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New York Times Review

Let’s be honest, no one likes literary wunderkinder. Twenty-­eight-year-olds are bad enough. Twenty-eight-year-olds whose first books become blockbusters? That’s just irritating. Joel Dicker, the 28-year-old Swiss author behind “The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair,” doesn’t even have the decency to write dreck. His darkly comic debut thriller (already a blockbuster in Europe!) is unimpeachably terrific.

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Radio 2 Book Club

Very excited that The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair has been selected for the Radio 2 Book Club.

Radio 2 trailed the book yesterday on the Simon Mayo Show.

Simon’s co-presenter described it emphatically as:

“Outstanding…best book I’ve read this year, definitely…I’m going to be harassing people in the street”

You can listen to them trailing it here (at 1:36:20).

You can find out more about the book and get involved with their book club here.

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We spoke to Joël Dicker about Nola and the elusive character that is Nola.

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Saturday, August 30, 1975. The Somerset, New Hampshire, police receive a phone call. It’s the day of the disappearance. 

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Joel Dicker on The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair.

01.05.2014

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Nola’s note.

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The danger of books...

The danger of books, Marcus, is that sometimes you lose control of them. When you are published, the thing that you have written in such solitary fashion suddenly escapes from your hands and disappears into the public domain. This is a moment of great danger.

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More evidence from the pages of The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair by Joel Dicker. Follow him on instagram or twitter for more.

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What has Harry Quebert done?

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Enter the Goodreads competition here.

"The cleverest, creepiest book you’ll read all year… Twin Peaks meets Atonement meets In Cold Blood.” GABY WOOD, DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Suggs & Jerry Dammers

In this extract Suggs and his friend Jerry from The Specials embark on a boat ride which ends rather unexpectedly… read more.

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THE (OVER/UNDER) THE COUNTER CULTURE

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Hello, I'm Suggs...

That Close: 24.10.2013

www.suggsthatclose.co.uk

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Suggs: Jools Holland & Rough Trade East

Two great bits of Suggs news. Suggs will be on Jools Holland tonight (10pm BBC2) talking about his new book THAT CLOSE. He will also be talking and signing at Rough Trade East on 24th October. More info about THAT CLOSE and events here: http://suggsthatclose.com/

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Suggs - That Close 24.10.2013

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A clip of the audiobook from Christie Watson's forthcoming novel Where Women Are Kings. You can read an extract and find out more about Christie here: www.christiewatson.co.uk

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www.thesacredhistory.co.uk