Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s debut novel When We Were Birds begins in the time before time and follows the uneasy truce between the living and the dead. Cigarettes are offered, liquor is poured, prayers are said, all in the hope that the buried stay buried. This is the story of Yejide, a young woman who... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-04-01 11:00:00 UTC ]
Riverhead buys a debut novel about a Georgian father and son fleeing the Russian occupation of South Ossetia in 2008, Joe Abercrombie sells a new trilogy to Tor, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-04-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
Berkley buys a debut novel about a mother’s journey across the Caribbean, SJP Lit makes its first acquisition, Kristen Martin sells a book about orphanhood to Bold Type, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-03-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
Lit Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Laura Warrell’s debut novel Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm, which will be published by Pantheon in fall 2022. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm follows Circus Palmer, a forty-year-old Boston-based trumpet player and old-school ladies’ man, who lives for his music... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-03-03 15:00:48 UTC ]
The lives of queer Arab-Australian boys and men are vividly inhabited in award-winning poet Omar Sakr’s darkly comic debut novel, set in Western Sydney. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-02-28 19:12:38 UTC ]
Photo credit: Nigel DaviesSunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award marks the 30th anniversary with one of it's most decorated shortlists to date:• Irish novelist Megan Nolan for her darkly funny debut novel Acts of Desperation;• US-based writer Anna Beecher for her novel... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2022-02-16 14:40:41 UTC ]
Canadian author Nita Prose's debut novel The Maid became a New York Times and Canadian bestseller just a few weeks after its release on January 4. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2022-02-16 09:00:00 UTC ]
Coco Mellors' 'Cleopatra and Frankenstein' evokes a rich universe in multiple senses, but it feels engineered for a Netflix adaptation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-04 14:00:54 UTC ]
Early in Julia May Jonas’s searing debut novel Vladimir, the unnamed narrator, an “oldish white woman in her late fifties (the identity I am burdened with publicly presenting, to my general embarrassment)” finds herself in the last place anyone wants to be—a faculty meeting of a small New... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-02-02 09:50:43 UTC ]
Julia May Jonas' "Vladimir" is a thrilling "Lolita" update in which the deliciously wicked narrator is not the male abuser but his wife. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2022-02-01 14:00:41 UTC ]
Brendan Slocumb’s debut novel is a musical bildungsroman cleverly contained within a literary thriller. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-02-01 10:00:07 UTC ]
I have always held a keen interest toward the processes of myth formation and how beliefs about family identity are handed down through generations. My debut novel Defenestrate tells the story of a family in the midst of reckoning with superstition and inheritance, the long-held beliefs that can... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-01-31 12:00:00 UTC ]
Europa Editions UK has acquired Esther Yi's "incredible" debut novel Y/N in a two book pre-empt. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-19 12:54:14 UTC ]
Andrew Lipstein’s entertaining debut novel mines comedy from an aspiring author’s ethically questionable path to publication. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic Books has acquired Camilla Grudova's Children of Paradise, a "stunning" debut novel exploring the lives of cinema workers and sex. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-19 06:20:25 UTC ]
At Electric Literature, Diane Cooke speaks to Jessamine Chan about The School for Good Mothers, Chan’s incisive debut novel that revolves around how a young mother’s error lands her in a government reform program and at risk of losing custody of her child. They discuss one of Chan’s main... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2022-01-18 21:30:56 UTC ]
Allison & Busby has netted an "explosive" debut novel by former police officer Graham Bartlett. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-16 13:20:55 UTC ]
Jessamine Chan’s “The School for Good Mothers” takes up themes of autonomy and technology in imagining an experimental facility where parents go through mandatory retraining. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-11 17:33:33 UTC ]
Fig Tree has scooped the "powerful and beautifully humane" debut novel by Mo Siewcharran Prize-winner Santanu Bhattacharya. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-01-05 14:00:25 UTC ]
Sequioa Nagamatsu discusses his much-awaited debut novel about people living in a future beset by the Arctic Plague. The post Sequoia Nagamatsu’s Dystopian Debut Is a Must-Read for the New Year appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2022-01-04 21:00:24 UTC ]