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Joint Review: The Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

By On June 17, 2011 · 8 Comments · In 2 Rated Books, 3 Rated Books, Book Reviews, Joint Review

Title: The Midnight Palace

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón (translated by Julia Graves)

Genre: Mystery, Historical, Speculative Fiction, Horror, Young Adult

Publisher: Little, Brown (US) / Orion (UK)
Publication date: May 30 2011 / June 2 2011
Hardcover: 306 pages

In the [...]

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Smugglers’ Stash and News

By On June 12, 2011 · 2 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

Friendly readers, Thea is away this weekend and usually when that happens, I take over and throw a party and go all EXTREME when writing the stash but ALAS, I have contracted the Flu of Doom and I feel like my nose is going to fall off my face and one should not write anything [...]

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Chat With An Author (and Giveaway): An Interview With Carlos Ruiz Zafón

By On June 1, 2010 · 83 Comments · In Chat With an Author, Giveaways

Today, we are delighted to bring you bestselling Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of 6 novels, including one of Ana’s all time favourites, The Shadow of the Wind. His first novel, the YA Horror The Prince of Mist has finally been translated into English and published last month and it is our pleasure [...]

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Smugglers’ Stash & News

By On May 30, 2010 · 12 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

Howdy, howdy, howdy! It has been a long, exhausting, incredible week, but we are finally done with BEA and headed home. And on that note, here’s what we have planned for the week. (And because we are in full recovery mode, this post will be brief!)

Giveaway Winners:

…PSYCH! As we have quite a few [...]

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Book Review: The Prince of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

By On May 3, 2010 · 7 Comments · In 7 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Prince of Mist

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Genre: YA/Horror

Publisher:Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (US) /Orion Children’s (UK)
Publication Date: May 2010
Hardcover: 224 pages/208 pages

Stand alone [...]

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Smugglers’ Stash & News

By On May 2, 2010 · 12 Comments · In Smugglers Stash

Happy Sunday, one and all!

We hope you’ve had a good weekend. Before we delve into yet another week of book mayhem, we’ve got some assorted tidbits to share… (I apologize in advance, as this post is kind of long)

Arthur C. Clarke Award:

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Smugglivus Day 21 – Guest Blogger: Aidan Moher of A Dribble of Ink

By On December 21, 2009 · 2 Comments · In Smugglivus, Smugglivus Guest Blogger

Welcome to Smugglivus 2009 – Day 21!

Throughout this month, we will have daily guests – authors and bloggers alike – looking back at their favorite reads of 2009, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2010.

Today’s Guest: Aidan Moher, of the speculative fiction blog A Dribble of Ink. Aidan, an [...]

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Book Review: The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

By On July 9, 2009 · 10 Comments · In 5 Rated Books, Book Reviews

Title: The Angel’s Game

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Genre: Literary Fiction (Mystery)

UK cover
US cover

Publisher:Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) / Doubleday (US)
Publishing Date: 28 May 2009/ June 16 2009
Hardcover: 448 pages/ 544 pages

Stand Alone/ Series: Can be read as a stand alone but has connections with another book [...]

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Smugglers Stash

By On July 5, 2009 · 13 Comments · In Smugglers Stash, YA Appreciation Month

Greetings from your friendly neighbourhood book smugglers!

We open the stash today with a Very Special Ceremony: the official unveiling of our banner for the upcoming YA Appreciation Month. Excuse us for the pomp and circumstance, but we happen to be totally in love with the beautiful banner that our good friend Kmont from

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