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![]() Go read the beginning of that sentence again: “pound for pound.” Because that’s the thing: size matters. Pound for pound it was as good as anything on last night’s shortlist: Alex Jennings’ The Ballad of Perilous Graves has already won the Crawford Award Ray Nayler’s fabulous exploration of alien intelligence, The Mountain in the Sea, is a great science fiction debut (and, like Spear, also on the Nebula shortlist) I haven’t read Sara Gran’s book yet but the reviews are good and George Saunders, well, he’s already won Big Lit Prizes (though I admit I didn’t even attempt to read his collection because me and his work just don’t get along). Before you roll your eyes let me say what I’ve already said a dozen times in the last month because it bears repeating: this is not false modesty. I am pleased-ha! English understatement! I am fucking thrilled, delighted, and beaming! I haven’t stopped grinning since my editor at FSG, Sean Macdonald, texted me 13 hours ago.īut I’m also surprised. Apparently it is a Queer Arthurian Masterpiece. ![]() ![]() The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were awarded last night, and Spear won the Ray Bradbury Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() I can confidently say that this is my favorite series this year. *A massive thank you to Eva Ashwood for providing me with an ARC of Beautiful Devils□ I don't know how I'm gonna survive until it comes out ajshjsksksk□ On a serious note tho, it's safe to say that Eva Ashwood has become one of my fav authors - specifically fav RH author - and I look forward to seeing Willow, Mal, Ransom and Vic's story progress□ No shit but that cliffhanger and plot twist towards the end got me like□□□. As usual, Ransom was his charming old self and had me swooning and (s)creaming haha□ Not to mention the fact that Willow became even more badass and grew into herself throughout the story. I was so happy that we got to see a different side to Vic as well. The character development - especially for Mal - in this book was top tier. I had been dying to pick up after where the first book had left off - so much so that I woke up at the ass crack of dawn to get an ARC□ (SO WORTH IT THO!) Ngl, but I gobbled this shit up in a little over 12 hours because it was so fucking good. ![]() Miss Eva Ashwood ate and left no crumbs yet again. ![]() ![]() Ian Rankin is also the recipient of honorary degrees from the universities of Abertay, St Andrews, Edinburgh, Hull and the Open University.A contributor to BBC2's Newsnight Review, he also presented his own TV series, Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts. He has also been shortlisted for the Anthony Award in the USA, won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. ![]() ![]() In 2004, Ian won America's celebrated Edgar Award. He is the recipient of four CWA Daggers including the prestigious Diamond Dagger in 2005. Read more worldwide.Ian Rankin has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987, and the Rebus books are now translated into thirty-six languages and are bestsellers. Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982, and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at Buckingham University, he lives in London with his wife, the novelist Santa Montefiore, and their two children. He has presented BBC television series on the Holy Cities of Jerusalem, Rome and Istanbul. Dr Montefiore's next major history book will be THE ROMANOVS: RISE AND FALL, 1613-1917. He is also the author of two acclaimed novels, SASHENKA and ONE NIGHT IN WINTER. ![]() JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY won the JEWISH BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE (USA). Stalin: the court of the Red Tsar, as its mildly sensationalist subtitle might suggest, is not too strong on political ideas and historical forces. In Young Stalin, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s meticulously researched, authoritative biography of Stalin’s early years, the blur comes into sharp focus. YOUNG STALIN won the COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD (UK), the LA TIME BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY (USA), LE GRAND PRIX DE LA BIOGRAPHIE POLITIQUE (France) and the KREISKY PRIZE FOR POLITICAL LITERATURE (Austria). STALIN: THE COURT OF THE RED TSAR won the HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE, BRITISH BOOK AWARDS. Author: Sebag-Montefiore, Simon, 1965- Format: Book xxv, 693 p., 32 p. CATHERINE THE GREAT AND POTEMKIN was shortlisted for the SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE. Available in the National Library of Australia collection. ![]() His books are published in over 40 languages. Simon Sebag Montefiore read history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he received his Doctorate of Philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() The latter explores animal rights through the tale of two dogs that escape from a laboratory. Tales from Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adams's bestselling classic Watership Down, which won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award.Adams returns to the vivid and distinctive world he created in that enduring work, reacquainting readers with the characters we know and love, including Fiver, Hazel, Bigwig, Dandelion and the legendary rabbit hero El. The author, born on in Berkshire, also wrote Shardik, The Girl in a Swing and The Plague Dogs. His books will be cherished for years to come.” ![]() ‘They’ll be alright – and thousands like them.”’Ī spokesman for Oneworld publications, which brought out a new edition of Watership Down with illustrations by Aldo Galli, said: “Very saddened to hear that Richard Adams has passed. “‘You needn’t worry about them,’ said his companion. It read: “It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses. ![]() The statement announcing his death quoted a passage from the end of his best-known work. Tales from Watership Down is the enchanting sequel to Richard Adamss bestselling classic Watership Down, which won the Carnegie Medal andthe Guardian. Photograph: Greenwood/ANL/Rex/Shutterstock ![]() ![]() So when Commonwealth thunked onto my doorstep, my first thought was: ‘ Finally‘, closely followed by: ‘Gosh, I love that cover!’ She’s one of those authors I feel I ought to have read, but I’ve never quite got there. I’ve been meaning to get acquainted with Patchett’s work for years. 2016) is by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking: a poignant exploration of perspective, interpretation and the ownership of stories, but also a deeply moving novel about love, familial responsibility and the ties that bind. With his career failing, he reworks the Cousins’ and Keatings’ shared history into a best-selling novel, reimagining the private and personal for the public and making Franny’s story his own.Ĭommonwealth (Bloomsbury, Sep. She falls in love with him, and he falls in love with her story. In 1988, while working as a cocktail waitress, Franny meets acclaimed author Leon Posen. However, before the party ends, he kisses Franny’s mother, Beverly, and in doing so realigns the fate of their two families. Franny is the daughter of a man Bert scarcely knows, and when he arrives with a bottle of gin in hand, his only thought is to escape the chaos of his household for a few hours. ![]() On a Sunday afternoon in 1964, Bert Cousins gatecrashes Franny Keating’s christening party. ![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of the book is followed by the various happening in the Labadoor family, who are very warmly welcomed by different family members of Javed Khan. The Pathan leader Javed Khan comes to know that there are a few foreigners living in Lala’s home and he suddenly comes into their house and forcefully takes away Ruth and Mariam Labadoor to his home. She takes their entire family of 6 to their trusted friend Lala Ramjimal who keeps them at his home and gives them the maximum security and shelter he can give. It is then that Mariam Labadoor, who is the mother of the narrator, Ruth Labadoor comes into action. This murder is committed by the Indian rebels who are a part of the 1857 mutiny and who have decided to kill all the Britishers of the small town Shahjahanpur. The Novel starts with the death of the father of Ruth Labadoor in front of her eyes in a church. A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond My first author signed book. ![]() ![]() In the series, he is the biological son of her foster parents in Amsterdam. The family moved to Amsterdam in 1924.Ī Small Light asserts that Miep Gies had a gay brother, Casmir 'Cass' Niewenburg, who was unrelated to her by blood. She ended up living with a foster family, the Nieuwenburgs, in the city of Leiden in South Holland. Her biological family had sent her from Austria to the Netherlands at age 11 as part of a relief project to help malnourished Austrian children. Despite having no experience for the position, her determination, character, and background convinced Otto Frank to take her on as an employee.Īs emphasized in the series, the A Small Light true story confirms that Miep was also an immigrant to Amsterdam herself. The neighbor arranged for Miep to meet with Otto for an interview. He had recently moved his family from Germany to the Netherlands in hopes of avoiding persecution. Otto's business was located along the canal in the center of Amsterdam at Prinsengracht 263 (pictured below). At the time, Otto was still setting up his business, named Opekta, and was looking for employees. ![]() The female neighbor worked as a representative for a business owned by a man named Otto Frank. Struggling to find work, an upstairs neighbor told her about another opportunity. ![]() For six years, Miep Gies had worked as a typist in an embroidery and pleating workshop before losing her job when the crisis hit. ![]() ![]() ![]() a choiceĬharacters: 3/5 - I found Edna and Mademoiselle Reisz to be the most interesting characters, by far. ![]() I either needed a lot more of Edna's introspection or a lot more spice when it came to her choices (like moving out was exciting and all but. The story unfolds, as so many classics do, over the course of very mundane day-to-day events. The themes of the plot are what kept me engaged, but as for the actual events this is definitely a story that would be described as "character driven". The story focuses on Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother in New Orleans at the end of the 19th century, as she ascertains what she wants in life- even if it means going against society norms and propriety. Plot: 3/5 - The Awakening is often cited as a classic of feminist fiction, and I can easily see why. Technically the edition that I read also contained some of Kate Chopin's short stories, but as I only chose to read a few of them and I find it hard to judge short stories (due to their brevity), I'm rating only the main novel. ![]() If he were to say 'Here, Robert, take her and be happy she is yours,' I should laugh at you both." Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. "You have been a very, very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. ![]() |