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I can’t resist the urge to talk about this incredible novel even though it doesn’t release in English until May. HHhH won the prestigious Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman in 2010. Mario Vargas Llosa, 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature describes it as, ‘Magnificent … unsurpassable … told with grace and elegance … exerts a hypnotic sway over the reader...
I reluctantly started reading Maggie McKellar’s memoir, WHEN IT RAINS, on our publishing director’s recommendation. Although this was an important and big book for us at Random House I was hesitant because on the face of it this sounded like a really sad story and I didn’t know if that’s what I felt like reading. How wrong was I. WHEN IT RAINS is a magnificent,...
