“It was the image of this tiny but indomitable twosome, neither of whom had contracted AIDS, that stayed with me. Every morning the nine-year-old girl would lead her baby brother to the treacherous coltan mines, where he’d work for hours at a stretch running his small hands through mud, searching for colombo…(Read More)
“I’d use the hours on the train to twist and turn our relationship over in my head, bending and inverting it, hoping to end up with a shape I could understand. I knew that an intelligent, liberated woman like myself was supposed to expect more from a relationship, but I couldn’t stop waxing…(Read More)
Little, Brown will issue an international edition of An Unexpected Guest, to appear in April 2012…(Read More)
Foreign rights to An Unexpected Guest have been sold to Italy, Russia, Australia, and Serbia…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest has been chosen as a featured alternate selection by Book of the Month Club, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Quality Paperback Book Club in May 2012…(Read More)
An Unexpected Guest has been chosen as a “Pick of the Week” by WHSmith bookstore in Paris…(Read More)
Booker-prize short-listed in 2010, this inventive best-seller told entirely but never irritatingly from a child’s point of view deserves the attention it has received…(Read More)
The captivating first volume, Sea of Poppies, in the Opium War-era Ibis trilogy was Booker-prize short-listed in 2008. Can’t wait to read this second entry in the series…(Read More)
“I put off reading my own work to an audience for years. I worked as a non-fiction writer for newspapers and magazines before publishing fiction and, as far as I was concerned, one of the perks was the ability to communicate while remaining invisible.” For author David Abram’s fun series “My First Time…(Read More)
