New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Want to make There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job your next book club read? Here are some talking points to spark a discussion. • Does this novel have a message for its readers? If so, what do you think it is? • Was there a job that our narrator tack

WHO

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Hilderbrand’s latest novel is perfect for cosy weekend reading. This time she focuses on former lovers who now lead separate lives but share an island idyll once a year. Captivating and bittersweet. (Available Jul. 23) Inseparable twins Stella and

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The two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author turns his attention to the settling of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. McCullough focuses on the story of five pioneers, drawing upon their journals and letters to create a thrilling portray

Psychologies

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Adelightful,discombobulating read from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It’s set in a dreamlike house inhabited by the singular and self-sufficient Piranesi, who is not sure how he got there or who he is. Attempting to unravel his story

TIME

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The narrator of Courtney Maum’s third novel, Costalegre, is desperate for her mother’s attention. It’s 1937, and 15-year-old Lara Calaway is moping around the southwestern coast of Mexico. Her mother Leonora, a wealthy modern-art collector, has invit

The Millions

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Benjamin Dreyer graduates to our Hall of Fame, making room for new Colson Whitehead, while Sally Rooney pulls off the extremely rare double listing. The post The Millions Top Ten: July 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

WHO

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From one of the UK’s best writers – William Boyd penned the 2002 best-seller Any Human Heart and 2018’s Love Is Blind – comes Trio, his 16th novel. It’s the captivating story of three people (a producer, a novelist and an actress) living secret lives

India Today

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The creeping devastation of a beautiful land is a story that resonates everywhere in India. Sudeep Chakravarti's novel is set in Goa, but its rapacious developers, mournful lookers-back, see-no-evil bystanders and raging activists might be from anywh

The Millions

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This year I read too many wonderful books to name all of them here, but some highlights were: Katie Kitamura’s intoxicating A Separation, which is such a wild and yet disciplined exploration of the idea of the traveler and of grief. Anuk Arudpragasam

You South Africa

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EMMANUEL CASTIS sure knows how to sweep a woman off her feet. The Trackers actor proposed to his long-term partner SHARLENE ECONOMOU, at the luxury Komati George Lodge in Mpumalanga in front of her family and friends last month. The couple have been

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BRITISH NOVELIST LISA Jewell first hit it big writing so-called chick lit (a term, for the record, that she actively dislikes). But nearly two decades after her breakout debut novel, the rom-commy best-seller Ralph’s Party, she’s set her sights on wr

The Atlantic

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Welcome back to the Books Briefing. This week’s edition focuses on characters who spend their time taking care of other people—a role that sometimes renders their own needs invisible. In the novels below, the sometimes beautiful, sometimes fraught dy

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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Hill Women by Cassie Chambers (Ballantine Books) Before graduating from Yale College and Harvard Law School, Cassie Chambers grew up in the hollers of Eastern Kentucky. Surrounded by poverty and decay, Chambers managed to beat the odds and explore li

WHO

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If you couldn’t get enough of Kevin Kwan’s hit Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, then you’re in for a treat with his latest literary adventure, Sex and Vanity. Here, the author talks to WHO about his favourite reads and what to expect from his newest novel.

TIME

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Like many of his novels, Spanish author Javier Marías’ new book, Thus Bad Begins, isn’t exactly a mystery, though it is mysterious. Here, the 65-year-old perennial Nobel favorite tells the story of Juan de Vere, a young man working for a film directo

New Zealand Listener

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Two books have stood out above others for most of my life, though a third choice has to be selected from about 20 competing titles of varying kinds. But all the favourite re-reads of books I most admire do share a delicious obsession with virtue, cor

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

Pick Me Up

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Release date: 14 May 2020 in eBook If you could pinpoint one author who is your inspiration, who would it be? I admire many writers, but I think my number one inspiration would have to be the wonderful Marian Keyes. I love how Marian is not afraid to

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Every so often a book comes along and changes the way you think about life. The Midnight Library is one of those. It is a parable really, a novel to make you think about the moments you regret, the missed opportunities and paths not taken. But first

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She is a British aristocrat and was a close friend of the late Princess Margaret. Her memoir Lady in Waiting was a huge bestseller. Now 88, this is her first novel. This novel was inspired by… I know the island of Mustique like the back of my hand, a

You South Africa

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This is one of those books that has arrived at the perfect time. If the pandemic has put you into a bit of a reading lull, this is the novel that will snap you out of it. It’s a book that will have you howling with laughter the one moment and wiping

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She lives in Boston and has written more than 30 novels since she began her career in her early twenties. Her stories are bestsellers and are published across the world. I wanted to write this prequel… so that I could discover more of the Owens famil

Literary Hub

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Nuruddin Farah’s latest novel, North of Dawn, is available now from Riverhead. * Who do you most wish would read your book? I would love readers not familiar with my other novels to read it, so the novel gains more readers. What do you always want to

Woman & Home

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Renowned for her twisting plots and dark-toned domestic thrillers, Louise Candlish’s latest chilling read, The Other Passenger, has an emotional secret at its core. When I start writing, I always get the first 10,000 words down so I have a good la

Total Girl

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We received so many fantastic reviews! Introducing our first lucky winner: here’s what TG reader Sasha had to say about the new book by Jacqueline Harvey! Kensy and Max 5: Freefall. I thought the book was great. Jacqueline Harvey is such an amazing

Independent on Saturday

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SOUTH African film-makers don’t often attempt period movies, so when the press release went out that Toorbos was hitting the big screen, it got noticed. Aside from the period that the story is set in, there was a fair amount of curiosity around René

Woman's Weekly

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This powerful story explores the dangerous journey taken by people trying to cross illegally from Mexico to the US. A mother and son flee their home after a cartel massacre, becoming migrants on the run. Their journey is as emotional and harrowing as

Independent on Saturday

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IT WAS quite by accident that Bridget Krone’s novel for 9- to-12-year-olds, set in Pietermaritzburg, was published after a friend submitted her manuscript to an overseas publisher after it had been rejected locally. Now, Krone is bowled over that Kir

WHO

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Bringing the masterful plotting, thrilling storytelling and emotional insight that his crime stories have become known for, New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbo delivers an electrifying standalone novel. In a rural village deep in the mountains

Woman & Home

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Former Irish journalist and bestselling novelist, Cathy Kelly is known for books full of heart and humour with strong female characters. Her new novel, Other Women, follows three women through messy marriages, families and romance. Author Neil Gaim