Picador Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/picador/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:31:11 +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 Picador Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/publishers/picador/ 32 32 38398750 Behind the Scenes at the Museum https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:16:40 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18971 Ruby Lennox has no intention of waiting to be noticed. She is the front and center, the axis in the familial wheel that is Kate Atkinson’s Behind the Scenes at the Museum. The novel begins with her announcing her own conception when her father drunkenly impregnates her mother. From this instant on we journey with […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/02/behind-the-scenes-at-the-museum/feed/ 0 18971 The Mere Wife: A novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-mere-wife-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-mere-wife-a-novel/#respond Fri, 02 Aug 2019 07:37:43 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13076 Just out in paperback, this was a novel I loved and thought deserved a lot more attention.   Maybe every monster is a miracle meant to change the world… Author Maria Headley dives into a modern-day retelling of Beowolf beginning with its title, The Mere Wife. This is no novel about a slight wife, a minor […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/08/the-mere-wife-a-novel/feed/ 0 13076 Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/girlchild-by-tupelo-hassman/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/girlchild-by-tupelo-hassman/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2017 08:11:16 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=8303   Well, well, well…finally, after two months of all-right-but-not-great reading I’ve been knocked off my feet. Not by a new release, but by a 2013 novel from my Goodreads to-read list. I’m not going to quibble; I’m just thrilled to have read something I loved so much that it’s hard to find the best words […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2017/01/girlchild-by-tupelo-hassman/feed/ 12 8303 Children of the New World: Stories https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/09/children-of-the-new-world-stories/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/09/children-of-the-new-world-stories/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2016 07:02:15 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=7125   If this election season isn’t freaking you out enough about the future of America, then you need to read Alexander Weinstein’s short stories, Children of the New World. Thankfully, unlike this election, these stories are not real, but they are brilliant in their take on how we’ll be living in the not-so-distant future. And, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/09/children-of-the-new-world-stories/feed/ 8 7125 Black Chalk https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/12/black-chalk/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/12/black-chalk/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2015 03:00:38 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=5188   There are many games to be played in college but none quite like the one designed by Jolyon and his friend Chad in Christopher Yates’s debut novel Black Chalk. The novel, just like the Game itself, begins with innocuous pieces to lure you in—Chad, the shy American determined to make the friends in England […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/12/black-chalk/feed/ 3 5188 A Pleasure and a Calling https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/pleasure-and-a-calling/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/pleasure-and-a-calling/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2015 08:38:37 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3623 Invisibility has for so long been the linchpin to my favourite, most memorable moments. Mr. Heming is exactly what one wants in a real estate agent—quiet, innocuous, and well-versed in the pros and cons of a neighborhood or a house itself. He imposes none of his own opinions but merely shares his knowledge and leads […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/01/pleasure-and-a-calling/feed/ 2 3623 May Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/05/may-mini-reviews/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/05/may-mini-reviews/#comments Fri, 30 May 2014 07:13:46 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2888 If, like me, you’re not overly involved in politics you’ll read the title of Bridget Siegel’s new novel, Domestic Affairs, and think it is some kind of tell-all fiction like The Nanny Diaries or any of Amy Sohn’s looks at life in upper echelon households. You’d be wrong. It is the story of an idealistic […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/05/may-mini-reviews/feed/ 1 2888 Havisham: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/11/havisham-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2013/11/havisham-novel/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2013 08:39:25 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2273   I felt I could hold on to more by staying here. If I’d gone off…I’m not sure I would have known who I was. I would have come apart perhaps. Even if it doesn’t come to you right away, the name Havisham is likely to bring at least a flicker of recognition to a […]

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