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 ]
Headline Review has triumphed in a multi-publisher auction for Isaac and the Egg, a debut novel by journalist Bobby Palmer. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-28 08:45:16 UTC ]
Publishing a debut novel can be a stressful process for all concerned – not least the authors. Even those who feel prepared and knowledgeable can find themselves coming unstuck. As part of a group of traditionally published authors whose novels hit the shelves in 2020, I’ve experienced all the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-27 11:56:20 UTC ]
Weidenfeld & Nicolson has acquired the debut of former bookseller Daniel O’Connor, launching "a startlingly bold new voice". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-26 19:12:42 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton is to publish "Who Dares Wins" host Mark "Billy" Billingham’s debut novel, after triumphing in a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-25 21:34:49 UTC ]
Wildfire will publish Mother Mother, the debut novel from DJ and broadcaster Annie Macmanus, popularly known as Annie Mac. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-10-11 19:57:39 UTC ]
In this debut novel set on the river that separates Cleveland from Ohio City, an orphan builds a mythology around his big brother. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-10-06 09:00:08 UTC ]
Serpent’s Tail will publish Oana Aristide's debut novel Under the Blue as a lead title in March 2021. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-30 02:17:21 UTC ]
Emily Temple’s debut novel The Lightness tells the story of a “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls” Continue reading >> [ Source: Guernica | 2020-09-29 14:13:13 UTC ]
K-Ming Chang’s debut novel tells the stories of three generations of Taiwanese women through the beasts, both real and mythical, they encounter. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-09-29 09:00:07 UTC ]
Michael Joseph has triumphed in a five-way auction for Evening Standard features editor Phoebe Luckhurst's “hilarious” debut novel The Lock In. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-28 12:02:59 UTC ]
Before writing my debut novel Bestiary, I began a year-long process of translating letters written by my grandmother, many of which were addressed to people I didn’t know. While attempting these translations, I realized the impossibilities and possibilities of the task—the losses and gaps and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-09-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray Press will publish Ilona Bannister's debut novel When I Ran Away on its Two Roads imprint. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-28 10:28:24 UTC ]
Viking has pre-empted Our New Names, a “heartbreaking” debut novel from Khashayar J Khabushani. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-25 03:48:29 UTC ]
“Everything is copy.” That was an Ephron family saying that I’ve adopted as my own maxim, and it is in that spirit that my debut novel A World Between––a tale of two queer women of color, Eleanor and Leena, who grow away from and towards each other over the course of 13 years––is a web […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-09-15 08:48:45 UTC ]
Yaa Gyasi’s debut novel Homegoing told the story of two branches of a Ghanaian family, one descended from a woman who marries a white slave trader and whose line stays in Ghana, another descended from her half-sister who is captured and sent to America in bondage. Gyasi’s second novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2020-09-11 11:00:00 UTC ]