Sarah Gilmartin admits "there has been a game-keeper turned poacher headline” in the Irish press in the run-up to the release of her début novel, after putting in eight years as a literary critic for the Irish Times. And she was a very specific sort of gamekeeper, as her brief for the Times was... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-10 12:32:50 UTC ]
Aisling Fowler was watching her husband play a video game when inspiration for the heroine of her début novel first came to her. “He’s very keen to stress that he’s not a gamer,” she laughs, talking to me over video call from Sydney, where said husband is currently working. The female main... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-09 04:40:40 UTC ]
Galvanised in the wake of a break-up, Toni Tone turned to Twitter, sharing her shrewd take on relationships, which paved the way for her resonant self- help début Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-28 01:33:29 UTC ]
Back in January 2018, freelance journalist Mason began work on a new novel in the little shed in her back garden in Sydney. She already had two books under her belt with HarperCollins Australia, a memoir of early motherhood—the brilliantly titled Say it Again in a Nice Voice—and her début novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-12 23:02:14 UTC ]
University student Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé’s début novel Ace of Spades may not be out until 10th June, but it’s already making a splash. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-05 18:06:24 UTC ]
"I like the hybridity of literature and science. They belong together, and they certainly belong together in my head,” says Clare Weze, a trained scientist whose début novel, The Lightning Catcher, combines her love for science with her skills as a fiction writer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-11 17:35:36 UTC ]
When Benjamin Dean began to pursue his dream of writing fiction, he did not expect his début to be a novel for children. “I never really anticipated writing for children at that time,” he tells me, speaking on the phone from his London home. His middle-grade novel Me, My Dad and the End of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-26 14:11:48 UTC ]
Début The Moss House, by Angela Clare writing as Clara Barley, is a novel based on the life of Anne Lister, a 19th-century landowner who lived at Shibden Hall in Halifax. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Penguin Random House Children’s staffer Beth O’Leary draws upon her own experience of renting in London in her début novel, written largely on her commute. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scottish indie Little Door has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise £3,500 to publish author/ illustrator Will Hughes’ début What Not to Give an Ogre for His Birthday. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tiger Aspect has signed TV rights to Caroline Hulse’s début The Adults (Orion), a novel about a divorced couple’s attempt to create the perfect Christmas getaway for their daughter and their new partners. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion has acquired "a hilarious and heartwarming" début by Caroline Hulse at auction and a collection of short stories from Man Booker shortlistee Emily Fridlund. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has pre-empted The Flatshare, a début novel by Penguin Random House Children’s editor Beth O’Leary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
A precocious young Irish writer whose début was at the heart of a seven-way auction has produced a novel that belies its creator’s years, reckons Alice O’Keeffe. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sarah Odedina at Pushkin Children’s Books, has acquired world rights to a début novel of “hope, belief and familial bonds” direct from its Danish author. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
A début by a 24-year-old British author about Brockwell Lido has caused a splash ahead of the fair, with the triumphant UK and US editors both having to double their original six-figure offers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Début novel The Shark Club, described as a love story featuring a world-travelling marine biologist who is studying the animals that once threatened her life, has been signed in five territories. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Jessie Burton has named a setting in her new novel The Muse after a Waterstones bookseller as a thank you for a “stellar” effort in hand-selling her début novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired a début novel by journalist Damian Barr, entitled You Will Be Safe Here, to be published in spring 2018. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-04-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former "Blue Peter" presenter Janet Ellis talks to Alice O’Keeffe about her début novel The Butcher's Hook, an absorbing 18th-century tale. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-16 00:00:00 UTC ]