Tag: literary
Author Talk: Overby Explores Tech World in The Cyclone Release
Interview: The Cyclone Release, Bruce Overby, Madville Publishing – Driven by the adage “write what you know” and drawing from his own experience living and working in what is now known as Silicon Valley, Bruce Overby offers an intimate look into the exciting world of tech and the personal lives of the people who drive that world.
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Interview: Frank Explores Memory and Friendship in Juniper Street
Interview: Joan Frank’s latest work Juniper Street offers a visceral portrait of female friendship and it’s after effects. Told in a series of short snapshot-like vignettes,
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Books to Read: Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman, Lucy Worsley, Pegasus Crime – A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural historian Lucy Worsley.
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Young Japanese Girl Struggles for Identity in WWII
Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie, Dutton – Eight-year-old Nori is dropped off by her mother at the estate of the grandparents she never knew she had. For three years, she lives in their attic, suffering acid baths to lighten her skin and beatings with a wooden spoon.
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The Winter Sister by Megan Collins
The Winter Sister, Megan Collins, Atria Books – Sixteen years ago, Sylvie’s sister, Persephone, never came home. Out late with the boyfriend she was forbidden to see, Persephone was missing for three days before her body was found—and years later, her murder is still unsolved.
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The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
The Turn of the Key, Ruth Ware, Gallery Scout Press – From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware’s highly anticipated fifth novel.
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Australian Boy’s Coming of Age Story, a Wild Ride
Boy Swallows Universe, Trent Dalton, Harper Collins – To say that 12-year-old Eli Bell lives an unusual life would be a gross understatement. His brother, Gus, communicates by writing words in the air, some of which seem prophetic …
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The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag
The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag, Atria Books – One morning in the autumn of 1793, watchman Mikel Cardell is awakened from his drunken slumber with reports of a body seen floating in the Larder, once a pristine lake on Stockholm’s Southern Isle, now a rancid bog.
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Sally Koslow’s Another Side of Paradise: The Fitzgerald-Graham Romance
Another Side of Paradise, Sally Koslow, Harper Collins – Already an experienced writer, having worked as a journalist and editor-in-chief of McCall’s Magazine, Sally Koslow found herself out of a job.
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Acclaimed Novelist/Screenwriter MacLaverty Sees Fiction as Made-up Truth
Midwinter Break, Bernard MacLaverty, Vintage – Bernard MacLaverty’s latest novel Midwinter Break, winner of the Irish Book Awards 2017, reminds readers why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers alive.
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Winter Sister by Robin Oliveria
Winter Sisters, Robin Oliveira, Random House – Robin Oliveira’s haunting thriller, “Winter Sisters,” loosely based on a 19th-century historic snowstorm that buried Albany, New York, also shines light on early 20th-Century age-of-consent and sexual-assault laws.
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Limelight by Amy Poeppel
Book Review: Limelight, Amy Poeppel, Atria Books – Allison Brinkley, who has just moved from Dallas to New York City, gets a dose of big-city driving when she crashes into an unoccupied BMW while retrieving her child at school.
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