I have been selling master storyteller Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower all of my book selling life. Its reputation in the genre is unmatched. The release of a new book in this series is an event. Here is a word about the book from the UK publisher: “For readers new to Stephen King’s epic 7-volume [...]
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StephenKing.com has announced that The Wind Through the Keyhole, the next instalment of the epic The Dark Tower series is set for release in 2012. Dear Constant Readers, At some point, while worrying over the copyedited manuscript of the next book (11/22/63, out Now), I started thinking—and dreaming—about Mid-World again. The major story of Roland and [...]
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Small and perfectly formed, the flipback is built to last and it doesn’t leave you with a dislocated shoulder from lugging it around all day in your handbag.
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On the heels of the stunning success of Under the Dome, Hodder’s bestselling Stephen King title this decade, comes a collection of four brand new, darkly riveting and intimate stories. ‘I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger…’ writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes [...]
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‘I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger…’ writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up ’1922′, the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette [...]
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Book sales BOOOOOMED in 2009. Some suggest this was caused by the Global Financial Crisis which sent us scurrying off to the safety of our beds and the reliability of a good book. Others suggest that in the face of our present technology overload – the three remotes needed to turn on a TV, the [...]
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The book is dead. Long live the book, says John Purcell
The book is terminally ill, say those in the know, and lies near death in a private hospital plugged into a life support machine and surrounded by close friends and relatives. Right now, across the world commentators are drafting moving eulogies. Commemorative plates and tea towels are being made. Songs are being written. A mini-series [...]
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