The Leapfrog Global Fiction Prize, run jointly by UK indie Can of Worms and New York-based Leapfrog Press, is to split into adult fiction and young adult fiction categories this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-15 13:28:10 UTC ]
Mark Aldridge’s “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” offers clues — and evidence — to prove the case. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-04-14 12:00:00 UTC ]
Welbeck Publishing is partnering with creative studio Tibor Jones to develop children's fiction projects. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-04-13 20:53:27 UTC ]
Middle grade books in SPAAAAACE! Check out some middle grade science fiction comics set in space, including On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-04-13 10:36:00 UTC ]
“The Memory Theater,” “On Fragile Waves” and “Victories Greater Than Death” take readers tumbling through realms and ever stranger stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-04-13 09:00:08 UTC ]
Set in the wake of Germany’s reunification, “The Recent East” follows a country coming together and a teen-ager coming out. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-04-12 10:00:00 UTC ]
Times Book Prize finalists Rachel Howzell Hall, Ivy Pochoda, S.A. Crosby, Jennifer Hillier and Christopher Bollen talk about race, place and genre. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-09 14:25:05 UTC ]
Novelists no longer shy away from tough issues readers are facing such as mental illness, racial inequity, sexual harassment and abuse, trafficking, and domestic violence. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
Deesha Philyaw talks about the long gestation of her collection 'The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,' a Times Book Prize finalist for first fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-06 16:30:19 UTC ]
Writings by Brenda Peynado, Elizabeth Hand, Izumi Suzuki, Bruce Sterling and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-04-06 13:00:00 UTC ]
If you’re looking for nonfiction about girls around the world, check out these books, including Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, Hyung-Ju Ko. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-03-30 10:37:00 UTC ]
Sherlock Holmes or Nancy Drew? Cast your vote for literature's greatest crime solver. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-25 14:10:49 UTC ]
Jaeger’s 1920s novels, ‘The Question Mark’ and ‘The Man With Six Senses,’ are H.G. Wellsian works of love and science. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-24 16:24:26 UTC ]
This year marks the sixth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international accord that marks the first time nearly every nation on Earth promised to tackle the climate crisis. The goals set by that agreement, however, have not been met. As the climate crisis worsens, more novelists than... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-24 08:53:41 UTC ]
Here’s hoping more books like “The Calcutta Chromosome” and “Machinehood” will reach a wider audience. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-22 15:33:17 UTC ]
When I was a young girl there was one day of the week that I looked forward to more than any other. It was the day my Mum and I would drive to the local library a few miles away and I could exchange my books. I would become obsessed with one writer after another and read an entire series of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-18 18:10:04 UTC ]
Why do we assume that a work of literary fiction must be based on its author’s life? Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-03-14 12:00:33 UTC ]
A lot has changed since 2011! From book club picks to political memoirs, here were the NYT bestsellers from a decade ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-03-12 11:32:00 UTC ]
Today, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, in collaboration with Bailey’s and Nat West, announced the longlist for its annual award, which recognizes and honors a female author of any nationality for the best novel written in English published in the United Kingdom in the previous year. The winner... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-10 20:25:29 UTC ]
Matt Haig's The Midnight Library (Canongate) has clocked in at the top of the Amazon Charts' Most-Sold: Fiction top 20, unseating Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Penguin). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-02 11:05:06 UTC ]