Dialogue has bought a debut from Nigerian-born author Buki Papillon about a boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2019-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperNorth has acquired a book on regional inequality in the UK by journalist Sam Bright, chief politics and investigations reporter for Byline Times. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-09 10:36:32 UTC ]
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Independent publisher OWN IT! is to publish Sean Godfrey's "magnetic" coming of age debut novel, A Brown Girl in the Ring. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-08-07 10:14:24 UTC ]
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Newly recruited Virago publishing director Anna Kelly has made her first acquisition for the imprint with Harvard student Becca Rothfeld’s debut essay collection All Things Are Too Small. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-16 22:35:16 UTC ]
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While a lot of the usual LBF rights-trading focused on agencies’ and publishers’ own online ‘fairs’, there are a still a number of hot titles around this summer’s digital event Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-03 12:02:21 UTC ]
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Staff at the academic publisher Springer Nature are being given an extra day of holiday on 2nd July to thank them for their "extraordinary efforts" during the Covid-19 pandemic. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:57:04 UTC ]
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A K Blakemore has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "stunning" historical fiction novel The Manningtree Witches (Granta Books). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:06:17 UTC ]
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The Arthur C. Clarke Award, which recognizes the best science fiction novel first published in the United Kingdom during the previous year, has released their 2021 shortlist—and for the first time in the award’s 35-year history, the shortlist is entirely made up of debut novels. “As we announce... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-06-30 16:03:59 UTC ]
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Elle McNicoll has been named overall winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2021 for her debut novel A Kind of Spark (Knights Of). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 15:03:18 UTC ]
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Six debut novels make up the Arthur C Clarke Award for science fiction shortlist for the first time in the award's 35-year history. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-30 02:00:15 UTC ]
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The debut collection of Warsan Shire, a former Young Poet Laureate of London who has collaborated with Beyoncé, will be published by Chatto & Windus in collaboration with flipped eye. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-29 17:33:15 UTC ]
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Avon Books has acquired Sarah Goodwin's debut Stranded, plus one more untitled novel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 00:42:01 UTC ]
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Aquarius Films is producing "Fight Like A Girl", a comedy drama TV series based on the book of the same name by Australian feminist writer Clementine Ford. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-20 20:08:56 UTC ]
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After leaving Picador to launch her own list at Orion, Francesca Main says the emphasis at Phoenix will be on developing writers and hitting the litersary/commercial sweet spot Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-18 17:22:26 UTC ]
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Gavin Larsen’s ballet memoir “Being a Ballerina” opens up the dance world to show the determination, camaraderie, and physical strength at its core. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2021-06-15 15:51:37 UTC ]
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Nathan Harris sets his novel in Georgia during the murky twilight of the Civil War. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-15 07:08:15 UTC ]
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Publishing a debut novel is never easy. 100,000 long-form works of English-language fiction are published every year and even in normal circumstances it’s a struggle to for a first-time novelist to stand out from the pack. But the last 15 or so months have been particularly trying. Full lockdown... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-12 22:02:54 UTC ]
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The stereotype of military and machismo is still prevalent if not exclusive, but the stories are complicated Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-06-11 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Hamish Hamilton has won a three-publisher auction for The Trio by Johanna Hedman, a “strikingly elegant” literary debut which has been snapped up in a flurry of deals by editors across Europe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-06-08 10:06:48 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Ireland has pre-empted a debut novel by award-winning actor and playwright Emmet Kirwan, to be published in 2023. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-05-28 22:53:36 UTC ]
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Lisa Taddeo, whose book "Three Women" broke the mold of immersive journalism, talks about her first novel, "Animal," and the struggle to write and live. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2021-05-27 13:00:06 UTC ]
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