While the book is selling like hotcakes, 007 fans are not feeling the love. About Devil May Care, the “new Bond” book written by Sebastian Faulks “in the style of” series creator and writer Ian Fleming (who died in 1964), Bond fans are saying:
“Anyone who thinks this style re-creates Fleming, or is evocative of Fleming, […]
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, bestsellers, james bond, spy novels on June 11th, 2008 | No Comments »
The latest book to be tapped for movie stardom: Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist — “currently at number six on The New York Times bestseller list, 20 years after its first publication” — will be made into a film, directed by Laurence Fishburne and produced by Harvey Weinstein. It’s “the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd […]
Filed under: readers advisory, based on the book, film, movies, spirituality, bestsellers, news on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Booktrade announced today that UK newspaper The Times will serialise Patricia Cornwell’s latest novel, The Front, “in its entirety prior to UK publication” on 15 May 2008, starting with the first of ten daily instalments this Monday. The book, the second to feature Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano and only 208 pages, won’t be released […]
Filed under: readers advisory, publishing, crime fiction, series, bestsellers on April 18th, 2008 | No Comments »
The Reader’s Advisor lists “sure-to-sell” books due out this week.
Fiction titles include Susan Wittig Albert’s latest China Bayles crime novel, Nightshade; Nevada Barr’s latest Anna Pigeon crime novel, Winter Study; Dorothy Cannell’s Goodbye, Ms. Chips, latest in the Ellie Haskell series; Barbara Delinsky’s Suddenly; Eric Jerome Dickey’s Pleasure; Karen Robards’ romantic thriller Guilty; and the […]
Filed under: readers advisory, publishing, bestsellers on March 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
Don’t forget to check out the weekly RA Rundown at The Reader’s Advisor Online Blog. (If you add the weblog to your RSS aggregator, you won’t have to remember.) Here’s this week’s, with news of Wally Lamb’s first new novel in 10 years, problems for print encyclopedias, and of course mashups of the hottest books […]
Filed under: readers advisory, publishing, bestsellers on March 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »