Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox has reached Number 1 in Times of London & the Guardian!
Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox is the sixth book in the teen series Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer. It was released in the US on July 5, 2008, and was released on August 7, 2008 in the UK. In Colfer’s video blogs, he mentions the book, saying it may not be the last, but the last one for at least 3 years.
Bloomsbury UK just reported the sales for THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER are now up to 80,000 copies!!!
Now up to 12 foreign language sales!
Please see review from the New York Times Book Review.
“[A] fastidious reconstruction and expansive analysis of the Road Hill murder case…Summerscale smartly uses an energetic narrative voice and a suspenseful pace, among other novelistic devices, to make her factual material read with the urgency of a work of fiction. What she has constructed, specifically, is a traditional country-house mystery, more brutal than cozy, but presenting the same kind of intellectual puzzle as her fictional models and adorned, as such books once were, with wonderfully old-fashioned maps, diagrams, engravings, courtroom sketches and other illustrations…More important, Summerscale accomplishes what modern genre authors hardly bother to do anymore, which is to use a murder investigation as a portal to a wider world. When put in../ historical context, every aspect of this case tells us something about mid-Victorian society…The author’s startling final twist both vindicates her fallen hero and advances an ‘aggressive’ attack on moral hypocrisy in his day and ours.” –Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
And here are two great recent interviews with the author:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4352939.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/21/bokate121.xml
THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER: UK: Bloomsbury (pub April 2008), US: Walker & Co.; Brazil: Companhia das Letras; France: Bourgois; Germany: Bloomsbury; Greece: Patakis; Holland: Nieuw Amsterdam; Israel: Modan; Italy: Einaudi; Norway: Gyldendal; Poland: WAB; Russia: AST; Spain: Lumen (Random House Mondadori); Thailand: Post Publishing.
“THE IKON”
A Greek Island Thriller
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THE IKON STORY
THE IKON is an exciting, action-packed script based on the best selling 2002 book and action-adventure thriller, which takes place on the jet-set island of Myconos, surrounding the seedy world of art and antiquities dealers and smugglers.
Riding on the huge success of ‘The DaVinci Code’ and action scenes of the hit movie, ‘Romancing the Stone’ with Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, “‘THE IKON” is a modern day “Maltese Falcon” style adventure-thriller, which evolves around a group of international antiquities thieves living on Mykonos, Greece.
SYNOPSIS
In this fascinating story, the lead and main character, Garth Hanson, a down on his luck artist, is blackmailed into making a copy of a world famous icon in Greece, and becomes inadvertently involved in a dizzying sphere of international intrigue, passionate love and brutal murder. The colourful cast of characters all come to life on the exotic jet-set island of Mykonos for the suspense-filled ending, where all characters converge for one purpose alone — To steal a gem-studded icon worth millions of dollars. The twist is, that there’s something more to the icon than jewels and diamonds - something of international importance and consequence, that could very well change the course of the world as we knew it!
This is a classic tale with all the intrigue of a major block-buster film.
Note: See book reviews from Green bay Press, The European, and London Times other press on THE IKON book & on Amazon.com
Amazon.com 4-5 star rating book reviews
Hollywood Reporter - 24 July 2007
With the J. Paul Getty Museum recently sending two disputed antiquities back to Greece and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s similar return of the Euphronios krater to Italy, antiquities thieves are getting hot in Hollywood. A reported seven studios, including Paramount, Universal and Miramax, are currently circling Gary Van Haas’ The Ikon, a terse thriller set in Greece. Pierce Brosnan and Jude Law are in discussions to play the leading role about a man who is blackmailed into copying a sacred Greek icon and consequently gets yanked into a world of international intrigue. The Ikon book is represented by Cinema Arts and the film by World International Group, Europe.
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The movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic” is in fact the title of the forthcoming film which combines The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic and Shopaholic Abroad (US title: SHOPAHOLIC TAKES MANHATTAN) as its storyline.
Confessions of a Shopaholic Directed by P.J. Hogan will be released in the United States on February 13, 2009. (UK Release February 27, 2009) (according to IMDb website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1093908/)
Synopsis
Dan Hurley’s DIABETES RISING, the story of the rise of Diabetes in modern history and the hunt for it’s cure, to Don Fehr at Kaplan, in a good deal, for publication in 2009, by Jane Dystel at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management (World English)
Photographer Shreve Stockton’s THE DAILY COYOTE: A YEAR WITH CHARLIE, derived from the author’s blog of the same name chronicling her first year raising an orphaned coyote cub as a beloved household pet, to Scott Smith at Tantor, by Lauren Abramo at Dystel & Goderich Literary Management.
David Gramb and Ellen Levine’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN SPELL, a cornucopia of challenges for good, better, and exceptional spellers, to Meg Leder at Perigee, by Jim Trupin at JET Literary Associates (NA).
James Patterson’s YA series MAXIMUM RIDE, to Columbia Pictures, with Avi Arad, Ari Arad and Steven Paul at Seaside Entertainment (Iron Man) producing, along with Steve Bowen and Leopoldo Gout at James Patterson Entertainment, and Don Payne (Fantastic Four) adapting.
Longlist of Booker Prize 2008
THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY
by PHILIP HENSHER
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Philip Pullman
THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY is a tremendous book. Against an unfashionable 1970s background Philip Hensher has composed not so much a condition-of-England as a condition-of-humanity novel, which is gripping and surprising and shocking in all kinds of unpredictable ways, and enormously wide in psychological and moral scope. What a writer he is!
The Bookseller (Booksellers’ choice: Ruth Atkins, Borders)
Hensher’s style is fluid and engrossing.
The Bookseller (Booksellers’ choice: Rodney Troubridge, Waterstone’s)
This is a big novel packed full of good things.
The Times
Hensher is a brilliant anatomist of familial tension and marshals his large cast of characters deftly. He has an impeccable eye for nuances of character and setting. An engrossing and hugely impressive novel.
The Independent
What is particularly enjoyable as the reader relaxes into this book is the portrayal of the complexity of family life: the layers, secrets and misunderstandings, the drama of different lives lived under the same roof, by people who are both strangers and kin… Hensher has a forensic eye for detail, providing nightmarish glimpses of the everyday… engrossing, amusing and moving.
The Sunday Telegraph
Emotionally engaged… compulsively readable.. A cumulative effect of luminous richness, like a perfect piece of orchestration. He excels at dialogue…but while his technical virtuosity is remarkable and his ability to conjure anything from a front room to an entire era…is equally striking, something more than brilliant cleverness makes this novel extraordinary… At the heart of the elegant narrative architecture, the fine comic timing and exuberant details, there flickers a sense…that generosity, a sense of others, is the best we can do. And at the last, in a tragedy as shocking as tragedy, that modest hope is beautifully fulfilled.
The Spectator
The Sunday Times
Hensher is fascinatingly good on how social transformation manifests itself in the textures, colours and manners of a culture…He has witty fun with many of the signifiers of all this change. …THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY is not only extremely funny, but also deeply humane.
The Telegraph
The reader is soon absorbed into the everyday but engrossing lives of his characters…It consists of many overlapping, intersecting and interdependent smaller plots, which are both individually and collectively enthralling, sometimes sad and often very funny.
Esquire
THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY is as clever and as elegant as Hensher’s previous books…Combining his intelligence with a less expected humanity and storytelling drive, THE NORTHERN CLEMENCY powerfully slices and preserves 20 years of British life and deserves to be remembered for at least that length of time.
The Observer
Absorbing.
The Guardian
Expansive yet precise, it leads the reader from the minutiae of family life to broad public events with the surest of hands.