New Reviews: Cooper, Harris, Lelic, Meyer, Robertson, Taylor

This month's competitions:

Win the complete Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson on Unabridged Audiobooks (UK & Ireland)
Win a copy of Daisychain by G J Moffat (UK only) new

Here are this week's new reviews:

Amanda Gillies reviews Glenn Cooper's The Tenth Chamber;

Michelle Peckham reviews Blueeyedboy by Joanne Harris;

Maxine Clarke reviews A Thousand Cuts (UK: Rupture) by Simon Lelic;

and Maxine also reviews euro crime favourite Deon Meyer's Thirteen Hours, tr. K L Seegers (Jack Bauer eat your heart out);

Terry Halligan reviews Imogen Robertson's Instruments of Darkness set in the 18th Century

and Laura Root reviews the 1930s set At The Chime of a City Clock by D J Taylor.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found by author or date, here.

A couple of follow ups to earlier posts

There's now a publishing date for the English translation of the follow up to The Shadow of the Wind. From today's Publisher's Lunch:

Internationally bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón's El Juego del Angel (The Angel's Game), a prequel to The Shadow of the Wind set in 1920s Barcelona, combining a love story, a mystery, a fantasy and an exploration of literature, moving to Stephen Rubin at Doubleday, with Bill Thomas editing, for publication in summer 2009,

Just a bit of warning that Joanne Harris's sequel to Chocolat, published in the UK last year as The Lollipop Shoes is due out in the US in May, entitled The Girl With No Shadow.

More on the sequel to Chocolat

From the Independent:

Vianne, played in the film adaptation by Juliette Binoche, and her daughter Anuok, a character based on Harris's daughter Anouchka, materialise in the Montmartre district of Paris for the author's sequel, The Lollipop Shoes, which the Barnsley writer promises will be a darker novel than the first and is set four years after the conclusion of Chocolat.

The new novel reveals what became evident as the first novel wore on: that Vianne would never be able to settle in the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, in Gascony, where she arrived with six-year-old Anuok to set up her chocolaterie, La Céleste Praline.

"This time they have settled in Paris instead," Harris said. "Mother and daughter have changed but not always in the best ways."

Full article here.

Joanne Harris

Going slightly off topic here even though Joanne Harris's last book - 'Gentleman and Players' - was a crime novel and naturally (!) I have a copy in the tbr.

From Publishing News:
"TRANSWORLD HAS SIGNED two more novels by Joanne Harris from Serafina Clarke. The first, The Lollipop Shoes, will be published by Doubleday in May 2007 and sees the reappearance of Vianne Rocher from the bestselling Chocolat. Larry Finlay, Transworld MD, commented: "Joanne Harris is one of the most precious jewels in the Transworld crown. Her return to France, specifically Montmartre, will delight her legion of existing fans but, as we have come to expect from this extraordinary novelist, there is an extra dimension to intrigue and satisfy new readers.""