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Auf Wiedersehen: Sum’s the Word, Luxurious Bejeweled Elephants, Of Butterflies and Men

December 1, 2006

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One + one = three in Dutch author and Libris Prize winner Tomas Lieske‘s new novel My Sovereign Love about an artisan of arithmetic, his love interest, and a meddling monarch. Born in The Hague in 1528, Marnix de Veer is a mathematician, architect, and instrument-maker extraordinaire. Also a dabbler in foreign languages, he catches…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Ab Ovo Kiado, Albin Michel, Anne-Solange Noble, Arbeiderspers, Cristina Mora, De Bezige Bij, Dogan Kitap, Dom Quixote, Flammarion, Floortje Jansen, Gallimard, Giorgio Todde, Indian Passion, Insane Asylums, Javier Moro, Kathrin Scheel, Libris Prize, Linda Michaels, Mark Haddon, Martin Gulich, Mondadori, My Sovereign Love, Objectiva, Of Mice and Men, Palatinus Kiado, Piper, Planeta, Prix Femina, Prunsoop, Querido, Regis Jauffret, Robert Laffont, Schoffling, Siruela, Steinbeck, The Balance of the Souls, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Tomas Lieske, WSOY

International Bestsellers: Joe Speedboat & Friends

August 1, 2006

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Sylvia Plath, Puberty, & A Slowly Setting Midnight Sun Combining the quirky prose of Paul Auster and the eccentricity of The World According to Garp, Dutch author Tommy Wieringa’s latest novel, Joe Speedboat (De Bezige Bij), injects the classic Bildungsroman with postmodern absurdity. The eponymous protagonist, a fourteen year-old bomb expert, airplane builder, and kinetic…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged A Speech for My Sister's Wedding, Actes Sud, Bengt Nordin, Cornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen, Danai Daska, De Bezige Bij, Edda, Fortune's Child, Guys Beware This God and She's Really Pissed Off, Gyldendal, Hanser, Hayo Deinum, Heleni Papadaki, Hoffmann and Campe, Humanity in Action, Icelandic Bookseller, Icelandic Literary, In the time of the Chrysanthemums, Iperborea, Joe Speedboat, Karakutu, Linda Skugge, Little Book of Puberty, Lorraine Shanley, Manos Eleftheriou, Metaixmio, Paul Auster, Pussymob, Siobhan O'Leary, Steinunn Sigurdadottir, Sylvia Plath, The Woman Who Died Twice, The World According to Garp, This is Not a Book, Tommy Wieringa, Two Trees in Jersusalem, Valerie Schneider, Valgerdur Benediktsdottir, Wahlstrom and Widstrand

International Bestsellers: A Jacques of All Trades

March 1, 2006

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Jealousy, Hope, Love, Frustration, Pinochet & the PLO Craftsman, plumber, brick-layer, ironware merchant, script writer, filmmaker, and now novelist, Nan Aurousseau has hewed his vast trove of on-the-job tales into a thrilling novel called Overalls. Like so many beleaguered artists, the adroit Frenchman wrote the autobiographical bestseller (not a memoir, mind you) while down and…Continue Reading

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International Fiction Bestsellers

August 1, 2000

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Crime and Punishment King Bites the Bullet, Crime Pays in New Zealand, and Carvalho’s on the Case in Spain In a somewhat bizarre development, Stephen King’s hotly downloaded e-novella Riding the Bullet has shot around the globe — in a bricks-and-mortar edition. Though hard-copy versions of the work were originally ruled out by the K-man,…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Adam Armstrong, Adelphi, Ana Rosa Quintana, Annie, Arthur Maimane, Bantam, BB Art, Bengt Nordin, Bertelsmann, Bjorn Hellberg, Bra Bocker, Bruno Cirino Pomicino, Cappelens, Carmen Balcells, Daniel Easterman, Darley Anderson, De Bezige Bij, Emanuela Canali, Geronimo, Grinzane-Carvour, HarperCollins UK, Hate No More, Henning Mankell, Juan Marse, Kees van Kooten, Lee Child, Leonardt & Hoier, Liza Marklund, Lizard's Tongue, Luitingh Sljthoff, Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Marianne Velmans, Mondadori, Obsidian, Otava, Planeta, Putnam, Riding the Bullet, Rizzoli, Running Blind, Sandor Marai, Stephanie Cabot, Stephen King, Strictly Confidential, Taste of Bile, The Cry of the Panther, The Horse Whisperer, The Jaguar Mask, The Killing Floor, The Loop, The Man of My Life, The Performance at Bolzano, The Son of the Wind, The Thanksgiving, The Visitor, William Morris

International Fiction Bestsellers

June 1, 2000

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Dictators’ Desserts Trujillo’s Dominican Feast and Franco’s Fall in Spain, Plus Cremer Redux in Holland Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa conquers lists in both Spain and Argentina with The Goat’s Feast, a novel that’s captivated critics (it “makes one’s flesh creep,” one wrote admiringly) and has been hailed as a revival of Vargas Llosa’s best…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Antonia Kerrigan, Antonino Zichichi, Australian Literary Management, Baldassare's Odyssey, Bompiani, Carmen Balcells, Cathy Perkins, De Bezige Bij, Dom Quixote, Einaudi, FSG, Gallimard, Grasset, Harvill, Huckstepp: A Dangerous Life, I Jan Cremer, Il Saggiatore, Jan Cremer, Jan Mulder, Jose Luis Sampedro, Juan Luis Cebrian, Leonidas Trujillo, Lesbian Lover, Linda Michaels, Oceanida, Pax, Philippe Djian, Pietro Formenton, Remco Campert, Sallie-Anne Huckstepp, Siciliano, Sterling Lord Literistic, Surhkamp, The Agony of the Dragon, The Goat's Feast, The Irresistible Glamor of Time, Vers Chez les Blancs, Why I Believe in Him Who Made the World, Yapi Kredi

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