Cover reveal: Wole Soyinka’s Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth.

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 Nobel […] Continue reading at 'Literrary Hub'

[ Literrary Hub | 2021-04-23 13:30:34 UTC ]

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‘Very Cold People’ Makes Something Beautiful Out of a Painful Childhood

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Take an early peek at Hulu’s adaptation of Conversations With Friends.

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A Personal Catalogue of the World’s Most Storied Bookstores

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Beyond Ekphrasis: Rereading Jean Giono’s Ennemonde, by Alice-Catherine Carls

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The remarkable worlds of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’

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Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021

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I write ‘women’s commercial fiction’ –why is my work still seen as inferior to men’s? | Emma Hughes

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Exclusive cover reveal: Sarah Thankam Mathews’ All This Could Be Different.

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