Reagan Arthur Books

Meet Kate Atkinson when she hits the road for LIFE AFTER LIFE.  Check the store website before you go-a few of the events have been moved to off-site venues!

  4/16 Brooklyn, NY

Community Bookstore

  4/17 New York, NY

Barnes & Noble Upper East Side

  4/18 Naperville, IL

Anderson's Bookshop

  4/19 Milwaukee, WI

Boswell Books

  4/20: Wichita, KS

Watermarks

  4/21: Austin, TX

Book People

  4/22: Beaverton, OR

Powell's Beaverton

  4/23: Pasadena, CA

Vroman's

  4/24: Corte Madera, CA

Book Passage

  4/25: Half Moon Bay, CA

Bay Book Company

It's Ursula Todd's birthday! Celebrate with us by sharing this birthday card.

11 February 1910

An icy rush of air, a freezing slipstream on the newly exposed skin. She is, with no warning, outside the inside and the familiar wet, tropical world has suddenly evaporated. Exposed to the elements. A prawn peeled. A nut shelled.

No breath. All the world come down to this. One breath.

Little lungs, like dragonfly wings failing to inflate in the foreign atmosphere. No wind in the strangled pip. The buzzing of a thousand bees in the tiny curled pearl of an ear.

Panic. The drowning girl, the falling bird.

Today it was announced that our own beloved, adored, treasured Reagan Arthur will be the publisher of Little, Brown. We can't imagine a sharper, savvier, funnier person to helm the ship. It'll mean some changes for us, but today we celebrate! And so many are celebrating with us. Here is the woman of the hour herself, hard at work, glass of wine to toast with handy, and surrounded by flowers from a generous, welcoming industry full of her fans!

The title says it all: our beloved Eowyn Ivey's wonderful debut, THE SNOW CHILD, is one of three fiction titles up for the 2012 Discover Award.  Winners will be announced on March 6, 2013.  Hooray-owyn!

Last week I was hunting around online for the right image to use as endpapers in Kate Atkinson’s upcoming LIFE AFTER LIFE (April 2! Mark your calendars!). I had in mind something that looked like William Morris wallpaper and would incorporate certain elements of the story. I was surprised to find, without too much digging, exactly the perfect pattern, on someone’s Pinterest page. I was even more surprised, this morning, when I sent it to Kate for her OK, and she told me it’s the very same wallpaper that hangs in her own dining room.

  Fate! Kismet! Or just a pleasing coincidence that made my day.

The always thoughtful and wise Claire Cameron reviews Colm Toibin's THE TESTAMENT OF MARY for The Millions, offering up reflections on the power of fiction, the interpretation of religion, and the gap between what we think and how we feel.

The news of STANDING IN ANOTHER MAN'S GRAVE hitting the New York Times Bestseller list made us jump for joy this week. Reagan has been publishing Ian for 20 years in the US. Thank you for your support!

Ian Rankin is coming to a store near you! Meet and cavort with a brilliant, funny writer we've loved for literally twenty years. Enjoy, dear readers!