Book review: Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Posted on Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Esi Edugyan is a renowned Canadian author of Ghanaian descent. Her newest novel Half-Blood Blues was published earlier this year and has found itself on the short lists of many celebrated awards from the Man Booker Prize to the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and it walked away with one of Canada’s leading literary [...]
continue readingBook review: We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Posted on Friday, January 28th, 2011
The author and political commentator Carsten Jensen hails from the Danish town of Marstal, in the South of Funen Archipelago, and it’s the people of this coastal town, and their relationship to the sea, that forms the central thread of the novel.
continue readingFree books friday!
Posted on Friday, January 7th, 2011
Isn’t friday the perfect day to start reading a book? It absolutely is, especially if it’s a free book! That’s why we want to start a new concept here on Frontlist – Every friday we will introduce you to a website where you can order or download free books online. This can range from free [...]
continue readingBook review: Roseanna, A Martin Beck Police Mystery
Posted on Friday, November 19th, 2010
Written in 1965, this is the first of ten novels centred around the Swedish detective inspector Martin Beck. But don’t let the date put you off: the book has aged beautifully, the writing still feels fresh, and the finish stays with you long after turning the last page – it’s like a good quality claret.
continue readingBook Review: The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
Posted on Monday, November 1st, 2010
The book is the fifth in the Harry Hole detective series to be translated into English. Jo Nesbo (50) is a Norwegian novelist and musician who is fast becoming one of the bigger names in the competitive and crowded marketplace for Scandinavian crime fiction.
continue readingBook review: Freedom, a novel by Jonathan Franzen
Posted on Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Starred Review from Publishers Weekly – Nine years after winning the National Book Award, Franzen’s The Corrections consistently appears on “Best of the Decade” lists and continues to enjoy a popularity that borders on the epochal, so much so that the first question facing Franzen’s feverishly awaited follow-up is whether it can find its own [...]
continue readingBook review: The Passage
Posted on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
The Passage, a novel by Justin Cronin – The Passage is not just another ‘vampire’ thriller. In fact, you don’t have to be a fan of vampire fiction to love this remarkable tale. Cronin is a master story teller and brings depth and vitality to this captivating epic about a virus that nearly destroys the [...]
continue readingBook review: The Last Child
Posted on Monday, May 31st, 2010
Everybody will still remember John Hart’s New York Times bestselling debut “The King of Lies”. His only dream is to become a good writer and to get published. In 2008 he is rewarded for this talent by winning the Edgar Award for this novel “Down River”. Two years later he’s back with “The Last Child”.
continue readingBook review: Strength in What Remains
Posted on Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Strength in What Remains is New York Times bestselling author Tracy Kidder’s finest work so far and it is praised by many reviewers for being one of the best books of 2009 overall.
continue readingBook review: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)
Posted on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Rick Riordan is the author of the New York Times bestselling ‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ series for children. Now he released his first book of ‘The Kane Chronicles’. The adventure begins with ‘The Red Pyramid’.
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