I'm always reading different things and I love to juggle books - subjects and concepts - in order to see what comes up! That means my night table books tend travel from room to room in the house and with me to the offices and wherever I end up during the day.
That's my apology for the chaos of this list!
Categories: Reviews, Discussions, buzz, Authors, Mystery & Crime
The Twin, a debut novel by Dutch author , has won the 2010 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award.
Categories: Awards, buzz
The winner of this year's National Business Book Award is for his book, Why Your World is About to get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization, published by Random House Canada.
Categories: Awards, buzz, Publishing News
Dora Dueck is the author of the novel Under the Still Standing Sun and co-editor of Northern Lights: An Anthology of Contemporary Christian Writing in Canada. Join us at McNally Robinson Grant Park on Wednesday May 19, 2010 at 8:00 pm to celebrate the launch of her new book This Hidden Thing.
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On my night table are two books of historical fiction. Denise Giardina's Emily's Ghost (W.W. Norton, 2009) is a novel of the Bronte sisters, especially the brilliant and unconventional Emily. Giardina postulates a love story involving her and the curate William Weightman, champion of mill workers and labour rights. What this book has done is send me back to Wuthering Heights, which I first read in my youth and whose power I remember but whose details I've forgotten.
Categories: Reviews, buzz, Authors
Allan Levine will be in our Winnipeg bookstore to sign copies of the paperback version of his McNally Robinson Book of the Year winning work Coming of Age: A History of the Jewish People of Manitoba, on Sunday May 16, 2:00 pm.
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The Devil's Company by David Liss (Random House)
A great historical mystery series should have just the right blend of character, place and plot. It is a difficult balance, but American writer David Liss pulls it off brilliantly in his trilogy of Benjamin Weaver novels. He introduced Weaver, a likeable Portuguese-Jewish pugilist and rogue living in eighteenth century London in his award-winning A Conspiracy of Paper (2000). That novel revolved around the South Sea Bubble, the stock manipulation of 1729. He followed it up with A Spectacle of Corruption (2004) which found Weaver battling nefarious politicians. And then in The Devil's Company (2009), Weaver becomes embroiled in a twisted adventure surrounding the rise of the East India Company. Each novel succeeds because Liss has a wonderful sense of time and place. Readers are literally transported back to London of the 1700s with all of its wealth, poverty and sin. His dialogue is spot on as is his integration of local customs and attitudes from the parlours to the gin houses. Each novel is a page-turner and a lot of fun.
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