Hamish Hamilton has scooped the debut novel by academic and critic Emilie Pine, author of international bestseller Notes to Self (Tramp Press and Hamish Hamilton). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-05 16:47:02 UTC ]
Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence—mashing up girl group series, choose-your-own-adventures, and chronicles of anorexia—in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other. An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmorphia and dysphoria, this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-09-15 10:31:00 UTC ]
Emily Itami’s debut novel asks an age-old question: Does marriage and kids mean monotony and obligation or is there room for one’s authentic self? Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-09-07 09:00:04 UTC ]
“Happy Hour,” a debut novel by Marlowe Granados, follows a pair of thrifty, stylish and nimble young women navigating the big city. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-09-07 09:00:04 UTC ]
Transworld has scooped a "joyful and emotional" debut novel by author and blogger Sarah Turner, also known as The Unmumsy Mum, in a six-figure, two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-26 01:27:52 UTC ]
Maurice Carlos Ruffin's lauded debut novel disguised his hometown; his new short story collection, "Those Who Don't Say They Love You," faces the city head on. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-08-19 13:00:47 UTC ]
Trapeze has pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights for Blood Sugar, the debut novel from Emmy-nominated screenwriter Sascha Rothchild. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-19 02:30:09 UTC ]
Little, Brown science fiction and fantasy imprint Orbit has snapped up fantasy author Emily Tesh's "phenomenal" debut novel, Some Desperate Glory. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-17 15:24:34 UTC ]
Independent press And Other Stories has acquired My Father’s Diet, the "sharp-fanged" debut novel from US author and translator Adrian Nathan West. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-14 21:32:44 UTC ]
Allison & Busby has acquired the "rich and haunting" debut novel The Porcelain Doll by Kristen Loesch. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 11:30:12 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has signed In a New York Minute from podcaster, comedian and debut novelist Kate Spencer in a two-book deal Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-11 02:47:56 UTC ]
Virginia Feito’s debut novel features a woman persuaded that her husband, a celebrated writer, has skewered her in his latest book. Is she right? Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-08-10 09:00:06 UTC ]
Interviews Emilio Fraia’s Sevastopol, out this summer from New Directions, is the sort of book that beguiles and dazzles in equal measure. Consisting of three disparate stories—of a mountain climber attempting to scale Mt. Everest, a mysterious loner... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-08-09 20:31:30 UTC ]
Ash Davidson’s debut novel delves into the complex relationship among people who love the trees that are also their livelihood. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-08-02 16:47:33 UTC ]
Poet Oli Hazzard on writing his debut novel Lorem Ipsum, which is made up of one single 50,000-word sentence. The post Notes on Craft appeared first on Granta. Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2021-07-22 08:54:09 UTC ]
Back in April, A24 and Rhombus Media optioned the rights to Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, Nguyen’s Pulitzer-winning debut novel about a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who serves as a communist double agent after the fall of Saigon. The novel is being adapted into a limited... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-07-16 15:33:34 UTC ]
The illustrated debut novel 'Orphans of the Tide' wins the 2021 Branford Boase Award, which honors both authors and their editors. The post Struan Murray, Ben Horslen Win the UK’s Branford Boase Award appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-07-15 20:44:40 UTC ]
Carolyn Ferrell’s beautifully hair-raising debut novel takes readers into a house of horrors where some survivors have a better chance than others. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-07-07 09:00:03 UTC ]
The author was repeatedly told that no one wanted to read fun books with disabled heroes. Now she has won the £5,000 Waterstones children’s book prize for her debut, A Kind of SparkWhen Scottish author Elle McNicoll was first trying to enter the publishing world, she was repeatedly told that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-01 05:01:05 UTC ]
St. Martin’s buys a debut novel by a Bloomsbury UK assistant editor, a pair of podcasters sells a book on race to Park Row, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-06-25 04:00:00 UTC ]