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Celebrating excellence, originality, and accessibility in writing by women in English from across the world and now in its 25th year, the Women’s Prize for Fiction has announced its 2020 winner: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. In a virtual ceremony, the Women’s Prize for Fiction paid homage to every past winner in its 25 years, celebrated the
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The Book Riot staff is taking the day off for Labor Day in the U.S.! We’ll be back tomorrow with your regularly scheduled posts, newsletters, and podcasts. Meanwhile, check out these books about the U.S. Labor Movement and these books to read on Labor Day. Have a great day and happy reading.
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Frankly in Love by David Yoon for $1.99 Lilith’s Brood: The Complete Xenogenesis Trilogy by Octavia Butler for $3.99 Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel for $2.99 Saga, Volume One by Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples for $3.99 Dear
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz for $3.99 Lumberjanes Vol. 1 by Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Brooke A. Allen, and Shannon Watters for $4.99 Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse for $1.99 Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness for $1.99 Ms. Marvel
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Rolf Lassgård has played the role, Kenneth Branagh too, but Krister Henriksson was the definitive Wallander in the eyes of most Nordic noir fans. Now Henning Mankell‘s Swedish detective is being revived once again, this time for an origin story and the actor to play him will be the rising star of Swedish drama, Adam
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When These Mountains Burn is a rural noir crime novel set in the Appalachian Mountain communities that have been forgotten and left behind by urban America. The area has been ravaged by heroin, synthetic opioids and crystal meth. It’s a brutal, pitiless story, told in the third person, yet full of tenderness and beautiful, lyrical
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We first met the Edinburgh-based Skelf family at the start of this year, in the highly memorable and original A Dark Matter. Now they’re back, and the dramas of that series opener are still reverberating. Matriarch Dorothy misses her late husband terribly, and as she desperately tries to keep her family and their twin funeral
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg for $1.99 Passing by Nella Larsen for $1.99 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ozawa and Stephen Snyder for $2.99 Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh for $2.99 Citizen: An
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg for $1.99 Passing by Nella Larsen for $1.99 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ozawa and Stephen Snyder for $2.99 Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh for $2.99 Citizen: An
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ozawa and Stephen Snyder for $2.99 Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh for $2.99 Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine for $1.99 Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro for $2.99 Down Among the Sticks
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Paul Finch’s latest novel is a standalone thriller, but like his bestselling Heck series, One Eye Open is a police procedural. On the face of it, the traffic police might not seem the most promising division to write a thriller in, but Finch has once again produced a top notch example of British commercial crime
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire for $2.99 Jackaby by William Ritter for $2.99 Little by Edward Carey for $1.99 Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris for $2.99 The Dog Stars by Peter Heller for $2.99 The Missing
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals The Dog Stars by Peter Heller for #2.99 The Missing American by Kwei Quartey for $1.99 The Book of Lost and Found by Lucy Foley for $4.99 The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernandez for $3.99 I Am Still Alive by Katie
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On the night of 11 August 1956, less than a mile from his home in East Hampton, artist Jackson Pollock crashed his green, convertible Oldsmobile 88 into a tree. The 44-year-old Pollock and a female passenger were killed instantly. Ruth Kligman, Pollock’s mistress, survived the accident. This is the real-world basis Helen A Harrison begins
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Honoring the finest works of translated fiction from around the world, the Booker International Prize has announced its 2020 winner, The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld and translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison. BBC’s Razia Iqbal hosted the virtual celebration which included remarks from the judges and Booker Prize staff and readings from
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Nursery rhymes, as we all know, often have disturbing and violent messages. The old London rhyme Oranges and Lemons is no exception. When the speaker of the House of Commons Michael Claremont is badly injured under a delivery of citrus fruit near St Clement’s Church, it’s clear (to some) this is no freakish accident. A
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova for $1.99 The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks for $1.99 The Summer of Jordi Perez by Amy Spalding for $1.99 Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel by Sara Farizan for $1.99 Mr. Fox by
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Right from the title, you know the stately Yorkshire family home Mortmain Hall will play a pivotal role in this classic mystery. The legal doctrine of mortmain, after all, refers to owners’ attempts to control the fate of their property after their death. As you can imagine, the influence of mortua manus – the dead
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi for $4.99 The Angel Mage by Garth Nix for $1.99 Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco for $1.99 Signal to the Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for $0.99 Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee
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Today’s Featured Deals In case you missed yesterday’s most popular deals Previous Daily Deals Signal to the Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for $0.99 Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee for $1.99 The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess for $2.99 The Good Girl by Mary Kubica for $2.99 Lily and the Octopus by
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