Enjoy the best in mysteries and thrillers from Macmillan!
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Reviews and Publicity
Penny wins the AGATHA!
Congratulations to Louise Penny, whose title The Brutal Telling just won the Agatha award!
First the Booklist Top Ten, then an Agatha? And Talia just talked about it in the Booklist Mystery & Crime webinar, which I think is as prestigious as both those awards combined! I think I smell a NBCC award, maybe even a Nobel Peace Prize! Ok, maybe that's a stretch.
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Five Fantastic Edgar Nominees! (and two winners!)
Not one, or even four, but FIVE Edgar Award nominees this year!
Best Novel: The Last Child, The Odds
Best First Novel by an American Author: A Bad Day for Sorry, In the Shadow of Gotham
Best Critical/Biographical: The Talented Miss Highsmith
And of those nominees, The Last Child and In the Shadow of Gotham WON!
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This year’s Pulitzer Prize finalists!
Congratulations to Macmillan's Pulitzer Prize finalists! How Markets Fail was nominated for Nonfiction, and Fordlandia for History.
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Coming from our Booklist ad?
If you saw our awesome cover ad on the May 1st issue of Booklist, thanks for stopping by! (And thank you even if that's NOT how you found us!) Please take a closer look at all the great new mysteries and thrillers which were featured.
And, as always, don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions.
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Wolf Hall Wins National Book Critics Circle Award!
Congratulations to Hilary Mantel and her novel Wolf Hall, which just won the National Book Critics Circle award for fiction! Last year the book won the Man Booker prize, and I got it for my dad for Christmas! I'm not sure which is the more prestigious accolade.
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Agatha Nominations!
Congratulations to the attached titles, all of which were nominated for the coveted Agatha award for excellence in mystery writing!
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Four stars for Minotaur!
The February issue of Library Journal awarded four of our mysteries with starred reviews! Excerpts from the reviews are below!
Blood Hina: "Edgar Award winner Hirahara has created a most original L.A. sleuth. In his fourth outing (after Snakeskin Shamisen), the Hiroshima survivor is self-deprecating and humble yet takes a sure, straightforward approach to helping those in trouble."
Liars All: "Bannister just gets better with each book." [...]
Awards from ALA Midwinter!
Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Trotsky
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
The Chosen One
Best Books for Young Adults
The Chosen One
Alex Award
The Good Soldiers
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No More Oprah for Barbara Ehrenreich?
Publishers Weekly just published an interview with author Barbara Ehrenreich about her new book, Bright-Sided.
Given what you say about Oprah, do you think she'll invite you on the show?
I've been on Oprah twice, and the second time, I talked back to her.
She was saying that poor women just have to think positively, and I
disagreed. She's fascinating, but there's no escaping that she's done a
lot to promote this line of thinking that we can pull ourselves out of
poverty with our attitude. I take Larry King to task for the same
thing, so yes, I think I have destroyed my opportunities for public
appearances. But the Daily Show called me!
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