Forty years ago, VC Andrews’ novel about incest, rape and murder-by-doughnut was declared ‘deranged swill’, but new books under her name still sell. Why?Forty years ago this month, Flowers in the Attic, the debut novel of one VC Andrews was published. A review in the Washington Post didn’t mince... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2019-11-14 14:02:15 UTC ]
Arrow will publish a "breathtaking" debut novel by Paula Greenlees, inspired by the three years she lived in Singapore. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-13 19:37:40 UTC ]
Shannon Pufahl’s “On Swift Horses” weaves an entanglement of attractions in postwar California. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-11-05 10:00:10 UTC ]
From meditations on the d/Deaf experience to short stories blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, from mixing the personal and political to a young woman uncover the truth about her family’s past – four outstanding writers have today been named on the shortlist for The Sunday... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-11-04 12:55:09 UTC ]
You go to a coffee shop in order to focus on your craft. What do you order? A. A black coffee. B. An almond milk matcha. What is your critically acclaimed debut novel about? A. A man getting stuck on a subway train and revisiting the weight of all of the mistakes he’s made in […] The post... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-11-01 11:00:37 UTC ]
Oneworld has bought a debut novel from Irish writer Frances Macken, billed as “a major voice in contemporary fiction”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-30 07:19:30 UTC ]
We chatted with Rena Barron about her debut novel KINGDOM OF SOULS, the process of writing it, the story and the excitement behind it. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-10-29 10:40:44 UTC ]
WHEN YA PUBLISHER Houghton Mifflin Harcourt put out Ariel Schrag’s Adam in 2014, it felt predetermined that this debut novel would eventually become a movie. Indeed, the promotional materials included a trailer for an imagined film, a digital elevator pitch. Moreover, as a preexisting YA... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-26 17:00:36 UTC ]
While all fiction writers can pull characters from their imaginations and commit them to the page, most readers can’t do what Charley Sutherland can: pull characters from the page and commit them to the real world. Sutherland’s fantastical ability is at the center of H.G. Parry’s debut novel The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-10-25 08:46:30 UTC ]
Granta Books has snapped up the debut poetry collection and debut novel of Betty Trask and Eric Gregory award-winning poet and writer Daisy Lafarge. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 10:48:08 UTC ]
Legend Press has bagged a “warm and poignant” debut novel exploring identity, race and mental illness by writer and painter Alex Morrall. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-22 16:25:02 UTC ]
W&N has landed the "virtuoso" debut novel from poet Sam Riviere in a multi-publisher auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-18 05:10:37 UTC ]
Head of Zeus imprint Zephyr has pre-empted the debut novel from Aardman Animations creative director Finbar Hawkins in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-11 03:38:34 UTC ]
The debut novel ‘A Kindness,’ which literary agent Helen Heller received a little over a week ago after responding to an unsolicited pitch letter, is gaining pre-Frankfurt Book Fair buzz after being preempted in the U.S. by Pamela Dorman for high six figures. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-10-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has scooped the debut novel from performer, writer and Faber Academy alumna Helen Paris in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-09 13:58:41 UTC ]
Indie press Louise Walters Books has signed a "very British" novel by debut author S J Norbury in a one-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-09 13:20:19 UTC ]
AN ADOLESCENT NAMED Adam Gordon is the protagonist of Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School. He shares this name with the narrator of Leaving the Atocha Station, Lerner’s debut novel from 2011. Leaving the Atocha Station was about the quarter-life crisis of a talented misanthrope;... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2019-10-09 12:30:44 UTC ]
Pan Mac imprint Mantle has landed the Shipping Forecast-inspired debut novel from Sue Teddern in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-09 03:27:54 UTC ]
The Older Brother in Mahir Guven’s debut novel drives for a ride-sharing service in Paris while his Syrian-born father is an old-school taxi driver. Their Uber politics conflict is further sullied by their religious divergence. Into this, Guven adds a Younger Brother, a talented nurse who could... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-10-08 11:00:58 UTC ]
Doubleday has made a “substantial” six-figure pre-empt on a debut novel by academic and comedian Marianne Cronin about two women who meet at an art class. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-04 09:03:45 UTC ]