Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced | Books

Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced | Books

Waterstones has selected six “astonishingly impressive and inspiring new voices” for its fourth debut fiction prize shortlist, including Catherine Airey, William Rayfet Hunter and Lucy Steeds. The shortlist, which also features Gurnaik... Read more »
Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep | Books

Women’s prize for fiction goes to debut novelist Yael van der Wouden’s The Safekeep | Books

Dutch debut novelist Yael van der Wouden has won this year’s Women’s prize for fiction, while British doctor Rachel Clarke took home the nonfiction award. Van der Wouden’s The Safekeep and Clarke’s... Read more »
Debut picture book author wins 5,000 for autobiographical ‘visual feast’ | Australian books

Debut picture book author wins $125,000 for autobiographical ‘visual feast’ | Australian books

A heartwarming children’s story describing the lives of a First Nations family living on a Lutheran mission in the 50s has won Australia’s richest literary prize. Nukgal Wurra author-artist Wanda Gibson collected... Read more »
Brie Larson to make her West End debut in revenge tragedy Elektra | Theatre

Brie Larson to make her West End debut in revenge tragedy Elektra | Theatre

Oscar winner Brie Larson is to appear on stage in Brighton and London, making her West End debut, in Elektra. Larson will play the anguished lead character in the revenge tragedy, adapted... Read more »
Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

The fictional character Septimus Warren Smith, from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, is the first of many spectres to haunt the pages of Sam Sax’s incendiary, prose-poetic debut novel, Yr Dead. Midway through... Read more »
Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced | Books

Flatiron to debut Pine & Cedar imprint with S.A. Cosby’s next book

Book News: Flatiron to debut Pine & Cedar imprint with S.A. Cosby’s next book BookBrowse News – The Full... Read more »
Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for “riotous” novel Glorious Exploits | Books

Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for “riotous” novel Glorious Exploits | Books

Ferdia Lennon has won this year’s Waterstones debut fiction prize for his “riotous, exuberant treat of a novel”, Glorious Exploits. The novel, which took about seven years to write, is set in... Read more »
Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for “riotous” novel Glorious Exploits | Books

Six ‘bold and playful’ novels shortlisted for Waterstones debut fiction prize | Books

Six “bold and playful” novels, including The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley and Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly, have been shortlisted for the Waterstones debut fiction prize. Now in... Read more »
Yr Dead by Sam Sax review – comedy and darkness in an inventive debut novel | Fiction

Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang review – a debut with real heart | Fiction

Jiaming Tang’s debut novel opens in China in the 1980s, at the Workers’ Cinema in rural Fuzhou, a cruising spot for queer men. The cinema is described as a magical, almost utopian... Read more »
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