Book Reviews Matthew Goode and Teresa Palmer in the TV adaptation of A Discovery of Witches (2018) / IMDB Deborah Harkness’s All Souls trilogy has taken a new life through the Sundance dramatic series, A Discovery of Witches. The novels... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-05-27 13:42:23 UTC ]
"Second Place," Rachel Cusk's first novel after the radical, brilliant "Outline" trilogy, follows a forceful woman who's had enough of difficult men. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-04-28 14:00:33 UTC ]
Literary Hub is pleased to reveal the US cover for Wole Soyinka’s new novel, Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, which will be published on September 28 by Pantheon Books. This will be Soyinka’s first novel to be published in 48 years, and also the first since he won the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-04-23 13:30:34 UTC ]
While we don’t know what the state of the our pandemic society will be come September, we can at least be sure that we’ll all be getting a little Joy Williams, as a treat. Specifically, a new novel—her fifth, and her first since 2000’s The Quick and the Dead, which was a runner-up for the […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-03-03 21:01:23 UTC ]
Ishiguro’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in 2017 is a delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-03-02 16:46:21 UTC ]
The Books of Jacob, praised by the Nobel prize judges and winner of Poland’s prestigious Nike award, will be published in the UK in NovemberThe magnum opus of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk – a novel that has taken seven years to translate and has brought its author death threats in her native... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-26 15:00:18 UTC ]
Faber is to publish Lucy Caldwell's first novel in nearly a decade, These Days. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-23 01:30:10 UTC ]
READING PATRICIA LOCKWOOD’S first novel feels a lot like having your brain poisoned by the internet — or at least like having that particular contemporary condition understood. No One Is Talking About This is a searing entry into the rapidly emerging pantheon of digital culture literature, told... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-02-16 16:00:53 UTC ]
The Seventy-Five Pages, out next month, contains germinal versions of episodes developed in In Search of Lost Time and opens ‘the primitive Proustian crypt’For everyone who decided to bite the madeleine and read all 3,000-odd pages of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time during lockdown,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-02-16 15:21:36 UTC ]
On October 5, this timeline will be blessed/cursed by Jonathan Franzen’s first novel since 2015: Crossroads, or, if you’re not abbreviating, Crossroads: A Novel: A Key to All Mythologies, Volume 1. It’s the first novel of a trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, which, yes, nods to the doomed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-02-10 17:59:29 UTC ]
HarperNorth has snared its first fiction acquisition, a gritty gangland thriller by Karen Woods. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-08 01:06:27 UTC ]
LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH was the original kinky bastard. A 19th-century Viennese nobleman, he wrote the controversial 1870 novella Venus in Furs, which explored his fetish for pain and abasement, and inadvertently helped coin the term “masochism.” The Masochist, Slovenian poet Katja Perat’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2021-01-19 18:00:58 UTC ]
Virago is publishing the first novel in two decades from Gayl Jones, Palmares, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil on Portuguese plantations and in the last fugitive slave settlement. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-17 23:38:33 UTC ]
Sarah Ferguson says historical tale Her Heart for a Compass is inspired by experiences in her own lifeThe Duchess of York has landed a book deal with the romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon, revealing that she “drew on many parallels from my life” for the historical tale.Sarah... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-13 10:13:08 UTC ]
I consider myself Argentine. I tell people it is not only part of my origin story but my identity. My first novel is titled Hades, Argentina, and to my friends I’m sure that seems fitting, the natural summation of my life and literary ambitions so far. But the truth is I had never been to […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-12 09:48:41 UTC ]
Eley Williams’s first novel follows characters living in London more than a century apart who toil to compile the same ill-fated dictionary. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-05 10:00:02 UTC ]
When my wife and I were expecting our first child, a friend described it as “the ultimate deadline.” Many writers I’ve known since have determined to finish their books before a baby arrives. Some do, of course, but the deadline wasn’t so ultimate in my own case. I was five years into my first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-05 09:49:10 UTC ]
Bloomsbury is to publish Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Laureate's first novel in 48 years. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-12-09 16:14:16 UTC ]
Yes, the two-time National Book Award finalist and America’s most famous contemporary practitioner of the Joni Mitchell school of marriage fiction (think about it) is returning to the novel game. Riverhead Books announced earlier this afternoon that Matrix—Groff’s first novel since 2015’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-12-01 18:25:06 UTC ]
William Heinemann will publish Bewilderment, Richard Powers' first novel since his Booker-shortlisted and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory (William Heinemann, 2018). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-11-24 19:27:03 UTC ]