In her latest book, out now, Oluo examines the cultural and political underpinnings of what she calls the “mediocre-white-man-industrial complex.” As protests against police brutality and racial injustice swept the country this summer, Ijeoma Oluo’s debut book, So You Want to Talk About Race was... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-12-02 06:00:29 UTC ]
Aster, part of the Octopus Publishing Group, has acquired the debut book from A&E doctor and broadcaster Dr Alex George. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-15 18:47:47 UTC ]
Essay Detail from Glück’s letter to the author / Courtesy of the author In a tribute to her teacher being named the 2020 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a past protégée offers a glimpse into Glück’s renowned generosity in the classroom... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-10-13 13:28:55 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster is to publish a debut book of poetry by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-10 12:24:03 UTC ]
Television presenter and musician wins £1,000 prize for writers of colour, with ‘exceptionally thoughtful’ debut AfropeanExtract from Afropean: ‘It really was another world’Johny Pitts has won the Jhalak prize for his debut book Afropean, an examination of life in black communities across... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-05-26 18:44:35 UTC ]
Book Reviews Svetlana Tomić Neva Lukić / Courtesy of Cultural Institution Blesok The recent collection of short stories by Neva Lukić, Endless Endings (Bokeh, 2018), originally written in Croatian and translated into English by Jeremy White, was... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-05-06 13:13:29 UTC ]
The journalist digs deep into the past in this touching debut book on sexuality, gender identity and the power of family. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2020-04-28 09:45:09 UTC ]
Canongate has acquired actor and comedy writer Michael Spicer's debut book, The Secret Political Adviser. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-19 16:20:27 UTC ]
Cassell has bagged the debut book from Cosmopolitan Influencer of the Year 2019, Florence Given, billed as "the only book for young women trying to determine feminism on their terms". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-26 00:17:22 UTC ]
It is next to impossible to read every debut book that comes out in a single year. Even for me, a person who has dedicated the year to reading as many debuts as humanly possible and interviewing newly-published authors for my website Debutiful. Every month, my to-be-read pile grows larger and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-09-24 11:00:28 UTC ]
Faber & Faber triumphed in a "hard-fought" five-way auction to publish historian Edward Shawcross’s debut book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-20 16:32:54 UTC ]
Fitzcarraldo Editions has acquired the debut book by Alice Hattrick, combining memoir, medical history and biography to uncover untold case histories of medically unexplained and invisible illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-15 13:30:42 UTC ]
Black & White has snapped up YouTube and Instagram influencer Stefanie Moir's debut book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-31 08:01:55 UTC ]
For all the oddball avenues explored in Peak TV, none have so successfully balanced the absurd with the tragic like Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s “BoJack Horseman.” On the surface, the Netflix series is the story of a celebrity horse who walks upright, starred in a hit ’80s sitcom and navigates a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-21 19:30:00 UTC ]
Amélie Wen Zhao's young-adult novel "Blood Heir," which was postponed by the author earlier this year after some Twitter users accused it of being racially insensitive, will be released in the fall, Publishers Weekly reports. Zhao's debut book, the first in a planned fantasy trilogy, came under... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins will publish the debut book of broadcaster and Financial Times contributing editor Camilla Cavendish, Extra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing Society, in May. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former First Lady Michelle Obama's debut book, 'Becoming,' has become the year's bestseller to date and doesn't look likely to be leaving the #1 slot in the Apple Books store anytime soon. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
DK is to publish the debut book by 19-year-old "horticultural sensation" Huw Richards in March 2019. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former FBI director James Comey's debut book, 'A Higher Loyalty,' has sold more than 600,000 copies since its publication last week, Flatiron Books president Bob Miller and publisher Amy Einhorn have reported. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has acquired a debut book by 26-year-old Brazilian writer Geovani Martins. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]