The debut romance novel from Tennessee writer Katie Holt, Not in My Book, is a steamy slow burn in which the two main characters write a romance novel together.
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Hot Collaboration
A writerly love story, happy ending not guaranteed
Fiction
Infinite Little Island
Playworld, a new novel by Adam Ross, observes a year in the life of a Manhattan teenager
In Playworld, novelist Adam Ross depicts a Manhattan teenager who ricochets between acting for television and bumbling in reality. Ross will discuss Playworld with Mayor Freddie O’Connell at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 6.
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Punching Hitler in the Mouth
Two smart teens protect their country and their family in war-torn England
“I am Elizabeth ‘Lizzie’ Novis. … I am the candidate most likely to violate the Official Secrets Act. And I will be convicted of treason when I do.” Lizzie is half of the talented brother/sister team at the center of The Bletchley Riddle, a World War II novel for middle-grade readers by an equally talented team: award-winning writers Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin.
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On the Brink
Amina Gautier’s stories capture women in moments of metamorphosis
In The Best That You Can Do, a new story collection, Amina Gautier depicts women in the process of growing up and moving on. Gautier, a professor at the University of Miami, is a former fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
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Cracks in the Foundation
Phyllis Gobbell’s Prodigal depicts the drama of a fractured family
Phyllis Gobbell’s novel Prodigal explores the impact of a son’s return to his family in the wake of his grandmother’s sudden death. Phyllis Gobbell will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 21.
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Sinister Stories
Smoking Guns delivers a dozen tales of murder and more
Smoking Guns, an anthology from the East Tennessee chapter of Sisters in Crime, offers a dozen “tales of crime and mystery” that take readers into the dark corners of humanity.
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