An excerpt from a debut novel that Booklist calls a "compelling historical thriller." The post ‘The Ventriloquists’: Featured Fiction from E.R. Ramzipoor appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-08-27 19:00:55 UTC ]
Kat Cho’s debut novel “Wicked Fox” is a little complicated, but the poignantly rendered family relationships and fantasy drama are worth the ride. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-08-22 23:52:56 UTC ]
Kat Cho’s debut novel “Wicked Fox” is a little complicated, but the poignantly rendered family relationships and fantasy drama are worth the ride. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-08-22 23:52:00 UTC ]
Kat Cho’s debut novel “Wicked Fox” is a little complicated, but the poignantly rendered family relationships and fantasy drama are worth the ride. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-08-22 23:52:00 UTC ]
Kat Cho’s debut novel “Wicked Fox” is a little complicated, but the poignantly rendered family relationships and fantasy drama are worth the ride. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2019-08-22 23:52:00 UTC ]
Tope Folarin’s debut novel is all at once a search for identity, an immigrant story, and a bildungsroman. A Particular Kind of Black Man follows Tunde Akintola, a Nigerian American in a small town in Utah. Torn between the culture of his Nigerian parents, and the white Mormon culture of Utah,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-08-21 11:00:12 UTC ]
John Murray will publish Michelle Gallen's "darkly comic" debut novel set on the Irish border. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-08-20 14:25:46 UTC ]
His debut novel ‘A Cosmology of Monsters’ is both a horror novel and a rich love story, told with tenderness and brimming with darkness. The post Shaun Hamill Has a Scary Story to Tell You appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2019-08-16 10:00:38 UTC ]
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 ]