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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The fictional character Septimus Warren Smith, from Virginia Woolfâs Mrs Dalloway, is the first of many spectres to haunt the pages of Sam Saxâs incendiary, prose-poetic debut novel, Yr Dead. Midway through... Read more »
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Ferdia Lennon wins Waterstones debut fiction prize for âriotousâ novel Glorious Exploits | Books
Ferdia Lennon has won this yearâs Waterstones debut fiction prize for his âriotous, exuberant treat of a novelâ, Glorious Exploits. The novel, which took about seven years to write, is set in... Read more »
Six âbold and playfulâ 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 »
Jiaming Tangâs debut novel opens in China in the 1980s, at the Workersâ Cinema in rural Fuzhou, a cruising spot for queer men. The cinema is described as a magical, almost utopian... Read more »