To read a Helen Oyeyemi novel is to willingly enter a tangled wood, where the paths wander and circle, and the way out isn’t always clear, but the scenery is full of an alarming and brilliant beauty. A one-time prodigy (the British daughter of Nigerian immigrants, she published her first novel, The Icarus Girl, in her teens), Oyeyemi has always been interested in how people, especially women, arrive at their identities, a journey shaped by relationships that define and, more often than not, confine them. The fairy tale is the native language of this theme: Its princesses, stepmothers, witches, and yes, even its princes and shoemakers, are facets of a single questing psyche. But while fairy tales have a sequestered inward-looking quality, Oyeyemi’s novels are wide-ranging. She browses the globe in search of motifs and milieus; her fiction has drawn on Yoruba legends, Emily Dickinson, Cuban folklore, American race relations, and ghost stories. She currently lives in Prague, and her splendid, witty new novel, Gingerbread, has a distinctive flavor of Mitteleuropa. Continue reading at 'Slate'
[ Slate | 2019-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fourth Estate has acquired 11 political stories about “the way we live now” from Man Booker-longlisted author Joseph O’Neill. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Silvertail is to publish Yes, the debut novel about relationships by NHS worker Anne Patterson. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We talk to Daniel Olivas - attorney, author and Angeleno who supports the Latino literary community - about his new book. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sam Eades, editorial director at Trapeze, has acquired world rights (all languages) to Bonnie & Stan by Anna Stuart, a love story "about a life lived together and the pain of tearing that apart". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Debut author Winnie M Li has been voted the winner of the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize for her novel Dark Chapter (Legend Press), based on the true story of her sexual assault. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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“I just really wish we knew our fate,” wrote Carole Meredith in a recent Facebook post as she waited out her evacuation from her winery and home on Mt. Veeder. Meredith, of Lagier Meredith vineyard in the Napa Valley, is one of the many affected by the multiple wildfires burning in Northern... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has bought world rights in a book about a ‘shepherd cat’ who joined a sheep farm. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins will publish a new collection of 30 themed short stories from Cecelia Ahern. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Regina Porter’s 'The Travelers,' which rumor has it sold for roughly half a million dollars in the U.S. alone, is now racking up foreign sales, with six-figure deals having just closed in the U.K. and Germany. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Century has signed the "heart-warming story", Fire Dogs: Four-Legged Heroes, about the work and lives of the London Fire Brigade fire investigation dogs; Roscoe, Murphy and Sherlock. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Walker Books will publish a new collection of short stories from American YA author Cassandra Clare featuring characters from the bestselling Shadowhunter world. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In 2015, Eric Lipton, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, published a long expose on the front page of the New York Times that delivered on its headline: “Food Industry Enlisted Academics in GMO Lobbying War, Emails Show.” The story was published in the wake of an academic... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The editor of Johnson's forthcoming story collection, 'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden,' on his relationship with the author and editing a master. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Welsh writer Cynan Jones has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust for his “tenderly devastating exploration of the body”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This month we peeked at the Microsoft CEO’s reading list, picked up a few ways to work smarter, and learned how to spot lies on resumes. In September we learned which books have helped Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shape his leadership style, why one former Trader Joe’s employee preferred the... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2017-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont Publishing has signed a new deal between Michael Morpurgo and illustrator Barroux based on the "epic", true story of Morpurgo’s uncles during World War Two. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An American actress has been unveiled as the winner of Bath Spa University’s Novel in 25 words, as a new anthology celebrates 25 years of the creative writing department. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Three of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists are shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award with BookTrust worth £15,000. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Viking is publishing 10 "exquisite" stories by the late William Trevor - six of them for the first time - in a new book called Last Stories. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Katie Munnik's "evocative story of motherhood" has been picked as the winning entry for Borough Press’ open submission period, with the author scooping a £10k publishing deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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