Per Petterson on the NYT Bestseller list

Per Petterson is placed on the 16th place on the New York Times bestseller list for paperbacks this week! Very nice for Per Petterson!
Paperback Trade Fiction, Published: August 10, 2008
1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young. A man whose daughter was abducted is invited to an isolated shack, apparently by God.
2. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by [...]

Top 10 bestselling fiction, UK (paperback)

May 3, 2008: Times (London)

1 Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
2 The Lollipop Shoes by Joanne Harris
3 Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
4 The Quest by Wilbur Smith
5 An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi
6 Gold Diggers by Tasmina Perry
7 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
8 Friend of the Devil by Peter Robinson
9 [...]

Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Lars Saabye Christensen on the long list

The long-list:

Alaa Al-Aswany, The Yacoubian Building (translated by Humphrey Davies from the Arabic, and published by Fourth Estate)
Bi Feiyu, The Moon Opera (Howard Goldblatt; Chinese; Telegram)
Lars Saabye Christensen, The Model (Don Bartlett; Norwegian; Arcadia)
Jenny Erpenbeck, The Book of Words (Susan Bernofsky; German; Portobello)
Pawel Huelle, Castorp (Antonia Lloyd-Jones; Polish; Serpent’s Tail)
Ismail Kadare, Agamemnon’s Daughter (David Bellos; [...]

Fourth book by Stieg Larsson will not be published

The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet today published an article that stated that the manuscript for Stieg Larsson’s fourth and unfinished book will neither be completed nor finished.
The family confirms that there exist a draft for a fourth book. Approximately 200 pages have been written. However, Stieg Larsson’s familily strongly feels that it would be inappropriate to [...]

The Crime genre - what is hot in crime books?

I suspect this is a great question with a multitude of possible answers. Like beauty, hot-ness most likely resides in the eye of the beholder. Even when the topic is crime books.
Regardless of the pitfalls involved in raising and attempting to answer this question, Maxim Jakubowski of Guardian attempted to do this a few years [...]

Stieg Larsson - Film and Hype

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl With The Dragoon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and the title of the third volume still to be decided for the English translation) is hot stuff. The sales figures to date are stunning (from Shotsmag):
2.1 million copies sold in Sweden* (the paperback of Volume III is not [...]

Top Ten Crime Books of 2007

The following list is from EuroCrime - a nice blog on European Crime fiction, as well as TV and film:

Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri
The Scent of the Night - Andrea Camilleri
The Serbian Dane - Leif Davidsen
The Princess of Burundi - Kjell Eriksson
Calling Out for You! - Karin Fossum
The Chinaman - Friedrich Glauser
The Exception - [...]

Swedish Crime Writers Very Successful in UK and USA

The Swedes are invading the marked for crime and mystery in the UK and USA, and elsewhere in Europe as well. Sweden has a large - and even fast growing -number of excellent crime writers, and many of them have been translated into English during the last decade or so. Norwegian and Danish crime is [...]

John Grisham - new book and news!

John Grisham is a terrific and productive writer. Right now he is on top of the bestseller lists with his Playing for Pizza. And this month his new legal thriller, The Appeal, is going to be released.

Oprah rules the bestseller lists

We all know that Oprah Winfrey is an excellent talk show host. But her influence clearly extends  well beyond her shows. Lady Oprah now rules the American book market. Not as a writer, but as owner of one of America’s most popular book clubs. USA Today Online writes:
Oprah Winfrey’s continuing reign as patron saint of [...]

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