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The Immaculate DeceptionFrom internationally bestselling author Iain Pears comes the seventh in his Jonathan Argyll series -- an intriguing mystery of love, loss, and artistic...Read More
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Toronto Star Online, October 23, 2009
...critic Geoff Pevere asks authors at the International Festival of Authors about the creative process. U.K. author Iain Pears, right, whose new book is Stone's Fall, reads with Nicholson Baker, Kyle Buckley and Kathy Reichs, tonight at 8 at Harbourfront...
Toronto Star Online, October 18, 2009
...s Almanac JAMES W. NICHOL Canada, playwright/novelist: Death Spiral AUDREY NIFFENEGGER U.S.A., novelist: Her Fearful Symmetry IAIN PEARS U.K., novelist: Stone's Fall KATE PULLINGER Canada/U.K., novelist: The Mistress of Nothing IAN RANKIN Scotland,...
SC Now, September 25, 2009
...It is a novel to celebrate, and Isla Morley is a writer to watch. Stone?s Fall, by Iain Pears ~ This novel is a return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and...
National Post, September 2, 2009
...Giles Foden ? Don Gillmor ? Lauren Kirschner ? Annabel Lyon ? Tessa McWatt ? Lisa Moore ? Iain Pears ? Paul Quarrington ? Claire Holden Rothman ? Mark Sinnett ? Ian Weir ? David Wroblewski Additions to the YoungIFOA program include...
Philippine Star, August 25, 2009
...matter which product line, the name ensures us of quality, refinement and impeccable taste. Historical, hysterical and comical Iain Pears? brilliant Stone?s Fall provides the ?historical? in today?s review, while Denis Johnson?s Nobody Move...
Boston Globe, August 17, 2009
...Iain Pears burst onto the international publishing scene in 1997 with An Instance of the Fingerpost, a brilliant and vastly entertaining historical thriller concerning the murder of an Oxford don in...
Boston Globe, August 17, 2009
...Iain Pears burst onto the international publishing scene in 1997 with ?An Instance of the Fingerpost,?? a brilliant and vastly entertaining historical thriller concerning the murder of an Oxford don...
Sound Money, July 30, 2009
...Kai Ryssdal talks with author Iain Pears about his new historical novel, 'Stone's Fall,' which follows the harrowing financial legacy of one man from Victorian London through to his death in 1953. 'Stones Fall,' author...
Tonight South Africa, July 28, 2009
...Author: Iain Pears Publisher: Random House Review: Janine Magree Attracted by the beautifully designed brown, embossed cover, I felt sure I had set myself up for disappointment, for what book is ever...
National Post, July 2, 2009
...Fiction, Buy It or Skip it?, Book Review, Stone's Fall, Iain Pears Stone?s Fall Knopf 594 pp.; $34.95 Writing from Montreal in The Gazette, Merilyn Simonds says this: ?That it is a magnificent piece of writing is beyond question...
Taipei Times Online, June 13, 2009
...banker, a courtesan posing as a countess and an arms dealer manipulating stock markets propel the plot of Iain Pears? sprawling tripartite mystery, Stone?s Fall. Yet the most compelling protagonist in this novel is money. Pears is best known for An...
Greater Milwaukee Today, June 8, 2009
...'Stone's Fall,' by Iain Pears; Random House (594 pages, $27.95) --- 'I have never in my life traded without advance knowledge, and I do not know of anyone with sense who has done...
This is Kent, June 6, 2009
...in third. Others prefer a weightier tome with the 704-page historical thriller An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears, the fifth most borrowed book. Children in the town like to stick to well-known characters when it comes to picking out books and...
Newsday, May 30, 2009
...STONE'S FALL, by Iain Pears. Random House, 594 pp., $27.95. 'I have never in my life traded without advance knowledge, and I do not know of anyone with sense who has done so...
Telegraph, May 25, 2009
...Jake Kerridge enjoys Stone's Fall by Iain Pears, a novel about rich bankers We are all aware that the doings of important bankers and financiers have the power to directly affect all our lives, so it is...
Boston Globe, May 19, 2009
...Iain Pears is the kind of multitalented author who could make many people squirm and wonder why they haven't done more with their lives. Pears was educated at Oxford and...
Buffalo News, May 17, 2009
...Iain Pears? 880-page novel captures the spirit of London, Paris and Venice during the years before World War I. NEWS BOOK REVIEWER Story tools: Larger Smaller Save Print Email Share this...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 17, 2009
...By Iain Pears. Spiegel & Grau. $27.95. 800 pages. The pleasures of a long novel are rarely those of moderation or restraint. To stretch a novel out to 800 pages, as...
Keene Sentinel, May 11, 2009
...from the author of ?Fight Club,? described as ?The Manchurian Candidate? meets ?South Park.? ?Stone?s Fall? By Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau). The author of ?An Instance of the Fingerpost? writes a story of the career and death of a...
Seattle Times, May 11, 2009
...'Stone's Fall by Iain Pears Spiegel & Grau, 800 pp., $28.95 'Stone's Fall' is the best kind of fiction: a powerful combination of storytelling and ideas. The former keeps us mesmerized; the...
Seattle Times, May 10, 2009
...'Stone's Fall by Iain Pears Spiegel & Grau, 800 pp., $28.95 'Stone's Fall' is the best kind of fiction: a powerful combination of storytelling and ideas. The former keeps us mesmerized; the...
The Scotsman, May 8, 2009
...Jonathan Cape, 596pp, £18.99Review by ALLAN MASSIE SOMETIMES YOU GET A NOVEL which is purely enjoyable. Stone's Fall is such a book. It's a mystery, a novel of character and a recreation of the past, all in one. There are passages which echo Buchan...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, May 7, 2009
...light. In today?s world where high finance and the industrialization of capitalism are crumbling all around us, Iain Pears?s novel, Stone?s Fall, is a revelation with chilling implications. More so, it is an engrossing and mind-bending story that...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, May 6, 2009
...Stone's Fall by Iain Pears A masterpiece of fiction that never fails to surprise, enchant and illuminate. Stone's Fall: An erudite and intricately plotted novel with eerie echoes of prophetic truth. Matthew Braddock...
Catholic Online, April 24, 2009
...from the author of 'Fight Club,' described as 'The Manchurian Candidate' meets 'South Park.' 'Stone's Fall' By Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau). The author of 'An Instance of the Fingerpost' writes a story of the career and death of a mysterious financier and...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 15, 2009
...Lee Gifford, Laurell K. Hamilton, Linda Howard, Jonathan Kellerman, and Jeff Shaara (Ballantine); Sara Gruen, Suze Orman, and Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau); Lee Child, Lisa Gardner, Stephen Hawking, Dean Koontz, George R. R. Martin, Karin Slaughter, and...
My Two Blessings, October 7, 2009
...Haven - Hannah Alexander Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader - Joe Hilley Stone's Fall - Iain Pears The Ghost and Mrs. McClure - Alice Kimberely The Lightning Thief - Riordan The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman The Link - B. Sandy (shelved) The Physick Book Of...
My Two Blessings, October 7, 2009
...Lint The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie Mercy Street - Mariah Stewart The Titian Committee - Iain Pears Eon: Dragoneye Reborn - Alison Goodman 14 - J.T. Elison A World I Never Made - James LePore (review book) The Graveyard Book - Neil...
The Soft Folds of Hatmandu, September 21, 2009
...The Pope's Rhinoceros - Lawrence Norfolk Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco Oops, there's a lot of dead (or nearly dead) white males there. I do...
Montgomery City County Public Library, Montgomery,, September 14, 2009
...Pass” by Robyn Carr “Smash Cut” by Sandra Brown “Sorrow Wood” by Raymond Atkins “Stone’s Fall” by Iain Pears “Traffickers” by WEB Griffin “Vanished” by Joseph Finder “Eleventh Victim” by Nancy Grace “You Gotta Sin To...
Bibliobibuli, August 20, 2009
...Of Locks by Andrew Killeen 21. The Children's Book by AS Byatt 22. Stone's Fall by Iain Pears 23. Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie 24. Down On Out On Murder Mile by Tony O'Neill 25. Rose by Gillian Green 26. Cockroach by Rawi Hage 27. Brooklyn...
Medieval Bookworm, August 17, 2009
...complex: In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost, Iain Pears tells the story of John Stone, financier and arms dealer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was...
Reading Matters, August 12, 2009
...The Father Of Locks by Andrew Killeen The Children's Book by AS Byatt Stone's Fall by Iain Pears Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie Down On Out On Murder Mile by Tony O'Neill Rose by Gillian Green Cockroach by Rawi Hage Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín Grace, Lamar...
Monkey Mind, June 14, 2009
...us also remember the little things that give life its joy. I’ve almost finished the latest from Iain Pears, Stone’s Fall, which to my mind teeters a tad too far in the direction of literature, certainly for something being sold as a murder...
Kanlaon, May 25, 2009
...Eugenides * Chang-rae Lee * Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Valerie Martin * Rohinton Mistry * Bharati Mukherjee * Iain Pears * Sarah Waters Self could go on and on and on. She’d like to include Vladimir Nabokov, but she thinks he doesn’t count as...
[Technorati] Tag results for golden, May 25, 2009
...Browse Home / All , Fiction / STONE’S FALL by Iain Pears (1) STONE’S FALL by Iain Pears (1) May 25, 2009 · Print This Article Book Quote: “Money,” he said wearily, looking out of as though he was seeing...
Joy's Blog, May 19, 2009
...This week I'm reading an ARC of Stone's Fall by Iain Pears. And I suppose I should say that I haven't checked this quote against the published edition, which I believe came out this month: It is worth any sort...
The Stranger: Slog, May 11, 2009
...Reading Iain Pears People associate best-selling mysteries and thrillers with the words "guilty pleasure," but it doesn't have to be that way. You just have to find excellent writers who...
At Home With Books, May 3, 2009
...in the movie. I'm probably going to read a little bit more of Stone's Fall by Iain Pears today too. It's a huge book. On Amazon it's listed as 608 pages, but my advance copy is 800 pages long. It is a mystery, and I...
At Home With Books, April 25, 2009
...recent issue of the Smithsonian magazine. 7. Made meatloaf for dinner. 8. Started reading Stone's Fall by Iain Pears. 8 Things That I wish I could Do: 1. Fly like Superman (but with a different outfit - preferably one that's warmer). 2. Play the violin....
Peeking Between the Pages, April 13, 2009
...Koppel (Book Club Girl chat) A Claim of her Own by Stephanie Grace Whitson Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (Shelf Awareness) Mistress of the Sun by Sandra Gulland (for Blog Tour coming up this month) No One You Know by Michelle Richmond Sea Changes by Gail...
A Girl Walks Into a Bookstore..., April 9, 2009
...Some people read one book at a time. Some people have a number of them on the go at any given time, perhaps a reading in bed book, a breakfast table book, a bathroom book, and so on, which leads me to… Are you currently reading more than one book?...
FRESH INK BOOKS, April 6, 2009
...Hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page . In the mailbox this week: Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (2009) 800pgs. Pb ARC from Spiegel & Grau. I read Pear's An Instance of the Fingerpost, an historical mystery set in 1663 at Oxford University, England and...
PhiloBiblos, April 4, 2009
...- The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers (Overlook, 2007). Brookline Booksmith. - Stone's Fall by Iain Pears (Spiegal & Grau, 2009). Brookline Booksmith (via Galley Grab - thanks Lori!) - Audubon: Early Drawings by John James Audubon (Harvard...
nomadreader, March 27, 2009
...Friday, March 27, 2009 mailbox delight: stone's fall by iain pears Iain Pears is one of my favorite authors. I adore his art history mystery series, even though the books tend to be short enough to finish in a few...
Gnapp, February 23, 2009
...This one is tagged "Art History Mystery", and is set in Italy, where a member of the "Titian Committee" gets murdered. Not-quite-police Flavia di Stefano gets involved, and her friend, art historian Jonathan Argyll, soon appear at the scene too. I didn't...
Authorlink News Alert, January 15, 2009
...Lee Gifford, Laurell K. Hamilton, Linda Howard, Jonathan Kellerman, and Jeff Shaara (Ballantine); Sara Gruen, Suze Orman, and Iain Pears (Spiegel & Grau); Lee Child, Lisa Gardner, Stephen Hawking, Dean Koontz, George R. R. Martin, Karin Slaughter, and...
Bookmark My Heart, January 1, 2009
...Karon 7. Don’t Know Much About Anything Else - Kenneth C. Davis 8. Giotto’s Hand - Iain Pears 9. Pandora - Anne Rice 10. Watch You Bleed - Stephen Davis 11. Enchanted, Inc. - Shanna Swendson 12. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing - Ted Conover 13. Anansi...
nomadreader, December 27, 2008
...Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper 2. Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland 3. The Portrait by Iain Pears Non-fiction: 1. Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis 2. Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim by...
