
Iconic anti-hero Jack Reacher has made thriller writer Lee Child an internationally renowned author. In Past Tense (Delacorte Press)—the latest novel in this New York Times bestselling series—a turn in the road takes Child’s avenging loner to his long-deceased father’s hometown, where the ghosts of his past aren’t necessarily dead and buried.…

Josie BrownNovember 5, 2018

These books have two things in common: they are new and they will change your life! It's 2018, and we're all looking for something to read that's going to start the year off with a bang. If you want to get your 365 days of books off to a great…

BookTribJanuary 2, 2018

Shopping is done and holiday gifts have been either wrapped or gifted, but just as you're congratulating yourself for that accomplishment and not going over budget you realize you forgot a few names! How do you get those last minute gifts quickly and not break the bank? E-books! These make the…

Maggie MeyersDecember 21, 2017

About five years before he wrote his first novel, Killing Floor, Lee Child began to think seriously about writing. At the time he worked as a presentation director for Granada Television in Manchester, England—an “air traffic controller for the broadcast airways” is how he describes it. He did a little…

Rick PullenSeptember 11, 2017

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in…

Writers, InkOctober 10, 2022

Before the end of chapter two of The Sentinel (Delacorte Press) — the latest Jack Reacher novel — our hero has been outnumbered in two fights, and the body count is rising. You know it’s coming. It always does. But Lee Child is so good at satisfying that visceral urge…

Rick PullenNovember 3, 2020