New feature: Martin's Links

Online Store Manager Martin Sorensen is an avid reader and always on the lookout for stories and articles he thinks are of interest to our customers. Our new feature - "Martin's Links" - will highlight some of the great sites he has found. Here's his first edition:

The Guardian has done a wonderful service for those who are looking for a good book to read (fiction) by publishing their 1000 novels everyone must read. I like the way they break it down into genres, and they are extremely liberal in their classification system. I have already purchased about 20-30 of these titles for future reading.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/1000novels


Christopher Fowler, author of the best selling (at least at Kepler’s) Bryant and May series keeps a wonderful blog. He has a great article on his blog called ‘How to write a Murder Mystery’, that not only has the greatest Shakespeare anecdote of all time, but is-as is everything he writes- a great piece of writing.

http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/?page_id=522


Also, the Suspicions of Mr Whicher, coming out in March in paperback, won the Samuel Johnson prize.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1035608/THE-SUSPICIONS-OF-MR-WHICHER-scoops-Samuel-Johnson-Prize.html

Jonathan Carroll is one of my favorite authors writing today. The link below connects to a wonderful short story of his about grief and recovery. Whether you are familiar with his writing or not, it is well worth checking out.

http://www.jonathancarroll.com/shortstories/vedran.html