Friday, December 21, 2007

R J Ellory hits the big time

The new Richard and Judy book club list for 2008 has been announced and it's good news for R J Ellory whose 'A Quiet Belief in Angels' has been selected. His appears to be the only crime title chosen. The full list, from Publishing News is here:
9 January A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury)

16 January Random Acts of Heroic Love, Danny Scheinmann (Black Swan)

23 January The Rose of Sebastopol, Katharine McMahon (W&N)

30 January A Quiet Belief in Angels, RJ Ellory (Orion)

6 February Notes From an Exhibition, Patrick Gale (Fourth Estate)

13 February Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris (Viking)

20 February The Visible World, Mark Slouka (Portobello)

27 February Mister Pip, Lloyd Jones (John Murray)

5 March Blood River, Tim Butcher (Chatto)

12 March The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies (Sceptre)
Regular readers of this blog might remember that R J Ellory gave a talk at Mere Green Library earlier this year and read an exclusive extract from said book.

3 comments:

Ali Karim said...

excellent news about Roger !

Thanks for the heads-up

Ali

PS Have you finished Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO?

Karen (Euro Crime) said...

Hi Ali, no I'm savouring Girl with Tattoo. I'm about 3/5ths through it and I don't want it to end :-).

Ali Karim said...

Hi Karen -

I've attempted 3 books since, but I can't get Larsson's world out of my head - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is just so exquiste, I'm contemplating re-reading it over Christmas. It is a fitting winter's read, a beautiful work and scary -

Have a great Christmas with Ms. Salander

Ali