Sarah Perry

Oct 23, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Sarah Perry |Hilary Mantel |Shehan Karunatilaka |George Saunders

From folklore with added fright factor to otherworldly modern tales, we present a selection of titles from the Booker Library that tap into our darkest fears of spectres and spirits Written by Donna Mackay-Smith Publication date and time: Published October 23, 2024‘Ghost stories,’ as Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black, once said, ‘are a way of exploring the boundaries between life and death, between the known and the unknown, between order and chaos’.

Jun 4, 2024 | thestate.com | Sally Franson |Sarah Perry |David Wroblewski |Akwaeke Emezi

From Nigeria to Sweden to seedy L.A., this summer's literary fiction and mysteries/thrillers provide exciting escapes. Big in SwedenBy Sally FransonMariner | Out July 2American Paulie Johansson never thought about auditioning for reality TV but when a friend encourages her to try out for a Swedish genealogy competition, she makes a drunken video and is chosen to participate. The winner gets to meet long-lost relatives, an appealing prize because Paulie isn't close to her own family.

May 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Sarah Perry

In 2014, with the publication of her elegant, haunting debut, After Me Comes the Flood, it became immediately apparent that Sarah Perry was an extraordinary new talent to reckon with in English fiction. The novel, a powerful and mysterious fable about trust and deception that got far less attention than it deserved, was followed two years later by the bestseller The Essex Serpent, named Fiction Book of the Year and Overall Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2017.

Apr 15, 2024 | booklistonline.com | Sarah Perry

June 2024. 384p. Mariner, $28 (9780063352612). REVIEW. First published April 15, 2024 (Booklist). Perry’s (The Essex Serpent, 2017; Melmoth, 2018) stunning, multilayered novel returns to the Essex countryside. Taking place across three decades, it centers on three distinct characters. Writer and columnist Thomas Hart lives two lives in the 1990s, one in London in the company of other men and the other in the company of God in the small town of Aldleigh.

Mar 5, 2024 | yahoo.com | Sarah Perry

Gabriel García Márquez, who died in the spring of 2014 at the age of 87, has published a new novel, Until August. This is perfectly in keeping for a writer for whom time and mortality were always subordinate to story. Yet the circumstances of the novel’s publication invite scrutiny. Marquez – a Nobel laureate; “the greatest Colombian who ever lived”; “Gabo” to his disciples – had begun to suffer from dementia by the time Memories of My Melancholy Whores was published in 2004.