Today, the National Book Foundation announced their longlist for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. This year’s longlist features three debuts and includes, appropriately for this year, many novels that ask questions about the nature of home. These ten books were chosen from a total of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-17 14:15:53 UTC ]
Today, the National Book Foundation announced their longlist for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction. This year’s judges for the National Book Award in Nonfiction are Eula Biss, Aaron John Curtis, Nell Painter, Kate Tuttle, and Jerald Walker. The finalists will be announced on October 5,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-16 19:15:52 UTC ]
The University of Nebraska Press is launching Zero Street, a series dedicated to novels and short story collections written by LGBTQ+ authors and featuring LGBTQ+ characters and/or themes. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
After encouraging sales despite bookshops’ closures in the first lockdown, the market in Ireland has responded remarkably well since, with sales of Non-Fiction and Children’s titles particularly solid. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-10 13:31:14 UTC ]
With her new book ‘Apples Never Fall’ and another TV adaptation with Nicole Kidman, Liane Moriarty doesn’t care how you categorize her books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-10 11:00:00 UTC ]
With all categories except adult fiction having declines, unit sales of print books fell 5.2% in the week ended September 4, 2021 from the comparable week in 2020 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-09-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist Stig Abell has signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins, including his crime fiction debut and one non-fiction title. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-07 18:18:52 UTC ]
Within a few years, it was clear that Sept. 11, 2001, would leave an impact on contemporary fiction as deep as its impact on every other aspect of our culture. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-07 07:50:00 UTC ]
“Matrix” dramatizes a remote period while making it somehow relevant to our own lives. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-31 12:00:00 UTC ]
Peninsula Press has opened submissions for fiction this September, inviting writers to enter their work for the chance to be part of the publisher's "experimental, boundary-pushing" list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-31 07:43:25 UTC ]
Faith Shearin has won the Young Adult Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize for both of her entries Lost River, 1918 and Horse Latitudes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-26 08:47:53 UTC ]
HarperFiction has signed a new multi-book deal with romantic fiction author Cressida McLaughlin, which will see four more books in the Cornish Cream Tea series as well as a standalone novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-26 08:27:38 UTC ]
In Matthew FitzSimmons’s speculative murder mystery “Constance,” the title character’s consciousness is mistakenly downloaded into a clone. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-24 19:55:19 UTC ]
Though his novels and short stories — published over six decades, beginning in 1934 — are set in an older, more decorous America, he grapples with themes that feel shockingly contemporary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-23 17:02:39 UTC ]
Gillian McAllister's That Night (Penguin) has leapfrogged Stephen King's Billy Summers (Hodder & Stoughton) to take the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction number one spot. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-18 03:59:25 UTC ]
Indie 404 Ink has landed The Arena of the Unwell, the fiction debut of music writer Liam Konemann, due to publish next April. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-16 02:03:01 UTC ]
N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance trilogy got us thinking about other titles perfect for the small screen. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-15 13:00:00 UTC ]
The fourth outing of the award produced by the Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid features work centered on colonial oppression. The post Madrid’s ‘Desperate Literature’ Short Fiction Prize: Paige Cowan-Hall appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-08-13 21:40:40 UTC ]
There’s something about literary sisters. Siblings offer a unique, complex, and compelling relationship for novelists to explore, so it’s no surprise that so many novels have sisters at their heart. From Jane Austen’s loveable Bennett sisters in Pride and Prejudice, and Louisa May Alcott’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-08-13 08:49:04 UTC ]
Hugo Gernsback once said SFF writers impart knowledge without out making us aware we're being taught. So what do they actually teach us? Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-08-12 10:37:00 UTC ]