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Friday – 29th October 2021
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from The Heron’s Cry – the new novel from Ann Cleeves, creator of Vera and Shetland
Treat yourself to a glass of wine this evening and this exclusive excerpt from The Heron’s Cry – the second novel in Ann Cleeves’s new Two Rivers crime series, following her bestseller The Long Call.
Find out more about ‘Wole Soyinka’s greatest novel’ – Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People On Earth (PLUS: Listen to an excerpt)
Wole Soyinka, the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, presents Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth – a tour de force, his first novel in nearly half a century: a savagely satiric, gleefully irreverent, rollicking fictional meditation on how power and greed can corrupt the soul of a nation.
Tuesday – 26th October 2021
Congratulations to Tsitsi Dangarembga on being awarded the 2021 German Peace Prize
‘I’m sure you would have preferred to give up on occasion, Tsitsi, to simply give in to the temptation to just lead a normal, ordinary life. […] But you are far from ordinary.’
Friday – 22nd October 2021
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from Defending Britta Stein – Ronald H Balson’s thrilling take on a modern day courtroom drama
The Friday Night Book Club: Exclusive excerpts from Pan Macmillan every weekend.
Tuesday – 19th October 2021
Paula Hawkins on how curiosity and her early life in Zimbabwe inform her bestselling novels
Paula Hawkins is the bestselling author of The Girl on the Train, and her latest novel, A Slow Fire Burning, is yet another unputdownable thriller. She chats to Lauren Mc Diarmid about curiosity, writing women’s stories and the psychology behind people who do terrible things.
The shadows hide a deadly story … Find out more about 1979 – the new book from Val McDermid, the Queen of Crime
1979 – the atmospheric, heart-pounding first novel in a gripping new series by the Queen of Crime Val McDermid.
Thursday – 14th October 2021
Don’t miss the virtual book launch of Charlotte Bauer’s How to Get Over Being Young: A Rough Guide to Midlife (20 Oct)
Penguin Random House, The Reading List and Love Books invite you to the virtual launch of How to Get Over Being Young: A Rough Guide to Midlife by Charlotte Bauer.
Non-advice to aspiring writers, from Damon Galgut
‘Let me start my advice to aspiring writers by saying that my advice won’t help you.’ Well, at least novelist Damon Galgut is honest.
Tuesday – 5th October 2021
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes the highly anticipated Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers!
Friday – 1st October 2021
Footnotes, October 2021: Book links from around the web
At The Reading List, we’re trainspotters when it comes to interesting book links, and here are a number that caught our eye.
Innocent or guilty, everyone is damaged. Some are damaged enough to kill. Read an extract from A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from A Slow Fire Burning, the propulsive new thriller by Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water.
The Country of Others by Leila Slimani – the first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of Lullaby, about a woman in an interracial marriage whose fierce desire for autonomy parallels her adopted country’s fight for independence.
First look! Find out more about Zakes Mda’s new novel Wayfarers’ Hymns
Wayfarers’ Hymns, the highly anticipated new novel from Zakes Mda, will be out from Penguin Random House in October 2021.
Read the first chapter of Over My Dead Body, the new book by international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer has shared an excerpt from his new book Over My Dead Body – an unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal. …
Everything you need to know about The Heron’s Cry – the new novel from Ann Cleeves, the creator of Vera and Shetland
The Heron’s Cry is the second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring detective Matthew Venn, from the creator of Vera and Shetland, Ann Cleeves.
Thursday – 23rd September 2021
Read an extract from Snow Country, the spectacular, sweeping new novel from internationally acclaimed author Sebastian Faulks
Penguin Random House has shared an excerpt from Snow Country, the epic new love story from master storyteller Sebastian Faulks, and his most powerful novel since Birdsong.
Everyone loves cheese! Cheese, Illustrated is a delightful love letter to cheese and a delicious companion for any cheese lover
Cheese, Illustrated by Rory Stamp is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers.
Wednesday – 22nd September 2021
New book alert! Jeffrey Archer’s Over My Dead Body (Pre-order now!)
Over My Dead Body is an unputdownable story of murder, revenge and betrayal from international number one bestseller Jeffrey Archer – a rollercoaster thriller which takes detective William Warwick to the cold case unit, where he chases someone who thinks they’ve got away with murder.
Friday – 17th September 2021
Friday Night Book Club: Read an exclusive excerpt from Shelley Parker-Chan’s historical fantasy She Who Became the Sun
Treat yourself to a glass of wine this evening and this excerpt from She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan – a glorious tale of love, loss, betrayal and triumph by a powerful new voice.
Tuesday – 14th September 2021
Cover reveal! Wish You Were Here – the new novel by internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult
Jonathan Ball Publishers is very excited to reveal the cover for Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult!