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 ]
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 ]