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Praise for Dickens and Prince
Smart, witty and weirdly convincing… Pop culture is political to Hornby. Beneath this latest book’s stocking-filler-light surface, you can sense a subtle sort of crusade. By pairing these two artists, he’s making a couple of implicit assertions — that Prince is as important as Dickens and that Dickens is as fun as Prince.
The Times (London)

Praise for The Last Chairlift
Irving has become the incarnation of the ‘great American novelist’ par excellence with his fabulous gift as a storyteller and ability to give food for thought.
L’Express, Paris

Praise for The Unfolding
A terrific black comedy, written almost entirely in pitch-perfect dialogue, that feels terrifying close to the unfunny truth.
Salman Rushdie, New York Times bestselling author

Praise for The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover
Essential reading for anyone interested in the history of religion in the modern United States.
Judith Weisenfeld, author of New World A-Coming

Praise for Earth's The Right Place For Love
I so loved this story. Few authors write with more heart, wisdom, and human insight than Elizabeth Berg.
Debbie Macomber, bestselling author

Praise for The Ferryman
The Ferryman is next to impossible to put down once you’ve read the first few pages.
Stephen King

Praise for The House of Lincoln
“Brimming with a rich and unforgettable array of imagined and real historical figures who helped to shape Springfield, Illinois and the nation beyond during the turbulent time of slavery and the Civil War, The House of Lincoln is storytelling at its best.
Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Color of Air, The Samurai’s Garden, and Women of the Silk

Praise for A Previous Life
Elegant, erudite, raunchy and fun, America’s great Man of Letters is working at the top of his form.
Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less