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A Common Loss will be released on March 27, 2012 in Trade Paperback, eBook
Mar 27, 2012
A Common Loss is now available in Trade Paperback, eBook
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If you could meet any historical character, who would it be and what would you say to him or her?Aug 31, 2010
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Kirsten Tranter's Books
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A Common LossA riveting new novel about a group of friends whose longtime tensions and rivalries come to a head after one of them dies suddenly.Read More
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The LegacyA WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PAPERBACK ORIGINALA thrilling and addictive novel about three unlikely friends and the web of lies that unravels after one of...Read More
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Qantas Travel Insider, April 3, 2012
...journey, action, fascinating historical detail, intrigue and romance - that make historical novels my favourite kind of reading.” Kirsten Tranter author of The Legacy and A Common Loss (HarperCollins) “Inspired by the new film adaptation, I'm...
WA Today, March 9, 2012
...A COMMON LOSSBy Fourth Estate, $29.99 KIRSTEN Tranter used a well-known plot in her first novel, The Legacy. She followed the elaborate idea that Henry James conceived with The Portrait of a Lady, that of giving a...
Blogcritics.org, March 7, 2012
...Do you belong to a small group of trusted friends? Have you been friends for a long time? Yes or no, imagine a group of five people who have bonded since their college years. Each past year, they have traveled to Las Vegas to reconnect the threads of...
Crikey Media, February 22, 2012
...and the rot of rat and mouse. That doesn’t mean contemporary writers ignore smell. The characters in Kirsten Tranter’s The Legacy seem to eat many pieces of toast, and the smell of toast and bacon wafts through the novel, for example. And then there...
Arts Hub, February 7, 2012
...Brooks and Helen Garner. I mean younger authors including Gail Jones, Heather Rose, Charlotte Wood, Kalinda Ashton and Kirsten Tranter - all talented writers.” For the moment, bookshops, teachers, librarians and readers from all corners of Australia...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 23, 2012
...Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn, and Jonnie Penn (Artisan, $19.95; ISBN 978-1579654764). A Common Loss by Kirsten Tranter (Atria, $15; ISBN 978-1-4391-7722-8). Perilous Pleasures by Jenny Brown (Avon, $7.99; ISBN 978-0-06-197607-0). The Art of...
Sydney Morning Herald, March 9, 2012
...A COMMON LOSSBy Fourth Estate, $29.99 KIRSTEN Tranter used a well-known plot in her first novel, The Legacy. She followed the elaborate idea that Henry James conceived with The Portrait of a Lady, that of giving a...
Brisbane Times, March 9, 2012
...keep 's second novel in genre territory. Photo: Daniel Shipp A COMMON LOSSBy Kirsten TranterFourth Estate, $29.99 KIRSTEN Tranter used a well-known plot in her first novel, The Legacy. She followed the elaborate idea that Henry James conceived with The...
Melbourne Age, March 9, 2012
...A COMMON LOSSBy Fourth Estate, $29.99 KIRSTEN Tranter used a well-known plot in her first novel, The Legacy. She followed the elaborate idea that Henry James conceived with The Portrait of a Lady, that of giving a...
WA Today, March 9, 2012
...A COMMON LOSSBy Fourth Estate, $29.99 KIRSTEN Tranter used a well-known plot in her first novel, The Legacy. She followed the elaborate idea that Henry James conceived with The Portrait of a Lady, that of giving a...
seattlepi.com, March 7, 2012
...probably know secrets about one another - some intimate, some shared by few, some shared by all. In Kirsten Tranter's book, A Common Loss, a group of now only four friends arrives for their annual Vegas get-together. One of their group, Dylan, the very...
Blogcritics.org, March 7, 2012
...Do you belong to a small group of trusted friends? Have you been friends for a long time? Yes or no, imagine a group of five people who have bonded since their college years. Each past year, they have traveled to Las Vegas to reconnect the threads of...
