Today the Center for Fiction announced the shortlist for its 2020 First Novel Prize. The prize, first awarded in 2006, recognizes the best debut fiction of the year, and it comes with $15,000; each finalist receives $1,000. Previous winners include De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Tommy Orange, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-01 15:05:06 UTC ]
Serpent’s Tail will publish Oana Aristide's debut novel Under the Blue as a lead title in March 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-30 02:17:21 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner is to publish debut writer Aiwanose Odafen's feminist novel Tomorrow I Become a Woman as part of a three-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-28 09:02:57 UTC ]
Annabel Steadman’s fantasy series Skandar and the Unicorn Thief has won a seven-figure book contract, with film rights also sold to Sony PicturesA 28-year-old first-time author from Canterbury has landed what is believed to be the world’s largest ever book advance for a debut children’s writer,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-09-16 13:34:54 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to publish Patricia Lockwood's first novel No One Is Talking About This, after winning a 10-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 02:57:52 UTC ]
Alka Joshi’s debut novel, The Henna Artist, is taking the literary world by storm. On The Literary Life, she talks with Mitchell Kaplan about the small leap from writing ad copy to writing a novel, how both her mother and mother-in-law informed her protagonist, and the joy she’s deriving from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-11 08:47:09 UTC ]
The new book from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell takes place in one house, but in it, she finds infinite space. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-09-10 18:15:39 UTC ]
“The Discomfort of Evening,” by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, winner of this year’s International Book Prize, is about strictly religious dairy farmers mourning a son’s death. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-09-08 16:16:33 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has won a debut novel by K-Ming Chang in a "heated" five-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-07 06:51:52 UTC ]
What was the first novel? Why was it written? What need did it fill? Who wrote it? And most importantly, can you still read it today? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-02 10:32:00 UTC ]
HQ has scooped The Steel Girls, a debut novel from journalist and university lecturer Michelle Rawlins, in a three-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-01 19:21:33 UTC ]
In 'Transcendent Kingdom,' Yaa Gyasi's second novel, she focuses on America — its promise and peril — and on one Ghanaian American family in Alabama. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-08-27 16:49:47 UTC ]
Tinder Press has acquired a debut novel by Naomi Ishiguro, former bookseller and bibliotherapist at Mr B’s Emporium in Bath. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-20 02:07:21 UTC ]
Ebury has landed the first book from Harlequins and England loosehead prop Joe Marler, promising the “unfiltered truth” about being a rugby player. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-13 21:21:21 UTC ]
Atlantic's Corvus imprint has acquired two novels from debut author Katy Cox, including M is for Mummy, a "warm and witty" story about parenting an autistic child. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-11 05:57:45 UTC ]
“The Party Upstairs” focuses on the tenants of one building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
“The Party Upstairs” focuses on the tenants of one building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Continue reading >> [ Source: The Economist | 2020-08-06 14:59:44 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton is publishing a book from songwriter, musician, and country legend Dolly Parton, exploring her life and career through 175 of her best-loved songs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-05 20:52:03 UTC ]
For 18 seasons, he served as creative director and producer of the global phenomenon ‘America’s Next Top Model.’ But his debut novel isn’t the juicy tell-all you might’ve expected. Makeup artist and stylist Jay Manuel has spent more than 20 years in the fashion industry, most famously serving as... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-08-03 12:15:52 UTC ]
London-based indie Onwe has acquired three titles from debut authors to be published across 2021: Ashaye Brown's Dream Country, Di Lebowitz's The Marks Left on Her and Rab Ferguson's The Landfill Mountains. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-31 08:10:29 UTC ]