Tag Archives: fiction

More from Maeve

Posted on 21 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

It doesn’t seem that long ago that Maeve Binchy was regretfully informing her public that she would write no more. After the announcement, she released two more novels with then-publisher Dutton and lapsed into silence for 3 years. Whatever Knopf … Continue reading →

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Alice Hoffman’s ‘Red Garden’

Posted on 20 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

I know there are some Alice Hoffman fans among the Book Case readers, so we had to share when we heard that she’s publishing a new novel on January 25, 2011. The Red Garden (Crown) sounds like classic Hoffman—small town, … Continue reading →

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Big news for Janet Evanovich fans

Posted on 16 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Some of you expressed strong opinions (mostly negative) when we posted about Katherine Heigl getting tapped to play Stephanie Plum in the film adaptation of Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money. So we thought you’d be interested in this picture … Continue reading →

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Murder in Music City

Posted on 15 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Nashville author Bente Gallagher has written three books in a “Do-It-Yourself” cozy mystery series for Berkley under the name Jennie Bentley. This month, she hits bookstore shelves for the first time under her own name with A Cutthroat Business, a … Continue reading →

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Feeling French on Bastille Day?

Posted on 14 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

As a Francophile who welcomes any excuse for a summertime celebration, le quatorze juillet is one of my favorite holidays. To commemorate the French fete nationale, pour a kir or other apèro and sit down with one of these reading … Continue reading →

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‘Wizard of Oz’ gets the classic treatment at ALA

Posted on 12 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

This year, there was a little something extra going on at the American Library Association’s annual conference. Random House Audio’s Listening Library decided to have an open call to let fans read a page of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz … Continue reading →

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Lionel Shriver to take on immigration next?

Posted on 9 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

If you thought Lionel Shriver couldn’t come up with a more provocative topic than health care to use as inspiration for fiction, think again—the author is planning to frame her next book around the issue of immigration. In a March … Continue reading →

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Nicole Krauss’s favorite author is not who you might expect

Posted on 8 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

We’ve written about blurbs here on The Book Case before, most recently when our editor Lynn Green admitted that in spite of some skepticism, they led to her discover of A Mountain of Crumbs. The blurb making the rounds this … Continue reading →

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Karen Russell returns with a first novel

Posted on 7 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

One of the most promising short-story collections in recent years hit bookstores in September 2006. Karen Russell’s St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves was as creepy and magical as the title implies, collecting 10 eerie tales set in … Continue reading →

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Monday Contest: ‘Twice Bitten’

Posted on 5 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Hope everyone had a good time celebrating July 4! BookPage is closed today in honor of the holiday, but author Chloe Neill is stepping in with a guest post for today’s Monday contest. Neill writes the Chicagoland Vampires and the … Continue reading →

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Book Club Top Pick: ‘Her Fearful Symmetry’

Posted on 1 July 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time-Traveler’s Wife has become a modern book club classic. Our book club columnist Julie Hale thinks Niffenegger’s follow up, the creepy Gothic tale Her Fearful Symmetry, which has just been released in paperback, will prove just as … Continue reading →

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First lines: Jan Karon’s ‘In the Company of Others’

Posted on 30 June 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Some of you were pretty psyched when we posted about Jan Karon’s In the Company of Others back in April. So when the galley came in today’s mailbag, I felt like I had to share the opening lines with you: … Continue reading →

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What we’re reading Wednesday: Emma Donoghue’s ‘Room’

Posted on 30 June 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Room by Emma Donoghue Little, Brown • $24.99 • September 13, 2010 As a longtime fan of Emma Donoghue, I was eager to read Room the moment I heard about it. I took a copy home over the weekend, but didn’t … Continue reading →

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Best book deal summary of the week goes to . . .

Posted on 24 June 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Kiera Cass, who has sold three books in a YA series pitched “as The Hunger Games meets “The Bachelor,” following a 17-year-old, one of the eligible young women selected to compete to become the next queen, who finds herself falling … Continue reading →

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Ann Patchett and the Amazon

Posted on 23 June 2010 by Trisha, Managing Editor

Another author with a Nashville connection made news today: Ann Patchett has completed and sold a new novel to Harper for publication in 2011. The new book is described as “Conradian” and is set in the Amazon jungle, where two … Continue reading →

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