Author says she won’t revisit the beloved character because it would seem ‘inappropriate’ to discuss her sex lifeJacqueline Wilson has said she would feel “very wary” about writing an adult novel about Tracy Beaker “because it would seem inappropriate that we would learn about her sex life”.Last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-05-30 15:19:35 UTC ]
As a teenager, I remember reading my first novel in verse. I never expected to like poetry. But just a ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2025-05-29 11:30:00 UTC ]
Feature image © Sarra Fleur Abou-El-Haj. There are echoes of Virginia Woolf throughout Honor Jones’ masterful, exquisitely crafted first novel Sleep, which explores the ways in which a childhood trauma haunts her main character, Margaret, and those around her. The novel opens with scenes of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-05-27 07:15:09 UTC ]
Tash Aw's first novel in a planned quartet about a Malaysian family traces a romance between two teen boys while the 1997 Asian financial crisis wreaks uncertainty on the country. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-05-21 20:52:03 UTC ]
Thirteen years ago, my first novel was published. One of the first reviews it received on Amazon dismissed me as “just another Irish mouther of words.” I was, I have to say, more than a little bit insulted. I am circumspect to the point of obsession about the language I use when I write.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-05-21 08:53:59 UTC ]
Andreas Roman is the author of the newly released The Greatest Game of All (Flare Books), his first novel in English. A native speaker and writer of Swedish, Roman wrote The Greatest Game of All in English, then assisted its translation into Swedish for publication before revising the English... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-05-16 08:58:34 UTC ]
High-concept fiction is having a moment. Funny, inventive and crackling with big ideas, these ambitious stories will have you instantly hookedFlorence Knapp’s first novel The Names, publishing this month, tells not one story but three. As it opens, a mother is preparing to take her newborn boy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-05-04 11:00:05 UTC ]
While the novel remains a high-status cultural form, video game writing is still seen as a throwaway art – despite some of the biggest names in fiction being involvedI’ve been working in games for a little more than 15 years, and the main thing I’d say about it at this point is that it’s a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-30 08:00:17 UTC ]
The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress Thomas Pynchon has written his first novel in more than a decade, publisher Penguin Random House (PRH) has announced.Shadow Ticket, due out in October, will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-04-09 15:56:27 UTC ]
For his first novel in nine years, Wally Lamb draws on his battles with self-doubt and addiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Discussing Dream Count, her first novel in 12 years, the Nigerian author shares her thoughts on masculinity, political chaos, and the future of fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-03-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
The Nigerian American author’s first novel in 12 years depicts troubled relations between men and women—but no tidy resolutions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2025-03-05 12:00:00 UTC ]
In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a real-life assault as she follows the lives of three Nigerian women and one of their former housekeepers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-03-02 10:00:13 UTC ]
A prolific novelist, poet, painter and soothsayer, he was inspired by the chaos of his country and published the first novel written entirely in Haitian Creole. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2025-02-27 01:53:19 UTC ]
Elyse Durham’s immersive and thematically timely first novel centers on twin sisters, born during the Siege of Leningrad, trained as ballet dancers at the celebrated Vaganova, and launching their careers at the height of the Cold War. The plot is set to detonate at a critical point in the Cold... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2025-02-18 09:57:15 UTC ]
Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas revisits the world of 1980s talent agencies in her debut novel, 'Climbing in Heels,' which onetime colleague Darren Star has signed on to adapt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-02-06 11:00:47 UTC ]
The book 'Lion' comes at a time of incalculable loss for Sonya Walger, who lost her home in the Palisades fire. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2025-02-04 11:00:34 UTC ]
As fans snap up copies of ‘Onyx Storm’ the #1 (and #2) book in the country, author Rebecca Yarros is regrouping, swiftly. Plus Han Kang’s first novel since her Nobel Prize win, ‘We Do Not Part,’ debuts on our list, and Aurora Ascher has sympathy for the devil. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joseph Earl Thomas won this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for his book God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer. Congratulations! The novel has made it onto several best-of-2024 lists, and has been praised as “a powerful examination of every day black life–of health and sex, race and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2024-12-11 16:36:55 UTC ]
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2024, by Michelle Johnson Lit Lists [email protected] Mon, 12/09/2024 - 16:28 It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate. The inaugural volume of Best... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-12-09 22:28:30 UTC ]