London and Paris: Dead and Buried -
A Tale of Two Cities by Jonathan Conlin
In 1863, Charles Dickens paid a visit to Kensal Green Cemetery, located
a mile north-west of Paddington, between the Harrow Road and the
Grand Union Canal. As he noted in his account in All the Year Round,
the French believed...
Cheryl Strayed’s uncompromising, in-your-face ‘live your own truth’, ‘honour the universe’, hippy-dippy American words of wisdom make compulsive reading. I loved Tiny Beautiful Things. Yes, love, love, loved it. Despite being a book of advice columns from the sad, conflicted and troubled, it’s not mawkish – it couldn’t be – not with Strayed illustrating her replies with tales from...
Fallen Land is the latest novel from prize-winning writer Patrick Flanery. Below, Patrick writes about what makes the subject of the novel resonate so strongly:
The image of a person unwilling to abandon a home, in which lingers the memory of family now lost, has been with me since I was child. In the early 1960s, following the death of her husband, my paternal grandmother went bankrupt and lost her house. Understandably, she did not want to leave...
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Red April, set during a cruel, bloody, and terrifying time in Peru's history; written by Santiago Roncagliolo - the youngest winner of the coveted...
Laura Hewitt writes: A box of catalogues tucked under my arm, I made my 
way up the steps to the exhibition centre this week for my first London Book Fair.I’d been looking forward to the Fair since I started as an intern at Atlantic, but I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew that the big shots of the publishing industry would be rushing around, arguing over strategies and deals, and sharing book gossip. But what would this look like? Who were the elusive people in charge of the books we read?
The London Book Fair is always full of the great and the good of the publishing industry from all over the world. Earl's Court is buzzing with smart, glamorous, electic and let's face it, sometimes scruffy, publishers rushing around the place. It's hard work as we all know, so today we are lightening the load for a moment and getting people to stop looking at books and...
Margaret Thatcher will rightly be remembered as one of the most forceful political figures of the Twentieth Century. But as Graham Stewart observes in his book Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s, she cut a very different figure on the eve of the general election of 1979:
[In the run-up to the 1979 election, many of Thatcher’s colleagues] deemed her a liability. She had none of Jim Callaghan’s unaffected common touch with which to endear herself to the non-committed voter. Nor had she displayed any ability to win in more structured debates. Lacking instinctive wit and verbal dexterity, she had shown herself to be...
David Goodhart discussing his book - The British Dream
Ever since you wrote your 2004 Prospect article you’ve been associated with this story of immigration and pluralism. What prompted you to write a book on it now? The story has not exactly gone away since 2004, and I think I had a somewhat distinct approach coming from the centre-left and worrying about the effect of large scale immigration/diversity on solidarity and...
For lovers of Beth Gutcheon's Gossip, our author reminisces in a specially commissioned blog in The Kindle Post ...
Today’s announcement of the Women’s Prize longlist has got us all excited at Atlantic Towers. Our very own G. Willow Wilson’s Alif the Unseen is on the longlist, sharing space with Hilary Mantel, Barbara Kingsolver and Zadie Smith!
Alif the Unseen is a whirlwind of a novel that takes in an Arab Spring-like revolution, shape-shifting...
People at Atlantic started to call No Way Back the OMG book – because of the amazing twist at the end. Matthew Klein’s plot, characters and striking originality will keep you hooked until the very last page.
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Books set in Iceland - Atlantic's Michael Ridpath, leads the way
photo credit: Robin Boothroyd
Michael Ridpath spent eight years as a bond trader in the City before giving up his job to write full-time. He lives in north London with his wife and three children and is the author of three novels and a novella for Atlantic Books, all set in Iceland and steeped in the country's stunningly desolate, dramatic and strangely dreamlike landscape. They're also a chillingly good read. Click on the link...
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