Edwards, an expert on Golden Age mystery fiction, delivers here a fast-clip work of psychological suspense set during the Great Depression. It imagines Jacob Flint, an oft-rash junior crime reporter for London’s Clarion newspaper, chancing upon what he sees as a scoop in Rachel Savernake, the bewitching, wealthy daughter of a notorious hanging judge, who’s …
Charles Soule is back with Anyone. Soule wrote an interesting near future SF novel called The Oracle Year a while back, and he’s tackling the near future again with Anyone. This time around, the premise is human consciousness can be transported between bodies. Naturally, this becomes both thrilling and terrifying (when you start to extrapolate some of the effects …
University Book Store is celebrating its 120th anniversary this week on Friday Jan. 10. That day kicks off a year’s worth of events linked to the store’s founding. In 1895, when Washington had only officially been a state for six years, the “Territorial University” moved north of Portage Bay and became the University of Washington. …
This mesmerizing memoir by poet and translator E. J. Koh explores immigration, motherhood, familial bonds, love, trauma, forgiveness and reconciliation. It takes the reader from San Francisco to Korea to Japan. I found it to be a gorgeous, lyrical, painful, poignant and hopeful read. –Janis Segress, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA Explore language and …
By Paul Constant Special to The Seattle Times Neighborhood Reads If you want to learn about a Seattle neighborhood, browse the shelves of its independent bookstores. Local bookstores succeed when they place the interests and aspirations of their neighbors over the fads and excesses of national bestseller lists. And every time we buy books from …
Anonymous “Book Angel” Donor Gives Children’s Books to Kids at Mary’s Place This week, Queen Anne Book Company is grateful for the opportunity to donate new children’s and young adult books to Mary’s Place. An anonymous customer of the independent bookstore recently reached out to co-owners Janis Segress and Judy & Krijn de Jonge after …
Did you know that PNBA Award-winning novelist Martha Brockenbrough is a rigorous researcher and fact-smack-down nonfiction writer? Her most recent book, Unpresidented: A Biography of Donald Trump, is full of background information that might be particularly interesting to Americans following the impeachment process. The biography provides details and meticulously-noted documentation for facts that Trump probably …
For adult fiction, and a tie for my favorite overall read of 2019 is The Guest Book by Sarah Blake. I’ve already written about it in a previous post, picked it for our birthday sale . . . and tried to sell it to anyone who asks me what the best thing is I’ve read lately. This is …
As deep and broad and beautiful and American as the Grand Canyon. Because this torrent spills from the mind of one ordinary woman (an Ohioan, a wife, a mom, a baker of pies), because she’s hilarious, because her doubts and deprecations, her fondnesses and fears, are so mundane and relatable, because she exists as one …
Empowering, engrossing, and absolutely fascinating, this is a stunning YA novel. The rich fantasy world pairs perfectly with very vivid, very complex characters. You’ll be waiting with bated breath for the follow-up! –Tegan Tigani, Queen Anne Book Company, Seattle, WA A stunning sequel to Girls of Paper and Fire! This book is enticing, powerful, and …
