Sentences with phrase «fascinating novel set»

I really finished a fascinating novel set in 1970s India — The Way Things Were.

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I love, love books set in modern day Japan, especially crime ones — the local culture just provides such a fascinating twist to the «normal» American crime novels I usually read.

Drawn from the 2008 novel by Tom Rob Smith, Child 44 has a fascinating premise and setting — a Stalinist hero investigates a series of child murders in a society that dismisses murder as a capitalist affliction.

- Nicholas Meyer, New York Times Best Seller and Screenplay Academy Award nominee for The Seven Percent Solution; screenwriter, The Human Stain; director of Star Trek II — The Wrath of Khan «Juliana Maio's City of the Sun belongs in the «one percent» of new novels to read, not only because of the way she weaves suspense to keep you turning pages, but because she has married it all to a fascinating point in World War Two history with Middle East setting descriptions that will have you swearing you've been there.

Set against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear for writer's room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come trSet against the fascinating backdrop of Los Angeles show business culture, with an insider's ear for writer's room showdowns and an eye for bad backstage behavior and set politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come trset politics, Jennifer Weiner's new novel is a rollicking ride on the Hollywood roller coaster, a heartfelt story about what it's like for a young woman to love, and lose, in the land where dreams come true.

Ramey is based in the Denver area, and Unbridled frequently publishes the books of Western authors, such as New Mexico's Rick Collingnon and Montana's David Allan Cates, and one of my favorite novels of 2010, David Bajo's fascinating, surreal Panopticon, set on the California - Mexico border.

Jake Arnott's decade - spanning, continent - hopping novel mixes fascinating real - life figures with fictional characters as it moves briskly from WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming) and occultism (Aleister Crowley) to the West Coast pulp science - fiction set (Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein — even L. Ron Hubbard) and the»80s U.K. new wave music scene.

A fascinating, evocative, and delicious novel set in native Venetian society that combines politics and culture, Through a Glass, Darkly is Donna Leon at her finest.

Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle and fascinating as her best mysteries, set in a beautifully realized Venice, a glorious city seething with small - town vice.