Bestselling authors

Stephen King has written some of the most beloved horror novels in the history of popular fiction, and many have been turned into equally acclaimed and successful films. Movies like "Carrie," "Stand by Me" and "The Shawshank Redemption" have more than earned esteemed spots within the cinematic canon. Others - "Maximum Overdrive," "Thinner," "The Dark Tower" - have not.  Read more

Tom Stoppard, playwright  Read more

YOU KNOW HOW, when you roll into a small town for the first time, in search of a slice of pie and a decent cup of coffee, you inevitably uncover a byzantine and nefarious criminal conspiracy, perhaps concerning Russian spies and Nazis?  Read more

William Boyd was 16 in 1968, the year his new novel, Trio, is set. It was a moment of change and social revolution, but Boyd's impetus to write the novel-which centers on a shoot in Brighton, England, for a fictional film titled Ladder to the Moon-was driven by his teenage recollections of an era that was much less political.

The popularity of Nordic noir may seem to be fading after its heyday of the early-2010s but Norway's biggest-selling author would beg to differ. Public tax information revealed that Jo Nesbø's two companies took in more than NOK 58 million ($6.5 million) in 2019, of which NOK 45.5 million ($5.1 million) was classed as book royalties.