The Tart of Fiction / FictionBitch (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... to reassure me. He says that Waterstone's buyers picked out Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger and Sadie Jones's The Outcast' before they received any media or awards attention.' Well, The White Tiger comes from independent Atlantic, so this is good. But Sadie Jones's debut is well known to have been 'hotly tipped', so the odds are that its powerful publisher, Vintage,...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... or awards attention – titles such as The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, and The Outcast by Sadie Jones. Only a national specialist chain can fulfil this role. Jeffries believes the atmosphere in Waterstone's is one where "you're invited to buy as much as possible and then shove off". This is not the reality of a network of hugely inviting stores that give people the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
... or awards attention – titles such as The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga , and The Outcast by Sadie Jones . Only a national specialist chain can fulfil this role. Jeffries believes the atmosphere in Waterstone's is one where "you're invited to buy as much as possible and then shove off". This is not the reality of a network of hugely inviting stores that give people the...
ASPIRING WRITER (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... closed it, and scurried up to the loans desk. (I hope I pass my writing course.) If you loved Sadie Jones’ debut novel The Outcast , nominated for the Orange prize last year and later went on to win the 'Costa First Novel Award', you’ll love her second book Small Wars . Another emotionally restrained story, set in British colonised Cyprus during the 1950’s. Hal Treherne,...
tea stains (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... Athill• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne*• The Letters by Fiona Robyn• The Outcast by Sadie Jones• The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley• The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve• Testimony by Anita Shreve• Never Enough by Joe McGinniss*• A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving• Beyond Chocolate by Sophie and Audrey Boss• Tangled...
tea stains (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
... Athill• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne*• The Letters by Fiona Robyn• The Outcast by Sadie Jones• The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley• The Journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling• A Wedding in December by Anita Shreve• Testimony by Anita Shreve• Never Enough by Joe McGinniss*• A Prayer For Owen Meaney by John Irving• Beyond Chocolate by Sophie and Audrey Boss• Tangled...
