Wildfire has pre-empted former Home Secretary and memoirist Alan Johnson’s debut novel, The Late Train to Gipsy Hill. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-10 23:51:47 UTC ]
DURING ONE KEY MOMENT, E. Lily Yu’s disquieting debut novel On Fragile Waves offers a kind of authorial self-critique regarding the representation of diasporic migrants. A character Yu calls “the writer” has traveled to Australia to interview asylum seekers in the Afghan migrant community there... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-06 16:00:46 UTC ]
Today, as we have done in years past, LARB honors Black History Month by highlighting a series of reviews, essays, interviews, and exchanges of letters we published in January. Below you will find a poignant essay on the Compton Christmas Parade; a penetrating interview with Kiley Reid, author... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-01 13:30:13 UTC ]
“Fake Accounts,” Lauren Oyler’s debut novel, considers how social media has reconfigured our behavior, relationships and how we think of ourselves. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-02-01 10:00:02 UTC ]
The best-selling author just found out that her debut novel is soon to be on the first lady’s bedside table. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-28 10:00:04 UTC ]
Culture A still image from the film White Tiger (Netflix, 2021). After watching White Tiger, a writer contemplates the film alongside revolution in Egypt, Black Lives Matter protests, the film Parasite, and literary “complicated works of... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-01-27 20:33:27 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson is publishing the debut novel of comedian, actress and writer Isy Suttie, Jane is Trying, in July. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-27 11:15:14 UTC ]
Oyler’s debut novel is about a smart, irascible narrator who is steeped in the concerns and tone of social media. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-26 21:16:27 UTC ]
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 ]