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Video: An exclusive look at best-selling author Alex Michaelides' new book, 'The Maidens' [ABC News]
The author of "The Silent Patient" is coming out with a new psychological thriller about a mysterious, secret society.
The author of "The Silent Patient" is coming out with a new psychological thriller about a mysterious, secret society.
'The Silent Patient' ending is a twist we didn't see coming. [The Washington Post]
Would you judge me if I said I did not see the ending of “The Silent Patient” coming? That I read all 323 pages of Alex Michaelides’s best-selling psychological thriller and did not deduce the twist until he wanted me to (page 304)? And that I still did not understand the hows and whys until he fully explained, in elementary-my-dear detail, the convoluted psychology at play (pg. 312)?
Would you judge me if I said I did not see the ending of “The Silent Patient” coming? That I read all 323 pages of Alex Michaelides’s best-selling psychological thriller and did not deduce the twist until he wanted me to (page 304)? And that I still did not understand the hows and whys until he fully explained, in elementary-my-dear detail, the convoluted psychology at play (pg. 312)?
Alex Michaelides’s New Book is a Bestseller [Dailymail]
Alex Michaelides has just flown in to London from the US, where his first novel has become a publishing sensation. The Silent Patient has gone to No 1 in The New York Times bestsellers list and the film rights have been bought by Brad Pitt. Everyone is talking about it. ‘It’s unbelievable,’ says the Cypriot-born author. ‘Absolutely incredible.’
Alex Michaelides has just flown in to London from the US, where his first novel has become a publishing sensation. The Silent Patient has gone to No 1 in The New York Times bestsellers list and the film rights have been bought by Brad Pitt. Everyone is talking about it. ‘It’s unbelievable,’ says the Cypriot-born author. ‘Absolutely incredible.’
Annapurna, Plan B to Adapt Fashion Murder Thriller 'The Silent Patient' [Variety Fair]
Hot off their Indie Spirit Award win for best feature for “If Beale Street Could Talk,” Annapurna and Plan B have set their next film project with an adaptation of Alex Michaelides’ best-selling novel “The Silent Patient.”
The Silent Patient: High-octane debut lives up to its hype [Independent]
It's rare that a debut novel comes weighted with this much hype. However, the figures speak for themselves: The Silent Patient has been sold in 38 territories and Brad Pitt's Plan B Productions has bought the film rights. The book is already a New York Times bestseller, a couple of weeks after publication, which follows a seven-month long intensive marketing and publicity campaign by the publisher.
It's rare that a debut novel comes weighted with this much hype. However, the figures speak for themselves: The Silent Patient has been sold in 38 territories and Brad Pitt's Plan B Productions has bought the film rights. The book is already a New York Times bestseller, a couple of weeks after publication, which follows a seven-month long intensive marketing and publicity campaign by the publisher.
'The Silent Patient' Is Already Making Noise [WSJ]
Three years ago, Alex Michaelides was a screenwriter with two produced films to his credit: one went straight to video, the other has a rare 0% (meaning no positive reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes. “I had decided to give up writing,” he says, but first he decided to take a stab at the novel he had been wanting to write, “a kind of psychological Agatha Christie.”
Three years ago, Alex Michaelides was a screenwriter with two produced films to his credit: one went straight to video, the other has a rare 0% (meaning no positive reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes. “I had decided to give up writing,” he says, but first he decided to take a stab at the novel he had been wanting to write, “a kind of psychological Agatha Christie.”
The Silent Patient: Read an excerpt of hot thriller novel [EW.com]
Every winter yields countless promising thrillers, but few rise to the level of hype that The Silent Patient has: a debut novel which is already breaking sales records and prepping for a film adaptation.
Every winter yields countless promising thrillers, but few rise to the level of hype that The Silent Patient has: a debut novel which is already breaking sales records and prepping for a film adaptation.
Silence Is Not Always Golden. This Novel Proves It [Publishers Weekly]
For his debut novel, The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides tapped into his heritage, his childhood, and his work in film. But most of all, he tapped into his desire to write not only “something I wanted to read” but a book that deserved to sit on the same shelf as the Agatha Christie mysteries that he devoured as a teenager.
For his debut novel, The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides tapped into his heritage, his childhood, and his work in film. But most of all, he tapped into his desire to write not only “something I wanted to read” but a book that deserved to sit on the same shelf as the Agatha Christie mysteries that he devoured as a teenager.
Writing is a murderous business [Cyprus Mail]
Lazy Ayia Napa summers spent on the beach reading and chilling while trying to pick apart Agatha Christie murder mysteries was how and where the story of the boy who wanted to become a writer began. Thirty years on, and Alex Michaelides tells the Sunday Mail not only that he has written his first thriller but also sold it immediately to a publisher for a six-figure sum.
Lazy Ayia Napa summers spent on the beach reading and chilling while trying to pick apart Agatha Christie murder mysteries was how and where the story of the boy who wanted to become a writer began. Thirty years on, and Alex Michaelides tells the Sunday Mail not only that he has written his first thriller but also sold it immediately to a publisher for a six-figure sum.