Giveaway dates: Mar 15 - Mar 22, 2021
Countries available: U.S. and Canada
Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He has an M.A. in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient was his first novel and was the biggest-selling debut in the world in 2019. It spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and sold in a record-breaking fort
Alex Michaelides was born and raised in Cyprus. He has an M.A. in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and an M.A. in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. The Silent Patient was his first novel and was the biggest-selling debut in the world in 2019. It spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list and sold in a record-breaking forty-nine countries. Alex lives in London.
Artistic Temperament: Mysteries & Thrillers 2021
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The Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2021 By PW Staff | Feb 17, 2021
Drawn from the 14,000+ titles in PW s Spring Announcements issue, we asked our reviews editors to pick the most notable books publishing in Spring 2021. Links to reviews are included when available.
Fiction
The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove, Mar.) - Nguyen follows his Pulitzer-winning The Sympathizer with a sequel about a Vietnamese refugee in 1980s Paris who becomes a drug dealer on his path to assimilation. The novel earned a starred review from PW.
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June) - Widow herbalist Katharina gets slapped with an accusation of witchcraft in 1618 Germany by a neighbor whom she calls “the Werewolf” in Galchen’s novel of a small town feverish with fear.
Book club that also samples restaurants
Friday January 15 2021
Books&Beyond bookclub brunch discussing the book ‘Where the Forest Meets the Stars Book by Glendy Vanderah’ at Pete’s Café in Nairobi. PHOTO | POOL
By ELIZABETH KIVUVA
Summary
The book club members choose a book to read every month, ranging from memoirs, biographies, historical and fiction, thrillers and dystopia, political among others.
They also pick a restaurant that serves delicious brunch or dinner.
Joanne Kuria, a policy and communication specialist at Amnesty International, loves books and good food. Four years ago, she found a way to combine the two, where reading and sampling food in different restaurants provide a pretext for stimulating talk.
How Ireland spent its time in 2020: The books, TV and music that we consumed
Lockdown often gave people more opportunity to spend their time watching TV or reading books. These are the shows, albums and books we reached for.
Wed, 13 Jan, 2021 - 08:40
Mike McGrath Bryan
TOP TEN ON THE TELLY RTÉ retains pole position in the annual TAM (Television Audience Measurement) live viewership charts: the state broadcaster dominated the top ten, with nine out of the entries. Only the Ireland-France rugby fixture in October broke the ratings ceiling for privately-run competitor Virgin Media.
Of the nine programmes on the list from RTÉ, November’s Late Late Toy Show tops the charts at 1.716 million live viewers, furthering Ireland’s ongoing love affair with the long-running seasonal special.
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