Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Publishers Weekly criticized the novel for having an "enormous number of characters, backstories, subplots, and themes" but nonetheless praised its "well-orchestrated" ending. [5] Rob Merrill of the Associated Press praised the novel's pacing but felt part of its quality was lost in the English translation. [6]
Faery Rebels, also known as No Ordinary Fairy Tale, is a three-book fantasy series by Canadian author R. J. Anderson. Each book of the series centers around a faery who must venture out of their island to save the faery race. The first novel in the series, Knife, was published in the United Kingdom by Orchard Books on 8 January 2009
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine is a 2002 non-fiction book by Brooks Brown and Rob Merritt about the Columbine High School massacre.Brown was a student at Columbine High School at the time of the shooting and a friend of the perpetrators, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
The book recounts the stabbing attack on Rushdie in 2022. It hit number one in the Sunday Times Bestsellers List in the General hardbacks category. [2] Rushdie's 1988 novel The Satanic Verses had led to a widespread controversy among Muslims, prompting the 1989 fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran. [3] [4]
How to Pronounce Knife was generally well-received by critics, including a starred reviews Booklist, who wrote, "These stories have a quiet brilliance in their raw portrayal of the struggle to find meaning in difficult times and to belong in a foreign place. Thammavongsa writes with an elegance that is both brutal and tender, giving her stories ...
Rob Doyle is an Irish author. He has published two novels, a collection of short stories and a book of non-fiction , and he is the editor of two anthologies . His 2014 novel Here Are the Young Men was adapted into a 2020 film of the same name. [ 1 ]
The book was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, [15] and won the award on November 9, 2020. In 2021, the book was awarded the $20,000 (Canadian) Trillium Book Award, [16] and was a shortlisted finalist for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2021. [17] Thammavongsa was a judge for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. [18]
Incompetence is a dystopian comedy novel by Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant, [1] first published in 2003 with the tag line "Bad is the new Good." It is a murder mystery and political thriller set in a near-future federal Europe where no-one can be "prejudiced from employment for reason of age, race, creed or incompitence []".