![]() ![]() ![]() Their escape will require ingenuity, daring, and courage. ![]() In the far north on the coast of the ice-free Arctic Ocean, they are tricked by a community of fisher-folk living amongst the detritus of a lost civilization, in the plains caribou-wintering grounds, they help a tribe of nomads, caribou-hunters, defeat a rapacious enemy, only to be chased off by the tribe's clannish women, and in the polluted south, taken captive and enslaved by a cruel, regimented society, they meet the wild, genetically-varied horse-women of their dreams. SEX QUESTS: TWO TALES OF FUTURES POSSIBLE Gene RaidIn a post-apocalyptic, post-global-warming northern Canada, three intrepid adventurers, a bookish ecologist, a broad-chested, handsome hunter, and a disabled inventor, set out from their isolated home, the fertile valley of Erlandsland, to scour the uncharted wilderness for wives to bring back and replenish their community's in-bred gene pool. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Things are not helped by memories which have begun to resurface of a troubled time in their native Ireland. Stella is tired of his lifestyle, worried about their marriage and angry at his constant undermining of her religious faith. ![]() ![]() Gerry, once an architect, is forgetful and set in his ways. Their relationship seems safe, easy, familiar - but over the course of the four days we discover the deep uncertainties which exist between them. A holiday to refresh the senses, to do some sightseeing and generally to take stock of what remains of their lives. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend. Full of scenes that are rendered with exquisite accuracy and care, allowing the most detailed physical descriptions to be placed against the possibility of a rich spiritual life, this is a novel of great ambition by an artist at the height of his powers.' Colm Toibin Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A Guardian / Sunday Times / Irish Times / Herald Scotland / Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Winner of the Bord Gais Novel of the Year `Midwinter Break is a work of extraordinary emotional precision and sympathy, about coming to terms - to an honest reckoning - with love and the loss of love, with memory and pain. ![]() ![]() ![]() That may have been the first one, but it just seems like I’ve always been doing that. I remember playing Red Box D&D in, I think, grade school. ![]() First off, why don’t you just tell us a bit about how you first got into pen-and-paper role-playing games? Your new book is called Cibola Burn, and it’s the fourth book in the Expanse series, which is based on a pen-and-paper role-playing game that you created. Visit to listen to the entire interview and the rest of the show, in which the host and his guests discuss various geeky topics. This interview first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by David Barr Kirtley. The series is also being adapted for television by the Syfy channel. The fourth book, Cibola Burn, is out now. Ty Franck, together with Daniel Abraham, who we interviewed back in episode 35, writes the Expanse series of space adventure novels under the penname James S.A. ![]() Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks book sales across the book market, it sold over 300,000 copies in 2018 and ranked twelfth in the year’s bestsellers. Five years on, it’s still a best-seller: Number 23 in Amazon’s overall books ranking, and Number 1 in several smaller categories such as ‘Civilisation and Culture’. ![]() Sapiens has sold over a million copies and garnered praise from big hitters as diverse as Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Chris Evans and Lily Cole. ![]() That’s part of the appeal of big, bold, transdisciplinary books like Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (subtitle: ‘A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years’), and, most recently, of Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari’s blockbusting Sapiens, published in Hebrew in 2011 and in English in 2014. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was someone in charge, someone who understood how it all fitted together? Even though we know that it isn’t possible, perhaps some part of us still longs for a real-life omniscient narrator. ![]() ![]() ![]() I have complete faith that Chicago Review Press will carry forth the ongoing mission that Council Oak began those many years ago. Indeed, in these harrowing times, it is more important than ever that the voices of independent authors be heard, well-represented and widely available. ![]() ![]() It is a tremendous fit for two venerable independent publishers. "Council Oak Books has a wonderful trove of backlist titles that I plan to update and keep in print."Ĭouncil Oak publisher James Connolly added: "I can't think of a more proper and good home. "I am really looking forward to this new collaboration between two established independent presses with many shared interests," said Cynthia Sherry, publisher of Chicago Review Press, who will oversee the acquisition. Its titles have included Beyond Fear: A Toltec Guide to Freedom & Joy, the Cherokee Feast of Days series and Native New Yorkers by Evan Pritchard. Council Oak will become a Chicago Review Press imprint, and its Wildcat Canyon Press imprint will become a series under the Council Oak Books imprint.įounded in 1987 by Paulette Millichap and Sally Dennison, Council Oak Books has emphasized publishing Indigenous voices, early advocates of women's issues and pioneers in body, mind and spirit. Chicago Review Press Inc., owner of Chicago Review Press and Independent Publishers Group, has bought Council Oak Books, a longtime IPG client publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do you enjoy reading epic novels such as this one? What makes them so appealing to readers, in your opinion?ħ. When you first read about Billy Williams in chapter one, did you anticipate how his life would unfurl-for example, that he would end up in running for Parliament? What about other characters: Could you guess what some of them would end up doing or being at the book's end?Ħ. What did you think of Ken Follett's depiction of them? Do you like seeing notable people such as these come alive in fiction, or do you prefer reading about them in a strictly historical context?ĥ. ![]() Talk about the historical figures that appear throughout Fall of Giants, such as Woodrow Wilson, King George V, Vladimir Lenin, and others. Is it significant that Fall of Giants begins with the stories of Billy and Ethel Williams? Would the novel have been different if other characters' stories opened the book, such as those of Grigori and Lev Peshkov, or Gus Dewar?Ĥ. Is there a custom or practice from the book's early 20th-century time period that you wish existed in our modern day? What would it be, and why do you think it should have a place in today's world?ģ. Before reading Fall of Giants, what did you know about World War I? Did you learn anything new upon finishing the novel?Ģ. ![]() ![]() Cather’s construction of the fictional patriarch of the Wheeler clan is nuanced. Though Nat Wheeler is a big, powerful man who owns much property, he is content to allow others to work his land, renting pasture and cropland to local farmers who are down on their luck. Set in pre-Great War Nebraska on the Wheeler place, a farm owned by Nat and Evangeline Wheeler, a large spread where the parents have raised their three boys: Bayliss, Claude, and Ralph, One of Ours isn’t the stereotypical novel of hard luck and tragedy that we’ve come to expect from farm stories of its time. But in the end, in the hands of a master storyteller like Willa Cather, One of Ours satisfies both as to craft and plot. At first, attempting to meld those two distinct brands of invented lives might seem a bit awkward, forced, or even foolhardy. But few of us, I am fairly certain, outside of serious students of Cather’s work, have heard of, much less read, One of Ours, a tale that straddles two genres, that of Plains hardscrabble fiction and war novel. ![]() Most of us at one point or another in our reading careers have read Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, and My Antonia by acclaimed American Plains and Western novelist, Willa Cather. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prudence, Duchess of Blackmoor, has one desire-to be happy again. 2 1/2 Kisses The Pirate’s Duchess by Katherine BoneĪ duke masquerading as a pirate to “rob from the rich and give to the poor” sheds his darkest-kept secrets to keep from losing the duchess his wife has become.ĭuty forces him to take on the pirate code, but honor brings him back. But when the notorious former boxer Nash Overton hires her to transform him into a gentleman, Julianna quickly becomes the student, learning more about passion than she’s ever known, and more importantly, learning how to love again. Widowed Lady Julianna Barrows never wants to fall in love again. Lady Julia is hired to turn a rogue into a gentleman and receives lessons in love and desire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meet dashing, wildly charming rogues, spies, pirates, rakes and their extraordinary, intrepid heroines as they whisk you along on sweet to sizzling romantic romps in these wickedly entertaining historical romances. USA Today Best-selling author, Julie Johnstone, joins best-selling, award-winning authors, Katherine Bone, Collette Cameron, Jillian Chantal, Samantha Grace, Alanna Lucas, Lauren Smith, and Victoria Vane in this delightful limited edition, containing eight tantalizing kiss-and-tell stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Waugh would derive parts of “A Handful of Dust” from this unhappy time. She proved unfaithful, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1930. After inglorious stints as a school teacher (he was dismissed for trying to seduce a school matron and/or inebriation), an apprentice cabinet maker and journalist, he wrote and had published his first novel, “Decline and Fall” in 1928. In 1924 Waugh left Oxford without taking his degree. When asked if he took up any sports there he quipped, “I drank for Hertford.” He said of his time there, “…the whole of English education when I was brought up was to produce prose writers it was all we were taught, really.” He went on to Hertford College, Oxford, where he read History. ![]() ![]() In fact, his book “The Loom of Youth” (1917) a novel about his old boarding school Sherborne caused Evelyn to be expelled from there and placed at Lancing College. His only sibling Alec also became a writer of note. Evelyn Waugh's father Arthur was a noted editor and publisher. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The tender, frustrated romance between the dramatic Henry and taciturn Tobias shines. "Find a quiet place in a nearby wood, listen to the trees whisper, and thank the old gods and new for this beautiful little book, of which I intend to get lost in again and again."- Book Riot This fresh, evocative short novel heralds a welcome new voice in fantasy."- Publishers Weekly Henry Silver does not relish what he’ll find in the grimy seaside town of Rothport, where once the ancient wood extended before it was drowned beneath the sea-a missing girl, a monster on the loose, or, worst of all, Tobias Finch, who loves him. ![]() This second volume of the Greenhollow duology once again invites readers to lose themselves in the story of Henry and Tobias, and the magic of a myth they’ve always known.Įven the Wild Man of Greenhollow can’t ignore a summons from his mother, when that mother is the indomitable Adela Silver, practical folklorist. The conclusion to the World Fantasy Award-winning Greenhollow Duologyĭrowned Country is the stunning sequel to Silver in the Wood, Emily Tesh's lush, folkloric debut. From Astounding Award Winner and Crawford Award Finalist Emily Tesh ![]() |