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Before “The Maze Runner” or “The Hunger Games” whisked young adult readers and movie buffs to a darker side of childhood, writer William Golding was doing the same in 1957 with a group of young British boys, stranded on a tropical island, left to survive to their own increasingly savage devices. Disturbing, violent and chillingly human, “Lord [...]
First came the story, then came the genre
Three characters with different backgrounds thrust together to try and solve a murder. Amanda Jay (Jayatissa) says this is what her book , ‘The Other One’ is about in a nutshell. She says the mystery was what she was most focused on and that she didn’t even identify the genre on her own. “I never [...]