Woman & Home

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Sunday Times bestselling author Miranda Dickinson’s latest novel, The Day We Meet Again (HQ), is a love story we can all connect with on some level. I’m a bit of magpie so there are always snippets of real life that I weave into the story. Characte

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

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

Marie Claire Australia

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GIRL OF THE MOMENT Put this debut author at the top of your reading pile Nine is Kiley Reid’s number. It is the number of years she lived in New York City as a babysitter, spending her evenings hugging other people’s children goodnight. It’s the numb

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing Magazine

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Win $500 for a 100-word book blurb in The QueryLetter.com Writing Contest. To enter, send a book blurb (up to 100 words) for a hypothetical novel, setting the stage, establishing the characters and raising the stakes so readers want to read on. One w

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 Listener

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Bernard Beckett began writing The Tunnel of Dreams a few years back as bedtime reading for his twin boys, completing a section each day. The novel opens with twins Arlo and Stefan deciding to investigate an abandoned house late at night. They spot a

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

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

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

SFX

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RELEASED 4 FEBRUARY 336 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author TL Huchu Publisher Tor The first book in this new series from TL Huchu features one of the strangest and most compelling fantasy worlds you’ll see all year. Set in Edinburgh on a world t

Woman

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It’s Christmas 1845, and the Bronte sisters are back as amateur detectives when they discover the bones of a child have been found in the walls of a local house. It’s not long before they’re on to a trail of other lost children. An absolute treat for

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

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

Woman & Home

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Set in Cornwall in the winter of 1972, three lighthouse keepers seemingly vanish from a locked tower 15 miles out to sea during a storm. But what really happened? Inspired by a real story, this beautifully written novel alternates between the narrati

Writing Magazine

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‘I hadn’t intended to write The Death of Mungo Blackwell for at least three more years. My agent had been actively shopping my indie-published series for middle grade readers with no success. The market just wasn’t acquiring middle grade. My agent re

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

Literary Hub

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Gre Iles most recent book, Mississippi Blood, concludes his Natchez Burning trilogy. What was the first book you fell in love with? Arty the Smarty by Faith McNulty. I was three or four years old when I read that, and it shaped me as a writer. It’s