POPSUGAR

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Before I knew which lady on Sex and the City I was (Carrie, like everyone else), I knew which member of The Baby-Sitters Club I identified with most. (Stacey McGill, obviously.) I read all of Ann M. Martin's books about Stacey and her friends Claudia

Entertainment Weekly

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PAGES 348 | GENRE Fiction REVI EW BY Leah Greenblatt @Leahbats LET US NOW PRAISE DIFFICULT books: the ones whose refusal to play by the conventional rules of form and storytelling confound and dazzle us, and maybe even aim to drive us a little bit

India Today

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At the centre of Poomani's novel, Heat, is Chidambaram, a boy who, in an act of daring and planning beyond his years, strikes down his elder brother's killer, Vadakkuraan. A powerful land-grabber, Vadakkuraan is always surrounded by his own armed men

Watch

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In this latest of the best-selling FBI Thriller series, agents Savich and Sherlock are solving their most twisted case yet, involving a missing CIA analyst and a kidnapper with powerful connections. For nearly a decade, Taddeo followed three American

TIME

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JENNIFER EGAN JOINED THE WHO’S WHO of American letters in 2011 when she won a Pulitzer for A Visit From the Goon Squad, an interlinked-story-collection-as-novel that bucked more than a few conventions. Her new novel Manhattan Beach is more convention

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Valeria Luiselli PAGES 375 GENRE Fiction HOWEVER WE DECIDE WHAT defines a Great American Novel in 2019, it must feel a lot like what’s inside Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive. Not only because the narrative unfolds across a literal r

WHO

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The best-selling author of Before I Let You Go has just released her new novel, Truths I Never Told You, about a woman who unravels a family mystery. Rimmer, 39, tells WHO about the book that … … first captured her imagination as a young child It

Woman & Home

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In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, dramatic events mark the relationship between governess Jane and gruff Edward Rochester. They do marry, but only after facing a series of challenges that include a hidden wife locked in an attic, a devastating fire i

The Millions

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This month marks the entrée of two newcomers. The post The Millions Top Ten: September 2017 appeared first on The Millions.

New Idea

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Natalie Portman is reading Normal People by Sally Rooney. The award-winning novel is a portrait of Connell and Marianne’s relationship, from their life as teenagers in a small Irish town to when they move to Dublin for uni. ■

SFX

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RELEASED 3 MARCH 304 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Sara Holland Publisher Bloomsbury Adolescence is hard enough at the best of times, but throw in a murdered brother, a mother on death row and a high school full of bullies that really don’t apprecia

The Millions

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No matter how busy I get with teaching or writing, I squeeze in some time for leisure reading. It’s imperative. And I don’t guilt myself for doing so! The post A Year in Reading: De’Shawn Charles Winslow appeared first on The Millions.

Woman's Weekly

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Growing up, sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina were never close, but, respecting their mother’s dying wishes, they travel to India together to carry out the final rites. In a life-affirming read that’s emotional and humorous, we see tensions play out

WHO

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Laced with her usual quirky humour, sass and darkly charming tone, Australian author Sally Hepworth brings her latest tome – tipped to be her breakout – to shelves. Delivering a knockout novel about the lies that bind two sisters, Hepworth tells the

SFX

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RELEASED 7 MAY 596 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Nick Martell Publisher Gollancz It’s a bold move to have the protagonist of a novel introduce their tale by describing it as “the greatest story ever told”, but Nick Martell’s fantasy adventure falls f

WHO

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Linney’s big break came when she starred with Chloe Webb and Marcus D’Amico (above) in the 1993 miniseries Tales of the City. She reprised her role as Mary Ann Singleton in the 2019 Netflix revival. The series is based on novels by Armistead Maupin,

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 352 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Eeleen Lee Publisher Rebellion It’s always interesting to imagine a future at a time when it’s no longer fresh and new, and in Liquid Crystal Nightingale Eeleen Lee takes us to the human colony of

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Today, NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari offers an appreciation of fiction f

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Born in Wellington, she now lives in Melbourne, working as a newspaper journalist. This is her first novel. This novel was inspired by… “My career as a journalist and by my extended family. My great, big, fat, political, union, social-justice family

Literary Hub

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Eileen Myles’ Afterglow is available now from Grove Atlantic. What was the first book you fell in love with? Little Women: because there was both a female writer, Jo, in it and there was a rich boy, Laurie, I longed to be. Name a classic you feel gui

The Millions

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After six months of smashing success on our list, The Practicing Stoic surely becomes the first philosopher's resource to grace our Hall of Fame. The post The Millions Top Ten: November 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

SFX

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Novels getting another run-out this month include Alastair Reynolds’s SHADOW CAPTAIN 5 September, Gollancz), the follow-up to his Firefly-esque pirates-inspace book Revenger. It continues the adventures of sisters Adrana and Fura Ness, as they’re pur

Cricket Magazine

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A house painter named Mr. Popper dreams of being an Antarctic explorer. When he gets a penguin, his dream comes true. Soon one penguin turns into two, and soon a dozen penguins are in the household. It’s too expensive to take care of ten babies, so M

Woman & Home

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Writing about relationships, bestselling novelist Sarah Morgan now has more than 80 contemporary romance novels to her name. Her latest, Family for Beginners (£7.99, HQ), focuses on second chances. Ideas often come to me at inconvenient moments. Fo

Texas Monthly

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(RIVERHEAD BOOKS, OCTOBER 27) Narrated in alternating sections by Mike and Benson, a mixed-race couple living in Houston’s Third Ward, Washington’s first novel explores love, forgiveness, estranged parents, and the power of meals to connect people.

Woman & Home

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Kids love adventure stories, and what an adventure this is! As a young boy is caught up in an investigation on a train to Scotland, will the thief be caught before they reach the end of the line? Based on a true story from his childhood, Michael Morp

Woman & Home Feel Good You

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JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë I first read this when I was nine and it terrified me. We’d just moved into a Victorian house, where my bedroom was in the attic. I was convinced Bertha Mason lived in the box room and would set fire to me each night. Th

Writing Magazine

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‘When I read the submission draft of How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, I was drawn by the immediacy of Lala’s story, the awful brutality that she, her mother and grandmother all endure in different ways, and their stoicism and honesty and ca

Literary Hub

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Scott Turow’s latest book, Testimony, is available now from Grand Central.  What was the first book you fell in love with? The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, which I read during one of my many malingering periods of absence from grade school at the

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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1 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is the best-selling individual novel of all time, with sales of 120m. Second with 85m sales is: a. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown b. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger c. The Lion, the Witch and the War