Graham Swift is an English novelist who has been influenced by the magic realism of Borges, Marquez and Grass. His successful fiction Last Orders and Waterland have both been filmed. He has been the winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The James Tait Black Memorial Prize and The Booker Prize. In Mothering Sunday, Swift takes […]
Have you ever been in a relationship, or even upgraded the bond into the social institution called marriage? How is it going? Every relationship has a history as it meets inevitable stresses, external and internal. Alain de Botton’s (http://alaindebotton.com/) new novel charts the marriage of Rabih and Kirsten from the first flowering of attraction and the
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Rebecca Mackenzie (http://www.rebeccamackenzie.com/about/) is the daughter of missionaries, growing up in 1980s Bangkok, the Malaysian jungle and the tea hills of southern India. Returning to Scotland she completed her education, and at seventeen moved to London to study Religion, History and Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies. In a Land of Paper Gods is her debut novel. The summary
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Clive Cussler (http://clive-cussler-books.com/clive-cusslers-biography/) is well loved by his legion of devoted readers. His detective Isaac Bell is back for the ninth time in this new adventure blockbuster. The summary is as follows. It is 1906 and in New York City the Italian crime group known as the Black Hand is on a menacing spree: kidnapping, extortion,
New Jersey based Harlan Coben (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_coben, http://www.harlancoben.com/) has a dedicated following for his taut, fast-paced mystery and thriller novels. He won the 1996 Anthony Award in the “Best Paperback original” category for his début novel Deal Breaker, which also received an Edgar award nomination in the same category. His addictive fiction has been flowing ever since. Why not
Anthony Quinn (http://unitedagents.co.uk/anthony-quinn) was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 to 2014 he was the film critic of the Independent. He is the author of four very successful novels: The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, Half of the Human Race, The Streets, which was shortlisted for the 2013
Many authors have had interesting and varied careers before being able to write full time. Stephen Leather (http://www.stephenleather.com/) is one of them. He has been employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, been a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, a journalist, and worked for the Inland Revenue. Leather has published an
Andrew Grant (http://www.andrewgrantbooks.com/) , the younger brother of bestselling thriller writer Lee Child, has scorched onto the crime fiction scene with 4 novels since 2009. In False Positive, Alabama detective Cooper Devereaux makes no apologies for his luxury lifestyle or the way he does his job. Most cops haven’t lived the kind of life he has
Helen Dunmore (http://www.helendunmore.com/) is a prolific and well loved writer across a range of categories – novels, young adult fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, short stories and essays. Her latest novel, Exposure (2016), is ideal as a winter read. With the world closed down outside, let Dunmore and your imagination transport you fully to a different world. That
