By: Ned Beauman,
on 1/19/2015
I did have a playlist that I listened to over and over again while I was writing Glow, but three years on I'm a bit bored of those songs, which got their final blast at my book party in London last year. So here are the B-sides, so to speak: other good songs by the [...]
By: William Gibson,
on 12/5/2014
At Powell's, we feel the holidays are the perfect time to share our love of books with those close to us. For this special blog series, we reached out to authors featured in our Holiday Gift Guide to learn about their own experiences with book giving during this bountiful time of year. Today's featured giver [...]
By: Jason Boog,
on 10/16/2012
Novelist Hilary Mantel has won the £50,000 (roughly $65,175) Man Booker Prize for Bring up the Bodies, the second time she has taken the award.
Follow the links below to read excerpts from all the authors on the longlist. “I merely wanted novels that they would not leave behind on a beach,” said judicial chair Sir Peter Stothard, leading a panel of judges that included Dinah Birch, Amanda Foreman, Dan Stevens and Bharat Tandon.
If you want more books, we made similar literary mixtapes linking to free samples of the 2012 National Book Award Finalists, 2012 Man Booker Longlist, the Best Science Fiction of the Year the Believer Book Award nominees, the 2012 Orwell Prize shortlist, the LA Times Book Prize winners, and the Best Business Books of the Year.
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By: Jason Boog,
on 7/25/2012
The longlist for the 2012 Man Booker Prize has been revealed, a list that includes four debut novelists. We’ve researched these 12 finalists, finding free samples of these books scattered across the world–a number of titles aren’t even available in the U.S. yet.
Follow the links below to read excerpts from these books. The shortlist will be revealed on September 11th and the winner will be announced on October 16th.
If you want more books, we made similar literary mixtapes linking to free samples of the Believer Book Award nominees, the 2012 Orwell Prize shortlist, the LA Times Book Prize winners, the Orion Book Award Finalists, Best Mystery Books of 2011, the Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2011 and the Most Overlooked Books of 2011.
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