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 ]
In “Brown Girls,” Daphne Palasi Andreades breaks a big world into small, meaningful pieces. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-01-04 10:00:03 UTC ]
Dolly Parton will headline the audiobook cast of her debut novel Run Rose Run (Century) along with singer and songwriter Kelsea Ballerini in the role of protégée to Parton’s character. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-21 02:34:41 UTC ]
Juhea Kim's "Beasts of a Little Land" captures the dualities of Korean history but ties up symbols too tightly in the service of grand ambitions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-12-14 15:00:20 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the cover for Sarah Thankam Mathews’ debut novel All This Could Be Different, which will be published by Viking—who acquired it in an 8-way auction—in summer 2022. The publisher describes the book as “an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-12-03 15:00:16 UTC ]
A debut novel by a HarperCollins UK editor goes to Putnam, former Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III sells a memoir to Atria, Random House buys NBA winner Tiya Miles’s latest, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-03 05:00:00 UTC ]
The translation of Deceit by ‘groundbreaking’ author Yuri Felsen, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to come out next MayThe debut novel by Yuri Felsen, an author once regarded as the “Russian Proust” whose work has been forgotten since he died in Auschwitz in 1943, is set to be published in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-01 14:12:48 UTC ]
In “A Little Hope,” Ethan Joella explores quiet lives in small-town Connecticut. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-16 10:00:03 UTC ]
Atlantic Fiction has acquired Your Driver Is Waiting, the debut novel by Priya Guns, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s classic film "Taxi Driver". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-16 03:54:36 UTC ]
"Between the Covers" presenter Sara Cox’s debut novel, Thrown, has gone to Coronet. It follows the lives of four women at a pottery class held at a community centre. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-10 10:45:35 UTC ]
Known for her debut novel Testament, the Ian Fleming fanatic has been approved to write new novels set in 007’s world but without the agent himselfA new generation of Double O agents has been authorised by the estate of Ian Fleming, with Bond aficionado and novelist Kim Sherwood set to pen a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-04 09:49:02 UTC ]
Lightning Books has scooped the debut novel by award-winning Scottish playwright and rising screen star Kenny Boyle. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-28 09:09:50 UTC ]
In “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven,” by Nathaniel Ian Miller, a young man swaps the daily grind for the unpeopled expanses of the Far North. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-26 09:00:03 UTC ]
An excerpt from a debut novel that Booklist calls "enthralling" and Kirkus hailed as "an ambitious literary debut." The post ‘Cairo Circles’: Featured Fiction from Doma Mahmoud appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2021-10-25 10:00:55 UTC ]
Novelist Julia Elliott and poet and writer DaMaris B. Hill join hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to consider the writing and face of rural America—particularly as it might look 30 years from now. First, Elliott talks about growing up as an outsider in her own South Carolina... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-10-21 08:50:35 UTC ]
Raven Books has landed Lady Macbethad, a historical novel exploring the "real Lady Macbeth" set in medieval Scotland, and a second title by debut author Isabelle Schuler. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 15:28:38 UTC ]