New Up & Coming Books
February 27th 2007 04:08
The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkein
Or perhaps this should be called 'The Scraping of the Barrel' by J.R.R. Tolkein's estate. Due for release on April 17 in America, this appears to be a completely unreleased early text written by Tolkein pre-Lord of the Rings. Publicity for 'The Children of Hurin' is touting it as the first new complete Tolkein book since 'The Silmarillion’s publication in 1977 (itself a posthumous release). It's unclear from the book's publicity blurb as to whether 'The Children of Hurin' is connected with Middle-Earth at all... I'm not a Tolkein scholar so I'm not at all familiar with this book's history other than that Tolkein apparently started work on it back in 1918. That's a long time to wait for publication.
Maximum Ride: Saving the World by James Patterson
Recently James Patterson turned his profit-turning talents to the teen-fantasy genre, offering us a series on the adventures of Maximum Ride - a fourteen-year old girl who leads a gang of adolescents who all have one thing in common; wings. The series hasn't been the huge hit Patterson might've hoped for (at least not in Australia), but it does seem have a cult following gathering in it's wake. The second book was released last year and the third book (pictured above) is due to be released in America in May this year.
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
The latest up-and-coming bestseller from literary darling Jodi Picoult is 'Nineteen Minutes', which looks set to continue the successful formula of controversial issues and heart-string-tugging sensibility. Ever since the release of her smash-hit novel 'My Sister's Keeper' in 2004, Picoult has built on a popular back catalogue of on-the-pulse issue-driven literature. This latest book promises to deal with a 'shocking act of shattering violence' in a small town, I'm guessing it will have something to do with a shooting in a school, or something similar. 'Nineteen Minutes' is released in America in March, and will come out in Australia in April.
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