Popular Fiction News

Author John Lescroart is one of the many authors scheduled to rub elbows with Sacramento-area readers March 3 during Authors on the Move.

Yesterday we celebrated the birth of legendary science fiction novelist Jules Verne , who penned such classic works as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon .

If you want to get a finger-tip feel for one of the most important transformations in our world today, read "The Fear Index," Robert Harris's new thriller.

The era immediately preceding the French Revolution presents such rich pickings for the historical novelist that the relative scarcity of English-language fiction set in the period comes as a surprise.

"Heads You Lose" is a crime caper and tag-team novel written by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward.

On June 10, 2003, the groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new Tinley Park Public Library building at 7851 Timber Drive.

Daphne du Maurier is regarded as one of the early influences and shapers of popular fiction, including genres such as suspense and horror.

I grew up a Stephen King nerd as I've illustrated a few bazillion trillion times on the site.

When stereotyping the French novel, one conjures up images of darkly lit Parisian cafA©s and picturesque cul-de-sacs, charging chevaliers of old epics and anguished lovers A la Flaubert.

Drusilla Campbell writes fiction around contemporary issues, including post partum depression , surviving the loss of a child and losing a family member to a drunk driver .

Joann Pierre holds a Kobo e-reader she uses for seminars at libraries across Delta to promote bclibraries.ca, an online library.

He's been in his grave since 1900, having been silenced by insanity many years before.

For Johnson County book lovers, picking up new reading material for free has become as easy as turning on their Kindle, Nook or other e-reader. As more and more people are downloading books electronically, libraries are offering users a limited e-collection of popular fiction and nonfiction.

TINA Wilson was an Indian embryo acquired by a Glasgow couple. At adulthood, Tina yearns to find her genetic mother.

Tis the season when Hollywood gets literate. Since the Oscar deadline coincides with New Year's Eve and a bookish pedigree is a sure way to get Academy members' attention, studios turn to acclaimed novels for their holiday fodder.

Surely Eco knows that most citizens of the world in our time very well know that governments good and bad can be duplicitous, hypocritical, conniving, deceitful - the list is long, seldom balanced by a list of good attributes - and that anti-Semitism often serves their nefarious purposes.