From the phenomenally talented author of The Icarus Girl comes a mesmerizing Gothic tale from about a young with an uncertain legacy and a house that won’t let her go: White is for Witching.
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More >O, The Oprah Magazine has named John Burnside’s The Glister one of this season’s “25 Books You Can’t Put Down.” The magazine calls the metaphysical mystery, “A dark morality tale, hauntingly told.” Read the feature here.
More >The Boston Globe writes, “The most chilling horror is the everyday one. The calm, slow suicide. The complacent murderer. The monster that believes in nothing so much as its own moral compass. In her third, profoundly chilling novel, Helen Oyeyemi gives readers all three for a slow-building neo-Gothic that will leave persevering readers breathless.”
More >From the writer and director of I’ve Loved You So Long, the acclaimed film starring Kristin Scott Thomas, comes a novel hailed as “a modern masterpiece” (The Daily Telegraph), “full of terror, horror, and beauty and wonder” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
More >On June 18, the Society of Authors presented Samantha Harvey with the Betty Trask Prize and Award for her book The Wilderness. The prize is awarded to first novels written by authors under the age of 35. Click here to see the full list of winners and judges. Congratulations to our author!
More >Helen Oyeyemi’s third novel, White is for Witching, hits US bookstores June 23! Click here to listen to the 24-year-old author discuss the book with the Guardian’s literary editor, Claire Armistead, and explain how this mystical, shape-shifting tale emerged from a love of Dracula, Wuthering Heights and Caribbean ghost stories!
More >In an op-ed that ran in this weekend’s Washington Post, The Woman Behind the New Deal author Kirstin Downey argues that FDR’s secretary of labor Frances Perkins is just the kind of person who the Obama administration needs. Read why here.
More >“Ambitious and complex!” “Engaging and satisfying!” John Pipkin’s debut novel Woodsburner received rave reviews this weekend in The New York Times Book Review, the Austin American-Statesman, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Dallas Morning News.
More >John Pipkin’s debut novel Woodsburner springs from a little-known event in the life of one of America’s most iconic figures, Henry David Thoreau. On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed three hundred acres of the Concord woods—an event that altered the landscape of American thought in a single day.
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