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.