The Best Business Books of 2024: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award Andrew Hill, Journalist Buy nowListen now Precipice byRobert Harris Precipiceis the latesthistorical novel by Robert Harris, one of our favourite writers here atFive Booksfor his page-turners that rely on histor...
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Also ranks #2 on Movie Adaptations That Make A Lot More Sense If You’ve Read The Books 67 Dark City Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly 938 votes John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. The ...
If instead you want a Victorian Holmes from the big screen, consider getting the 2010 release of the Robert Downey, Jr. Sherlock Holmes movie or my 2009 pick of Murder by Decree. Top 10 Books About Holmes & Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes Handbook: Second Edition by Christopher Redmond This marv...
Each year, the judges for the Forward Prize select a shortlist of the best new poetry books. In 2020, they chose five collections ranging in tone from epic love songs to domestic surrealism.Alexandra Harris, chair of the judges, tells us what they admired about each book. ...
5 Act of Oblivion, by Robert Harris Famed historical novelist, Harris first found acclaim for gripping thrillers set around the Second World War and has since developed a series of books based in ancient Rome. Now he returns with a dramatic manhunt for the murderers of King Charles 1, of ...
Number I reread: 9 (well, 8 Amulet books and one other book) Number I abandoned: not sure, actually…. probably more than I think. And the way I read books? The top three I turned in at work: A Sorceress Comes to Call (And the bonus three best that were new to me this year,...
Novelist Jim Thompson was a genius of hardboiled crime fiction: his books are lean and gripping, generally following a rugged, amoral, none-too-bright hero as he’s messed with by a sharp-witted woman with a lust for cash. This Martin Scorsese-produced, Stephen Frears-directed black comedy...
and a bullet for every bad guy and gal. Over the last seventy years his hero Philip Marlowe has been the template for dozens of crime writers. Just think Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert B. Parker, Derek Marlowe, Alan Sharp, Timothy Harris, Roger L. Simon, Robert Crais,...
Robert Harris, once a Fleet Street political editor, has channelled his knowledge of the nuances and narcissism of modern-day politics and cast it back into the world of Julius Caesar — a world that elevated back-stabbing to an epic level. I had overlooked the first two books of this tri...