Julia May Jonas' "Vladimir" is a thrilling "Lolita" update in which the deliciously wicked narrator is not the male abuser but his wife. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-01 14:00:41 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has triumphed in an 11-publisher auction for Yomi Adegoke’s "entertaining and daring" debut novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-18 11:55:31 UTC ]
Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers” takes up themes of autonomy and technology in imagining an experimental facility where parents go through mandatory retraining. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-11 17:33:33 UTC ]
Manchester University Press has landed the first “remarkable” book from DJ Paulette, Welcome to the Club: The Life and Lessons of a Black Woman DJ. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-11 14:56:43 UTC ]
Fig Tree has scooped the "powerful and beautifully humane" debut novel by Mo Siewcharran Prize-winner Santanu Bhattacharya. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-05 14:00:25 UTC ]
In “Brown Girls,” Daphne Palasi Andreades breaks a big world into small, meaningful pieces. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-04 10:00:03 UTC ]
Keri Hulme, the first New Zealander to win the Booker Prize, has died aged 74 after battling ongoing health conditions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-29 05:10:58 UTC ]
The power Ms. Hulme drew from her Maori heritage shone through in her work, especially in “The Bone People,” which won the literary prize in 1985. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-29 04:47:34 UTC ]
Unless an author is a household name or has a celebrity endorsement, the hardcover fiction list can be elusive for first-timers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-23 10:00:01 UTC ]
Dolly Parton will headline the audiobook cast of her debut novel Run Rose Run (Century) along with singer and songwriter Kelsea Ballerini in the role of protégée to Parton’s character. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-21 02:34:41 UTC ]
Juhea Kim's "Beasts of a Little Land" captures the dualities of Korean history but ties up symbols too tightly in the service of grand ambitions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-12-14 15:00:20 UTC ]
The Indigo Press has acquired Don't Let it Get You Down, a "powerful and provocative collection of essays" from writer, speaker and lawyer Savala Nolan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-14 10:21:28 UTC ]
The translation of Deceit by ‘groundbreaking’ author Yuri Felsen, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to come out next MayThe debut novel by Yuri Felsen, an author once regarded as the “Russian Proust” whose work has been forgotten since he died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to be published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-01 14:12:48 UTC ]
Canelo has landed a historical fiction saga which navigates the fall out of the Great Sheffield Flood, by debut author Joanne Clague. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-26 10:12:45 UTC ]
In “A Little Hope,” Ethan Joella explores quiet lives in small-town Connecticut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-16 10:00:03 UTC ]
"Between the Covers" presenter Sara Cox’s debut novel, Thrown, has gone to Coronet. It follows the lives of four women at a pottery class held at a community centre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-10 10:45:35 UTC ]
Oneworld has acquired Beasts of a Little Land, an historic story of love and war hailed as a "magnificent achievement", by debut novelist Juhea Kim. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-08 13:15:23 UTC ]
The Nigerian writer explains the origins of his latest book’s title, why novels are harder to write than plays, and the masochistic pull of political activism. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-11-02 22:37:29 UTC ]
Lightning Books has scooped the debut novel by award-winning Scottish playwright and rising screen star Kenny Boyle. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 09:09:50 UTC ]
In “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,” by Nathaniel Ian Miller, a young man swaps the daily grind for the unpeopled expanses of the Far North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-26 09:00:03 UTC ]