Picador Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/picador/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Wed, 18 May 2022 17:34:36 +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/tag/picador/ 32 32 38398750 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 It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/01/its-not-you-its-me-mini-reviews-8/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/01/its-not-you-its-me-mini-reviews-8/#comments Fri, 12 Jan 2018 08:45:29 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=9915     Telling you that Christopher J. Yates’s new novel, Grist Mill Road, is about a boy who ties up a girl and shoots her forty-nine times with a BB gun while his friend watches is not a spoiler, because Yates makes it the first page of the novel. It’s simply his way of making […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/01/its-not-you-its-me-mini-reviews-8/feed/ 9 9915 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 It’s Not You, It’s Me: Mini-Reviews https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/not-mini-reviews-5/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/not-mini-reviews-5/#comments Fri, 08 Apr 2016 07:34:42 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=6186 It happens in personal relationships and it happens with reading: A book simply does not hold my interest, float my boat, whatever metaphor you want to use. But if the writing is good I’m reader enough to admit: It’s Not You, It’s Me. I’ve always been a fan of South Asian authors so approached these […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2016/04/not-mini-reviews-5/feed/ 12 6186 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 The Headmaster’s Wife: Giveaway and Review https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/headmasters-wife-giveaway/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/headmasters-wife-giveaway/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:11:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3747 The Headmaster’s wife was one of my favorite book of 2014. Its paperback release is tomorrow so I wanted to remind anyone who might have missed this book what a gorgeous piece of prose it is. Plus, I have 2 copies to giveaway so you could win one to read!   Some books are written […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2015/02/headmasters-wife-giveaway/feed/ 3 3747 How To Be a Good Wife https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/11/good-wife/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/11/good-wife/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:51:37 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=3448 When Marta and Hector married, his mother gave her a book of domestic lessons entitled How to be a Good Wife. By the time they’ve been married for over thirty years Marta knows it by heart and knows that bread must be baked fresh every day, that only the husband belongs in the outside world, […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/11/good-wife/feed/ 3 3448 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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