In Téa Obreht’s 2011 debut novel “The Tiger’s Wife,” a young doctor untangles the peculiar circumstances of her grandfather’s recent death. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-08-16 09:00:01 UTC ]
Coronet has snapped up the “big-hearted” debut novel from journalist Alice O’Keeffe, inspired by her experience of becoming a parent. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-14 11:36:13 UTC ]
Regina Porter’s debut novel The Travelers includes short chapters, photos, and a compendium of voices—a full cast is listed in the front matter. This includes the Vincents, with patriarch “the man James” and his son Rufus; the Christies, headed by Eddie and Agnes with their daughters Claudia... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-08-05 11:00:57 UTC ]
Lucy Kissick’s debut novel Plutoshine has won the inaugural Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-04 19:06:55 UTC ]
The Amazon review for my debut novel was glowing, including words like “compelling” and “fun.” And then there was this: “If you love historical fiction, you’ll love The Last Book Party.” Say what? How could my novel, which is set during the 1980s—a decade of my own youth—be historical fiction?... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-08-01 11:00:53 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster UK has pre-empted journalist Caroline Bishop’s "uniquely beautiful" debut novel in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-31 22:16:28 UTC ]
A few days ago, Publishers Weekly reported that Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens’ debut novel and the September 2018 pick for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Book Club, topped a million in print sales in 2019. Today, Laura Miller at Slate had a much juicier story about Owens: her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-07-30 15:00:24 UTC ]
The Center for Fiction announced its 2019 First Novel Prize Longlist yesterday. The award is given to the “best debut novel published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of the award year,” and the prize-winning author receives $10,000. Here is the 2019 longlist (featuring many titles from our 2019 Book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-07-25 17:22:45 UTC ]
Scribe has snapped up Mr B's bookseller Jessica Gaitán Johannesson's debut novel in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-22 18:31:00 UTC ]
Pamela Dorman pays up for a debut novel by a former publicity director at Penguin Books Canada, and Princeton University Press lands a big book on the gender pay gap in this week's notable book deals. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-12 04:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown imprint Piatkus has landed the “smart and funny” debut novel from Hannah Tovey in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-09 16:51:11 UTC ]
Titan Books will publish the supernatural-themed debut novel by Cambridge University librarian and writer Marian Womack as part of a two book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-07-01 17:49:35 UTC ]
Last year, I read R.F. Kuang’s debut novel The Poppy War. I found myself flung backwards in time to August ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-06-28 10:41:44 UTC ]
Muhammad Khan and his editor Lucy Pearse have won this year’s Branford Boase Award for a debut novel for children or young people with I Am Thunder (Macmillan Children’s Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-27 15:50:48 UTC ]
Juliet Escoria’s “Juliet the Maniac” sees the life of a bipolar teenager in gut-wrenching fragments. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2019-06-24 09:00:07 UTC ]
The host of NPR's "Pop Culture Happy Hour" podcast has written her debut novel, the romantic comedy "Evvie Drake Starts Over." Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-06-19 22:05:02 UTC ]
Hachette Books Ireland has snapped up an "incredible" debut novel by Irish journalist Sophie White about the world of Instagram influencers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 14:38:06 UTC ]
Raymond Antrobus and 70-year-old debut novelist Anne Youngson are among the winners of this year's £100,000 Society of Authors' Awards. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 02:12:28 UTC ]
Taffy Brodesser-Akner's debut novel is a divorce novel wrapped around a mystery: What are women really up to? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2019-06-16 12:00:06 UTC ]
Zaffre has bagged an "unbelievably timely" debut novel from Helly Acton, which has already been optioned for TV, in a two-book deal. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-14 12:23:54 UTC ]