News in February 2015

News in February 2015

HELL AND GOOD COMPANY: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR AND THE WORLD IT MADE by Richard Rhodes
20th February, 2015

Richard Rhodes’ HELL AND GOOD COMPANY received a positive review in The Washington Times, in which Martin Rubin writes, “’Hell and Good Company’ is for those who have read nothing about the subject and need a good, clear picture to start with or for those who have read everything about it and still have an insatiable appetite for more.”

RUST by Jonathan Waldman
20th February, 2015

Mr. Waldman’s book about how America is losing the fight against the insidious enemy within, rust, is getting a great deal of attention.
Simon & Schuster will publisher the hardcover on March 10, 2015.

GREEN ON BLUE by Elliot Ackerman
20th February, 2015

Elliot Ackerman’s GREEN ON BLUE received a rave review from Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times, who called it “poetic in its spareness” and said: "[A] haunting debut novel by Elliot Ackerman ... Green on Blue is a novel that conveys, with harrowing power, the fallout that decades of war (going back through the Soviet occupation of the 1980s) has had on that country’s people, and at the same time, it’s a kind of Greek tragedy about the cycles of revenge and violence that can consume families and tribes, generation after generation…

GREEN ON BLUE by Elliot Ackerman
20th February, 2015

Elliot Ackerman’s GREEN ON BLUE was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Beast, and the Huffington Post, which called it “remarkable…harrowing and finely wrought…, a powerful response by an American soldier to his experience in a country where almost any amount of power is overwhelmed by the racket.” The Daily Beast said, “when a voice speaks transcendentally through an artist, it may say even more than he intended. All readers should be glad that Ackerman gave himself to this one.”

GREEN ON BLUE by Elliot Ackerman
20th February, 2015

Elliot Ackerman was profiled in Vogue, in advance of a personal essay in the March issue. Says Megan O’ Grady, “[Ackerman’s] first novel is a standout both for its setting—a remote Shkin firebase, a kind of twenty-first century Guadalcanal—and for the austere grace of its prose…

10% HAPPIER by Dan Harris
13th February, 2015

Dan Harris’ book, is nicely placed on multiple bestseller lists. Boston Globe: #6, LA Times: #4, SF Chronicle: #15, IndieBound: #6 and New York Times #9. IT books published the book in paperback December 30, 2014.

A SMALL INDISCRETION by Jan Ellison
13th February, 2015

Jan Ellison’s A SMALL INDISCRETION has received positive reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle (“rich with suspense…astonishing”), USA Today (“Ellison is a tantalizing storyteller, dropping delicious hints of foreshadowing and shifting back and forth in time”) and was named a Staff Pick by Sarah Seltzer, Editor-at-Large at Flavorwire who called it “rich and detailed” and said, “the plot explodes delightfully, with suspense and a few twists.” Random House published the book on January 20, 2015.

GREEN ON BLUE by Elliot Ackerman
13th February, 2015

Elliot Ackerman’s GREEN ON BLUE was reviewed in Shelf Awareness & The San Francisco Chronicle Shelf Awarness said: “Decorated Marine Elliot Ackerman, who had multiples tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, offers a poignant first novel about a war-orphaned young Afghan soldier.” The San Francisco Chronicle calls it “a spellbinding tale that puts the human face on unimaginable suffering and violence.” Scribner publishes the book on February 17, 2015.

RUST by Jonathan Waldman
13th February, 2015

Called by Publisher’s Weekly, “Lively . . . A detailed, fun read with a valuable reminder that every seemingly irrelevant item we take for granted each day is front and center for someone else.” Simon & Schuster will publish the hardcover on March 10, 2015.

THE GLITTERING WORLD by Robert Levy
13th February, 2015

Robert Levy’s thrilling novel of secrets and suspense was published in hardcover by Gallery Books on February 10, 2015.

Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt, THE WHITES
13th February, 2015

Richard Price’s new book written under the transparent pseudonym of Harry Brandt has received a great deal of press in advance of its publication. The book received rave reviews from Michicko Kakutani in the Times who called it “riveting” and “a gripping police procedural and an affecting study in character and fate” and Joyce Carol Oats who says “Price has constructed a maze of a novel that alternates between scenes of intense introspection and scenes driven by dialogue.”

WHISPERING SHADOWS by Jan-Philipp Sendker
13th February, 2015

Jan-Philipp Sendker’s WHISPERING SHADOWS received a starred review from Booklist, which called it a “darkly beautiful, heart-wrenching portrayal of the Cultural Revolution’s devastating social legacy.” Atria publishes the book on April 14, 2015.