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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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Tag Archives: What We’re Reading Wednesday
What we’re reading Wednesday: Anthropology of an American Girl
Anthropology of an American Girl by Hilary Thayer Hamann May 25, 2010, Spiegel & Grau Hilary Thayer Hamann’s Anthropology of an American Girl was self-published in 2003 and went on to fulfill every self-published author’s dream: it became a word-of-mouth … Continue reading
What We’re Reading Wednesday: Delhi
Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity by Sam Miller St. Martin’s, July 20, 2010 I love travel writing, particularly books about India, and particularly written by William Dalrymple, whose City of Djinns—about a year spent living in Delhi—is one of my … Continue reading
What we’re reading Wednesday: Between Friends
Between Friends by Kristy Kiernan Berkley, April 2010 Kristy Kiernan’s third novel follows a contemporary family through some major turmoil. Sixteen years ago, Cora donated an egg to help Ali and Benny conceive a daughter, Letty. Now Ali wants to … Continue reading
What We’re Reading Wednesday: The Swimming Pool
The Swimming Pool by Holly LeCraw Doubleday, April 6, 2010 Holly LeCraw had me before I even opened her debut novel, The Swimming Pool. On the cover of the advance reading copy we received: raves from Anita Shreve, Tom Perrotta … Continue reading
What We’re Reading Wednesday: Faithful Place
Faithful Place by Tana French Viking, July 13, 2010 Like Tana French’s first two books, In the Woods and The Likeness (which were among my very favorite books of the last two years), Faithful Place is set in Dublin, and … Continue reading
What we're reading Wednesday: Husband and Wife
Husband and Wife by Leah Stewart Harper, May 2010 Sarah and Nathan are just your average American couple: still in love after more than 10 years together, they have a toddler daughter and an infant son; Nathan is a novelist … Continue reading
What We’re Reading Wednesday
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende Harper, April 27, 2010 I wrote about Isabel Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea two months ago, and that post has consistently showed up on our most viewed list—proof that we’ve got a lot … Continue reading
What We're Reading Wednesday
Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner May 2001, Pocket In these cold, snowy (even in Nashville!) winter months, there is nothing better than curling up in bed with a good book—and lately I’ve found myself on a chick lit kick. … Continue reading
What We're Reading Wednesday
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano Viking, March 18, 2010 Debut author (and professional physicist) Paolo Giordano’s The Solitude of Prime Numbers has been an international sensation, selling more than 1 million copies in Italy. On March 18, … Continue reading
What We're Reading Wednesday
The Magician’s Book by Laura Miller December 2008, Little, Brown Like many other bookish kids, I imprinted deeply on the Chronicles of Narnia at a young age. Laura Miller had a similar experience, perhaps even stronger; for many years, the … Continue reading
What We’re Reading Wednesday
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold July 2002, Little, Brown Alice Sebold’s bestseller and book club favorite from 2002 has received a push of renewed interest on account of Peter Jackson’s film adaptation, in theaters everywhere on Friday. Because I … Continue reading
What We're Reading Wednesday
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby September 2009, Riverhead Three members of my family gave copies of Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna for Christmas gifts this year; I had to borrow back the copy I’d given my mom in order to finish … Continue reading
What We’re Reading Wednesday
Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories by Kevin Wilson March 2009, Harper Perennial Disclaimer: I don’t read a lot of short stories. So when a friend suggested I pick up this story collection from debut author Kevin Wilson, … Continue reading
What We're Reading Wednesday
Safe From the Neighbors by Steve Yarbrough January 2010, Knopf Steve Yarbrough’s fifth novel is one of the finest examples of lovely language in fiction I’ve read all year. The vehicle for Yarbrough’s words is the story of Luke May, … Continue reading
What We're Reading Wednesday
Blackout by Connie Willis February 2010, Spectra Eileen, Polly and Mike are historians at Oxford in 2060, where a time-travel machine can send researchers into the past to study history as it happens. Eileen is observing the children evacuated to … Continue reading
