Congratulations to Peter Carey and Tom McCarthy, whose latest novels are both on the long list for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, announced today.
More >Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
More >In this riveting sequel to Martin Walker’s internationally acclaimed novel Bruno, Chief of Police, some of France’s great pleasures—wine, passion and intrigue—converge in a dark chain of events that threaten the peaceful village of Saint-Denis.
More >The newest thriller from the author of The Amateur Spy and The Prisoner of Guantánamo (“Worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carré and Ken Follett”—USA Today) is as dazzling as its setting.
More >Laurence Gonzales’s electrifying adventure opens in the jungles of the Congo. Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying pygmy chimpanzees—the bonobos—is running for her life. A civil war has exploded and Jenny is trapped in its crosshairs…She runs to the camp of a fellow primatologist. The rebels have already been there. Everyone is dead except a young girl, the daughter of Jenny’s brutally murdered fellow scientist—and competitor.
More >The memoir of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be published by Alfred A. Knopf, it was announced today by Sonny Mehta, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
More >Following his acclaimed debut, Waterborne, Bruce Murkoff gives us another American panorama with a Civil War novel unlike any other.
More >Jennifer Egan put together this awesome playlist to accompany her powerful new novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad. Check out the track list and then head over to Knopf Doubleday’s 8tracks page to listen to the songs.
More >On Tuesday, the wait for LUCY will be over and the world will get to know the charming heroine of Laurence Gonzales’s daring new novel—a fourteen year-old girl who is half human and half bonobo. (Meet Lucy)
A lot of readers may be wondering, what exactly is a bonobo?
More >A letter by Knopf editor Victoria Wilson on Laurence Gonzales’s forthcoming novel, Lucy.
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