Long-listed for the prestigious Man Booker Prize, Siri Hustvedt’s The Blazing World has been publicised across the US as her best novel yet. Publisher, Simon & Schuster describes it as “a masterful novel about perception, prejudice, desire, and one woman’s struggle to be seen”. Certainly it is a provocative story. Artist Harriet Burden, who, after […]
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Christmas in the Snow is the latest novel by Karen Swan who is best known for Christmas at Tiffany’s and Christmas at Claridge’s. Published by Pan Macmillan, Swan has come up with another spellbinding story. Set in glamorous locations such as Zermatt and taking the reader through a series of heart-breaking twists, Christmas in the […]
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The Long Haul. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is the ninth book in this series of children’s books written and illustrated by American author and cartoonist, Jeff Kinney. Published by Penguin the latest book is about a family road trip. Normally this is supposed to be a lot of fun but of course this story […]
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Seventeen Coffins, Philip Caveney, Fledgling Press From the author of the Sebastian Darke thrillers and Crow Boy comes an exciting novel that both teens and adults will enjoy. Seventeen Coffins is the second book in the Crow Boy series and stars Tom Afflick and his mysterious Plague Doctor. Tom is drawn back to Edinburgh. At […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
The Edge of Eternity by Ken Follet has once again risen to the top of Payot’s best seller list. So, to avoid tedious repetition, we look instead at number 2 on the list, Michael Connelly’s The Burning Room published last week by Little, Brown and Company. Set in the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, a man succumbs […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Gray Mountain by John Grisham and published by Doubleday enters Payot’s top 10 bestseller list at number one. Not surprising given the author’s stellar reputation for weaving a right ripping yarn. His latest legal thriller focuses on a young female protagonist dispatched through redundancy to a legal aid centre in a small Virginia town, dependent […]
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Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe, published by Penguin. Expo 58 enters the Payot best seller list at number 1. The Atomium, built for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels, is the setting for Jonathan Coe’s latest thriller. Coe, author of the hugely successful The Rotters’ Club has received widespread acclaim for what Robert McCrum in […]
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Gone Girl is a thriller by American writer Gillian Flynn. Published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012, it soon made the New York Times best seller list. The novel’s sense of suspense comes from uncertainty about the main character, Nick Dunne, and whether he is involved in the disappearance of his wife. Reviewers have […]
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban Hardcover – Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. In 2012, when she was fifteen, she paid dearly for her beliefs. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while on the bus home from school. Miraculously she recovered after arduous surgery in the UK. Her ordeal failed to silence her and she has become a pre-eminent ambassador for women’s rights and education. In October she was awarded the Nobel Peace prize. This is her story.
