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Fairlight Books snaps up Sherlock’s literary mystery The Mask of Merryvale Manor
Fairlight Books has scooped The Mask of Merryvale Manor, the “atmospheric” debut novel from investigative journalist Pete Sherlock. Assistant editor Sarah Shaw acquired worldwide rights, including audio, directly from the author. The novel is scheduled for publication in June 2024. Set at the beginning of the 1960s, The Mask of Merryvale Manor follows Ben Butler when he is…
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The finalists for the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award for young people’s literature — text
Here are the finalists for the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award for young people’s literature — text. The Governor General’s Literary Awards are one of Canada’s oldest and most prestigious literary prizes. The prizes, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, are awarded in seven English-language categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people’s literature — text, young people’s literature — illustration, drama and French-to-English translation. Seven French-language awards…
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Book Review: Solitary writer ruminates on grief, love and writing during pandemic’s first spring
The flood of pandemic literature shows no sign of letting up. In the three-plus years since the COVID-19 lockdown, we have seen fiction from the likes of Gary Shteyngart, Elizabeth Strout and many others. Now Sigrid Nunez, author of “Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag” and the National Book Award-winning “The Friend,” has written…
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Paul Auster Walks the Long Valley of Grief in a New Novel
In “Baumgartner,” a professor contends with mortality and the haunting memory of his wife. BAUMGARTNER, by Paul Auster I can hear the whingeing already: Nothing happens in this novel. It’s too slow, it’s boring, it’s not high concept or high event. And in a nod to how conditioned we — or at least I —…
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Kozhikode Corporation devises plans to uphold ‘City of Literature’ tag
The Kozhikode Corporation is planning several activities over the next two years to establish its new status as the Unesco ‘City of Literature’. Mayor Beena Philip told reporters here on Monday that programmes would be held in four phases with public cooperation and inclusion. The first and second phases include branding, finding spaces for literary…
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The Agony of Waiting for a Ceasefire That Never Comes
Essay The Agony of Waiting for a Ceasefire That Never Comes When the war in Gaza started, my family fled to the Jabalia refugee camp. Then Israel started bombing the camp. By Mosab Abu Toha November 6, 2023 Illustration by Deena So’Oteh Save this storySave this story Save this storySave this story It is 6:20…
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Mukilteo’s DEI Commission invites people to bond over movies, books
MUKILTEO — Coffee, tea, popcorn and conversation are part of the outreach by the city’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Commission. E.J. Koh, winner of a 2021 Washington State Book Award, will read from her latest book, “The Liberators,” at 2 p.m. Nov. 12 at Kamiak High School. “When E.J. Koh, who is Korean American, was…
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Sourcebooks Casablanca lands two ‘extraordinary’ novels from Martínez
Sourcebooks Casablanca has landed two “extraordinary” novels from María Martínez. Editor Deb Werksman acquired world English rights directly from Book & Film Rights, Grupo Planeta. Both novels, You and Other Natural Disasters and When There Are No More Stars Left to Count, will be published in trade paperback and e-book in 2025. The novels “emphasise the importance…
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A Black Belt in Karate Doesn’t Make a Fair Father
A Black Belt in Karate Doesn’t Make a Fair Father Salar Abdoh Share article An excerpt from A Nearby Country Called Love by Salar Abdoh He couldn’t bear going back to the apartment just yet. The apartment of the dead. When they’d been much younger he had shared the big bedroom with his older brother…
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In “Company,” Every Story Begins With a Guest
Who is responsible for maintaining family lore? In Company, Shannon Sanders introduces—and repeatedly reintroduces—readers to the Collinses, a Black family with roots in D.C. and Atlantic City. Sanders, a master of character, makes every individual distinctive and recognizable even as they clearly belong to a whole, bound by shared history, values, and challenges. In “The…