Year: 2015 | How to Tell A Great Story

Astray by Emma Donoghue

Title: Astray
Author: Emma Donoghue
Hardcover
Publisher: Picador (October 25, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1447209494
ISBN-13: 978-1447209492

Emma Donoghue’s tightly written offering of fourteen short stories in ‘Astray’, although small in number, should be read as a considerable contribution to the understanding of what many who venture far away from home experience and endure. As Donoghue says in the ‘Afterword’, ‘Emigrants, immigrants, adventurers, and runaways – they fascinate me because they loiter on the margins, stripped of the markers of family and nation; they’re out of place, out of their depth.’

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

Title: The Historian
Author: Elizabeth Kostova
Paperback: 832 pages
Publisher: Time Warner Books; Later Printing edition (2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316057886
ISBN-13: 978-0316057882

‘The Historian’ is a classified as ‘Historical Fiction’ in Amazon.com. It is the debut novel of Elizabeth Kostova and blends the mystery of Vlad the Impaler, the legend of Dracula and fiction.

Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton
by Salman Rushdie
Hardcover: 656 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First Edition edition (September 18, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0224093975
ISBN-13: 978-0224093972

Sometimes, when a writer introduces himself, he’ll receive a response along the lines of, “Can you help me write my memoirs? You should hear my story. It’s a fantastic story.” Many writers will attest to smiling politely at such a response and moving on. After all, there are more than enough works of self-aggrandizement touted as memoirs. Equally appalling are those that chronicle every detail of horror the author has experienced that makes readers question the veracity of the story. Every so often, though, a gem of a book like ‘Joseph Anton’ by Salman Rushdie comes along.

Narendra Modi: A Political Biography by Andy Marino

Narendra Modi: A Political Biography
by Andy Marino
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins India (November 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9351770257
ISBN-13: 978-9351770251

On 27 February 2002, 59 people in a train returning from Ayodhya to Ahmedabad were burned to death in Gujarat. Subsequently, there were riots all over Gujarat. In all, close to 900 people died and more than 2,500 were injured. For the next 12 years, almost everyone lay the blame for these riots squarely at the feet of Gujarat’s Chief Minister, Narendra Modi. He has been neither formally charged nor convicted for any of these alleged offences.

Great Storytelling Network Newsletter – 3 June 2015

Great StoryTelling Network Newsletter Volume 12, Issue 1 – 3 June 2015 Click here for the online version of this newsletter
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Ruby ShinesBright and the Birthday Cake by RosaBella Bloom

Ruby ShinesBright – and the Birthday Cake
by RosaBella Bloom
Paperback: 24 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1 edition (December 8, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1505282837
ISBN-13: 978-1505282832

Ruby ShinesBright is a very special little girl. She lives in a place called Flooperville and has a red stone on her tummy which shines bright when she is happy and well.

7 Genres for Your Novel and How to Choose the Right One

7 Genres for Your Novel and How to Choose the Right One

“Go to the bookstore and you’ll see my new book on the shelves,” said a recently published author. Her book was a fictionalised account of her spiritual journey and finding God a year after her divorce. Two days later, I was at the Customer Services desk of the bookstore, giving the lady the title of the book, name of author and even the ISBN. This was after I’d already looked for the book in the ‘Literature’, ‘Asian Writers’ and ‘New Releases’ parts of the Fiction section. The lady entered all the details into the computer and voilà, she knew where the book was.

How to Be Happy Inside and Out

How to Be Happy Inside and Out

You’re delighted with the bonus you’ve received for a job well done. You spend the holidays with your family and it’s a happy time. A month later, you find that you’ve been promoted and this adds to your happiness. By the end of the month, though, that happiness seems to have paled. A mere six weeks later, you admit that this is a recurring pattern in your life where your initial happiness gives way to sadness; after all, these are yet another set of achievements that you’ve checked off your list. It’s almost as if that absolute happiness is fleeting and momentary.

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