PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Joe R. Lansdale is the internationally-bestselling author of over fifty novels, including the popular, long-running Hap and Leonard series. Many of his cult classics have been adapted for television and film, most famously Bubba Ho-Tep, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. Lansdale has written numerous screenplays and teleplays, including for the iconic Batman the Animated Series. He has won an Edgar Award for The Bottoms, ten Stoker Awards, and has been designated a World Horror Grandmaster. Lansdale, like many of his characters, lives in East Texas. New York Times bestselling author Kathleen Kent's fourth book, titled The Dime, is a contemporary crime novel set in Dallas, nominated by both the Edgar Awards and the Nero Awards for Best Novel. The sequel to The Dime, titled The Burn, will be published in February 2020. Ms. Kent is also the author of three bestselling and award-winning historical novels, The Heretic's Daughter, The Traitor's Wife, and The Outcasts.
Praise for Of Mice and Minestrone There's a place in East Texas where story shades into memory, where violence and tenderness are just part of the wonder of living, and that's precisely where Joe Lansdale lives, and writes from, and we're all the better for it. The eating's pretty good there, too, as Hap's recipes more than attest. You leave this book hungry, both for food and to start the whole series all over again, live through it one more time, maybe just live there a while. --Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels and The Only Good Indians An absolute treasure trove for Hap and Leonard fans. Going back to the beginning only deepens our love and appreciation for these guys. This collection proves once again why Joe Lansdale is one of our very best. --Ace Atkins, New York Times Bestselling author of The Shameless I enjoyed every tale in this collection. The best was the title story which was pretty dark and incredibly sad. I really need to read more of Hap and Leonard's adventures if this book is an example of what they get up to. --Book Lover's Boudoir Praise for Joe R. Lansdale A folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace. --New York Times Book Review An American original --Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box A terrifically gifted storyteller. --Washington Post Book Review Like gold standard writers Elmore Leonard and the late Donald Westlake, Joe R. Lansdale is one of the more versatile writers in America. --Los Angeles Times A zest for storytelling and gimlet eye for detail. --Entertainment Weekly Lansdale is an immense talent. --Booklist Lansdale is a storyteller in the Texas tradition of outrageousness...but amped up to about 100,000 watts. --Houston Chronicle Lansdale's been hailed, at varying points in his career, as the new Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner-gone-madder, and the last surviving splatterpunk...sanctified in the blood of the walking Western dead and righteously readable. --Austin Chronicle Praise for Of Mice and Minestrone There's a place in East Texas where story shades into memory, where violence and tenderness are just part of the wonder of living, and that's precisely where Joe Lansdale lives, and writes from, and we're all the better for it. The eating's pretty good there, too, as Hap's recipes more than attest. You leave this book hungry, both for food and to start the whole series all over again, live through it one more time, maybe just live there a while. --Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels and The Only Good Indians
