight out of the gate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Robert Galbraith has held the Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, with Lethal White (Sphere) selling 15,244 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Galbraith’s fourth Cormoran Strike title Lethal White (Sphere) has proved deadly to Bob Woodward’s Fear (S&S), striking the UK Official Top 50 number one spot in its first three days on sale through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Chief executive Robert Thomson highlights growth at UK mastheads Times and Sunday Times, and Australian digital subscriptions rise 12%Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp has shrugged off its latest annual loss with an upbeat assessment of its digital news and real estate assets.The worldwide publishing... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Former prime minister David Cameron will launch a withering attack on his former colleague Michael Gove in his upcoming memoir, according to the Sunday Times. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2018-08-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The fourth instalment of Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series is set for release on 18th September, J K Rowling has revealed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Even when they’re central to the story, women over 40 are getting pushed to one side when it’s time to design the book jacketHere’s a challenge for you: find a book jacket that features an image of a woman over 40. My own hunt – as yet unsuccessful – was prompted by the actor and novelist... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Sunday Times profiled members of Generation Identity and made them look like members of a boyband. This dangerous trend of humanising extremists must stopFascism is all the rage these days. Hate is haute, white nationalism is the new black and neo-nazism never looked so good. So the Sunday... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2018-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Novelist who began writing to relieve the stress of her psychiatry job says literary success will not stop her listening to ‘real voices’ in hospitalA bestselling debut novelist who wrote her book in a hospital car park as stress release from her job as a psychiatrist is to return to the NHS.... Continue reading at The Guardian
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The chief arts writer for the Sunday Times, Ireland, Eithne Shortall, is publishing a romantic comedy with Atlantic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Trapeze has acquired "heartbreaking yet life-affirming" debut We Own the Sky by Luke Allnutt in a five-way auction. Sam Eades, senior commissioning editor at Trapeze, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the debut, which was discovered on the slush pile by Juliet Mushens at UTA, for a figure... Continue reading at The Bookseller
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Peter James, Sharon Bolton and "Robert Galbraith" were among the authors honoured at the second annual Dead Good Reader Awards 2016 at the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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