A bit of everything.
King was back with his new crime fiction Finders Keepers, Lee Child brought us new thriller Personal, Ian McEwan – a touching The Children Act, whereas John Cleese, cofounder of the legendary Monty Python’s Flying Circus, surprised us with his autobiography entitled So Anyway…
It all began with authors visiting us…
… when in February B.A. Paris, a highly-appreciated author of psychological thrillers, came to Poland. We had then also the privilege to host Lee Child, a creator of Jack Reacher, famous fictional character, and Graham Masterton, an author with whom we have been friends for years. Readers’ hearts and minds were won by the novel Wonder, made into film starring Julia Roberts, which opened in theatres across Poland in January. The end of the year was marked with a premiere of Elevation by Stephen King, in which the author brings us back to his favourite town of Castle Rock.
What a year! A debut-novel written by B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors, remained on bestseller lists for almost the entire year, while The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead received some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards (it was also acclaimed “A Book of the Year 2017” in Poland by Magazyn Literacki KSIĄŻKI). In 2017 our beloved author, Kazuo Ishiguro, received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Thrillers and Crime Fiction Dominated! Stephen King’s End of Watch, the final volume of Mr. Mercedes series, was published in June. Harlan Coben’s Stanger and Donato Carrisi’s L’Ipotesi Del Male were among the readers’ favourite picks. Tess Gerritsen, leading writer of medical thrillers, visited Poland for the first time, to attend the premiere of her book Playing with Fire.