The Book Shire

Novels

The Death of the Black-Haired Girl by Robert Stone

"People all want their suffering to mean something." In one of the last sentences of his newest novel, The Death of the Black-Haired Girl, Robert Stone [...]

Magic Steps: Meeting Tamora Pierce at The National Book Festival

When I was eight years old my parents took me to Bookstop, our local branch of Barnes & Noble, as a treat. Now, this wasn't an unusual tradition in our [...]