by vjbooks | Oct 5, 2015 | We're Talking Books!
John Connolly Like many journalism or English grads John Connolly was working as a reporter. In between assignments for Irish Times in Dublin, he began working on his novel — a mystery. Oddly, he set the book on the east coast of United States, and he boldly gave his...
by vjbooks | Oct 3, 2014 | We're Talking Books!
John Connolly – VJ Books Author of the Month October 2014 John Connolly’s Next Pulse-Pounding Thriller John Connolly was born in Dublin, studied English at Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, subsequently spending five years working...
by vjbooks | Oct 10, 2011 | We're Talking Books!
Signed 1st UK editions of Lee Child’s The Affair and John Connolly’s The Burning Soul are now shipping!
by vjbooks | Jun 24, 2010 | Books to Movies, Collecting, We're Talking Books!
In 2009 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, highly decorated soldier Damien Patchett rushes outside his home with his dog Sandy. He struggles with control and forces his loyal canine to flee before pulling the trigger of the gun he holds. His distraught father hires private...
by vjbooks | May 12, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
The current generation of Irish crime writers had something of an annus mirabilis in 2008, when John Connolly, Tana French, Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and Ruth Dudley Edwards were all nominated for prestigious crime-writing prizes in the US and the UK. Connolly, Dudley...
by vjbooks | May 8, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
Bestseller Connolly once again expertly melds a hard-boiled plot with the supernatural in his eighth Charlie Parker crime novel (after The Reapers). While previous books in the series explored the trauma at the heart of Parker’s backstory, the murder of the...
by vjbooks | Feb 6, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(sacbee.com, Jan. 5, Allen Pierleoni) The trend is toward layering entertainment, with playlists as part of the reading experience We’ve become a society of multitaskers, and it’s no secret that some (Gen Y) are more adept at it than others (baby boomers)....
by vjbooks | Jan 19, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
John Connolly was born May 31, 1968 in Dublin and is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker. His first novel, Every Dead Thing, was met with critical acclaim; it was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel and...
by vjbooks | Dec 31, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. He studied English in Trinity College, Dublin and...
by vjbooks | Nov 27, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Excaliburonline, Nov 08, Shlomo Feldman) “I love my bad guys,” admits Jeffery Deaver at the International Festival of Authors’ (IFOA) “Psycho-Babble,” a discussion panel revolving around how crime authors get into the minds of their villains. The best-selling author...
by vjbooks | Nov 13, 2008 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Oct. 20) Parade magazine (Sept. 28) asked Nicholas Sparks which novels moved him the most. His list: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon (“Compulsively readable literary thriller”); Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill...
