I read this because I was missing my usual fix of the Cormoran Strike books (please release the next one, JK!) and someone said Tana French was similar. It certainly had many of the elements that I love from the Strike books - believable characters, complicated relationships, unreliable witnesses and an intriguing mystery with lots of suspects. The solution was good, too, but it was the relationships that made it for me.
The bestselling debut, with over a million copies sold, that launched Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Searcher and "the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past 10 years" (The Washington Post).
"Required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting." -The New York Times
Now airing as a Starz series.
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only…
This horror mystery is in the form of an Ikea (sorry, Orsk) catalogue. I mean, it shouldn't work, but it does! The narrative is interspersed with pictures and descriptions of furniture, which are always relevant to the story and become more and more disturbing as the night wears on. Full marks for concept! And the story itself is tense and scary, too. Funny, horrifying and so original!
It's a classic old-fashioned haunted house story - set in a big box Swedish furniture superstore. Designed like a retail catalogue, Horrorstor offers a creepy read with mass appeal-perfect for Halloween tables! Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes, shattered Bracken glassware, and vandalized Liripip sofabeds-clearly, someone or something is up to no good. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-til-dawn shift-and they encounter horrors that defy imagination. Along the way, author Grady Hendrix infuses sly social commentary on the nature…
My best non-fiction read of the year. Ros Atkins is known for his 'explainers' on the BBC, where he manages to convey all the key points of complex situations in a logical way and in only a few minutes, without notes. This is his book to help you do the same thing - or to structure your essay or speech in a logical and helpful way. He writes like he speaks, so it's clear and easy to follow, without any rambling sentences. But the main thing I liked was the practical, step-by-step instructions for constructing a talk that will flow and that you will find easy to remember with only a few, or even no, notes. That's useful to me as an author, because I often give talks relating to my books. But I also gave a copy to my niece for Christmas because it just as applicable to writing school essays as to making speeches.
**From BBC presenter and journalist Ros Atkins, creator of the viral 'Ros Atkins on...' explainer videos and host of the forthcoming BBC Radio 4 podcast 'Communicating with Ros Atkins'**
'A great read for polishing your communication skills' FORBES 'For all those who want their audiences to listen and understand' JEREMY BOWEN 'Precision, deftness and a calming expertise' THE TIMES
Do you worry about holding people's attention during presentations?
Are you unsure where to start when faced with writing an essay or report?
Are you preparing for an interview and wondering how to get all your points across?
Will hates his job as a blacksmith's apprentice. But as an orphan in eighteenth-century York, he doesn't have much choice - until he find out that one of his customers is a highwayman.
Joining the robber gang brings wealth, new friends and adventure - everything a boy could dream of. But when people he cares about start getting hurt, Will discovers that it is easier to enter a life of crime than to leave it.
He got into it for the money. Can he get out with his life?
