Though it does feel a bit like juggling. I’ve been stupid and been dipping into several books that I’ve been meaning to get to for a while and one or two brand new ones.
This is a break in my usual routine of keeping two books going at the same time so that I can swap [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Vintage’
Update: What I'm juggling, I mean reading
Release Round-Up: Missing from May and New to June, Mostly
I had a request for more summary posts on the blog rather than spreading promotional posts out of over the month. You might still see a few promotional posts this month either because I’ve only just heard about a book and it can’t wait until July or that I’ve forgotten about it and I want [...]
Review: Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas (Vintage)
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
Published by Vintage Books – Out Now
Returning to the next books in a series is always a bit nerve racking especially as Fred Vargas cleverly lead me up the garden path and then threw me off the edge of a cliff in her last one. It’s a hard [...]
Feature: Richard & Judy Book Club Summer Reads 2009
I don’t really take too much notice of Richard & Judy’s Book Club, not that there is anything wrong with it but usually they don’t spark too much interest on the radar. But the Summer Reads have a couple of genre-touching titles you might like.
Mystery Man by Colin Bateman Published by [...]
Promo: Glister by John Burnside (Vintage)
Glister by John BurnsidePublished by Vintage and out in paperback 7 May 2009
The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive or [...]
Promo: The Seance by John Harwood – A Victorian Mystery (Vintage)
The Seance – A Victorian Mystery by John HarwoodPublished by Vintage and out now
‘Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there…’ London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother [...]
Promo: Glady Mitchell – The Saltmarsh Murders, Tom Brown’s Body and When Last I Died (Vintage)
If you didn’t already know I’m a big fan of twitter and you get to meet, tweet with and follow tweets of some brilliant and informative people. One of the people I follow being a book-junkie is Vintage Books and it was thanks to a tweet I found out about the reissue of [...]
Review: Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage)
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason
Published by Vintage and Out Now
Silence of the Grave is the second in the Detective Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indridason , though forth in the series Sons of Dust and Silent Kill came out before Tainted Blood but I don’t think have been released in the UK.
It’s also [...]
Promo: The President’s Last Love by Andrev Kurkov (Vintage)
The President’s Last Love by Andrev Kurkov Published by Vintage in Paperback 5 March 2009
In Moscow, 2013, Bunin, the Ukrainian President, has joined other heads of state in an open air swimming pool to drink vodka and celebrate with Putin. During his rise to power Bunin has juggled with formidable and eccentric political and personal [...]
Promo: Death at Intervals by Jośe Saramago (Vintage)
Death at Intervals by Jośe Saramago Published in Vintage in Paperback 5 February 2009
On the first day of the New Year, no one dies. This understandably causes great consternation amongst religious leaders – if there’s no death, there can be no resurrection and therefore no reason for religion – and what [...]
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