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- 12 June 2012
'The Red House' by Mark Haddon
An dazzlingly inventive novel about modern family, from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. (Doubleday)
'Heading Out to Wonderful' by Robert Goolrick
(Algonquin) The author of the smash hit A RELIABLE WIFE returns. This time, the setting is 1948 Virginia, and a mysterious man rolls into town with only two suitcases to his name. But it's when he becomes involved with the wife of the richest man in town that things really get complicated.
'Beautiful Ruins' by Jess Walter
Jess Walter's latest is a little lighter than his last two novels—it deals with Hollywood and unrequited love rather than the aftermath of 9/11 or the implications of our financial crisis. The action begins on the coast of Italy in 1962, where a young man glimpses a beautiful actress and falls in love. Fifty years later, he heads to Hollywood to find her. (Harper)
- 19 June 2012
'Mrs Robinson's Disgrace' by Kate Summerscale
From the author of the bestseller THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER comes another investigation of a famous case that shook the foundations of middle-class Victorian life. This time, it's a divorce scandal. (Walker)
- 10 July 2012
'Gold' by Chris Cleave
We can't wait for Chris Cleave's take on the friendship between two female athletes who, on the eve of the Olympics, must make a choice between their personal and professional goals. (S&S)
- 24 July 2012
'Broken Harbor' by Tana French
From the publisher: In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher Kennedy is given the case because he is the Murder squad's star detective. At first he and his rookie partner, Richie, think this is a simple one: Pat Spain was a casualty of the recession, so he killed his children, tried to kill his wife Jenny, and finished off with himself. But there are too many inexplicable details and the evidence is pointing in two directions at once. (Viking)
- 31 July 2012
'Where We Belong' by Emily Giffin
A successful TV producer in her 30s sees her life come crashing down when the child she gave up for adoption 18 years ago comes knocking on her door.
- 21 August 2012
'Winter Journal' by Paul Auster
Facing his 63rd winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful.
Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.
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Recipe of the week: Watermelon Sorbet
In case you hadn’t noticed, we really love Jeni’s ice cream and couldn’t be more delighted for our August cooking column‘s top pick, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home. The following video and this week’s recipe are great reasons to … Continue reading
What we’re reading Wednesday: ‘Life Itself: A Memoir’
Life Itself: A Memoir by Roger Ebert Grand Central • $27.99 • ISBN 9780446584975 on sale September 13, 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert has written more than 15 books, worked for the Chicago Sun Times since 1967 and … Continue reading
Trailer Tuesday: ‘Before I Go to Sleep” by S.J. Watson
It’s sinister, it’s dark — it’s everything we’d hope from a debut thriller. S.J. Watson has crafted “unquestionably a suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller” of Before I Go to Sleep (Harper). Its premise is familiar yet decidedly unique — an … Continue reading
The big dogs in sci-fi
Saturday night’s Hugo Award ceremony at the World Science Fiction Convention celebrated some fantastic authors and illustrators, not to mention lovers of sci-fi and fantasy everywhere. Check out some of the winners: Best Novel: Blackout and its sequel All Clear … Continue reading
7 questions with . . . Peter Spiegelman
Peter Spiegelman’s fourth and newest thriller, Thick as Thieves, is one of our Whodunit picks for August, and reviewer Bruce Tierney called it “genre-defining” and “twisty as a corkscrew.” No surprise there, as Spiegelman’s book is not only the story … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: No-Knead Clover Honey Dough
Heartland by Judith Fertig, one of our cookbooks from the August cooking column, celebrates good, down-home American Midwest cooking. Whoever sits at your table — whether friends, family or just you — will find bread made from fresh dough to … Continue reading
Remembering 25 years of Oprah
Big update on The Oprah Winfrey Show: Reflections on an American Legacy, which will hit stores November 15! ABRAMS and Harpo, Inc. released the cover and long list of distinguished contributors today. With a foreword by Maya Angelou, the book … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Salty Caramel Ice Cream
We have been excited about Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home (our Cookbook of the Month for August) since May—and one of our editors had some Jeni’s ice cream at Hot N Cold the day before the “rapture” (just in … Continue reading
7 questions with . . . Cindy Gerard
Our August 2011 Romance of the Month comes from Cindy Gerard‘s Black Ops series. With No Remorse stars supermodel Valentina and ex-SEAL Luke, and they find it difficult to resist each other while running for their lives. Our columnist gives … Continue reading
Trailer Tuesday: ‘The Night Train’ by Clyde Edgerton
Clyde Edgerton, mixing his trademark dark humor with Southern charm, produced “magic from mayhem” in The Bible Salesman, and Edgerton fans will find that same humor in his next novel, The Night Train (Little, Brown). It takes place in small-town … Continue reading
Weekly links
Happy Friday, book-lovers! Here are some Internet tidbits we’ve been reading this week . . . enjoy! Random House asked readers to tweet about the most undateable characters in literature using the hashtag #undateableinlit. They started it off with a … Continue reading
What happens in Vegas … makes a great romance
Rachel Gibson‘s hockey series began with her first novel in 1998, Simply Irresistible, and immediately put her on the map as a NYT and USA Today best-seller. Any Man of Mine is the final installment in the hockey series, and … Continue reading
Recipe of the week: Missouri Skillet Cornbread
One of our cookbooks from our August cooking column combines an appreciation for the amber waves of grain with being super time-friendly. Heartland by Judith Fertig “celebrates its farm-to-table traditions, grounded in the bounty of the land and laced with … Continue reading
Post-apocalyptic romance is extra hot
Karina Cooper is the author of the Dark Mission trilogy, and the first two books are tough and super-steamy. As she says on her website, they’re “Wild Turkey with a bullet in the bottom of the glass.” The first in … Continue reading
Trailer Tuesday: ‘Bed’ by David Whitehouse
Debut author David Whitehouse‘s Bed (Scribner) carries some serious weight — and not just because it tells the story of the bedridden fattest man in the world. It’s a mix of intense, eccentric characters and the “merry revelry in the … Continue reading
