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John Connolly – An Introduction

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...

Book Picks by Nicholas Sparks

(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...