Spotlight On Oman Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies is the first novel from the Gulf to win the Man Booker International Prize—a book by a female Omani author at that, a scholar and academic. The judges called…
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Decker’s Dilemma David Baldacci’s unusual creation, Amos Decker, the man with a perfect memory, returns in the fifth book of the series—Redemption. For those who may not have encountered Decker before, a football…
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The Talking Typewriter There is a funny bit in Linwood Barclay’s A Noise Downstairs, where a man has to explain to his son what a typewriter is, because, looking at the noisy…
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All’s Well In Botswana It’s been twenty years and nineteen books—neither Alexander McCall Smith’s Botswana, nor his “traditionally built” heroine, Precious Ramotswe, have changed much. In the latest No. 1 Ladies…
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Lucky Toby Tana French, best known for her Dublin Murder Squad series, has written a stand-alone novel The Wych Elm, a richly atmospheric and very spooky suspense tale placed in the midst of a…
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The Good Father In his new standalone book, Run Away—already on top of the bestseller lists—Harlan Coben goes straight for the heart. His protagonist, Simon Greene is the fiercely devoted father, who…
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A Death Foretold Jane Harper has made the Australian outback the playground for her bestselling books—the large, flat arid land she describes thus in her latest novel The Lost Man: “The horizon…
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Wild Child It is the stuff of nightmare—a child abandoned by her family, and left to fend for herself. She lives in an isolated area by the marshes, miles away…
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The Lives Of Others A woman’s right to safe and legal medical termination of pregnancy gets the religious-minded into a funk. Even in a progressive country like America, the Catholic…
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Stormy Weather Florida is known as the pensioners’ paradise, where elderly people retire, to get the benefits of its beaches and warm weather. However in Lauren Groff’s book, made up of…