The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair

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Simon Mayo Book Club

Prepping for @JoelDicker and maybe, just possibly, the book of the year. pic.twitter.com/rzm5ucEBbx

— Simon Mayo (@simonmayo) May 31, 2014

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Joel Dicker Livestream from Poisoned Pen Bookstore

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New York Times Review

Let’s be honest, no one likes literary wunderkinder. Twenty-­eight-year-olds are bad enough. Twenty-eight-year-olds whose first books become blockbusters? That’s just irritating. Joel Dicker, the 28-year-old Swiss author behind “The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair,” doesn’t even have the decency to write dreck. His darkly comic debut thriller (already a blockbuster in Europe!) is unimpeachably terrific.

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A New York Times Bestseller

GREAT NEWS: The first week of sales for the US edition of The Truth about The Harry Quebert Affair will see it placed at no.8 in the New York Times bestseller list. The New York Times called it “[A] darkly comic debut thriller… unimpeachably terrific.”

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Joel Dicker talks to Simon Mayo for BBC Radio 2

In case you missed it, here's Joel talking from Chicago. It is up on iplayer for another 6 days:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0208b8p

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Radio 2 Book Club

Very excited that The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair has been selected for the Radio 2 Book Club.

Radio 2 trailed the book yesterday on the Simon Mayo Show.

Simon's co-presenter described it emphatically as:

“Outstanding…best book I’ve read this year, definitely...I’m going to be harassing people in the street”

You can listen to them trailing it here (at 1:36:20).

You can find out more about the book and get involved with their book club here.

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Audiobook: The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair

Listen to a clip from the audiobook for The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair. Out now!

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Thursday 8th May Promotion with Ed's Diner Soho

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We spoke to Joël Dicker about Nola and the elusive character that is Nola.

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911 Call

Saturday, August 30, 1975.

The Somerset, New Hampshire, police receive a phone call.

It's the day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence.

That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that made him a household name. Quebert is the only suspect. Marcus Goldman - Quebert's most gifted protege - throws off his writer's block to clear his mentor's name. Solving the case and penning a new bestseller soon merge into one. As his book begins to take on a life of its own, the nation is gripped by the mystery of 'The Girl Who Touched the Heart of America'. But with Nola, in death as in life, nothing is ever as it seems.

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"You will have noticed that Harry Quebert has come to eat lunch in our restaurant every day for the past week. Mr Quebert is a famous New York writer and we should pay him special attention. His needs must be met with the greatest discretion. No one should bother him. Table 17 is reserved for him until further notice. It must always be free in case he arrives." -- Tamara Quinn

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Joel Dicker on The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair.

01.05.2014

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NOLA

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Nola's note.

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"In the spring of 2008, about a year and a half after I had become the new star of American literature, something happened that I decided to bury deep in my memory: I discovered that my college professor, Harry Quebert..."

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A good book...

'A good book, Marcus, is a book you are sorry to have finished.' Indeed. I am bereft at finishing @JoelDicker's masterpiece #harryquebert

— Caron Macpherson (@CaronMacpherson)

March 25, 2014

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