AOT #102: Benjamin Black Podcasts The Silver Swan

Benjamin Black is the pen name of acclaimed author John Banville, whose novels have won numerous awards, most recently the Man Booker Prize in 2005 for The Sea. Black reads from his new mystery, The Silver Swan, his sequel to Christine Falls. In this haunting, masterfully written, and utterly mesmerizing story, Quirke, the irascible, formerly hard-drinking Dublin pathologist, returns in this spellbinding crime novel, in which a young woman’s dubious suicide sets off a new string of hazards and deceptions.

($25.00) Henry Holt ISBN #0-8050-8153-4. You can visit Benjamin Black’s official web site as well.

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AOT #101: Manil Suri Podcasts The Age of Shiva

Manil Suri‘s critically acclaimed first novel The Death of Vishnu was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Suri reads from his long awaited new novel The Age of Shiva, a mesmerizing story of modern India, richly layered with themes from Hindu mythology. The Age of Shiva is at once a powerful story of a country in turmoil and an extraordinary portrait of maternal love.

($24.95) W.W. Norton ISBN #978-0-393-06569-5. You can visit Manil Suri’s official web site as well.

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AOT #100: Rick Steves Podcasts Europe Through the Back Door 2008

Travel guru, bestselling author, and PBS personality Rick Steves offers travel tips and discusses his many books, including Europe Through the Back Door 2008 and Europe 101: History and Art for the Traveler.

($21.95) Avalon Travel ISBN #1-56691-853-7. You can visit Rick Steves’s official web site as well.

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AOT #99: Carleen Brice Podcasts Orange Mint and Honey

Local author Carleen Brice reads from her debut novel Orange Mint and Honey. “The marriage of historical confidence with creativity brings forth the first novel by Carleen Brice. Orange Mint and Honey makes use of the oldest of relationships: mothers and daughters. Looking at the plights of love, forgiveness, understanding and redemption brings to this first novel a fresh and unique feel. A wonderful jazzy exciting read.”-poet and activist Nikki Giovanni

($13.95) One World ISBN #0-345-49906-9. You can visit Carleen Brice’s official web site as well.

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AOT #98: Russell Banks Podcasts The Reserve

Russell Banks, the acclaimed author whose works include Cloudsplitter and Continental Drift, reads from his new novel The Reserve. Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Banks’s sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities, trapped at opposite ends of a social divide, begin to break the rules.

($24.95) HarperCollins ISBN #978-0-06-143025-1.

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