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Book of the Day: Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness

Monday, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:04pm

$31.00

Deborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel A Discovery of Witches. The novel introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont. Together they found themselves at the centre of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782.

The second novel in the All Souls Trilogy, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London where a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends drift through the mysterious School of Night. Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.

Categories: New Releases, Literature, Book of the Day

Book of the Day: The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Monday, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41am

Carlos Ruiz Zafon's first book, The Shadow of the Wind, has been a McNally Robinson favourite since its realease in 2004. Zafon followed up that book with The Angel's Game in 2009 and now the third book in the cycle, The Prisoner of Heaven has arrived.

Zafon returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop in The Prisoner of Heaven. The story begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel Sempere and Bea from The Shadow of the Wind have married. Daniel is tending the bookshop with his old friend Fermin Romero de Torres. One day, an enigmatic visitor -- a grim old man with a piercing gaze -- inquires for Fermin. Told he is not in, the old man buys the most expensive item in the store, a first edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, and adds a dedication: "To Fermin Romero de Torres, who came back from the dead and who holds the key to the future." When Daniel reveals the details of this unsettling encounter to his friend, Fermin reads the dedication and turns as pale as a ghost.

We highly recommend you give Carlos Ruiz Zafon a try.

Categories: New Releases, Literature, Book of the Day

Book of the Day: Tecumseh & Brock by James Laxer

Wednesday, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:06am

$29.95

The title of today's book of the day might lead you to think that we're featuring a dual biography. But James Laxer's Tecumseh & Brock in fact offers a compelling view of the War of 1812 -- which historians have long treated as a second American revolution -- by bringing to life the Native struggle for nationhood and sovereignty; the battle between the British Empire and the United States over Upper and Lower Canada; and finally, at the heart of it, the unlikely friendship and political alliance between Tecumseh, the Shawnee chieftain and charismatic leader of the Native confederacy, and Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, protector and defender of the British Empire. Highly engaging and impeccably researched, Tecumseh & Brock is a powerful work of history, an epic story of empires and emerging nations, of politics and power, and of two leaders whose legacy still lives on today.

For more books on the War of 1812, check out our featured category.

Categories: New Releases, Book of the Day, History

Capital by John Lanchester

Monday, Jul 09, 2012 at 10:36am

The internationally celebrated author of I. O. U. returns with Capital, a scathing and brilliantly observed novel that follows the lives and fortunes of a group of people in London who become connected in unforeseen ways by a card. This is no ordinary card. In a single day, everyone on Pepys Road receives one. It contains a simple message: "We Want What You Have." From 40 year old Roger Yount, who has a powerful job in the city to Freddy Kano, a teenage football sensation who has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream, the residents of Pepys Road discover what they truly value.

The Winnipeg Free Press called Capital a "page turner" and, having learned a great deal from I.O.U., I look forward to reading about the same events in this fictional setting.

Categories: New Releases, Literature, Book of the Day

Book of the Day: Through the Eyes of the Wean by Alison Hutchison

Friday, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:16pm

For years we've been dedicated to helping local authors get their work out into the world, and it's always gratifying when one of our prairie writers makes it onto the bestseller table. Even so, Alison Hutchison is special. Through the Eyes of the Wean, a memoir of her early years in Scotland, was published right here at McNally Robinson, using our Espresso Book Machine.

Through the Eyes of the Wean tells the story of Hutchison's early years as the "wean," the youngest child of a family living in "The Gorbals," an area of Glasgow which has been described as "the worst slums in Europe." She talks of growing up with two older brothers, and of living an impoverished, uncomfortable life without ever giving up dignity. In spite of the adversity of life on the poor side of town, Hutchison is sure to remember the simple joys she found along the way.

Through the Eyes of the Wean is a triumph, and McNally Robinson is proud to have been a part of bringing this delightful memoir into the world.

Categories: New Releases, Book of the Day
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