Holliday Grainger has been confirmed as the narrator of Girl A (HarperCollins), the hotly tipped debut novel by Abigail Dean. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 06:22:44 UTC ]
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has penned her debut novel, a fictional account of her great-great aunt's life, to be published by Mills & Boon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-12 22:12:59 UTC ]
It’s no secret that the tech world has a troubling track record with diversity in the workplace, especially with the dearth of Black and Latinx employees in key roles. Author Mateo Askaripour confronts the lack of diversity within the workplace with satire in his debut novel Black Buck. Some... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
Titan Books has swooped for Suburban Dicks, the "knock-out" debut novel by Deadpool co-creator Fabian Nicieza. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-06 00:00:41 UTC ]
"The Prophets," by Robert Jones Jr., depicts an intense bond between Isaiah and Samuel on a plantation in unbearable and untenable circumstances. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-12-29 15:00:38 UTC ]
The Thursday Murder Club sees off titles by Barack Obama and David Walliams in chaotic week for Britain’s book tradeRichard Osman’s cosy mystery about a group of elderly sleuths, The Thursday Murder Club, has become the first debut novel ever to become the Christmas No 1, selling a remarkable... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-12-22 15:00:18 UTC ]
Puffin has scooped The Ice Whisperers, a "haunting and magical" debut novel from Helenka Stachera, in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-17 14:35:34 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has won a 10-publisher auction for Fire Rush, the “phenomenal” debut novel by Jacqueline Crooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 10:11:08 UTC ]
What do Brit Bennett, Megan Thee Stallion, and Sascha Baron Cohen all have in common? They’ve all joined The Weeknd in being named Entertainment Weekly’s 2020 Entertainers of the Year. Though I’ve loved Bennett since her 2017 debut novel The Mothers, this well-deserved recognition comes on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-03 16:03:02 UTC ]
In Fariha Róisín’s debut novel Like a Bird, protagonist Taylia Chatterjee lives a privileged life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side with her sister Alyssa. Alyssa often receives preferential treatment from their liberal, overbearing parents—a white Jewish mom, a Hindu Bengali dad. Taylia is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-12-01 12:00:00 UTC ]
Han’s debut novel follows a Chinese couple reaching for the American Dream while raising their children in Texas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-30 16:27:21 UTC ]
The debut novel from former Daunt Books bookseller Ben Hinshaw will be published by Viking in spring 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-25 14:18:40 UTC ]
Last week, Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain was announced this year’s Booker Prize winner. It’s no small feat for any writer, but what makes this win so spectacular is the fact that Shuggie Bain is a debut novel. (It’s only the fifth debut novel to win in the Booker’s 51-year-old history.) During... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-24 09:51:08 UTC ]
The Shuggie Bain author grew up in a culture that discouraged boys from reading. His debut novel just won the Booker Prize. The post Douglas Stuart on Writing in Secret appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-11-20 21:30:09 UTC ]
It was announced earlier today that MGM is teaming with Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films, and director Kamilah Forbes on a film adaptation of National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2019 bestselling novel, The Water Dancer. Coates’ debut novel tells the story of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-11 15:33:22 UTC ]
Yang’s debut novel owes a debt to Edith Wharton’s “The House of Mirth,” though Ivy Lin is no Lily Bart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-11-05 16:42:29 UTC ]
‘She knew it was a trick of the lonely to favour the rude to the simply unmoved; that the loneliest thing in these villages and in this most tucked-away of professions was to elicit no response at all.’ Marina Kemp’s debut novel Nightingale is shortlisted for the 2020 Young Writer of the Year... Continue reading >> [ Source: Granta | 2020-11-05 11:53:49 UTC ]
Richard Osman's debut crime novel The Thursday Murder Club (Viking) has been named W H Smith's Book of the Year for 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-05 01:31:10 UTC ]
Yan's debut novel overturns the tropes of the romance novel in this story about an immigrant's doomed pursuit of marriage and the American dream. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-11-02 15:00:30 UTC ]
Hodder Studio has pre-empted a "captivating and joyous" debut novel from Buzzfeed editor and writer Tomi Obaro, set in Lagos and following the evolving fates of three best friends. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-30 07:36:18 UTC ]