HarperCollins Publishers Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/harpercollins-publishers/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:15:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg HarperCollins Publishers Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/harpercollins-publishers/ 32 32 38398750 Katabasis by R.F. Kuang https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/#comments Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:39:19 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19377 I’ve read and enjoyed both of R.F. Kuang’s adult novels (Babel, Yellowface) so was looking forward to her latest, Katabasis. A Greek word meaning “going down or descending” this chunky novel is about Alice Law, an American student getting her graduate degree in Magick from Cambridge. The title refers to Alice’s descent into Hell to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/10/katabasis-by-r-f-kuang/feed/ 3 19377 The Bestseller: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-bestseller-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/08/the-bestseller-a-novel/#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2021 04:38:59 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15991 The Bestseller had two things going for it when I saw it in my library online catalog. One, it was Available Now so not hold list to wait through and two, the author’s name, Olivia Goldsmith, sounded vaguely familiar. Sure enough, she was a popular writer in the 80s and 90s and I’d read several of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/06/the-summer-guest/feed/ 5 6576 Mademoiselle Chanel: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/03/mademoiselle-chanel-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/03/mademoiselle-chanel-a-novel/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2015 07:51:40 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3885   When you think of Chanel it is likely as a luxury brand of clothes, accessories, and perfume. I know for me it is because owning a vintage Chanel suit is on my bucket list. Forget seeing the pyramids, I want that boucle jacket with the gold chain sewn into the lining to make sure […]

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