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 ]
Ocean Vuong reads from his stunning debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2019-06-14 12:00:01 UTC ]
Allen & Unwin will publish the debut novel by Sophie Hardcastle, a research assistant at Oxford University, exploring “the female ill-treatment at the hands of men”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-13 21:53:54 UTC ]
Picador has pre-empted a “razor-sharp, brutal and darkly comic” debut novel from recent NYU graduate Raven Leilani about a black millennial woman pulled into a suburban white couple’s life. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-13 21:43:52 UTC ]
“We call them Bunnies because that is what they call each other,” explains Samantha Heather Mackey, the narrator of Mona Awad’s new novel, “Bunny.” “Seriously. Bunny. … Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny.” Awad does so many things right in “Bunny,” her follow-up to her 2016 debut novel,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-06-11 15:00:00 UTC ]
Indonesia is the country of focus at the London Book Fair this year and recently at Frankfurt - to what extent do you think Indonesian literature is finally having it's moment in the spotlight? I cannot say for certain what these one-off ‘spotlights’ on Indonesian literature would mean for... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-02-08 10:06:53 UTC ]