Americanah is a novel by Nigerian author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Published by Fourth Estate, it tells the story of two young Nigerian lovers forced to leave Nigeria to start separate new lives in America and England. They return to Nigeria years later and are drawn back together. Americanah was selected as one of the 10 […]
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International best-selling author, Jo Nesbo’s latest novel The Son (published by Vintage) is a fast-paced stand-alone novel that tells the corruption-ridden story of wrongly imprisoned Sonny Loftus and his quest for revenge against Oslo’s organised criminal bosses. Rank Title Author Published By Genre 1 The Son Nesbo, Jo Vintage Fiction Paperback 2 The Long Haul. […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Voted “Book of the Year” by UK bookseller, Waterstones, The Miniaturist, published by Picador, is the highly acclaimed debut novel by Jessie Burton. Set in 1686 in Amsterdam, the book tells the story of 18-year-old Nella Oortman who arrives at the grand house of her new husband, the wealthy merchant Johannes Brandt. The marriage is […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
World Order by Henry Kissinger and published by Penguin is described as “the summation of Henry Kissinger’s thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. Now 91, Kissinger, the former US secretary of state, has never lacked a strategy. However, his thoughtful new book aims not so much to advocate specific policies as to portray the shape […]
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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 […]
