Okay here we go. I’m about to get in my car and drive 14 hours. Rae has picked out twenty albums for us to listen to. All this driving is because my debut novel Teenager is coming out. I have to drive around America a little bit and read it to some nice people. Fittingly, […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-10 08:52:01 UTC ]
The Branford Boase program annually awards a debut novel for children–and the winning author's editor is honored, too. The post Children’s Books Edition: The UK’s Branford Boase Award 2022 Shortlist appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-05-06 19:55:39 UTC ]
Vaishnavi Patel’s debut novel is a powerful, feminist retelling of the epic from the vilified queen’s point of view. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-04-26 12:19:32 UTC ]
Aamina Ahmad’s debut novel The Return of Faraz Ali begins with a moment of no return. Born and raised in Lahore’s old city, the young Faraz is forced to leave behind his mother and his sister Rozina. It isn’t until Faraz is an adult in 1968 working as a policeman, that he goes back to […] The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2022-04-07 11:00:00 UTC ]
A debut novel traces a young Chinese woman’s coming-of-age: abandoned, trafficked — and posing as a man. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-04-03 09:00:09 UTC ]
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 ]