Rachel Neely, commissioning editor at Trapeze, has made her first acquisition for the company with debut novel Wet Paint by Chloë Ashby. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-21 15:42:11 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton has pre-empted a debut novel from Gleam Titles agent Abigail Bergstrom, an upmarket commercial fiction book she originally submitted under a pseudonym. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-14 21:54:03 UTC ]
And Other Stories is set to publish the debut novel of British poet and former human rights lawyer Mona Arshi. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-13 11:07:20 UTC ]
Set in Atlantic City in the 1930s, Rachel Beanland’s debut novel wades through heartbreak. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-07-07 09:00:11 UTC ]
Bloomsbury editor-in-chief Paul Baggaley has acquired an "extraordinarily prescient" debut novel by Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 10:17:28 UTC ]
The author’s debut novel presciently captures the girlboss era right as it seems to be coming to an end. Whether you loved them or hated them, few entrepreneurs generated more buzz in the 2010s than so-called “girlbosses”—young, mostly white, female founders who disrupted industries including... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-06-30 05:00:00 UTC ]
Candice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo take book of the year and author of the year categories, as publishers face criticism for treatment of black authorsCandice Carty-Williams and Bernardine Evaristo have become the first black authors to win the top prizes at the British Book awards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-29 17:45:42 UTC ]
“Fleabag” star Sian Clifford is narrating the audiobook of Olive, the debut novel by author and broadcaster Emma Gannon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-29 08:42:04 UTC ]
HarperCollins has triumphed in a heated six-publisher auction for the debut novel by Nita Prose, the pen name for vice president and editorial director at Simon & Schuster in Canada, Nita Pronovost. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-25 11:27:10 UTC ]
Emily Temple's "The Lightness," about a seeker who loses more than she finds, is a beguiling novel after Donna Tartt's heart, if not her plotting. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-06-24 13:45:57 UTC ]
“What’s Left of Me Is Yours,” a debut novel by Stephanie Scott, is inspired by the events surrounding an unlikely murder that occurred in Japan. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-06-23 09:00:07 UTC ]
Hachette imprint Two Roads has pre-empted a debut novel from Mary Karras, in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-11 01:23:48 UTC ]
As Sanaë Lemoine’s debut novel progresses, its narrator falls increasingly in thrall to the only people who seem interested in her inner life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-06-09 19:07:44 UTC ]
Natalie Jenner’s debut novel is no Jane Austen work, but it does offer plenty of delights. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-06-09 16:11:41 UTC ]
Cultural Cross Sections Taylor Hickney In this profile, one of Marie-Helene Bertino’s students at the New School provides a personal glimpse of the author, whose new novel, Parakeet, was published June 2. On the evening of the National Book Awards,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-06-04 19:40:55 UTC ]
Black Bear Pictures has optioned Naoise Dolan's debut novel Exciting Times for television. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-28 21:51:46 UTC ]
It’s the kind of timing a publisher dreams of. Less than one week out from its U.S. release, latest Irish literary phenom Naoise Dolan’s debut novel Exciting Times (Ecco, June 2) has been optioned for TV. Yes, following a hugely successful release in the UK and Ireland back in April, when it... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-28 18:10:32 UTC ]
‘The Henna Artist’ Alka Joshi’s debut novel the Reese’s Book Club pick for May, debuts at #16 in hardcover fiction. Plus pair of backlist titles offering advice on coping with adversity have seen renewed interest since Covid-19 took hold in the U.S., and Scott Turow returns for ‘The Last Trial.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-22 04:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel reminds us that the earth itself is alive, and that even in our isolation we are members of a changing world. Continue reading >> [ Source: Guernica | 2020-05-19 12:00:21 UTC ]
At the beginning of 2020, well before my debut novel was published, I was invited to an evening soiree in Glasgow’s Mitchell Library – a kind of preview event for authors performing at a well-known literary festival. I changed quickly in the toilet at the car salesroom I worked in and navigated... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-15 16:53:37 UTC ]