"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 ]
Raven Books has landed Lady Macbethad, a historical novel exploring the "real Lady Macbeth" set in medieval Scotland, and a second title by debut author Isabelle Schuler. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 15:28:38 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children’s Books has scooped a "stunning" new magical-historical middle-grade series by debut writer Natasha Hastings. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 17:08:13 UTC ]
Hamish Hamilton has scooped the debut novel by academic and critic Emilie Pine, author of international bestseller Notes to Self (Tramp Press and Hamish Hamilton). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 16:47:02 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction has just announced its shortlist for the 2021 First Novel Prize. The seven titles were selected from a longlist of twenty-seven debut novels, all published in the US between January 1 to December 21. The prize, first established in 2006, celebrates the best debut fiction... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 17:25:35 UTC ]
The Nigerian writer, the first sub-Saharan winner of the Nobel Prize, discusses 'Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-23 13:00:36 UTC ]
Writers from different parts of the world weigh in on what it means to be a woman with agency. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
From the acclaimed author of novels and short stories, 'Harrow' is a magnificent, moving story about people picking up the pieces of apocalypse. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-09-07 13:00:01 UTC ]
Granta Books has won a five-way auction for Anna Metcalfe’s debut novel, Chrysalis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-31 05:13:40 UTC ]
Transworld has scooped a "joyful and emotional" debut novel by author and blogger Sarah Turner, also known as The Unmumsy Mum, in a six-figure, two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-26 01:27:52 UTC ]
Little, Brown science fiction and fantasy imprint Orbit has snapped up fantasy author Emily Tesh's "phenomenal" debut novel, Some Desperate Glory. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-17 15:24:34 UTC ]
The country music superstar has teamed up with the novelist James Patterson to write Run, Rose, Run, which will be published in MarchFirst globally successful entertainer, then heroic sponsor of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine, and now novelist … Dolly Parton seems determined to prove that there... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-11 16:27:28 UTC ]
Allison & Busby has acquired the "rich and haunting" debut novel The Porcelain Doll by Kristen Loesch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 11:30:12 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has signed In a New York Minute from podcaster, comedian and debut novelist Kate Spencer in a two-book deal Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 02:47:56 UTC ]
Independent publisher OWN IT! is to publish Sean Godfrey's "magnetic" coming of age debut novel, A Brown Girl in the Ring. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-07 10:14:24 UTC ]
Holland House, the tiny indie behind Karen Jennings' An Island, has reprinted 5,000 more copies and attracted foreign rights interest after the novel won the press its first ever Booker nomination. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-06 23:49:09 UTC ]