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RELEASED 5 MARCH 288 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Camilla Bruce Publisher Bantam Press How transparent do you like your metaphors? This sort-of-fantasy novel begins with a challenge: Cassandra Tipp, a famous and controversial author, has g

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author NE Davenport Publisher Harper Voyager Mixing fantasy with military SF, Texas-based NE Davenport’s debut initially plays out as a coming-of-age story. It’s one with some particularly tough

Good Housekeeping South Africa

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The Poisonwood Bible author Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel is as rich and rewarding as you would expect THIS STIRRING READ follows two stories set in Vineland, a town dominated by the schemes of its egotistical founder. It tells the stories of Thatc

Writing Magazine

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Avon Books, the division of HarperCollins that publishes commercial fiction – predominantly women’s fiction and crime – is open for submissions. Authors published by Avon include CL Taylor, Sue Moorcroft, Scott Mariani and Philippa Ashley. Submit ful

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 560 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Ciannon Smart Publisher Hot Key Books Author Ciannon Smart has successfully soaked her Jamaican heritage into this debut novel, bathing her pages in the culture, patois and descriptions o

Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

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“I’M SURROUNDED BY THOUSANDS OF WORDS.” OUT OF MY MIND by Sharon M. Draper submitted by Caroline A. Percival of San Antonio, TX “The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.” CHAINS (The Seeds of America Trilogy) by Laurie Hal

Woman & Home

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Writing about relationships, bestselling novelist Sarah Morgan now has more than 80 contemporary romance novels to her name. Her latest, Family for Beginners (£7.99, HQ), focuses on second chances. Ideas often come to me at inconvenient moments. Fo

You South Africa

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FOR readers there’s a real poignancy to seeing The Missing Sister by Lucinda Riley at the top of the SA fiction bestseller list because it’s the last book that will be released by the much-loved Northern Irish author. Riley’s family recently announce

Writing Magazine

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‘It took me a long time to take my own writing positively and seriously because that little critical voice in my head kept telling me that publishing wasn’t a world open to me, and that no one could possibly want to read a novel I had written. ‘Yet t

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 400 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Jeff Noon Publisher Angry Robot Books When Jeff Noon returned to publishing novels in 2017 with his Inspector Nyquist series, it felt like the author had found a vehicle that could fold h

Country Life

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• Sense and Sensibility is the rarest of Jane Austen’s novels; last year, at Swann in New York, a three-volume first edition was estimated up to $40,000 (£28,000) and sold for $81,250 (£57,590). A first-edition Pride and Prejudice made $100,000 (£70,

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 496 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Jordan Ifueko Publisher Hot Key Books This is Jordan Ifueko’s first novel, and it’s already evident that this young Nigerian-American author is going to be one hell of a force once she re

Woman & Home

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I was disappointed by the lack of diversity in your summer books special. Two of my favourite inspiring, fun and thought-provoking novels by contemporary writers are Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, and Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. S

Simply Woman & Home

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Writing about relationships, bestselling novelist Sarah Morgan now has more than 80 contemporary romance novels to her name. Her latest, Family for Beginners (£7.99, HQ), focuses on second chances. Ideas often come to me at inconvenient moments. Fort

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 304 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author TC Farren Publisher Titan Books Acclaimed South African novelist Tracey Farren has hopped genres with The Book Of Malachi, her first work of SF. It takes place on a distant, disused oil r

Writing Magazine

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Candice Carty-Williams’ Queenie is Book of the Year. Candice was the first black author to win the top prize at the British Book Awards, also known as the Nibbies, for her “thoughtful, playful and bold’ novel, already shortlisted and prizewinning man

Woman & Home

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This is the book that made me a writer. I believe that, historically and racially, there’s a lot that’s not right with the book, but I remember as a 13-year-old reading it and thinking I could smell the leather burning. It was the first time I though

BBC Music Magazine

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Puccini was 41 years old at the time of Tosca’s premiere, and by this stage wealthy enough to own a lakeside villa in Torre del Lago – the purchase of his first luxury motor (and, soon after, car crash) would follow. His career as an composer had, th

Literary Hub

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This is Playback, the self-interview series for authors with books coming out in quarantine. Today, Lucia LoTempio reads from her new book of poetry, Hot With the Bad Things, and reveals what book she wishes she had written, as well as what her dream

Writing Magazine

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‘The two highlights of my lockdown life have been: the arrival of my copy of Writing Magazine, welcomed like an old and trusted friend, and the publication of Fame & Fortune, the eighth book in The Victorian Detectives series, writes subscriber Carol

BBC History Magazine

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We asked our Twitter followers which history books captured their childhood imaginations… I loved the Ladybird books on English monarchs – though I’m not sure the history was always sound... Horrible Histories. If Terry Deary had illustrated the Iris

Writing Magazine

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‘I wrote my first book, a Second World War unpublished novel, with no clue how to do it. I spent months worrying about what font to use and how to set out a manuscript. Then I discovered the Romantic Novelists’ Association, attended their conferences

New Zealand Listener

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The books that have most influenced me are those that have fully immersed me in another world, where the characters linger with me years later, or where the author has written something unique. One that achieved all these is Keri Hulme’s THE BONE PEO

Writing Magazine

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‘I am delighted to see the publication of my second novel, The Laird’s Secret,’ wries subscriber Linda Tyler. ‘It is set in rural Scotland in 1953 where, to put a broken relationship behind her, a young English woman holidays on the wild and beautifu

Literary Hub

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Every year, we ask The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalists to reminisce about the first book they fell in love with. This year, we asked Finalists to reflect not just on the first story that stole their heart, but the story that seeded cur

Writing Magazine

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Writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination are invited to submit poetry and all forms of creative prose in any of the languages of Scotland for New Writing Scotland 39 which will be published in summer 2021. There is a

Writing Magazine

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Last October The New York Times decided to find out what its readers thought was the best book of the previous 125 years. Subsequently, the paper’s book review editors whittled down thousands of nominations to a shortlist of 25, from which readers th

New Zealand Listener

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As a lifelong reader, I find it a big ask to make a list of books important to me. The “short” list inevitably devolves into pages. As a result, no such list is ever anything but a snapshot of my reading journey. Today’s snapshot begins with THE TIME

Who Do You Think You Are?

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This short introduction provides a valuable overview. This guide covers every genre from fairy tales to chapbooks, school stories, science fiction, comics and children’s hymns. a 30 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2PQ t 0300 330

The Writer

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Before its release, Mesha Maren’s debut novel, Sugar Run, was included on many lists of must-read or most-anticipated books – for good reason. Since its publication, it has continued to gain momentum, accumulating glowing reviews. The story centers o