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John Connolly
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Introducing THE LAND OF LOST THINGS
THE LAND OF LOST THINGS, a second book set in the world of THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS, will be available in the UK on September 7, in Australia and New Zealand on September 12, and in the US and Canada on September 19.
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Two-Minute Book Club: THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS
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This week's Two-Minute Book Club looks at the importance of a book's cover - and specifically, the cover of THE BOOK OF LOST THINGS, created by artist Rob Ryan. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: THE PECULIAR TRIUMPH OF PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM by Norman Hunter
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It may be harder to make readers laugh than to make them cry. This week's Two-Minute Book Club looks at how Norman Hunter - with help from illustrator Heath Robinson - does that in THE PECULIAR TRIUMPH OF PROFESSOR BRANESTAWM. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: THE UNFORTUNATE FURSEY by Mervyn Wall
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The Irish fantasy novelist Mervyn Wall understood that "funny" and "serious" are not incompatible. John Connolly discusses one of his favorite books in this week's Two-Minute Book Club. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL ANGRY PLANET by Becky Chambers
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Great science fiction doesn't have to be dystopian; it can be joyful in its discoveries, like the first book in the Wayfarers Series by Becky Chambers, THE LONG WAY TO A SMALL, ANGRY PLANET. John Connolly explains in his latest Two-Minute Book Club. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale in the UK and US in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: THE GHOST STORIES OF M.R. JAMES
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The ghost stories of M.R. James - which might more accurately be described as horror stories - have been among John Connolly's strongest inspirations. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS by H.G. Wells
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Music and books have always been linked for John Connolly, who explains how THE WAR OF THE WORLDS came to be the first adult book he borrowed from the library. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
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Are we born with a memory of the oldest fairy tales? They're often darker than we remember - but that may be the point. John Connolly discusses GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES in this week's Two-Minute Book Club. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: 1st ARMADA GHOST BOOK edited by Christine Bernard
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John Connolly discusses the power of scary stories in general, and in specific the power of the 1st ARMADA GHOST BOOK, a collection of stories that may have set him on his writing path.
Two-Minute Book Club: THE ADVENTURES OF DOUGAL by Eric Thompson
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Before we had video on demand, books were often the only way to revisit beloved characters from television. John Connolly returns to THE ADVENTURES OF DOUGAL by Eric Thompson in this week's Two-Minute Book Club. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: DARK MATTER by Michelle Paver
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Are ghost stories scarier on the page than on the screen? John Connolly explains why he thinks so in this week's installment of the Two-Minute Book Club, and presents Michelle Paver's DARK MATTER as one example. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: The Discworld Novels by Terry Pratchett
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In this week's installment of the Two-Minute Book Club, John Connolly points out how Terry Pratchett's Discworld books show us witches, trolls, and Death himself living very human lives, and how funny things can be the most serious. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: FOLKLORE, MYTHS AND LEGENDS by Reader’s Digest
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In this week's Two-Minute Book Club, John Connolly discusses a collection that has inspired much of his own work, and salutes the truths within myths. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: SALEM'S LOT by Stephen King
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In this third installment of the Two-Minute Book Club, John Connolly pays tribute to SALEM'S LOT by Stephen King. SALEM'S LOT is a book that might mean different things to a teenaged reader than to an adult, as are the books set in the Land of Lost Things. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflostthings
Two-Minute Book Club: THE SECRET SEVEN books by Enid Blyton
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Welcome to the Two-Minute Book Club! In this second installment, John Connolly talks about a set of books that first made him a reader and a writer: THE SECRET SEVEN novels by Enid Blyton, the beginning of a path to mystery and adventure that ultimately led to THE LAND OF LOST THINGS. THE LAND OF LOST THINGS goes on sale around the world in September 2023: www.johnconnollybooks.com/thelandoflos...
Two-Minute Book Club: WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë
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Two-Minute Book Club: WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Brontë
John Connolly at the Sedlec Ossuary, Kutná Hora
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John Connolly at the Sedlec Ossuary, Kutná Hora
I love The Book of Lost Things! I’ve been hoping for a sequel for over 10 years! My wish has been granted and I can’t wait for tomorrow, Tuesday the 19th!
The Book of Lost Things is my favourite Connolly novel and I've read a damned near everything John has written. Land of Lost Things is on order and I'm looking forward to reading it.
Always look forward to reading and re-reading all your books. What a great gift to literature❤️
I haunt John Connolly books at the local library.
Love your work JC. You are a marvel and a wonder. ❤❤❤❤
The book cover's level of artistry is superlative. One of my favorite books ever. The Crooked Man and Roland are unforgettable characters.
I can't wait! On pre-order since April!
Ha ha! Here first! Hey John, hope you and Clair are doing well x
I'm jealous. I would love to meet him and yes he's a lovely man.
I always have a little chuckle at some stage during all of your books, John, even the darkest of the Charlie Parker stories 😮
Usually involving Angel & Louis or the Fulci Brothers, no doubt haha
James work terrifies me and it’s true…. There are no friendly, harmless ghosts in his tales. Love Connolly’s work as well and met him in Maine. A genuinely nice man. His books are well written and his characters are phenomenal! He has the talent to develop a creative, original plot and to also write characters so well that you are invested in their journeys. Can’t wait to read the next one.
Love this.
I really hope John chooses one of the books by Claire North in this series. They hit with the force of a benign tsunami to anyone with an imaginative mind.
I had a very similar experience when I was young. My library was an older Carnegie Library, children's section to the right, adults to the left. I remember the day I made the choice to see what was on the left side. I was looking for some science fiction, and I came away with H G Wells, The War of the Worlds, Ray Bradbury, R is for Rocket, and Fahrenheit 451. The library was my favorite place to be, especially in the summer, no school, just books, stories of places far away, and genres including, and beyond, Science Fiction.
I remember the original Public Library here in Drogheda and how happy I was to join it as a boy. The adult section was a wonder to me and I felt I had truly grown up when I joined it... Not sure what the first book I borrowed there was but as a big James Bond fan as a young fella I'd not be surprised if it was one of those classic Ian Fleming stories...
These stories have been with me since I was 9 and have shaped the way I think in subtle and not so subtle ways. There is definitely magic in dark tales.
Looking back I suppose that the horrific aspect of the Grimm Tales was where my love of the strange and weird sprang from. As a young teenager it was the horror genre that fascinated me and even now that's an aspect of the Charlie Parker stories that I love...
Oh yes. My grandmother had the Grimms' book with the original tales (and rather unsettling illustrations). I remember the witch who made the concoction that allowed the Little Mermaid to grow legs; the witch cut her own breasts to add her own black blood to the brew. I never liked Disney's abominations.
Thanks on behalf of Wolves.
Let’s not forget Zebedee!
Horror was my first love as a teenaged reader and I honestly believe that what I liked most about the Charlie Parker stories and what got me engrossed in them was the supernatural element and that's as a result of my love of that type of tale.
I know I had that book!!! I was scarred by and had my gothic self pre-formed by, the Pan books of horror!
This makes me so happy. I am a huge Discworld fan, the books got me through some hard times, when I was going through sectarian abuse.
Ogden Nash's poetry was in the library's children's section- a great find. I hunkered in the stacks with The Screaming Ghost, complete with lurid cover and illustrations.
*People who don't read, or only read a book once, are aliens living amongst us. There are many books I've read multiple times, and it's around time for me to revisit Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring, a book I've read around once a decade since my school days. I'm not going to say how many times or decades that would be because it would send me crashing into the reality of not being still in my prime.*
Turtle! Not tortoise.
Another interesting book to add to the TBR list... 😊
Always a go to early in the morning when I rise. Appreciate the observation regarding readers of literature and compassion.
Here is to monsters ever evolving in the imagination. Try that movies...
Love the Discworld! Blyton, Bronte, King, RD's Folklore and now Pratchett! It is no wonder why you are one of my favourite writers too! Looking forward to the next bookclub!
Always worth two minutes of our time. Thanks John.
I might have to acquaint myself...
you will not regret it 😊
Never a more important time to discuss and endorse, human(s) writing. Other worldly friends of mine live in Author Martin Millar's series Lonely Werewolf Girl.
Oooh did you see the whole issue of the Fortean Times which concentrated on this book?
"Mythology is the fabric of life ...Myths are the 'masks of God through which men everywhere have sought to relate themselves to the wonders of existence." Joseph Campbell. Thank you John for this review...there is so power and humanity in these old tales...that's why the live so long in our minds and hearts.
I have one of these in my book collection, along with many more paranormal books. Hence, why I like John's books, the touch of the supernatural.
It's quite disconcerting when a subject speaks to a camera but the video editor chooses to use a view from a completely different camera, it's a trend that's creeping in more and more. I think John should take that weighty tome he's holding and slap the video editor around the head with it until a promise to stop doing it is extracted.
I agree wholeheartedly and said so after the first video.
Ah yes - we had the Dutch version of Reader's Digest at home, in the 1960s. I can't remember ever having read a 'Folklore, Myths and Legends' article. Perhaps they thought the Dutch are too sensible for that kind of thing. Pity. I'll look for it online, in English. Too much gets lost in translation, which is why I will never read Charlie Parker in a (Dutch) translation.
"It's the children who don't read you should be worried about, not the ones who do."...Couldn't agree more John, well said.
You were a precocious reader! I was too but was scarred by the Pan Books of Horror at that age!
Who was it that didn't get got by The Lot?
Salem's Lot, both the book and tv special were classic vampire fiction. The short story in King's book Night Shift, by the name of, One for the Road, was equally as creepy.
Yeah!
John Connolly has been my favorite author for 15 years along with Neil Gaiman but this is the very first time I have heard him speak. LOL
The only Blyton I ever had were the Magic Far Away Tree books; maybe I should try the Secret Seven? I just managed to get a Kindle copy of a book I loved as a child - Uncle by J. P. Martin - have you ever read that? It's great fun and some of the characters have names you would adore!!!
I love these book club videos and have "Every Dead Thing" sitting next to me as I decided to re-read the Charlie Parker series.
Excellent John. I'm a retired English Teacher. I've taught "Wuthering Heights" many times to my senior students. Unlike many novels from that era, young students can relate to "Wuthering Heights". They understand innately the passion and mystery...
A novel that has remained with me throughout my aging years, I have my mother’s school girl copy and cherish it ❤
Oh, this is fantastic! I'm all for book clubs and listening to my all-time favorite author ❤ Next 16 weeks are going to be great!