Sentences with phrase «great debut novel»

However, the story, the characters, and the themes of guilt, ambition, and self - awareness are more than enough to recommend this great debut novel.

Great debut novel... I shall look forward to the next one.

Not exact matches

In 2014, Simon & Schuster published his debut novel «Red Now And Laters» to great critical acclaim, including being short - listed for the 2014 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and a starred Kirkus Review.

Fittingly for a novel published at the beginning of the Great Depression, the gal sleuth played Robin Hood in her debut adventure, taking from the rich and giving to the poor, and survived her roughing - up at the hands of some bad guys just fine.

Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann Herman Melville's great - great - great granddaughter's debut novel has nothing to with whaling, although it's still one of the most - anticipated books of summer 2012.

I couldn't include all of the great content in my print interview, so here's the dish on Giffin's writing process, how she balances a full - time writing career with raising three young children and — gasp — some then «off - the - record» (and now public) details on the upcoming movie version of her debut novel, Something Borrowed.

Her new novel, Then Came You, came out on Tuesday, and her TV show The Great State of Georgia debuted a couple of weeks ago.

When my debut novel, The Heir, was on sale for.99 c, Bookzio was a great way to get the word out and it helped improve my ranking.

Since this is your debut novel, what were the greatest challenges you encountered in the writing or editing process that you might not have encountered in writing workshops or during school?

Above All Things, Tanis Rideout's debut novel, is about a man, his wife and his other great love — a 29,000 foot mountain.

An inventive suspense novel, a moving debut about growing up in the modern South and an award - winning memoir make for great group discussion this month.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.

Winner of the 2016 BookBrowse Debut Novel Award A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American nNovel Award A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American nnovel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novelnovel.

Elizabeth Redfern's debut novel, The Music of the Spheres, read with great style by Tim Curry, takes us to the teeming turmoil of London in 1795.

Herman Melville's great - great - grandaughter makes her fiction debut with an evocative novel set in the 1950s, when two cousins from a wealthy family find that adulthood — and marriage — isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Her debut novel, No One Is Coming to Save Us, is like a contemporary The Great Gatsby, but with more female voices and an empathetic exploration of the African - American experience in the American South.

Lori Ostlund's debut novel is an openhearted contemplation of how we grow up and move on, how we can turn our deepest wounds into our greatest strengths.

Her debut novel has been shortlisted for several awards, so I'm expecting great things.

Adapting any book for the screen is a tricky process, but surely no material has presented a greater challenge than Arthur Golden's brilliant debut novel, Memoirs of a Geisha.

Structured around a syllabus for a Great Works of Literature class and containing ironic visual aids (drawn by the author), Pessl's debut novel is complex yet compelling, erudite yet accessible.

Oprah Winfrey's Summer 2017 Book Club Pick In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.

The PEN / Robert Bingham Fellowship for Writers honors an exceptionally talented fiction writer whose debut work — a novel or collection of short stories — represents distinguished literary achievement and suggests great promise.

However, some debut authors have gotten some great publicity by giving their novel away, including Jim Rubart on his novel Rooms which hit the NYT Bestseller List.

Book marketing is an author's opportunity to introduce themselves to a reader — and with that in mind, I wanted my debut novel, The Assumption Code, to make a great first impression.

I also advertised my debut novel THE PRINCE»S MAN on there for a week (and I have 2 further week runs booked) and no doubt at all, it had a great result.