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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cbc.ca | Teresa Wong |Paula Hawkins |Deborah Levy |Déborah Levy |Anne Hawk
Check out some of the books discussed on national CBC Radio programs between Nov. 19-26 2024. All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa WongAll Our Ordinary Stories is a graphic memoir by Teresa Wong. (Arsenal Pulp Press, Kaitlin Moerman)Heard on: Bookends with Mattea RoachIn the graphic memoir All Our Ordinary Stories, Teresa Wong uses spare black-and-white illustrations and thought-provoking prose to unpack how intergenerational trauma and resilience can shape our identities.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Cynthia M. Weiner |Kristin Hannah |Paula Hawkins
Carefully paced and beautifully written, this edgy coming-of-age novel succeeds on all counts. An 18-year-old girl in Manhattan faces the troubled summer of 1986. In an author’s note prefacing her terrific debut, Weiner explains that she was inspired by her experiences during the summer of what became known as the Preppy Murder in Central Park.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Richard Price |Kristin Hannah |Paula Hawkins
An affecting novel by a literary urbanologist in top form. A group portrait of Harlem residents in the aftermath of a five-story tenement collapse in 2008 that mysteriously changes the life of a survivor. Thirty-six hours after the event, workers pull from the rubble 42-year-old Anthony Carter, an unemployed biracial schoolteacher and recovering coke addict. In the days—and daze—that follows, he doesn’t find religion as much as it finds him in the form of a female prophet.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
jhunewsletter.com | Paula Hawkins |Timothy Mcshea
As October comes to a close, we are on the precipice of the spookiest of nights. Some delight in this atmosphere, while others are more content to cower in their rooms with a good movie; yet still, others were just reminded that Halloween is this week, and are currently scrolling Amazon for costume pieces with same-day delivery.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
arcamax.com | Paula Hawkins |Pete Tamburro |Holiday Mathis |Jase Graves
MINNEAPOLIS -- Early word on Paula Hawkins’ latest, “The Blue Hour,” compares it to Agatha Christie. But when the “The Girl on the Train” novelist hears it likened to Daphne Du Maurier, instead, she immediately concurs. “I certainly had those stories in my head,” said Hawkins of Du Maurier, whose novels include “The Birds,” “Rebecca” and “Jamaica Inn” (all of which became Alfred Hitchcock films).
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
startribune.com | Chris Hewitt |Paula Hawkins
Early word on Paula Hawkins’ latest, “The Blue Hour,” compares it to Agatha Christie. But when the “The Girl on the Train” novelist hears it likened to Daphne Du Maurier, instead, she immediately concurs. “I certainly had those stories in my head,” said Hawkins of Du Maurier, whose novels include “The Birds,” “Rebecca” and “Jamaica Inn” (all of which became Alfred Hitchcock films).
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
penguinrandomhouse.co.za | Paula Hawkins
Please talk about how you build suspense in your stories? You create suspense when the reader knows something which the characters do not; you create suspense through anticipation. So the trick is to give the reader an indication of where you are going without giving them all the details, without giving them the what, where, when and how. That is what compels people to turn the page.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Jodi Picoult |Cecelia Ahern |Paula Hawkins |Kate Mosse
‘Super Thursday is the industry’s annual heaviest publication day, with nearly 1,900 books due to be published this 10th October, 457 of which are hardbacks.’ – The Bookseller. But it is not only Super Thursday that publishes a bevy of literary gems. The autumn is filled with highly anticipated page-turners some of which are already available. With so many wonderful books heading to a bookshop near you it can be difficult to decide which ones to spend your valuable time reading.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Paula Hawkins |Sally Rooney |Liz Moore
This propulsive thriller twists into the dark and bloody underbelly of the world of fine art. The discovery that a revered artist’s sculpture contains a human bone sets off scandal and violence. Art historian James Becker has what seems like a sweet deal. He’s the curator of the collection of the Fairburn Foundation, housed at a stately home owned by the Lennox family: Sebastian, Becker’s best friend, and his bitter mother, Lady Emmeline.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Paula Hawkins |Sally Rooney
This propulsive thriller twists into the dark and bloody underbelly of the world of fine art. The discovery that a revered artist’s sculpture contains a human bone sets off scandal and violence. Art historian James Becker has what seems like a sweet deal. He’s the curator of the collection of the Fairburn Foundation, housed at a stately home owned by the Lennox family: Sebastian, Becker’s best friend, and his bitter mother, Lady Emmeline.
