HarperFiction has announced two promotions in its marketing team with Sarah Shea and Fleur Clarke both stepping up. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-01 09:04:55 UTC ]
Comedian Frankie Boyle is making his crime fiction debut with Meantime, a “phenomenal” story set in the Scottish independence referendum's aftermath, to be published by John Murray imprint Baskerville. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 00:03:08 UTC ]
An excerpt from a debut novel that Booklist calls "enthralling" and Kirkus hailed as "an ambitious literary debut." The post ‘Cairo Circles’: Featured Fiction from Doma Mahmoud appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-10-25 10:00:55 UTC ]
The Tudor Dynasty lives on in these outstanding historical fiction novels, including The King’s Witch. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-10-22 10:33:00 UTC ]
Frank Herbert’s magnum opus: masterful or clumsy? Denis Villeneuve’s movie continues the debate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-21 13:13:42 UTC ]
What are the best places to begin exploring the wonderful world of science fiction? Some of the classic novels of the genre, from Frank Herbert’s Dune to Asimov’s Foundation series (which eventually stretched to seven volumes), might appear daunting because of their sheer size and scope. Below,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2021-10-20 14:00:25 UTC ]
Quercus imprint MacLehose Press has acquired My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women, an anthology of contemporary women's short stories with an introduction by BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 02:58:08 UTC ]
Bluemoose Books is launching a non-fiction list, starting with a book by Stu Hennigan which exposes "the abject poverty of an inner city trying to cope with the onset of the pandemic". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-18 15:13:06 UTC ]
Sequoia Nagamatsu’s bold first novel imagines how future humans might grapple with the fallout from climate change Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-15 04:56:32 UTC ]
Gains of 26% in both the adult fiction and young adult fiction categories combined to increase total unit sales of print books by 2% last week over the comparable week in 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
Historical fiction can remind us that these "unprecedented" times are anything but. Here's what they can teach us about our current crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-10-13 10:38:00 UTC ]
Several Christian fiction publishers are employing sensitivity readers and taking other steps to responsibly represent marginalized people in books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-10-13 04:00:00 UTC ]
Joe Yule and Katie Packer have been promoted as part of Headline Publishing’s strategy for non-fiction expansion. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-12 02:18:24 UTC ]
The audio version of an in-depth article on how science fiction’s hopes and fears can inspire humanity’s response to the climate crisis. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-10-11 09:13:49 UTC ]
Danis Goulet's Night Raiders had the widest theatrical opening of any movie by an Indigenous Canadian filmmaker. But while the movie examines very real — and heartbreaking — events, Goulet opted to do so through the lens of science fiction. ... Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2021-10-10 08:00:00 UTC ]
Literary agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop is launching the Queer Fiction Prize, with author Okechukwu Nzelu among the judges for the inaugural award. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 18:48:23 UTC ]
Andersen Press has scooped the fiction debut of Katie Cotton, group publisher at the Quarto Group. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-30 21:08:11 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 ]
One of the greatest science fiction writers, Asimov’s work has had a lasting effect thanks to his prescient takes on technology, climate collapse and humanity’s future. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-09-24 15:01:23 UTC ]
This Halloween, a group of crime writers including Peter James, M W Craven, T M Logan and Trevor Wood are publishing a spooky crime anthology to help raise funds for the Barnardos Children in Crisis Appeal, set up in the wake of the "shadow pandemic" created by Covid-19. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-24 02:35:23 UTC ]