Thirty years after her debut in a column for The Independent, and twenty-four years after the first film adaptation, Bridget Jones is set to return next year in the fourth installment of the Bridget Jones film series. Helen Fielding’s heroine started as a thirty-something single woman in London, on a quest to find her own…
When fantasy readers discuss Grimdark, the grittiest corner of the genre, it’s impossible not to mention The First Law world. Written by British author Joe Abercrombie, The First Law is a fantasy series that includes two trilogies, three standalone novels, and several short stories set within the same world. The series takes place in the Circle…
Written by Eva Gates, a pseudonym used by Canadian mystery novelist Vicki Delany, the Lighthouse Library Mystery Series is a cozy mystery series with librarians, lighthouses, cats, and, of course, murder! The story follows Lucy Richardson, who becomes the new assistant librarian at the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, in a small town where murder happens…
Written by British writer Julie Wassmer, the Whitstable Pearl Mystery Series Books is a cozy crime fiction series following Pearl Nolan, the owner of a successful restaurant and a private detective. Pearl Nolan lives in her coastal hometown of Whitstable. She wanted to be a police officer, but a teenage pregnancy changed her plans. Instead,…
Born in May 1968, Peter Swanson is an accomplished American author renowned for his gripping psychological suspense novels. He holds degrees in Creative Writing, Education, and Literature, earned from Trinity College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and Emerson College. Now celebrated as a best-selling author featured in both the Sunday Times and New York…
Born in 1971, Karin Slaughter is an American crime writer and best-selling author of more than 20 novels, including her Grant County and Will Trent series. Published in 120 countries, Karin Slaughter lives in Atlanta and soon will see her stand-alone novel, Pieces of Her, adapted on-screen at Netflix, with Tony Collette in the lead…
Robin Hobb is one of the pen names of Margaret Astrid Lindholm Odgen. She grew up in Alaska, a setting that has impacted her work. She had her first stories published when she was thirty, under her other pen name, Megan Lindholm. A professional writer for almost 40 years, Robin Hobb has been writing epic…
You possibly know him as Tom Hanks in Ron Howard’s adaptations of Dan Brown’s books. Robert Langdon is a famous Harvard University professor of history of art and “symbology”, a fictional field related to the study of historical symbols. No one will be surprised to know that Professor Langdon has an eidetic memory, with a…
American writer David Baldacci is best known for writing Memory Man, the first book in the Amos Decker series, or the stand-alone novel Absolute Power. He is also the writer of The Camel Book Series, a mystery thriller about four unlikely partners. Together, they are known as The Camel Club, a group of truth-seekers. Why…
Written by Stuart Woods, the man behind the Will Lee series and the Stone Barrington series, Ed Eagle is a talented six-foot-seven lawyer from Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he represents difficult and often vindictive clients. But his take-no-prisoners approach has earned him more than a few enemies, many of whom return for vengeance. If…
The Giver Quartet is a young adult series of four novels written by American writer Lois Lowry. The story takes place in what appears to be a utopian society but really is a dystopia. Pain and suffering have been eradicated from this world, and there are no worries anymore as the philosophy of “Sameness”, which…
Born Jacquie Walton in Oxford, Faith Martin is now an English author for almost thirty years and has sold over two million books to readers around the world. Before becoming a writer, Faith Martin trained as a secretary. She then worked at Somerville College of Oxford University for six years. When her parents found themselves…
