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Jan 21, 2025 | 
newspub.live | Matthew Quirk |Arthur Doyle |Dav Pilkey |Helen Fielding
Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday The Athletic discusses three of the biggest questions posed by the weekend’s Premier League action. During this set of fixtures, Darwin Nunez rebooted his navigation software to lift Liverpool past Brentford, Arsenal gave up a late two-goal lead over Aston Villa to lose ground, Nottingham Forest continued to thrill, Manchester City romped back into the top four and the bottom three all lost (again).
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
entertainment-mag.com | Matthew Quirk |Arthur Doyle |Dav Pilkey |Helen Fielding
New Year, new reading goals. It’s that season again when anything feels possible: Maybe this is the year you’ll finally tackle that dust-laden copy of “Infinite Jest” sitting on your shelf, or earn your “I finished ‘The Power Broker’” mug. And for binge watchers, it’s also the perfect chance to study up by diving into the books that are being adapted into movies and TV shows in 2025. Here are some of the thrillers, romances, sci-fi page turners and detective novels coming soon to a screen near you.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
audible.com | Laura Sackton |Hans Christian Andersen |Louisa May Alcott |Arthur Doyle
The holiday season is a time to embrace joy, togetherness, and the warmth of storytelling. Whether you’re decorating your home, cooking festive meals, or relaxing with loved ones, audiobooks offer a perfect way to enhance the magic of the season. These selections celebrate the diverse ways people mark this special time, from the humor of holiday memoirs to enchanting classics and romances that capture the heart of winter.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
hatchards.co.uk | Andrew Roberts |Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris
A signed and numbered limited edition of Andrew Roberts's acclaimed biography, to mark the 150th anniversary of Churchill's birth'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world. There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Sonia Purnell |Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris
From Bill Clinton to Gloria Steinem, Harriman met and influenced the trajectories of many important figures in the 20th century. But as the wife of Randolph Churchill Jr and the daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill, Harriman was often overshadowed. This biography restores her to her rightful place in history. A standard edition is available here. Browse our Signed & Luxury Editions page.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
hatchards.co.uk | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris |Beatrix Potter
We are delighted to welcome Harriet Constable here to Hatchards for an evening in celebration of The Instrumentalist, her glorious new novel set in early 18th-century Venice. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away. At the Ospedale della Pietà, abandoned orphan girls are posted every through a tiny gap in the wall every day.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris |Beatrix Potter
We are delighted to welcome bestselling author Sonia Purnell to Hatchards to discuss Kingmaker, her fascinating new biography of Pamela Churchill Harriman. When Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and often downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true legacy.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
destructoid.com | J.K. Rowling |Neil Gaiman |Terry Pratchett |Arthur Doyle
Good fiction often stands out thanks to the humanity it captures within the pages of a book, and nothing will drive that so powerfully home as a deep sense of camaraderie between characters. It’s time to dig into a few examples of great works of fiction with a focus on friendship and the bonds that drive people to loyalty and sacrifice.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
indochinatown.com | Kathy Reichs |Arthur Doyle |Craig Johnson |Jeff Lindsay
TV detective shows often originate from crime books, with some featuring iconic duos rather than singular main characters. Adapted from books, popular detective shows likeBones andSherlock maintained audience interest with gripping storylines. Characters like Temperance Brennan and Sherlock Holmes made successful transitions from novels to the TV screen. Some of the very best detective TV shows to have ever graced the TV screen were adapted from crime books.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
hatchards.co.uk | Agatha Christie |Arthur Doyle |Jan Morris |Beatrix Potter
Richard Flanagan on Question 7: HG Wells, Hiroshima and How to LiveOn this episode, we were joined by Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan to discuss his fascinating new memoir, Question 7, a meditation on the decisions that we make and the reverberating effects that these choices can have on the course of history. Richard spoke to us about why he feels that books must exist outside the moral grammar, and why good readers are as important as good writers.
