John Grisham
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The author and 42nd president of the United States on finding comfort in thrillers – and inspiration in William Styron, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou
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The late director made a string of big hits, from Grisham adaptations to campy Batman capers, and introduced us to some major new A-listers
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With Bart Layton’s new true-crime film, literary robbery stories have finally found Hollywood’s spotlight. There are others lurking in the library
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The Intrusions, in which the case of an abduction reveals online terrors, takes the 2018 Theakston Old Peculier prize
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Is it possible to predict whether a book will sell well? Former publisher Jodie Archer and Matthew L Jockers, of Stanford University’s Literary Lab, built an algorithm to find out
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Donna Tartt, John Grisham, Natasha Trethewey and Kathryn Stockett among group calling for repeal of House Bill 1523, allowing businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples
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The author believes his new book, The Tumor, is the most important of his career – even without the evil corporations, incompetent lawyers and courtroom battles we’ve come to know and love
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‘This guy at a party told me, very loudly, that I had written only one book; the rest are screenplays. I am slow to anger, but that really made me mad’
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Don Blankenship’s lawyers have found ways to repeatedly suggest to jurors that regulators targeted his company for political reasons under Obama’s watch
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Hockey_Jess: ‘It is enjoyable and doesn’t shy away from hard hitting topics’
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Val McDermid says that while crime fiction is naturally of the left, thrillers are on the side of the status quo. Jonathan Freedland votes against this reading
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Our readers have been discussing the key novels that helped them to progress from children’s to adult literature. Here are five examples they cited, from Animal Farm to Little Women. What are yours?
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Suzanne Ost: The thriller writer’s claims about the severity of sentencing in the US are simplistic, damaging and inappropriate
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Three new names added to highest earners' ranking, topped as ever by runaway bestseller James Patterson, writes Alison Flood
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Reality TV stars mixed with celebrity authors and YA's biggest names at the fan-friendly final day of BookExpo America 2014's 'organized chaos'. James Camp reports
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Clive Stafford Smith: From Jack and the Beanstalk to John Grisham, the Guantánamo banned books list makes no sense. But send me a book for the Camp Delta library, and I'll see if it makes it past the censor
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Chosen with reluctant readers in mind – far more of whom are men than women – next year's list is dominated by male writers
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