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Bookshots: ‘The Cartel’ By Don Winslow
June 23rd, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: The Cartel Who wrote it? If this was a just world, 'The Cartel' would be Winslow’s true breakout novel and it would place all of Winslow’s future novels at the top of New York Times bestseller list. Best-selling and award-winning author of Savages and The Power Of The Dog, Don Winslow
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Paradise Sky' by Joe R. Lansdale
June 16th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Paradise Sky Who wrote it? Watching a Lansdale character slowly reveal their many layers over the course of a story is always rewarding. Joe R. Lansdale, author of Bubba Ho-Tep and the popular Hap and Leonard series.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Summerlong' By Dean Bakopoulos
June 16th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Summerlong Who wrote it? Bakopoulos is a very talented novelist and there are some great, funny passages in this novel. Novelist and Guggenheim Fellow, Dean Bakopoulos.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Here Are The Young Men' by Rob Doyle
June 16th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Here Are The Young Men Who wrote it? Perhaps the real fear is that no matter what, eventually everything will go back to how it was. Debut novelist Rob Doyle.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Mercy House' by Adam Cesare
June 10th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Mercy House Who wrote it? This is extreme horror at its best, so don't step into this book with an uneasy stomach. You must wait sixty minutes after eating before opening up 'Mercy House'. Adam Cesare, author of The Summer Job, among various other horror novels currently haunting the shadows.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing' by Eimear McBride
June 9th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing Who wrote it? Debut novelist, Eimear McBride. After almost a decade without a publisher, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing was released by a tiny press in England, winning the Goldsmiths Prize in 2013 and the 2014 Bailey’s Women’s Fiction Prize for Fiction. The novel took her six months to write.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'I Saw A Man' by Owen Sheers
June 8th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: I Saw A Man Who wrote it? Owen Sheers: poet, playwright and novelist. His first novel, Resistance, became a film starring Andrea Riseborough. He lives in Wales, played rugby at county level, and in 2011 became the first writer in residence for Welsh Rugby Union. I Saw A Man is not about rugby however.
Read Review →Bookshots: 'That Thing You Do With Your Mouth' by Samantha Matthews and David Shields
June 8th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: That Thing You Do With Your Mouth: The Sexual Autobiography of Samantha Matthews as Told to David Shields
Read Review →Bookshots: 'Seveneves' by Neal Stephenson
June 5th, 2015
Bookshots: Pumping new life into the corpse of the book review Title: Seveneves Who wrote it? An intriguing trip through some strange and complicated places, but it will suffer from comparison to Stephenson’s previous work. Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and other acclaimed works of speculative fiction.
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