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| ‘Shining’ sequel announced for September next year Posted: 20 Sep 2012 04:28 AM PDT
Torrance, now a middle-aged man, is found working in a nursing home in New Hampshire, but is confronted once more by his terrifying childhood upon meeting the supernaturally gifted 12-year-old Abra Stone. Together, they must face the True Knot, a roving band of elderly quasi-immortals who prey upon youngsters who posess the "shining" power. King surprised attendees of the September 2011 Fall for the Book festival with a public reading taken from "Doctor Sleep", and an excerpt was included as a bonus on the audio version of this year's novel "The Wind Through The Keyhole". — AFP-Relaxnews |
| From Mumbai to Everest: Longlist announced for Samuel Johnson Prize Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:29 PM PDT LONDON, Sept 20 — Announced September 18, the 14-title-strong longlist for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction contains works on Salman Rushdie's time under Fatwa; life, death and hope in an Indian slum; and the convergence of man, mountain and continental massacre. Together, the final 14 on the Samuel Johnson Prize's 2012 longlist take in the depths of the Mumbai slum (Behind the Beautiful Forevers) and the heights of Everest (Into the Silence). Topics stretch from cognitive theory (Thinking, Fast and Slow and The Better Angels of our Nature), to fascinating observation (The Old Ways and Feathers), historical tales (Winter King, The Spanish Holocaust) and personal portrait (Grand Pursuit, The Man Without a Face, Strindberg: A Life, One on One, Joseph Anton and Inside the Centre). The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2012 — Longlist
One on One, by Craig Brown (Fourth Estate) Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest, by Wade Davis (The Bodley Head) The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Masha Gessen (Granta Books) Feathers, by Thor Hansen (Basic Books) Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman (Allen Lane) The Old Ways, by Robert MacFarlane (Hamish Hamilton) Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Ray Monk (Jonathan Cape) Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genuis, by Sylvia Nasar (Fourth Estate) Winter King, by Thomas Penn (Allen Lane) The Better Angels of our Nature, by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane) The Spanish Holocaust, by Paul Preston (HarperPress) Strindberg: A Life, by Sue Prideaux (Yale University Press) Joseph Anton, by Salman Rushdie (Jonathan Cape) The winner of the £20,000 (RM100,000) prize for English-language books, which is named after the 18th-century English author and literary critic, will be announced on November 12, a date which falls between France's Prix Goncourt (November 7) and America's National Book Awards (November 14). Previous winners include Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, which went on to star Matt Damon as the Paul Greengrass film Green Zone, Anthony Beevoir's Stalingrad, and Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. — AFP/Relaxnews |
LOS ANGELES, Sept 20 — Stephen King's "Doctor Sleep", which continues the story of child protagonist Danny Torrance in "The Shining", has been announced for publication on September 24 next year.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo (Portobello Books)| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Books To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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