In the debut novel “Real Life,” a biochemistry Ph.D. candidate confronts the harder lessons of how to be a gay black man in a white world. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-02-18 10:00:07 UTC ]
The debut novel follows a child detective bent on tracking down a missing classmate. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-02-06 17:56:05 UTC ]
Emily Nemens' debut novel about a fictional baseball team takes on the social swirl of spring training. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-02 15:00:12 UTC ]
Shannon Pufahl’s remarkable debut novel “On Swift Horses” tells a searing story about a forgotten side of 1950s America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-01-28 20:36:21 UTC ]
The debut novel examines the lives of people who are more interested in how they appear online than who they are in real life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-01-21 17:44:04 UTC ]
In this delightful debut novel Katherine Kayne sweeps us back to a Hawaii still mourning its lost kingdom, where ladies—their ballgowns covered in yards of protective fabric—gallop across the mountains and down the city streets on their way to polo matches and parties, men dance the hula as well... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-17 09:46:07 UTC ]
Heidi Sopinka’s debut novel The Dictionary of Animal Languages is the deceptively gentle tale of the aging artist Ivory Frame, whose character and life are based, both loosely and closely, in alternation, on Leonora Carrington. In fact, Sopinka was struggling to write the book—struggling to get... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-13 09:48:01 UTC ]
Kiley Reid’s debut novel is a funny, fast-paced, empathetic examination of privilege in America. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2020-01-08 13:00:00 UTC ]
Delia Owens’s debut novel has sold more than four million copies — an astonishing trajectory for any new writer, much less for a 70-year-old wildlife scientist. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-21 10:00:08 UTC ]
This week, Lauretta Charlton reviews Darryl Pinckney’s collection of essays “Busted in New York.” In 1992, Edmund White wrote for the Book Review about “High Cotton,” Pinckney’s debut novel about a young black man coming of age. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-12-20 10:00:00 UTC ]
Find a new author to follow or the first book your fave wrote with this list of debut novels by queer authors for the 2020 Read Harder Challenge. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-12-18 11:31:50 UTC ]
Text Me When You Get Home: the Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen SchaeferIt’s a non-fiction book about the change in perspective around female friendship over the last few years, featuring interviews with a huge range of people including Judy Blume. The book looks at... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-17 09:49:28 UTC ]
Today, we present an excerpt from a debut novel that earned praise from Victor LaValle, who called it a "gripping and moving book." The post ‘Africaville’: Featured Fiction from Jeffrey Colvin appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-12-10 19:30:59 UTC ]
Tramp Press has bagged the “stunning” debut novel from Irish writer Niall Bourke. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-06 16:27:30 UTC ]
Bloomsbury will publish journalist Thomas McMullan’s debut novel The Last Good Man in November 2020. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 21:48:31 UTC ]
Legend Press has bagged Sahar Mustafah’s "stunning" debut novel charting the background to a shooting at an Islamic school in Chicago. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 17:48:49 UTC ]
Irish poet Elaine Feeney’s "dazzlingly inventive" debut novel As You Were will be published by Harvill Secker following an auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 15:33:42 UTC ]
From the title, you might think that On Swift Horses is about cowboys, horse wrangling, rural landscapes—and you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. Shannon Pufahl’s debut novel explores wide-open spaces and how people navigate them in a post-Depression, post-World War II, Baby Boomer era in Southern... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
Ian Williams, winner of this year’s $100,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his debut novel Reproduction, began his acceptance speech Monday night with an emotional tribute. “Margaret Atwood over there is the first book I bought with my own money at a bookstore in Brampton,” he told the audience.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-11-19 20:30:03 UTC ]
Congratulations to Beth O'Leary! Her debut novel The Flatshare was recently announced as 2019 Fiction Book of the Year by the British retailer WHSmith—an honor previously bestowed on books such as Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman and The Girl on the Train by Paula... Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-11-19 11:00:22 UTC ]