Today in January Magazine, contributing editor Sue Bursztynski reviews Rose By Any Other Name by Maureen McCarthy. Bursztynski notes that, while all of Maureen McCarthy’s novels for young adults are quite different, in the end, they all seem to be about family. “Another fine book from one of Australia’s best young adult novelists,” she says, and not without some pride. You can read the whole review here.
Though as far as we know, no one is mapping the growth rate of organizations for writers, one would have to guess that the International Thriller Writers (ITW) pretty much smokes ’em all. In a recently circulated membership report, co-membership chairs, authors Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston, announced that at the end of 2004, ITW’s inaugural year, the organization had 21 members. At the end of 2006, ITW had 540 members with combined book sales […]
Just in case there aren’t already enough reasons to love New York, the National Book Awards and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) have cooked up another series of events that include food, wine, authors and live music. Eat, Drink & Be Literary “continues the momentum of the past two sell-out series, bringing major contemporary authors to BAMcafé for intimate dinners, readings, and discussions that are always entertaining and engaging.” BAMcafé’s executive chef, Coleman Foster, […]
The Costa Book Awards — formerly the Whitbread Awards — have been announced: The five successful authors who will now contest for the Costa Book of the Year are: William Boyd who, after winning the First Novel Award in 1981 for A Good Man in Africa, returns 25 years later to claim the Novel Award for Restless Former film-maker Stef Penney wins the First Novel Award for The Tenderness of Wolves, a murder mystery set […]
Screenwriter, poet, broadcaster and crime fictionist John Harvey has been awarded the Cartier Diamond Dagger by the Crime Writers’ Association (UK). The Cartier Diamond Dagger is awarded for sustained excellence in the genre of crime writing. It will be presented by M. Arnaud Bamberger of Cartier at a champagne reception at London’s Savoy Hotel in May. Recognized as one of the masters of British crime fiction, Harvey has written almost one hundred books, including his […]
Today in January Magazine, Stephen Miller reviews The Do-Re-Mi by Ken Kuhlken. “Ken Kuhlken first burst onto the crime fiction scene with The Loud Adios,” writes Miller, “which won the Private Eye Writers of America/St. Martin’s Press Award for Best First Private Eye novel for the year 1991. Set in 1943, it introduced private eye Tom Hickey and his family, and continued for two other books, The Venus Deal (1993) and The Angel Gang (1994). […]
“It’s never too late to return your books.” That’s what the librarian said when a man in Hancock, Michigan, returned his book to the local library 47 years late. According to ABC News, Robert Nuranen said his mother had misplaced the copy of Prince of Egypt that was due back at the library by June 2, 1960, when he was in ninth grade. Nuranen says that, in the intervening years, the book would resurface every […]
Today on January Magazine, contributing editor Pedro Blas Gonzalez takes a close look at Jeffrey Burton Russell’s latest book, Paradise Mislaid: How We Lost Heaven and How We Can Regain It. The book is an “examination of the history of transcendence that most cultures have identified as heaven,” writes Gonzalez. “Professor Russell’s insightful series on the history of the devil is, in the estimation of this writer, the single most in-depth and penetrating study of […]
I read with interest this weekend that Briton Pete Ayrton has sold his 20-year-old Serpent’s Tail publishing house to fellow independent publisher Andrew Franklin of Profile Books. This is a little alarming for me, as I have followed many of the authors Ayrton and Serpent’s Tail championed over the years, from Walter Mosley and George Pelecanos, to David Peace (Nineteen Eighty) and Derek Raymond (He Died with His Eyes Open). In fact, while I was […]
Following an unexpected holiday-time hiatus, Dave Robeson’s Bloodstained Bookshelf is back with an updated list of crime and mystery novels set for publication in the States over the coming year. Destined to wind up on my own to-be-read pile during the next several months: Robert Crais’ The Watchman, Steve Hockensmith’s On the Wrong Track, Ed Gorman’s Fools Rush In, Declan Hughes’ The Color of Blood, Loren D. Estleman’s American Detective, Reginald Hill’s Death Comes for […]
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