Oyinkan Braithwaite Nominated for Inaugural The Future Awards Africa Prize for Literature

The Future Awards, established in 2006, are a set of awards given by The Future Project, a social enterprise committed to human and capital development especially in Africa. Described by Forbes as the “most important awards for outstanding young Africans,” The Future Awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of young people between the ages of 18 […]

My Sister, The Serial Killer wins Best First Novel at the 2019 Anthony Awards

In Dallas, Texas, at a gala celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bouchercon, the world mystery convention, the winners of the Anthony Awards were announced. The “Anthonys” honor the year’s best achievements in mystery and crime fiction. This is the thirty-fourth year the awards have been handed out, with winners selected by the thousands in attendance […]

Olivia Sudjic: Je mehr ich poste, desto schlechter fühle ich mich

Die Londonerin Olivia Sudjic, 31, hat einen Roman darüber geschrieben, wie das Internet die Psyche der Menschen verändert, seitdem gilt sie als Stimme ihrer Generation. Ein Gespräch über die Frage, wer im Netz alles so mitliest, warum es nötig ist, auf Instagram zwei Identitäten zu haben, und über die schwierige Suche nach sich selbst. Interview: Ilka […]

Frank Tallis’ Vienna Blood to come to our screens later this month

Based on the best-selling Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis, Vienna Blood is to hit the small screen very soon. Across three feature length episodes, the drama follows Max Liebermann (played by Matthew Beard), a brilliant young doctor and Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt (Jürgen Maurer) as they solve Vienna’s most mysterious murder cases. You will be […]

Booker Prize Winner Girl, Woman, Other is Coming to America

The morning after Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize, for her novel “Girl, Woman, Other,” her American publisher, Grove Atlantic, announced that the book would come out in the United States a month earlier than previously scheduled — and that it was printing 50,000 more copies, up from an initial run of 10,000. Now the book is set […]