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 [...]

World Without End, by Ken Follett

This book is a follow-up on the enormously popular Pillars of the Earth. About the relationship between the two books, Follett says: ” Ever since The Pillars of the Earth was published in 1989, readers have been asking me to write a sequel. The book is so popular that I’ve been nervous about trying to [...]

A Quiver Full of Arrows, by Jeffrey Archer

A Quiver Full of Arrows, from 1980, is an impressive collection of short stories, really a full Quiver.
The book consists of twelve assorted arrows (short stories) into the quiver. Each arrow is sharp and leaves a meaningful impact on the reader.
The Chinese Statue is a story that features a Sir [...]

No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 2005. In 2007 it was released as a film, directed by the Cohen-brothers. The film has, so far, been winning four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

The action in the book is set along the United States–Mexico [...]

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; [...]

The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger

In October 1991 the “perfect storm” — of the kind that occurs only once a century — was created by a rare combination of factors. It could not possibly have been worse. Winds of 120 miles an hour, waves ten stories high.
The Perfect Storm, which has been #1 on the New York Times bestseller lists, [...]

Run, by Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett is a talented American story teller and writes beautifully. She is the author of, among other books, Bel Canto and the excellent and marvelous The Magician’s Assistant, a great novel that also became a very entertaining movie.
This is a different, but equally interesting story. Since their mother’s death, Tip and Teddy Doyle have [...]

Antony and Cleopatra, by Colleen McCullough

I like the Masters of Rome by Colleen McCullough a lot, and have read all the books in the series. Therefore I have been looking forward to Antony and Cleopatra for a while.
This is the follow-up to The October Horse. After the death of Julius Caesar in 41 BC, Mark Antony, Caesar’s ambitious and brash [...]

The Great Train Robbery, by Michael Crichton

The Great Train Robbery, an old thriller by Michael Crichton (first published in 1975) takes us to the underground world of betrayal and crime in Victorian England.
We witness, first-hand, probably the most intriguing money hoist in history. We travel with Edward Pierce, a criminal mastermind, and discover how he puts together a team of specialists [...]

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