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1 month ago | 
scotsman.com | Jane Bradley |Joanne Harris
Author Joanne Harris is best known for her 1999 novel, ChocolatBeselling author Joanne Harris has revealed she came up with the plot of her new book while on a journey to Scotland. Writing on social media, she said the plot of a new novel she has been working on came to her “pretty much fully formed” while she was on a “long drive” north of the border.
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Jan 5, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Joanne Harris
Home is one of those migrant words that changes meaning over the course of a life. As a child of two cultures, I was aware from an early age that I had two homes: one in England and one in France, each with its separate family, traditions, food and language. That meant I was never completely at home in any single place, but it also meant that my comfort zone could occupy multiple territories.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Joanne Harris
When I was a child, someone told me: ‘Every life is a story.’ I used to wonder what mine would be like; what adventures I would have. My favourite stories were from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which my grandfather used to read to me: Thus I imagined my own story as a forest adventure in which I would run wild with my friends. I never imagined growing old, just as I never imagined the adults around me ever being young.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Joanne Harris
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Jul. 2024.
336p.
ISBN 9781639366637. $28.95.
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With this novel, Harris (
Broken Light) demonstrates her gift for weaving grief and pain into something beautiful. When a fae king and queen’s stormy marriage shatters after their son vanishes, they both follow him to the world of the Sightless Folk. This world is a London that will be familiar to readers—except when viewed from Tom Argent’s negatives.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
readersdigest.co.uk | Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris, author of award-winning novel Chocolat, reflects on growing up in Yorkshire, writing as a child and the north-south divideReader's Digest: What was your childhood in Yorkshire like? Joanne Harris: My father was from Barnsley; my mother from Vitré, in northwestern France. Both of them were teachers at Barnsley Girls’ High School, and French was my first language, which made me a bit of an oddity in Barnsley in the Sixties.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Ian Winwood |Joanne Harris |Dorian Lynskey
Ian Winwood, right, on the publicity trail with James Smith of Yard Act My name is Ian and I am a broke author. What’s more, I don’t quite understand why. Propelled by positive reviews and strong word of mouth, my book, Bodies: Life & Death In Music, a memoir about how the rock business drives people mad, has topped the Amazon Music Business chart on five separate occasions.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Monica Heisey |Bolu Babalola |Naoise Dolan |Laura Barnett |Joanne Harris
Monica HeiseyThe author of Really Good, Actually on Being Alive from the musical Company, by Stephen SondheimMy favourite love song is maybe a little untraditional in that it’s not addressed to a specific love object. I’m sorry to say it is also a show tune, but at least it is a show tune from the best to ever do them, Stephen Sondheim.
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May 23, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Denise Mina |Christine Mangan |Carol Goodman |Joanne Harris
Mina (Rizzio) fictionalizes the life of Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), who was executed for heresy, in this vivid historical thriller. The novel opens in 1498 Florence, with Savonarola reading a coerced confession stating that he’s been lying about having the gift of prophecy. It then flashes back nearly 30 years, to when Savonarola’s hopes for marriage and a successful career as a physician are dashed, setting him on the path to religious fanaticism.
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May 15, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Joanne Harris
There’s a saying my grandmother liked to use: little girls should be seen and not heard. I internalised that idea for much of my life, but when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, something changed. Cancer took a great deal from me, but it gave me back my voice, and now I don’t think I’ll ever be silent again. I must have been a difficult child. Much of my childhood features people telling me to be quiet. Schoolteachers. Family members. The man who tried to rape me.
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May 10, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christine Mangan |Carol Goodman |Joanne Harris
Sara DiVello. Thomas & Mercer, $28.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-66251-013-7New York City’s Jazz Age comes roaring to life in this vivid mystery from DiVello (Where in the OM Am I?), which is based on a real unsolved crime. In March 1923, 27-year-old model and “gal about town” Dot King is found dead in her 57th Street apartment, and the murder becomes a tabloid obsession as the investigation stretches on for months.
