Has this Google lawyer written the book of the year? The part-time author talks about the inspiration for her thriller about siblings who flee abusive parents and their ‘house of horror’Abigail Dean was about to turn 30 when she suddenly realised that her job as a lawyer was using up all the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-25 06:00:07 UTC ]
An excerpt from a debut novel Booklist calls "sharp and haunting." The post ‘The Divines’: Featured Fiction from Ellie Eaton appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-01-19 17:00:59 UTC ]
For me, reading Torrey Peters’ debut novel Detransition, Baby is akin to listening to your favorite hometown band headlining their first stadium concert. You end up marveling over how experiences you thought you knew well are rendered in utterly unexpected ways, and realize how patterns from... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-15 12:00:00 UTC ]
Less than a month on from the movie poster controversy (Cherrk!) that rocked the internet to its very core, the first trailer for Cherry—the Tom Holland-starring film adaptation of Nico Walker’s 2018 semi-autobiographical debut novel about an Iraq War veteran turned drug addict turned bank... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-14 19:34:29 UTC ]
Fourth Estate has picked up Hourglass, the “exquisite” debut novel from Keiran Goddard. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-13 22:27:32 UTC ]
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 ]