Six months of conversations with debut novelists, indie presses and booksellers reveal how the most meaningful launches are built today.
By Clara Benítez 12 min read
Literary Fiction“I didn't know it was a book about my mother until the seventh draft.” A candid conversation about memory and the long road to a debut.
Clara Benítez 9 min read
StructureEvery great chapter is a small machine with a door at each end. Here's how to design both, and what goes on in the rooms between.
Julian Hartley 8 min read
RecommendationsFrom a translated Korean family saga to a quiet Irish debut, these are the books we're pressing into friends' hands this season.
Margaret Oyelaran-Hale 7 min read
BooksellingBooksellers are wielding more influence than ever over which debuts find an audience. We visited a dozen shops to find out why.
Clara Benítez 10 min read
Author SpotlightAfter two decades and four acclaimed novels, Thomas Reyne still writes every first draft in a cold room with no internet. He explains why.
Margaret Oyelaran-Hale 11 min read
PoetryPoems are never finished, only abandoned, but there's an art to abandoning them well. Notes from a season of revision.
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The Song of Achilles and Circe turned ancient epics into the most intimate stories on the bestseller list.
Sally Rooney
Emails, silences and misunderstandings: how a young Irish novelist reinvented the love story for her generation.
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A month-long programme of reading guides, reader polls and features devoted to the Twisted and Kings of Sin series.
Alex Michaelides
Honouring the author whose debut, The Silent Patient, became a modern classic of psychological suspense.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
A guided entry point to Jennifer L. Armentrout's bestselling romantasy universe.
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How The Spanish Love Deception builds tension one fake-dating scene at a time.
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Why intensity, moral complexity and character history make Punk 57 and Corrupt so compelling.
Bella Mackie
How How to Kill Your Family turned a murderer into the most entertaining voice in crime fiction.
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A novel by Elena Marsh
"Every lighthouse is a promise kept by someone you'll never meet. I wanted to write about the keepers."
On a storm-battered island off the coast of Maine, seventeen-year-old Wren inherits her late mother's lighthouse, and a logbook of unsent letters that unravel everything she believed about her family. A luminous debut about grief, inheritance, and the light we keep for others.
Elena Marsh grew up on the Atlantic coast and spent a decade as a maritime archivist before turning to fiction. This is her first novel.
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